HIST 462: For the Soul of Mankind, The Cold War and American Foreign Relations: Cold War-Specific Collections

The FOIA Electronic Reading Room is provided as a public service by the Directorate of Digital Innovation's Information Management Services. The Reading Room allows readers to view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs.

This collection from the Truman Presidential Library focuses on the ideas that formed American Policy toward the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1952.

Sponsored by George Washington University, the National Security Archive hosts thousands of declassified documents.

The National Archives and Records Administration supervises the Presidential Libraries, most of which now provide online access to selected documents. For example, see the Eisenhower Library’s online collection on the U-2 Spy Plane Incident.

Part of the Presidential Recordings Program run by the University of Virginia's Miller Center this archive includes recordings of meetings and telephone conversations made between 1940 and 1973 by six consecutive American presidents.

Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this online archive is extensive and especially notable for including English-translations of documents from Soviet-bloc countries.

Hearings in this collection are full-text through 2010; for full-text 2011-present, search by title or committee in the library catalog.

Drawing from the records of the U.S. State Department, the FRUS series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.