American Politics and Society

Features Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administration records as well as Thomas A. Edison Papers and immigration records. Part of the History Vault database.

Access includes:

  • New Deal and the World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies
  • American Politics and Society from JFK to Watergate, 1960-1975
  • Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
  • Law and Society since the Civil War: American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library
  • FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972