Instructify

BY BILL FERRIS

See the history of United States foreign relations. The State Department has launched the Office of the Historian website, chronicling U.S. foreign policy throughout our nation’s history.

The site is full of historical documents, photographs, and milestones. As you might expect, there’s a lot available. You can sift through all that history by searching according to presidential administration, theme, or by country. For example, you can read about the U-2 Spy Plane Incident. Or see how, despite all our current good will toward jolley olde England, America apparently had a few dust-ups with the Brits in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

You can find lots of primary sources, as well get a better sense of American history in the context of how we deal with the rest of the world.

U.S. State Department Office of the Historian

Related stuff:

Monitor The Government As Avidly As It Monitors You. Well, Almost: OpenCongress.org

Find Where the Government Keeps its Secrets

More information than you’ll ever need about every country: CIA World Factbook

Visit the Library of Congress online