Getting Started - History 105S: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy

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The Duke Library Catalog

Books, Microforms, Serial Titles and other resources in the Duke Library collections

Example search:

Search "Guatemala--Politics and government--1945-1985"

Limit in facets to Genre “primary sources”

Denegado En Su Totalidad : Documentos Estadounidenses Liberados

Subect heading: Counterinsurgency--Guatemala--History--Sources

Digital National Security Archive

Database of declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy from 1945 to the early 2000s

Example collection:

Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide:

Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

2 Databases- One an index from 1975-1996 and another full lext of foreign broadcasts translated into English from countriees in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service

An American database of long standing which covers policy science literature from 1915 to the present. Can be thought of as a source for primary as well as secondary sources.