Primary Sources: Policy & Politics Primary Sources

Over 120,000 records of data, documents, elections, and media from the presidents of the United States.

Provides full text access to documents in law, history, and diplomacy.

This collection provides the public with access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the United States Congress. CRS reports provide Congress with both anticipatory and on-demand research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. All reports adhere to the core values of CRS; they are authoritative, objective and nonpartisan.

1,200 documents, photographs, drawings, maps, and other materials related to United States history.

Online access to declassified records on issues of national security, foreign policy, intelligence policy, and diplomatic history. 40 collections dating from post-WWII to present. Click on article titles to access scanned copies of primary source reports/records.

Over 1,700 manuscripts and materials related to interviews with persons working in Foreign Diplomacy. Transcripts of the interview are available by clicking "About this Item".

Materials relating to the 89th Congress (January 1965 - December 1966) and the passing of the most extensive legislation program since the New Deal.

Compiled by the American Historical Association as a response to the increase of racial violence in the US. This is a list of educational, academic, and news resources on the history of racist violence. From the website: "Teachers can use them in classrooms to help students understand the history of the present; journalists can draw on them to provide historical context for current events; researchers can draw on them to inform future scholarship. Due to the nature of this history, many of the resources contain references to violence and assault."

A collection of manuscripts, posters, photographs, and documents concerning various rights movements from 1778-2003.

The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, The Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, and The Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, i.e. The Mueller Report.

Provides access to many reports prepared for US Congress on issues affecting citizenry.

Collection of declassified international history documents focused on international political events. Many collections focus on the Cold War and the rise of Communism.