We have released 4 new Archives Unbound collections in November which cover broad areas of interest across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
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First U.S. Army Report of Operations, 20 October 1943–8 May 1945
Prepared by Headquarters, First U.S. Army, 1945 under Gen. Omar Bradley and his successor, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, this series of reports is a complete history of the planning, implementation, and lessons of the assault against Germany that began with the Normandy invasion and ended when the Russian and American armies met on May 7, 1945.
Ford Administration and Human Rights
| President Ford's efforts to end racial discrimination are notable. As a Congressman, he supported all major anti-discrimination legislation, including the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He continued to support and strengthen these laws through the 1970s. His administration appointed several African Americans to key positions, including Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, Special Assistant John Calhoun, Deputy Assistant for Urban Affairs Arthur Fletcher, and Assistant Secretary for Consumer Affairs Constance Newman. The White House Central Files, used by Ford and his staff, contain materials on human and civil rights, discrimination, segregation, ideologies, and voting rights, including public communications on these issues. During his presidency, Ford ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, mediated a ceasefire between Israel and Egypt, signed the Helsinki human rights convention, and agreed to arms limitations with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. |
State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee and State-Army-Navy-Air Force Coordinating Committee Files, 1944–1949
The State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC) was pivotal in aligning State Department and Pentagon policies post-World War II, formed in December 1944 to integrate diplomatic and military strategies. Renamed the State-Army-Navy-Air Force Coordinating Committee (SANACC) in 1947, it advised the National Security Council until June 1949. Over five years, SWNCC/SANACC produced 402 case studies, covering key postwar issues like Japan's occupation and Germany's division. This collection includes declassified case papers and related correspondence, totalling over 13,000 pages. It sheds light on topics such as POW treatment, rearmament, and international law. SWNCC originated from informal interagency meetings during WWII, formalizing under Secretary Stettinius Jr. to coordinate postwar planning. Its work laid the foundation for US foreign policy, addressing critical issues like the fate of enemy states and wartime atrocities.
United States and France: Correspondence Dealing with Economic Relations, 1811–1930
This collection was compiled from the archives of the U.S. State Department, the French Foreign Office, and the American Embassy in Paris. In 1931, as part of an effort to discover why economics relations between France and the United States were not better, all the records in the American Embassy in Paris dealing with economic issues were copied and analyzed. Upon completion of the study the documents were bound into a collation of eighteen volumes. The collection consists primarily of the communications which passed between the US Department of State and the American Embassy in Paris. Among the topics dealt with are French and American customs regulations, tariffs, navigation, fisheries, shipping of American cotton, seamen and commercial treaties. The collection was edited at the embassy in 1931, but not distributed. Indexed and chronologically arranged, the correspondence covers every important trade development and controversy from 1811 through 1930.
Archives Unbound comprises of more than 13 million pages of historical documents, with coverage from the medieval period to the modern day. To find out more about the new releases or our other collections, please complete the form below:
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