Department of State

Office of the Historian Ebook Catalog API

A RESTful, OPDS Catalog 1.1 feed of the Foreign Relations of the United States series — the official documentary record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions — published by the Office of the Historian. Four documented operations (catalog root, all volumes in series order, ten most recent, subject browse, and Lucene free-text search) return Atom XML carrying acquisition links to EPUB, MOBI and PDF editions plus cover images. No registration, no API key, no authentication. This is the only surface the Department documents on a developer page of its own, and the source data behind it is open on GitHub as TEI XML.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog

Other Resources

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DeveloperPortal
https://history.state.gov/developer
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GitHubOrganization
https://github.com/HistoryAtState
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Support
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/Feedback
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SourceCode
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-shell
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AgentSkill
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-state/refs/heads/main/skills/department-of-state-frus-ebook-catalog.md

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: department-of-state:historian-ebook-catalog-api
name: Office of the Historian Ebook Catalog API
description: A RESTful, OPDS Catalog 1.1 feed of the Foreign Relations of the United States series — the
  official documentary record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions — published by the Office of the
  Historian. Four documented operations (catalog root, all volumes in series order, ten most recent, subject
  browse, and Lucene free-text search) return Atom XML carrying acquisition links to EPUB, MOBI and PDF
  editions plus cover images. No registration, no API key, no authentication. This is the only surface
  the Department documents on a developer page of its own, and the source data behind it is open on GitHub
  as TEI XML.
humanURL: https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog
baseURL: https://history.state.gov/api/v1
tags:
- History
- Publications
- OPDS
- Open Data
- Foreign Affairs
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://history.state.gov/developer/catalog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://history.state.gov/developer
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState
- type: Support
  url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState/Feedback
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/HistoryAtState/hsg-shell
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/department-of-state-frus-ebook-catalog.md