Research Guides: U.S. History: Standard Print Sources

Foreign Relations of the United States

FRUS (Foreign Relations of the United States) is a standard source used in researching U.S.foreign policy and diplomatic relations. FRUS is available in many formats, It is included in the legal database Hein Online, in HathiTrust, in printed volumes in the Bobst library stacks at JX 233 .A3, in a nice digital version from the University of Wisconsin, and a growing number as downloadable e-books from the State Department itself.

FRUS e-books (US Department of State 2020/06)
"The Office of the Historian offers ebook editions of a growing number of volumes from the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series. Far lighter and more portable than printed editions of FRUS, the ebook edition offers the full content of each volume and makes use of the full-text search and other reading features of most ebook devices and applications, including bookmarking and note-taking. Unlike the web-based edition of FRUS, the ebook edition, once downloaded, can be accessed even without internet connectivity."
Foreign Relations of the United States (US Department of State 2020/06)
"The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity." The State Department offers volumes beginning with the Lincoln administration through Clinton.
Foreign Relations of the United States (University of Wisconsin 2020/07)
The digital version from the University of Wisconsin which covers from 1861-196o with some volumes missing.

Databases with the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
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The Foreign Relations of the United States database presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 1,500 volumes containing invaluable information beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Ronald Reagan in 1988. Search for this exact phrase:"Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)"
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
an advanced catalogue search produced 59 records each with numerous volumes digitized. The syntax is department of state as the author and foreign relations as the title

Books in a Series

These are just some of the series you can search in the Libraries' Catalog that may have useful books:

Blackwell Companions to American History
Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History
Facts on File Library of American History
Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers
Historical Studies of Urban America

Database Soruces

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A number of the works listed below can be found in this database as well.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Many of the works listed below published by Gale can be found in this database as well.
History Reference Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers.
Reference Universe (Paratext) This link opens in a new window
Search across a number of reference works to find entries on a topic. Searches across 18-million articles in 40,000 reference books from 750 publishers.

Books

American Decades by Vincent Tompkins and Judith Baughman and Victor Bondi and Richard Layman
Call Number: Reference E169.12 .A419 1994
ISBN: 0810357224
Publication Date: 1994-2011
Detroit: Gale Research. Along with American Eras, this multi-volume set discusses different time periods in history from a variety of angles.
American Eras by Kross, Jessica.; Allison, Robert J.; Prokopowicz, Gerald J.
Call Number: Reference E169.1 .A471979 1997
ISBN: 0787614785
Publication Date: 1997
Detroit: Gale Research. Along with American Decades this multi-volume set discusses different time periods in history from a variety of angles. American Eras covers periods from exploration through 1900. American Decades covers the period 1900-1990. Each chapter considers its timeframe from a variety of perspectives, including: World Events; The Arts; Business and the Economy; Communication; Education; Government and Politics; Law and Justice; Lifestyles and Social Trends; Religion; Science and Technology; Sports and Recreation. Well illustrated with timelines and chronologies.
American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation by David Levinson and Melvin Ember
Call Number: Reference E184.A1.A63448 1997
ISBN: 0028972082
Publication Date: 1997
New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan
Atlas of Indian Nations by Anton Treuer
Call Number: G1106.E1 N3 2013
ISBN: 1426211600
Publication Date: 2013
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
Atlas of the North American Indian by Carl Waldman
Call Number: Reference G1106.E1 W3 2009 Non-Circulating
ISBN: 9780816068586
Publication Date: 2009
New York, NY: Facts on File
Chronology of American Indian History by Liz Sonneborn
Call Number: Reference E77.S72 S66 2007 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0816067708
Publication Date: 2006
Clothing through American History: The Civil War through the Gilded Age, 1861-1899 by Anita A. Stamper and Jill Condra
Call Number: GT607 .S73 2011
ISBN: 9780313335518
Publication Date: 2011
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood
Companion to American Thought by Richard Wightman Fox and James T Kloppenberg
Call Number: Reference E169.1 .C685 1995 Non-circulating
ISBN: 1557862680
Publication Date: 1995
Cambridge: Blackwell
Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas by Glenn Porter
Call Number: Reference HC103 .E52 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0684162717
Publication Date: 1980
New York: Scribner
Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas by Jack P Greene
Call Number: Reference E183 .E5 1984 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0684170035
Publication Date: 1984
New York: Scribner
Encyclopedia of American Social History by Mary Kupiec Cayton and Elliott J. Gorn and Peter W Williams
Call Number: Ref1 HN57 .E58 1993
ISBN: 0684192462
Publication Date: 1993
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Encyclopedia of the American Presidency by Leonard W Levy and Louis Fisher
Call Number: Reference JK511 .E53 1994 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0132759837
Publication Date: 1994
New York: Simon and Schuster
Encyclopedia of the American West by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod
Call Number: Reference F591 .E485 1996 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0028974956
Publication Date: 1996
New York: Macmillan Reference
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies by Jacob Ernest Cooke
Call Number: Bobst Ref1 E45 .E53 1993 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0684192691
Publication Date: 1993
New York: Scribner,
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations by Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson
Call Number: Reference E183.7 E53 1997 Non-Circulating
ISBN: 0195110552
Publication Date: 1997
New York: Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America by Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
Call Number: Reference HQ1410 .C85 2000 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0816041008
Publication Date: 2000
2nd ed. New York : Facts On File.Articles on important events, persons, legislation, organizations, etc. With an appendix of documents.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America by Rudolph J Vecoli and Judy Galens and Anna J Sheets and Robyn V. Young
Call Number: Reference E184.A1 G14 1995 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0810391635
Publication Date: 1995
Detroit: Gale Research. Articles on the history, language and customs of a wide variety of immigrant and ethnic groups.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History by Thomas Carson
Call Number: Reference HC102 .G35 1999 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0787638889
Publication Date: 1999
Detroit: Gale Group
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History 1900 to the present by Amy T. Peterson
Call Number: GT615 .G74 2008
ISBN: 9780313358555
Publication Date: 2008
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Notice this is a circulating 2 volume set.
Handbook of American Women's History by Angela Howard and Frances M. Kavenik
Call Number: Reference HQ1410 .H36 2000
ISBN: 0761916350
Publication Date: 2000
2nd ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage
Handbook of North American Indians by Garrick A. Bailey, Editor
Call Number: E 77 .H25
ISBN: 9780160803888
Publication Date: 1977-
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups by Stephan Thernstrom
Call Number: Reference E184.A1 H35
ISBN: 0674375122
Publication Date: 1980
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Universiy. Still a standard and respected work.
How Much Is That In Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use As a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States by John J. McCusker
Call Number: Reference HB235.U6 M39 2001 Non-circulating
Publication Date: 2001
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson and James G Thomas and Ann J. Abadie
Call Number: Reference F209 .N47 2006 Non-circulating
ISBN: 9780807830031
Publication Date: 2016-2012
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar
Call Number: Reference F591 .N46 1998 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0300070888
Publication Date: 1998
New Haven: Yale University
Reader's Companion to American History by Eric Foner and John A. Garraty
Call Number: Reference E174 .R43 1991 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0395513723
Publication Date: 1991
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. One volume encyclopedia with long articles, cross-references, and bibliographies for further study.
Reader's Guide to American History by Peter J Parish
Call Number: Reference E178.R43 1997
ISBN: 1884964222
Publication Date: 1997
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. This guide provides encyclopedic entries with references for topics in American History from the colonial period through recent history.
Statistical Record of Native North Americans by Marlita A. Reddy, editor
Call Number: Reference E98.P76 S73 1993 Non-Circulating
ISBN: 0810389630
Publication Date: 1993
This Day in North American Indian History by Philip Konstantin
Call Number: Reference E77.6 .K66 2002 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0306811707
Publication Date: 2002
Dictionary of Asian American History by Hyung-chan Kim, editor
Call Number: Reference E184.O6 D53 1986 Non-circulating
ISBN: 0313237603
Publication Date: 1986
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