Once-secret documents from governments across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy.

Open and permanent access to historical collections in digital format for researchers and the public.

Archives of the United Kingdom

Films include television news broadcasts, historical film clips, alternative news broadcasts, classic full-length films, cartoons, and concerts.

Contains metadata records—information describing an item—for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the content provider’s website.

Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the Department of State's Office of the Historian and began in 1861.

Departments of State and Defense documents relating to the Korean War that were copied and sent to the White House at the request of President Truman. Reports, correspondence, memoranda and other documents from the U.S. National Archives.

CIA website containing thousands of redacted documents released by the agency through FOIA requests. Documents were created between 1940 to present.

Resources suggested by the National Archives.

Resources suggested by the National Archives.

Consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database The Messages and Papers of the Presidents.The archive also contain thousands of other documents such as party platforms, candidates' remarks, Statements of Administration Policy, documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary, and election debates.

By Claremont Colleges Digital Library

Collection of oral histories, original works, and web publications.

Contains personal narratives of men and women (either New Jersey residents and/or Rutgers University alumni, faculty or staff) who served on the home front and overseas during the Korean War.

Part of the American Folklife Center, the Veterans History Project collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so future generations may hear directly from them.

Magazine know for excellent photography. Digitized issues back to 1935

Digitized American newspapers, 1789 - 1963. From the Library of Congress.

Freely-available resources for students and teachers to learn about maps.

Subject listing of documents from East Asian history. Includes cultural origins; religious traditions; imperial China; western intrusion; Japan as a world power; and more. From Fordham University.

Contains hundreds of speeches that can be searched by speaker, subject or time period.