Research Librarian
Alana Kumbier
they/them or she/her
Contact:
Frost Library
413-542-5454
Subjects: Arabic, Asian Languages & Civilizations, Black Studies, Chinese, Classics, History, Japanese, Philosophy
Government Documents
- Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy (ProQuest History Vault) (1960-1975) This link opens in a new windowCollection of primary sources covering everything from early U.S. involvement in the region up to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops in 1973
- American Presidency ProjectArchives containing 109,388 documents related to the study of the Presidency, including executive orders, speeches, press conferences, and more.
- The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library - Online CollectionsDigitized documents from the Johnson Presidential Library, including daily diaries, telephone conversation transcripts, and National Security Action Memoranda.
- Nixon Presidential Library and MuseumIncludes digitized versions of Nixon's executive orders and daily diaries.
- Pentagon PapersThe complete Report, with no redactions. Also includes back-documentation.
- Department of State Bulletin (1939-1989)The Bulletin was the official record of U.S. foreign policy. It was established to provide Congress, other agencies, and the public information about U.S. foreign policy and the work of the Department of State and the Foreign Service.
- U.S. Department of State Virtual Reading RoomSearch over 225,000 documents related to U.S. foreign policy, released under the Freedom of Information Act.
- CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading RoomAccess reports from the CIA, made available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). See the Vietnam Collection and the Vietnam Histories.
- FBI Records: The VaultAccess FBI records made available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). See especially the Anti-War Movement collection.
- FedFlixCollection of over 8000 films produced by the U.S. government from 1940s on.
- Foreign Relations of the United StatesThe official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. See especially the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies, and the Guide to Sources on Vietnam 1969-1975.
- National Security Archive Briefing BooksThe National Security Archive's continually growing collection of Electronic Briefing Books (EBBs) provide online access to declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and much more.
- FBIS: Federal Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (1974-1996) This link opens in a new windowNews in translation (by the CIA) from radio, television, and newspapers around the world.
- Congressional Publications This link opens in a new windowIndex to U.S. congressional material, some full text.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1976) This link opens in a new windowReports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Preceded by American State Papers.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowFull-text legal materials back to volume 1, historic English law and more.
Personal narratives and documents
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new windowDiaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary from the 1960s.
- Virtual Vietnam ArchiveDigitized documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids.
Historic Newspapers
- Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowCombined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1980) This link opens in a new windowSearchable archive of American newspapers including Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).
- Black Studies This link opens in a new windowThis database combines multi-format primary and secondary sources, like historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, videos, scholarly journals, essays and more.
- Alternative Press Index (1969 to present) This link opens in a new windowCovers alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.
- Alt-PressWatch (1970 to present) This link opens in a new windowFull-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present) This link opens in a new windowNews and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.
Underground & GI Press
- GI PressUnderground newspapers, pamphlets and posters created by GIs and veterans during the Vietnam War.
- Marshall Bloom Alternative Press Collection at Amherst CollegeSmall press and "underground" newspapers published chiefly in the United States, ca. 1967-1989, most originally compiled by Liberation News Service, many LGBT related titles.
- Alternative Press Collection - UConnSelected titles from UConn's Alternative Press Collection, including Viet Report.
Five College Archival Collections
- Vietnam WarCollections pertaining to the Vietnam War in the UMass Amherst Archives and Special Collections.
- Amherst College War Materials CollectionFinding aid for a collection of publications, ephemera and correspondence related to Amherst College's involvement in various United States wars.
- John Merson Papers (1960-1968), Amherst College Archives and Special CollectionsFinding aid for the collection. Merson was a Vietnam War soldier, business administrator. Collection contains mainly letters written home to family members during Marine Corps basic training and combat duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968.
Additional Primary Sources
- U.S. History Primary Sources - Research GuideGuide to primary source collections for research in U.S. history.
- Archive GridSearch over 5 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.