Declassified Research

History 67

Simon Elichko  (they/them)
Social Sciences & Data Librarian

Research Resources

Primary sources

• Digital National Security Archive
• FBIS and other resources

Secondary sources

• Historical Abstracts (database)

• Tripod

You can find links to every resource we discuss on the History 67 Research Guide.

created by the

Digital National Security Archive

investigative journalism center, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents, leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, and public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information.

What kind of work is involved?

Staff at the Archive...

  • Place FOIA requests for US government documents
  • Organize and describe documents
  • Curate collections
  • Promote resources to researchers, activists, and journalists

Southern Cone Documentation Project

How do you find documents in the DNSA?

Search strategy: use metadata instead of keywords

What happened on March 24, 1976?   (in Argentina)

  1. Search this collection: Argentina and the United States
     
  2. Find all documents in this collection with dates from March 24 - April 1, 1976

(This is on Moodle)

Making sense of a document

Metadata for DNSA documents can help
you start to figure out:


What kind of document is it?

What was its purpose?

Who was the author? What do you know about them?

Who was the intended audience?

Making sense of a document

Additional research resources for History 67:

Primary sources

  • FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1996

    • Database of international news broadcasts translated by US intelligence staff

Secondary sources

Research tips & advice

Quick questions?
Use chat in Tripod

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Email selichk1@swarthmore.edu