United States

• Conservatism
• Education
• Intellectual Currents
• Korean and Vietnam Wars
• Politics and Government
• World War I
• World War II

The United States Collection, the dominant area represented in the North American Collection, contains approximately 25,000 books and nearly three thousand periodical and newspaper titles, as well as a large holding of personal papers and archives. The main emphasis has been on the domestic developments and international policies of the United States during the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and specifically U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and other countries through the period of the Cold War and into the time of the expanding world market.

Invaluable materials on U.S. politics and government are abundantly present in this collection. Documentation of American intellectual life since the end of World War II, as well as recent American conservative thought is documented in a number of collections, including records of the American Spectator Educational Foundation and broadcast tapes of the Firing Line television program. This collection is also the repository for an extensive body of materials on American education.