From the Mountaintop to the Delta

1960-1969, From the Mountaintop to the Delta...The Beat Goes On

Digital National Security Archives	http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/ DNSA is comprised of fifteen collections, each focused on a single topic. You can find information on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States Intelligence Community, and United States Espionage and Intelligence during the 1960's.
American Memory Project	http://memory.loc.gov/ American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
National Archives & Records Administration	http://www.archives.gov/index.html The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records. NARA is a public trust upon which our democracy depends. NARA enables people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done. NARA enables officials and agencies to review their actions and helps citizens hold them accountable for those actions. And NARA ensures continuing access to essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.
Lexis Nexis Congressional	http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp Lexis-Nexis Congressional allows you to search for documents such as congressional reports, hearings, bills and the Congressional Record. You can also search for information regarding testimony, laws, regulations, members of Congress and congressional committees as well as information on the current hot topics of Capitol Hill
FBI Reading Room	http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex.htm The Reading Room has numerous documents available to look at including investigations of the Black Panther Party, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam; Abbie H. Hoffman; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Burning (MIBURN).
Library of Congress	http://thomas.loc.gov/
United States Department of State	http://www.state.gov/ The State Department website has information on countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Cuba, and Russia (formerly the Soviet Union).
National Security Archive	http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified government documents obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Foreign Relations of the United States	http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/? The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Volumes in the series since 1952 are organized chronologically according to Presidential administrations, and geographically and topically within each subseries: 25 volumes cover the Kennedy administration (1961-1963) and 34 cover the Johnson administration (1964-1968).

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