If the conflict was debated in Congress, then it should be in the Congressional Record, the official record of congressional debates.

A collection of primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. More than 35,000 declassified documents - totalling more than 200,000 pages - have been gathered through use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Annual publication featuring documents covering the most significant events of the year. Documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decision, scientific findings, cultural discussions, and other primary sources. 1972 - present.

Compendium of US historical statistics from over 1000 sources, plus scholarly essays. Tables can be viewed in PDF/HTML & downloaded in Excel or CSV.

Backfile of The Nation magazine back to volume 1, issue 1. Updated monthly 1865 - present.

Thousands of newspapers, available in full-page facsimile, with searchable full text. Most are U.S. titles, with some international coverage, and most are fairly small-circulation newspapers. 1759-present.

1868-1942

1872-1979

1849-1986

1881-1986

1851-2006

1889-1992

1877-1993

Indexing and abstracting for many general interest magazines. Great source for historical material on the 20th-century.

Archive of data from public opinion surveys. Download data from their catalog or search IPoll, their question-level database of survey results.

Full text of many newspapers and periodicals.

Indexes thousands of journals, newspapers and magazines in a broad range of subjects. Many articles are available in full text.

Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience from the collections of the Library of Congress and

This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Many thousands of searchable books digitized by Google in collaboration with libraries and publishers.

Back issues of the popular news magazine. (Hint: you can use the free online search to identify articles and then, to see the original article in context, take a look at the print or fiche by requesting it from storage or viewing it in Dewey or Hayden.)