Research Guides: FYS: Strategy Strikes Back: Home

Current News Sources

These are good general purpose sources that allow you to search across large groups of subject encyclopedias.

These sources will help you learn more about the specific US conflict you want to analyze for your final paper.

ZSR Library Catalog
Use this to find books, ebooks, government documents, and documentaries on your conflict.

Tips for searching the catalog:

"Vietnam War", "Iraq War", "World War II" can all be searched in quotation marks to make your results more relevant
Add in an additional term to narrow down your results even more "World War II" AND "resistance" for example
If it is a smaller conflict, you can try searching for the country name and "united states" i.e. Grenada "United States"
If you know the name of the military operation, try that "Operation Desert Storm"
Names of people can also be useful (Reagan, Duarte, Castro, etc.)
For larger conflicts you might want to add "strategy" or another term to limit your results

Databases for General International Politics and Government

Databases for International Military and Security Issues

2018 National Defense Strategy
Proquest Congressional
Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations as well as information on Congress, voting records, legislative histories from 1789 to the present, and current legislative activities. Also contains the full text of the U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers from 1789-2003. Also includes indexing and full text of published and unpublished Congressional Hearings from 1829 to present. Includes the Congressional Record from 1873-present and its predecessor publications from 1789-1873.
Digital National Security Archive
Significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Contains declassified documents that have been gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Coverage: 1945-2002.
Early American Imprints
Includes the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the Thirteen Colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1819.
Making of the Modern World
Digital facsimile images of primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth from the period 1450-1914. Full-text searching across works in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more.

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