Research Guides: POLS 248: American Foreign Policy (HC): Background Information

Background Information on American Foreign Relations

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher
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Original reporting and analysis on issues in the news, focusing on the economy, education, the environment, health, international affairs, social trends, and technology. Published weekly, 1991-present.

Oxford Handbook of U. S. National Security
On order. See the table of contents for more information. Can be requested through EZ Borrow before Haverford's copy arrives.
Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
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Online access to a 2010 reference work on American politics. Scholars were commissioned to write the 190 articles on a wide range of political topics including aspects of foreign policy and war.
Also available in print.
Routledge handbook of American foreign policy
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Offers 31 essays providing a systematic overview of major aspects of American foreign policy and presents an agenda for further research.

American Presidency Project
Very rich source of documents and information maintained by John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain over 109,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

American National Biography
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Offers biographical articles on more than 18,000 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. No living person is included. Bibliographies highlight the most important scholarship on a person.

American President: A Reference Resource
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia presents resources on individual presidents, both primary material and scholarly analysis.
Blackwell Companions to individual presidents
There are 12 titles currently in the series including volumes on Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt.