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Introduction

This guide is for students in Yuma Totani's History 296: World War II and the Making of Modern Asia/Pacific course.

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Government Documents Librarian

Gwen Sinclair

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2550 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu HI 96822

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Subjects: Government Documents

Important General Resources

HeinOnline: Modern Link to Legal History
Hein Online includes law periodicals and journals. It provides indexing for US Treaties and Agreements, US Reports of the Supreme Court, Federal Register, etc. All of the library modules are image-based and fully-searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hardcopy-including all charts, graphs, and photographs! This resource is available thanks to the Law Library.
GovInfo [formerly GPO (Government Publishing Office) Access]
GovInfo is a service of the Government Publishing Office to provide free public access to the full text of official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. GovInfo includes Legislative, Executive, and Judicial content: Bills and Statutes, congressional committee materials, and proceedings of Congress; Presidential and regulatory materials; Opinions from more than 100 U.S. courts.

HathiTrust
Provides access to more than 5 million volumes in digital formats, of which more than 75% is in the public domain. In addition to digitized books, there is journal and (limited) institutional repository content from the holdings of
more than two dozen university research libraries. (HathiTrust)
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive host texts in the public domain, videos, audio clips, and cached versions of websites.
USA.gov
Web portal and search engine for U.S. government and state and local government information, maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration.
Think Tank Search
A custom Google search of more than 600 think tank websites. Designed and maintained by Harvard Library.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Defense Technical Information Center is a free database with hundreds of thousands of military reports and other resources, most available in full text. It also includes Air University Index to Military Periodicals, a database of articles in military journals.
National Archives (NARA) Use the search function on the National Archives website to search digital collections at presidential libraries.
FDR Presidential Library Digital Collections
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum hosts digital collections of documents, photographs, correspondence, and other material.
Truman Library & Museum Digital Collections
Includes documents and images related to World War II and the Cold War during President Truman's term in office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
Find documents related to the Cold War and the Korean War.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Browse selected digitized documents from Kennedy's time in office.
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Browse digitized documents from LBJ's presidency.
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
Most of President Nixon's papers have not been digitized, but you can get a feel for his engagement with various countries by reviewing finding aids, which are lists of documents contained in a group of files.

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Government Documents - History 296: World War II and the Making of Modern Asia/Pacific: Home

Introduction

Library ID Registration

Government Documents Librarian

Important General Resources

Links to other guides