History (Academic) Books

This collection consists of more than 250 previously classified documents, totaling over 1,400 pages, including some 150 that are being released for the first time. These documents cover the period from January 1977 through March 1979 and were produced by the CIA to support the Carter...

In the mid-1950s the US faced the first real challenge since World War II to its strategic superiority over any nation on earth. The attempt to collect intelligence on the Soviets began with an initial period of poor collection capabilities and consequent limited analysis.

This collection highlights the causes and consequences of the US Intelligence Community’s (IC) failure to foresee the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the October War or the Yom Kippur War.

Air America: Upholding the Airmen’s Bond examines the cost of flying in hazardous environments, resulting in the need for rescue capability, not just for Air America flights, but all US military flights over Laos and Vietnam.

From the end of World War II in 1945, the question of Berlin’s status 90 miles within the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany) and the Soviet Union’s zone of occupation, along with the status of Germany among the community of nations, remained a source of tension between the East and...

"President Truman shuttered the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as an unneeded, wartime-only special operations/quasi-intelligence agency.The State Department, the Navy, and the War Department quickly recognized that a secret information vacuum loomed and urged the creation of something to...

This collection consists of more than 300 declassified documents related to the Director of Central Intelligence Interagency Balkan Task Force (BTF) and the role of intelligence in supporting policymaking during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.

"President Truman shuttered the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as an unneeded, wartime-only special operations/quasi-intelligence agency.The State Department, the Navy, and the War Department quickly recognized that a secret information vacuum loomed and urged the creation of something to...

Fill in the gaps in your family's history. Learn how to access information on marriages, births, deaths, occupations, places of residence, and other family-related matters in the post-Civil War era.

Historical relevance to United States development of European history