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Article: Making Diplomatic History.(National Security Archive and Cold War International Center for Scholars Web sites)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Everyone knows the dot-corn bubble has burst. But the Internet is still making history-literally. Dozens of public and private facilities around the world are putting thousands of treaties, diplomatic communiques, and internal government correspondence onto Web-based archives. Accessible from almost anywhere in the world, these Web sites have the potential to reshape the future study of diplomatic history.
Two American Web sites are leading the effort: George Washington University's National Security Archive (www.gwu.edu/[sim]nsarchiv/) and the more recent Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ...