Background Materials
Primary Materials
Indexes
Web Sites Background Materials
- The Cold War 1945-1991 REF D839.5 .C65 1992 v.1-3
- Cold War Chronology: Soviet American Relations 1945-1991 REF E183.8 .S65 H55 1993
- Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts 1945-1990 REF E 169.12 .S39 1998
- Dictionary of East European History Since 1945 REF DJK 50 .H43 1994
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy REF JX1407 E33 v.1-4
- Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament REF JX1974 .E57 1993
- Encyclopedia of the Korean War REF DS 918 .E53 2000 v.1-3
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War REF DS 557.7 .E53 1998 v.1-3
- International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and their Management REF D 842 .B46 1997
- The Longman Companion to Cold War and Detente 1941-91 REF D840 .Y68 1993
- The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History REF DK36 .M55 1976-
- The United States in World Affairs REF E 744 .U66
- Yearbook on International Communist Affairs HX1 .Y4 (1968-1991)
- Yearbook of the United Nations REF JX 1977 .A37 Y4 1946/47+
Primary Materials
- Foreign Relations of the United States GOVT S1.1:date
The series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. While Colby holds the entire set of print volumes in the Miller Compact shelving Documents stacks, the series is gradually being digitized and made available on the Web. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations may be found in varying degrees of completeness on the Web. Augment Web resources with the print.
- A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-1949 GOVT S1.69:415
- American Foreign Policy 1950-1955 GOVT S1.71/2:950-955
- American Foreign Policy. Current Documents. 1956+ GOVT S1.71/2:1956
- American Foreign Relations: A Documentary History (1971-1978) REF JX 231 .A4
- Documents on American Foreign Relations (1939-1966) REF JX231 .D6
- Public Papers of the Presidents 1929+ GOVT AE2.114:date Presidential statements, speeches, press conferences, and other remarks are gathered in this set arranged by President and year.
- The Cumulated Indexes to the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (index begins with Truman.) REF J82 .D7 (10 vols) Look for primary materials (speeches, letters, autobiographies, etc.) from Presidents and others in the catalog under the name of the individual as author. Ex: Powers, Gary Francis; Stalin.
- Documentary History of the Truman Presidency E813 .D56 1995-
- LexisNexisCongressional Universe
Provides indexing to House and Senate Committee Hearings, Committee Prints, Senate Executive Documents and Reports for all congresses. Congresses corresponding to Cold War years: 80th (1947/1948) – 102nd (1991-1992). These materials comprise what is referred to as the Serial Set. Colby has both the paper volumes of the series and the digitized version (in progress and not available yet for Cold War years.)The Serial Set is shelved in the Miller Compact Shelving / Government Documents on the first floor..
- Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications 1900-1971
Miller Compact Shelving Documents REF Z1223 .Z7 C8
- Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Documents
Miller Compact SHelving Documents REF Z1223 .A159
- The Congressional Record provides the published remarks made by members of the House and Senate each day that Congress is in session. Members of Congress may have additional material inserted into the written record.
The CR is held in several different formats:
1873-1973 Microfilm in the Miller Multimedia Area
1974-1976 Paper in Miller Compact Shelving Documents by classification # X93-X94
1977+ Microfiche in Miller Multimedia Room by classification #X95/1 +
1985+ available from LexisNexis Congressional Universe
Indexing for CR: Miller Compact Shelving Government Documents classification # GOVT X. Congress/Session
- Major Studies and Issue Briefs of the Congressional Research Service. 1916+ Microfilm shelved in the Miller Multimedia Area.
CRS provides research and policy analysis on national and international issues used by Congress as background for congressional investigations and legislative proposals. All reports are included in the Colby catalog.
- Special Studies Series
Microfilm, Miller Multimedia Area
Series includes important policy studies conducted by private and governmental research groups. Colby holds the following:
Africa, 1962-1980
Microfilm 1535
Guide: Ref DT30.5 .A47
Asia, 1980- Supplement
Microfilm 1536
Guide: Ref DS35 .A85
China, 1970-1980
Microfilm 1757
Guide: Ref DS777.547 .C44668
Europe and NATO, 1970-1980
Microfilm 1816-1826
Guide: Ref D845.2 E83
Japan, Korea, and the Security of Asia, 1970-1980
Microfilm 1786-1789
Guide: RefDS518.1 .J35 1981
Latin America, 1962-1994
Microfilm 1542
Guide: Ref F1414.2 .L3 (date)
Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control, and the Threat of Thermonuclear War, 1969-1984 Microfilm 1790-1806, 1807-1815, 1930-1941, Guide:Ref JX1974.7 G84
Soviet Union, 1970-1991
Microfilm 1576
Guide: Ref DK274.S6
Vietnam and Southeast Asia, 1960-1980 Microfilm 1593
Guide: Ref DS518.1
- FBIS Daily Report Series (Soviet Union, China, Near East, etc.)
Collection available on microfiche shelved in the Miller Multimedia Area GOVT Pr.Ex 7.10:
FBIS Electrconic Index (1975-1996)
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the U.S. Government monitors foreign media and provides English translations.
- Current Digest of the Soviet Press 1949-1992 (weekly) Periodical Stacks
- Department of State Bulletin (1939-1989) "Official monthly record of U.S. foreign policy". Indexed in PAIS , as well as having an annual index. Held in Miller Periodical stacks.
- Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files: the Soviet Union
Internal Affairs 1945-1949, 1950-1954 (Microfilm 1927-1865, 1976-1913)
Guides: Ref DK266 .A3 G829
Foreign Affairs 1945-1949, 1950-1954 (Microfilm 1866-1875, 1914-1925)
Guides: REF DK 266 .A3 G83 1985
- Documents of the National Security Council (U.S.) 1947-77
Microfilm 1521-1531,1956-1958 Miller Multimedia Area
Guide REF JX234 .N3
The NSC plays an important role in advising the President on all domestic, foreign, and military matters bearing on our national security.
- United Nations Documents Collection 1982+
Microfiche 350 Miller Multimedia Area
Index: AccessUN 1945+
Included are Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records.
- Annual Review of United Nations Affairs
REF JX 1977 .A1 A5 1949+
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
Microfiche 306 Miller Multimedia Area
Guide REF DD881 .B472 1991 2 vols Documents from late 1953 to the late 1960's assembled by the National Security Archive provides a record of U.S. policy during the crisis years (1958-1962) as well as surrounding events.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
Microfiche 305 Miller Multimedia Area
Guide. REF E841 .C844 1990 Guide 2 vols. Documentation of U.S. decision making during the Cuban Missile Crisis, mostly dealing with the events of the "thirteen days" as well as events which formed the immediate backdrop to the crisis. Also included are documents covering the effects of the crisis on overall U.S. policy toward Cuba during the Kennedy administration and several retrospective studies of the missile crisis.
- Use the Colby Catalog to search SUBJECTS such as names of presidents; United States- foreign relations- 1945-; atomic bomb; cold war; United States Foreign Relations- Russia; Cuban Missile Crisis for primary and secondary materials.
Indexes
- America History and Life 1964 -
Abstracts the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric time to the present.
- Historical Abstracts 1954+
Coverage includes scholarly literature in history, excluding U.S. and Canada (see America History and Life above) from 1450 to the present.
- PAIS Archive 1915-1978
Indexes journal articles, documents, reports, etc. on economic, political and social issues on the local, regional, national, and international level.
- Historical Newspapers in full text online
New York Times
LA Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
- FBIS Electrconic Index 1975 - 1996
An index to the Daily Reports, translating foreign press and news broadcasts, published by the U.S. Government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). The Daily Reports are available on microfiche in the Government Documents Microfiche collection. Updated monthly.
- Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective 1907-1984
- Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Indexes popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1972+
Web Sites
- Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) The Cold War International History Project was established in 1991 to facilitate the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources. Description courtesy: Scout Report for Social Sciences
- Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Collects, analyzes and interprets formerly secret governmental documents.
- CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
Publishes key documentary collections from the Cold War.
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Cold War
Provides digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Policy, Diplomacy and Government.
- National Security Archive George Washington University
Major collection of Cold War documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act.
- The Korean War - Project Whistlestop (Truman Presidential Museum and Library)
- Cold War Connection (Carnegie Mellon)
- A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall (Deutsches Historiches Museum of Berlin)
Last Updated Date: 03/05/2008
Created by: Menchen, Margaret P.
Email: mpmenche@colby.edu |
