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Search and Sort Foreign Relations Documents by Date

The most frequently requested feature by users of the Office of the Historian website is now here: Readers can search the Foreign Relations series by date and sort search results chronologically. The new search interface allows users to leverage a combination of keywords, date ranges, and volume-based filtering to enhance their FRUS research experience. These features have been released at an early “alpha” stage of development to gather feedback.

Now Available: Seventeen Foreign Relations Volumes

These volumes are newly digitized as part of the Office's ongoing project, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, to digitize the entire Foreign Relations series. They cover events that took place between 1900 and 1911 and were originally published in print between 1902 and 1918.

Now Available: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917–1972, Volume VI, Public Diplomacy, 1961–1963

This volume documents the public diplomacy efforts of the John F. Kennedy administration. A major emphasis of the volume is the role the United States Information Agency, led by Edward R. Murrow, played in presenting U.S. foreign policy objectives to the world during a time of social change within the United States.