Primary/Original Sources

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Be sure to use our focused Research Guides for more specific listing of resources.  Some specific ones that might be of interest include:

Use the tabs to find specific types of materials.  It will likely be necessary to use more than one as the commercial databases cover a wide variety of topics and regions.

• Government Sources - US government agencies (e.g. State, Office of the President and more)
• Commercial Sources - purchases sources of declassified government documents on a wide variety of subjects
• Military Sources - US military agencies and by conflict
• FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] - documents declassified by request
• Open Sources - publicly available collections
• United Nations - official UN, General Assembly and Security Council documents
• Oral Histories - transcripts of interviews with diplomatic personnel
• Country/Regional - world regions and specific countries
• Terrorism - captured collections and transcriptions of released statements
• Treaties - sources for US and multinational treaties and agreements