I am pleased to report that the Vere Harmsworth Library has committed funding to purchase a new database, Carter Administration and Foreign Affairs, which is now available to Bodleian readers.

This online resource includes official documents from the Carter administration related to Foreign Affairs, housed in the Carter Presidential Library. These include presidential correspondence and memorandums with his cabinet, other Executive departments and agencies and other heads of state; telegrams and cables between foreign missions and the State Department; briefing books for international conferences and official reports.

Historical events and topics covered include Middle East Peace and the Camp David Accords; NATO and the Rapid Deployment Force; Human Rights; relations with the People’s Republic of China; Panama Canal Treaty; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II); covert intervention in Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

This database continues to build our modern American political history collections, as well as our collections focused on international relations and diplomacy.

You can access this collection here.