The collection, which includes 28,386 pages of records, documents the role in government of one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of modern U.S. foreign relations.  It is the most comprehensive published record of Kissinger as decision-maker, executor of policy, and negotiator during all phases of his service in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

"The extensive interaction between Kissinger and his high-level interlocutors, and wide ranging involvement in world politics make the memcons a critically important source not only for the study of U.S. diplomatic and military history but also for international studies and social sciences," said Mary Sauer-Games, vice president of publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning. "We are pleased to work with the National Security Archive to provide public, academic, and governmental libraries a rich archive of materials not available elsewhere in electronic form."  According to Professor Thomas Schwartz, History Department, Vanderbilt University, a leading Kissinger scholar, this collection is a "a unique teaching resource, carefully organized and thoroughly accessible."

From ProQuest's Chadwyck-Healey brand, DNSA is the most comprehensive resource available of primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. More than 61,000 of the most important declassified documents - totaling more than 475,000 pages - are included in the database. Many are published for the first time.

DNSA now comprises more than 20 subject areas, each containing a diverse range of policy and intelligence documents including presidential directives, summit meeting transcripts, memoranda of conversation, diplomatic dispatches, interagency meeting notes, national intelligence estimates, briefing papers, internal White House communications, email, confidential letters and other formerly secret material. Additionally, detailed contextual and reference supplements are provided for each subject area, including general introductory material, an essay, a bibliography, a chronology, and glossaries.

Documents have been selected and identified by leading scholars in each of the subject areas covered and have been indexed to permit item- and page-level searching across more than 20 combinable fields. In its totality, DNSA offers the most powerful primary research and teaching tools available in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security affairs during a pivotal period of twentieth-century history.

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