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Now Available: Sixteen Newly Digitized Foreign Relations Volumes
This release is part of the Office's ongoing project, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, to digitize the entire Foreign Relations series. These volumes cover events that took place between 1945 and 1951 and include documents on the conferences at Malta and Yalta in 1945.
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FRUS, E–11, Documents on Mexico; Central America; and the Caribbean, 1973–1976
This volume covers U.S. policy towards The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
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Now Available: Digitized Foreign Relations Volume on the Assassination of President Lincoln
A unique contribution to the series, this 1865 volume embodied the grief and shattered hopes of foreign governments and common people, both at home and abroad, upon learning of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865.
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Now Available: Twenty Newly Digitized Foreign Relations Volumes
This release is part of the Office's ongoing project, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, to digitize the entire Foreign Relations series. These volumes cover events that took place between 1948 and 1951 and were originally published in print between 1973 and 1998.
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New Publication: 1977–1980, Arab-Israeli Dispute, August 1978–December 1980
This volume is the second of two volumes that document U.S. efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement to the Arab-Israeli dispute.
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New Publication: “Views From the Embassy: The Role of the U.S. Diplomatic Community in France, 1914”
To mark the centenary of the First World War, the Office of the Historian and U.S. Embassy France have carried out a study into the role of the U.S. diplomatic corps stationed in France during 1914–1918.
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New Publication: Volume XXXVIII, Part 2, Organization and Management of Foreign Policy; Public Diplomacy, 1973–1976
This volume covers the organization and management of the foreign policy process and the development of U.S. public diplomacy.
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New Publication: 1917–1972, Public Diplomacy, World War I
This compilation focuses on the creation and overseas work of the Committee on Public Information (CPI). The CPI’s foreign work constituted a sustained effort to educate a foreign public about the United States, and, in particular, its role in the war effort.
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New Publication: 1977–1980, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy
This volume documents the intellectual foundations of the Carter administration’s foreign policy. The documentation seeks to illustrate the collective mindset of administration officials on foreign policy issues in the broadest sense.
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New Publication: Volume E–9, Part 1, Documents on North Africa, 1973–1976
This volume documents U.S. policy toward North Africa from 1973 until 1976, as the Nixon and Ford administrations sought to broker settlements to conflicts in the Middle East and to limit Soviet exploitation of tensions in the region.
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New Publication: Volume XXI, Chile, 1969-1973
This volume documents U.S. policy toward Chile from January 1969 to September 24, 1973, when the Nixon administration announced its extension of diplomatic recognition to the military junta under General Augusto Pinochet.
Secretaries of State
Biography of Secretary of State, Elihu Benjamin Washburne
Elihu Benjamin Washburne was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Secretary of State, and his commission was issued on March 5, 1869. Grant's appointm...Read More >>
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On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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For teachers: A curriculum guide exploring 200 years of U.S.-China relations.
