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Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1957-1995

Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1957-1995 is an online archive of CIA translated international journals, newspapers, scientific reports, and radio and television broadcasts from 19 countries in North Africa and Middle East during the period of 1957-1995.  

Content for this collection is primarily sourced from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports....

Provider: Readex
Updated: Feb 29, 2016 10:30am

American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996

American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996 provides access to CIA monitored, recorded and translated news from newspapers, magazines, books, government statements and radio and television broadcasts that covered American racial issues and race relations in the United States.  It includes commentaries on African-American history, the Civil Rights movement, Hispanic-American history, and Asian-American history.

Content for this collection is primarily sourced from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports and the...

Provider: Readex
Updated: Sep 20, 2017 2:55pm

U. S. Declassified Documents Online

U.S. Declassified Documents Online provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this source enables users to locate key information for studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jan 1, 2020 12:05am

Declassified Documents Reference System

Declassified Documents Reference System is a digital collection of U.S. government documents.  It includes original documents from the the White House and a variety of U.S. government agencies, such as: the CIA, FBI, Defense Department, Justice Department, National Security Council, State Department, and Commerce Department and International Trade Administration.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Sep 24, 2015 1:23pm

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) provides access to declassified U.S. government documents from 1945-2013.  The resource now includes 48 collections consisting of approximately 120,000 indexed documents focusing on national security topics, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Intelligence after 9/11, and the Vietnam War.

The collection contains policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material. 

 

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Jan 1, 2017 12:05am

British Online Archives: Twentieth Century Political History

British Online Archives: Twentieth Century Political History is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Jun 20, 2017 10:42am

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