[MGSA-L] Fwd: Department of State's Office of the Historian releases newly digitized Foreign Relations volumes

[DANIEL P. Tompkins]

The item just came to me from a colleague at Temple University's Center for
the Study of Force and Diplomacy, a very good outfit, and it may be useful
to others working on foreign policy issues.  I've dipped into the volumes
that have become available, and find that there's a good deal about Greece,
especially perhaps in  "Eastern Europe: 1949)."

I have not found anything as textured or fascinating as in John Iatrides'
wonderful edition of the MacVeagh papers
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691052921/ref=rdr_ext_tmb>.  Not every diplomat
could write like MacVeagh, who reports that Venizelos sought amnesty for
the instigators of the March 1935 revolt "largely because so many of them
are now living on his wife's bounty, and though her fortune is large it is
not inexhaustible." (p.64)  That was another era, I guess.

Dan Tompkins
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Today's publication of twenty digitized volumes of FRUS volumes previously
available only in paper reflects an aggressive effort of the State
Department's Historical Office to make these valuable documents more
readily accessible to both instructors and researchers. CENFAD thus wants
to ensure this press release reaches all members of our community.


> Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy
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>  Temple University
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> "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future?
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> Because there is nowhere else to look."
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>              --James Burke
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> *From:* FRUS Press Releases [mailto:FRUSPressReleases at state.gov]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:07 AM
> *Subject:* Department of State's Office of the Historian releases newly
> digitized Foreign Relations volumes
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> Media Note
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> Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs
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> Quarterly Release of Newly Digitized *Foreign Relations *Volumes
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> The Department of State announces today the release of newly digitized
> versions of twenty volumes from the *Foreign Relations of the United
> States *series, the official documentary record of U.S. foreign
> relations. These volumes cover events that took place between 1948 and 1951
> and were originally published in print between 1973 and 1998:
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> *Foreign Relations of the United States, **1948*
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> 1. General; the United Nations, Volume I, Part 1
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v01p1>
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> 2. General; the United Nations, Volume I, Part 2
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v01p2>
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> 3. Germany and Austria, Volume II
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v02>
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> 4. Western Europe, Volume III
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03>
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> 5. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V, Part 1
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p1>
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> 6. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume V, Part 2
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2>
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> 7. The Far East: China, Volume VII
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v07>
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> *Foreign Relations of the United States, **1949*
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> 1. National Security Affairs, Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v01>
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> 2. The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v02>
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> 3. Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria, Volume III
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v03>
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> 4. Western Europe, Volume IV
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v04>
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> 5. Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union, Volume V
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v05>
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> 6. The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume VI
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06>
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> 7. The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 1
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v07p1>
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> 8. The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 2
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v07p2>
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> 9. The Far East: China, Volume VIII
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v08>
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> *Foreign Relations of the United States, **1950*
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> 1. National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1950v01>
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> 2. The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1950v02>
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> 3. Western Europe, Volume III
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1950v03>
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> *Foreign Relations of the United States, **1951*
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> 1. National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I
> <http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951v01>
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> Today's release is part of the Office of the Historian's ongoing project,
> in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center,
> to digitize the entire *Foreign Relations *series. The University
> graciously provided high quality scanned images of each printed book, which
> the Office further digitized to create a full text searchable edition.
> These volumes are available online and as free ebooks at the Office of the
> Historian's website (http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments). This
> is the first in a series of quarterly releases, which will continue until
> the *FRUS *digital archive is complete.
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