Project Partners:

Brown University. Professor James N. Green, professor of Brazilian History and Culture, is co-coordinating this project in conjunction with Brown University Libraries as part of the expansion of the Brasiliana Collection and the development of the Brazil: From Dictatorship to Democracy Project at Brown University.

State University of Maringá. Professor of History Sidnei J. Munhoz of the State University of Maringá has been involved in expanding the access to U.S. State Department documents for a number of years. He has coordinated a project to digitize microfilmed copies of U.S. State Department documents related to Brazil from 1908 to 1939 and 1945 to 1959 in collaboration with the Brazilian National Archive and financed by Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP) [Financing Body of Studies and Projects), an agency of the Brazilian government. This material will be posted on a website of the State University of Maringá the second semester of 2013.

National Security Archive. Peter Kornbluh is a research director at the National Security Archive, an independent, non-governmental research institute and library located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. that collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Kornbluh serves a consultant to the Brazilian National Truth Commission.

Brazilian National Archive Under the directorship of Dr. Jaime Antunes, the Brazilian National Archive has joined the Opening the Archives Project through Memórias Reveladas (Revealed Memories), a clearing house that is collecting additional archival material about the nation’s recent past. Professors Green and Munhoz serve on a subcommittee of the Commission of Advanced Studies of the Memorias ReveladosProject, whose task is to find ways to facilitate greater access to foreign documents concerning Brazil for scholars and the general public.