Korean War Veterans Memorial
Photograph by Heather Stanfield
Bowdoin College Library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. government publications. Within our sizeable collection of government documents are many official accounts of the Korean War and reports on international relations.
One simple way to locate government documents, especially single reports or hearings, is to perform a keyword search for "Korean War" in the Bowdoin Library Catalog, limiting to Government Documents.
Another way is to locate information in government document series. Some useful series are listed below:
Area Handbook/Country Study Series (online)
Govt Doc D101.22:issued irregularly (print)
Books prepared by the Library of Congress and the Department of Defense, these studies offer excellent information--political, military, demographic--on foreign countries from the perspective of the U.S.
Foreign Relations of the United States (online)
Govt Doc S1.1 (print)
Large series of compiled State Dept. correspondence between diplomats and the president or secretary of state, some originally classified. Organized by year and country.
United States Congressional Serial Set (online)
Govt Doc Y1.1/7 (print)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (online)
Series of translated texts of newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, speeches and newswires from around the world from 1941-1994
