Looking for something more specific?
- "The origins of the Cold War: Deciphering open access primary sources," Amy Dye-Reeves (C&RL News, Dec. 2018)An excellent mini-bibliography of digitized primary sources about specific aspects of the Cold War, including government documents, the Yalta Conference, the Berlin blockade and airlift, and the Marshall Plan.
Digitized Collections: Gov Docs, Books, and Manuscripts
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowIncludes collections with a strong mid-20th century focus, such as: Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991; CIA Covert Operations (1961-2010); Henry Kissinger's conversations; the Cuban Missile Crisis, and normalization of relations (1959-2010); US Policy and activity in Latin America, Japan, Iran, Iraq, the Philippines, South Africa, Korea, China, Vietnam; the history of the NSA and Electronic Surveillance; Presidential Directives on National Security; The President's Daily Brief; Terrorism and U.S. Policy; U.S. Espionage and Intelligence; U.S. Nuclear History; and U.S. Military Uses of Space. Full list of collections
- ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new windowIncludes: American Politics in the Early Cold War: Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961; American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (1960-1975); Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Supplement, and Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Parts 1 and 2; Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961; Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement (1958-1981)...and many more! Full list of collection
- Cold War International History Project (Wilson Center Digital Archive)Documents digitized as part of the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP). It is a "tremendous collection of archival documents on the Cold War era from the once secret archives of former communist countries. CWIHP has become internationally recognized as the world’s preeminent resource on the Cold War. "
- Presidential Recordings Program (Miller Center, UVa)Secret White House tapes (Roosevelt to Nixon), presented with transcripts and analysis from Miller Center presidential scholars.
- CIA FOIA Reading Room (declassified)Declassified FOIA Requests posted on the CIA web site. Contains curated historical collections.
- Avalon Project: Cold WarTranscribed legal documents, arranged by topic.
- Russian Research Center. Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Digital Collection: Interviews and Manuals: A Finding Aid byPublication Date: 1950-1953A collection of digital facsimiles of transcripts of interviews conducted with Soviet émigrés to West Germany, Austria, and the United States, in 1950 and 1951. The transcripts are in English, and focus on life in the Soviet Union between 1917 to 1939, but there are also a lot of accounts of life during the revolution. All of the interviews were conducted in the person's native language, but the interviews were translated, on the fly, into English.
- PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service This link opens in a new windowCovers international literature in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations from 1915
UK government documents
- Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window(Searches through full text and subject indexing)
Collection of House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports of Committees and Commissioners, House of Lords, Public Petitions from 18th Century through today. - Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Africa. Covers 1834 - 1966. - Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Latin America. Covers 1833 - 1969. - Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of the Middle East including Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Persia, Sudan, Suez Canal, Syria, and Turkey. Covers 1812 - 1969.
Newspapers & Magazines
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post (formerly the Palestine Post), The Korea Times, London Evening Standard, South China Morning Post, and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1827. - Newspapers.com This link opens in a new windowNewspapers dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional, and state titles as well as small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A comprehensive current news database, contains hundreds of local, regional, national, and international news sources (including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune).
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source). - British Periodicals This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Search through hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, all available in full text. Also allows searching for cartoons, photographs, illustrations, and other images. Covers 1680 - 1930.
- Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes historical newspapers, government documents, books, ephemera, and the like. - Global Press Archive General This link opens in a new windowHistorical newspapers from the 1800's to today, content includes newspapers from China, Mexico, and the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post (formerly the Palestine Post), The Korea Times, London Evening Standard, South China Morning Post, and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1827. - Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
An index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from around the world. It focuses on emerging theories and practices of radical social change, socialism, national liberation, labor, Indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Covers 1969 - current. - CRL Newspapers This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
A collection including foreign newspapers on microfilm, on paper, and digital. Filmed material may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
- Historical Jewish PressA collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods ranging from 1783 - 2014.
- EBSCO Magazine Archives This link opens in a new windowSearchable full-text archives of major twentieth-century American magazines. Includes but not limited to: Ebony (1945-2014), Esquire (1933-2014), LIFE (1936-2000), People (1974-2000), Time (1923-2000), and Vanity Fair(1913-33, 1983-2015).
- News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (featuring Newsweek) 1918-2015 This link opens in a new windowAn archival collection of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive) spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. Offers multiple perspectives on the 20th century’s key issues and events.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archival collection of magazines related to the history of the film, music, and entertainment industries, 1880 - 2015. - Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals from 1940-present, highlighting topics and trends of youth culture such as fashion, rock and roll, sports, sexuality, dating, as well as youth portrayal in the media.
- LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowA searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years.
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A fully digitized archive of the backfiles of several major North American women's magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, WIN News, and Woman's Day. Coverage varies by publication and ranges from 1886 through 2005. - Vogue Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowContains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window(Searches through citation information)
This index includes citations to articles in popular press publications ncluding Newsweek, Time, Life, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Nation. Covers 1890 - 1982.
Search CRL
The Center for Research Libraries has a number of microfilmed collections, international newspapers, and official documents from countries outside the U.S.
- CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan.
- CRL Topic GuidesEach guide includes a short writeup on the landscape of the field of study, links to relevant primary source collections at CRL, and links out to related sources.
- FOCUS on Global Resources (CRL Newsletter)CRL's quarterly newsletter with themed issues.
Specific Titles
- The Current digest of the Soviet press (1959-1992) byCall Number: Print Periodicals (3rd floor) D839 .C87Catalyst record
Weekly collection of a selection of Russian-language press materials translated into English.
- Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist [National Archives]Original newspaper sources on the Attorney General's List of Supervise Organization (AGLOSO) in connection with McCarthyism.
