Research Guides: International Relations Guide: U.S. Foreign Policy

General Information Sources

American Diplomacy
Insights and commentaries on U.S. diplomacy from former practitioners
American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature
Also available in print at E183.7 G84 2003
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2023
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
The SHAFR Guide Online: An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600
A near-comprehensive, 2.1 million-word online annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations. It aims to jump-start the research of both students from high school to graduate school as well as the most advanced scholars.

Department of State Bulletin
Official documentary record of U.S. foreign policy, 1939-1989
Foreign Relations of the United States
1861-1988 available online
In the stacks at JX 233.A3
Frontline Diplomacy
Transcripts of oral histories of U.S. diplomats
Reports on U.S. Participation in the United Nations
United States Department of State Dispatch
Successor to Department of State Bulletin
U.S. Department of State Historian's Office
U.S. Military Interventions
Comprehensive dataset of all US military interventions from 1776 until 2017
U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants
Historical record of U.S. foreign assistance

Declassified Documents Reference System
Declassified Documents Reference System, now U.S. Declassified Documents Online, provides access to declassified U.S. government documents drawn from Presidential libraries.
National Security Archive (ProQuest)
Declassified documents regarding critical U.S. foreign policy decisions organized into 62 collections.

Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 (ProQuest History Vault)
Contains 3,500 World War II and Cold War era special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the U.S. State Department and written by the days’ leading scholars. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions.