Research Guides: HIST 383: Africa's Colonial Legacies: Selected Gov Docs

African History, as written by the US government

CIA FOIA Reading Room (declassified)
Declassified FOIA Requests posted on the CIA web site. Contains curated historical collections.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window
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A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Africa. Covers 1834 - 1966.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive set of declassified government documents, 1942-current.

FBI FOIA Reading Room (declassified)
Assorted documents that the FBI has declassified and scanned.
Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] (State.gov)
From the State Dept. Historian, documents from Lincoln through Bill Clinton (1861-2001).

ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new window
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Fully searchable, digitized archival collections having to do with American history. Carleton has collections available in these topic areas: American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; International Relations and Military Conflicts; Latinx History; Revolutionary War and Early America; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; and Women's Studies. Browse full contents.
Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Collections to focus on include: JPRS, FBIS, African Newspapers, and US Congressional Serial Set.

Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive collection of scholarship that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Contains scholarly articles, reference works, primary sources, timelines, biographies, images, maps, charts and tables, and film clips, among many other things.
FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service This link opens in a new window
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Translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from around the globe, 1941 - 1996.
JPRS: Joint Publications Research Service Reports This link opens in a new window
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Includes translated books, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, radio and television broadcasts from nations around the globe with an emphasis on communist and third-world countries. Covers 1957 - 1994.
Decolonization: the politics of independence in former colonial territories This link opens in a new window
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Provides primary source material from indigenous cultures within former colonial & commonwealth territories.