“The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity,” according to the State Department.
FRUS begins in 1861 with the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The State Department Office of the Historian continues to add to the series as documents become declassified.
The series is generally arranged by year with each documents related to all relevant countries for that year in that series. However, some documents related to specific events, such as World War I, have their own entry in the series.
Rather than being arranged entirely by year as they are in the FRUS series, documents are arranged on El Hemisferio by country and topic. The presentation of the documents is designed to help readers better access these important primary source documents.
By default, the hyperlinks below are titled generically with the series year followed by “Diplomatic Correspondence”. If the documents have subjections within them, then those subsections are listed and linked individually under a heading with the series year.
The FRUS series documents for a single country in a single year occasionally run hundreds of pages. The format adopted on El Hemisferio is designed to make consumption of these documents more manageable for the reader.
The documents on El Hemisferio come either from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the State Department’s website. As government documents, all sources on El Hemisferio are in the public domain. The documents are reproduced here for the purposes of education and are formatted to better achieve that purpose.
General
Mexico
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1863 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Correspondence with the French Legation
1865-66 Negotiation for the Transit of United States Troops, in 1861, through Mexican Territory
1865-66 Demonstration of Honor by the United States of Colombia to President Juarez, of Mexico
1865-66 The Imperial Mexican Express Company in New York
1865-66 Present Condition of Affairs in the Republic of Mexico
1865-66 United States Correspondence in Relation to Mexican Affairs
1865-66 Evacuation of Mexico by the French
1865-66 Austrian Troops for Mexico
1865-66 European Troops in Mexico
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1866-67 Correspondence with the Mexican Legation
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Correspondence with the Mexican Legation
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1870-71 Diplomatic Correspondence
Central America
Costa Rica
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-55 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
El Salvador
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
Guatemala
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1870-71 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Guatemala and Salvador
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
Honduras
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
Nicaragua
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1870-71 Diplomatic Correspondence
South America
Argentina
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Correspondence with the Legation of the Argentine Republic
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
Bolivia
1865-66 Diplomatic Correspondence
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Brazil
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1863 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Diplomatic Correspondence
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Correspondence with the Brazilian Legation
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Colombia
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Correspondence between the Department of State and the Colombian Legation in Washington
Chile
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1863 Diplomatic Correspondence
1864 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1870-71 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Ecuador
1862 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Correspondence between the Department of State and the Legation of Ecuador in Washington
Paraguay
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
Peru
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Correspondence with the Peruvian Legation
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
1870-71 Diplomatic Correspondence
1871-72 Diplomatic Correspondence
Uruguay
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
Venezuela
1861 Diplomatic Correspondence
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
1868-69 Diplomatic Correspondence
Caribbean
Haiti
1865-66 Sentiments of Condolence and Sympathy
1866-67 Diplomatic Correspondence
1867-68 Diplomatic Correspondence
