Foreign Relations of the United States Materials
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the main publication of the Office of the Historian. Published since 1861, the FRUS series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions.
To access volumes pertaining to U.S. policy towards Southeast Asia prior to 1960, please visit the University of Wisconsin’s Digital Collections, which provides online full-text access to the FRUS series between 1861 and 1960.
To access post-1960 FRUS volumes, please visit the Office of the Historian's website. There are numerous volumes on Vietnam and Southeast Asia covering the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon-Ford Administrations:
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume I: Vietnam, 1961
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume II: Vietnam, 1962
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume III: Vietnam, January-August 1963
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV: Vietnam, August-December 1963
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Volume XXIII, Southeast Asia
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXIV: Laos Crisis
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume I: Vietnam, 1964
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume II: Vietnam, January-June 1965
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume III: Vietnam, June-December 1965
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume V: Vietnam, 1967
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume VI, Vietnam, January–August 1968
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume VII: Vietnam, September 1968–January 1969
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXVII, Mainland Southeast Asia; Regional Affairs
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXVIII, Laos
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume VI, Vietnam, January 1969–July 1970
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume VIII, Vietnam, January–October 1972
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XX, Southeast Asia, 1969–1972