Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
Sources from The National Archives, UK
Explore documents covering a broad sweep of history from c1824-1961, taking in the USA, Canada, the Caribbean and Central America.
This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, and covers such topics as slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb.
The bulk of the material covers the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 is part of Archives Direct, a cross-searchable multi-product platform, sourced from The National Archives, UK.
Highlights
- The birth of the railways and industry, the Hudson’s Bay Company, trade, economy and agriculture, fisheries and shipping
- Native Americans, border disputes, slavery and apprenticeship, the Morant Bay rebellion
- Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi activities in Chile, McCarthyism
- The League of Nations, US financial position, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the USA into the World War II
- Spheres of influence in Latin America, nuclear policy and US-Canadian relationships
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- The National Archives, UK
- The Atomic and Hydrogen bombs
- The Hudson's Bay Company
- Industrial development
- Lend-lease
- McCarthyism
- Prohibition
- Racial desegregation
- Trade, economy and agriculture
- The USA and World War II
- US policy towards China
- Reports
- Dispatches
- Descriptions of leading political personalities
- Weekly political summaries
- Monthly economic reports
- Peter Catterall, Queen Mary College, University of London
- Niall Ferguson, Harvard University
- Greg Grandin, New York University
- Abi Husainy, The National Archives, Kew
- Howard Malchow, Tufts University
- Bill Noblett, Cambridge University Library
- Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D C
- International Relations
- North American Studies
- Political History and Science
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform
- Full-text searchable
- Map gallery
- Pre-populated searches for key people, places and topics
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Reveals information about vast frontiers of social and cultural history
- Author: Abi Husainy, The National Archives, UK
