KC Johnson

State Dept. website: current policy statements, thematic issues, etc.

State Dept., office of historian: useful background information

Foreign Relations of the United States: internal State Department documents from late 1950s-1970s, useful for getting specific cites for your historical analogies

pre-late 1950s FRUS

CIA official website

Cold War International History Project

Brookings Institution (a Washington, DC-based think tank)

The Rand Corporation (foreign and public policy think tank)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (U.S.-based philanthropic organization)

Sources of news, information, & commentary

This list is meant to be suggestive, not exhaustive.

Important sources of news, current events, and distinguished commentary include the following:

• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• International Herald Tribune
• CNN
• The Atlantic Monthly
• The Economist
• Ha’aretz (Israel–English-language version)
• Foreign Policy
• Foreign Affairs
• The National Interest
• The New Republic
• The Weekly Standard