Department of History

Search a database covering source material dating from 1106 until 1960. Users will find access to articles, newspapers, books, U.S. patents, government documents, and images, with links to full-text where available.

Explore a collection of declassified material provided by US presidential libraries. Most content covers the years following World War II. Examples of materials included in this collection include cabinet meeting minutes, CIA intelligence studies and reports, correspondence, diaries, FBI surveillance and intelligence correspondence and memoranda, Joint Chiefs papers, National Security Council policy statements, Presidential conferences, State Department political analyses, technical studies, and archival material from presidential libraries and executive agencies.

Explore declassified government documents covering U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century.

Provided by the Class of 1946.

Browse the economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Users can also find the contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations.

Collection of millions of scanned books and other publications. Allows searching of the complete texts of a wide range of books. Login with westpoint.edu credentials to enable enhanced downloading.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,500 journals, with full text for more than 300.

Explore primary source material from women’s diaries and correspondence spanning more than 300 years, from Colonial times to 1950, presenting the detailed personal experiences of hundreds of women.

Collection of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.

Scholarly journal collection providing full text access to current and archived content from over 500 titles. USMA Library Subscribes to a limited number of books through Project Muse. If you find a title of interest, please search for it in SCOUT.

Browse English language letters, diaries, autobiographies, oral histories, and other personal narratives providing insight into history dating from the 1550s to the present.

Explore this database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

OCLC catalog of millions of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.