Collection of digitized primary sources on modern American history: foreign policy, immigration, feminism, politics, etc.
Contains the following collections:
American Politics and Society
• Thomas A. Edison Papers (1850-1919)
• Law and Society since the Civil War: American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library (1861-1976)
• Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
• American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (1960-1975)
International Relations and Military Conflicts
• U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
• U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945
• World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
• Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
Women's Studies
• Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational records of three women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance, 1880-1990
• Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Records of suffrage and women's rights organizations and advocates, women at work during World War II.
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