Yale Library has purchased a new collection of declassified documents: “Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990.”
This collection can be accessed within the database Digital National Security Archive. That database includes 36 other declassified documents collections on U.S. foreign policy issues since World War II.
Intro, intermediate, advanced, raster, classic cartographic and more: Yale GIS workshops
Now available at Yale: ProQuest Legislative Insight, a database of compiled legislative histories. "Legislative histories enable users to trace the development of a public law from its early consideration to its enactment, including development that spans more than one Congress." Read more about what they are and how to search them.
Yale Library has purchased a new collection of declassified documents: “U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action.”
This collection can be accessed within the database Digital National Security Archive. That database includes 35 other declassified documents collections on U.S. foreign policy issues since World War II.
The Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award is conferred on a Yale College senior for an outstanding essay based on research done in the collections of the Yale University Library's Government Documents & Information Center.
Two awards were conferred in 2011. Alison Weiner (Davenport College) won first prize for her History essay Yielding to Reality: Examining the Rise of a Strong "Chief of Staff" in the Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton Administrations. Her research in presidential staff papers and interviews was central to her discussion of the relationship between presidents and their chiefs of staff and the evolution of that position across three Democratic administrations.
Second prize went to George Bogden (Silliman College) for his Political Science essay Refugees, Statecraft, and Legitimacy: Forced Migration and Foreign Policy in the 1991 Kurdish Refugee Crisis. George used documents from George H. W. Bush’s National Security Council and the United Nations Security Council to examine the strategic motives behind the decision-making of the major state-actors involved in this refugee crisis.
The prize was established in 2007 by the daughters of Harvey M. Applebaum, class of 1959.
The Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva has published an extensive guide to resources on disarmament. The guide includes information and links to treaties, UN documents, negotiations forums, confidence building measures, verification institutions, and export control regimes.
Yale Library has purchased the following CQ Press online books, all of which can be accessed from the CQ Press Electronic Library site:
Encyclopedia of the First Amendment
Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
The Encyclopedia of Political Science
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History
Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law
Voter Turnout in the United States 1788-2009
The New York Times on Critical Elections, 1854-2008
The New York Times on Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe
(The two New York Times books are found under the title TimesReference from CQ Press.)
Yale Library has purchased the JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX collection, which adds a number of digitized journal backfiles to JSTOR, including Public Affairs Quarterly, Population Research and Policy Review, and The American Economist. Remember, JSTOR typically does not have the most recent 3-5 years of any given journal, so check Orbis or the library's A-Z journal list to access complete holdings.