History

Full-text access to legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789-1838. Arranged by topic: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Finances, Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post Office Department, Public Lands, Claims, and Miscellaneous. Part of the Archive of Americana collection. Terms of Use

Indexes print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. Provides links to full-text, when available. Coverage: 1994-present.

Federal records on Native Americans prior to 1940 in 8 collections: Cherokee Indian Agency (TN), Dawes Enrollment Cards, Dawes Packets, Eastern Cherokee Applications, Guion Miller Roll, Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940, Photos - Native Americans (Rinehart), and Ratified Indian Treaties.

Search the collections and read full text of books in the public domain for over 70 libraries and research institutions. Full text is available for many historical government documents.

Journals, Congressional Record, Congressional Serial Set, U.S Reports, constitutions of every country, U.S. Treaties, Federal Register.

Legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets.

American genealogical and historical sources including U.S. Federal Censuses, genealogy and local history books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank Records, and LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set. Coverage dates back to the 1700s.
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U.S. policy and strategy documents related to homeland security, congressional hearings and legislation, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports, and other resources from federal government agencies, as well as studies, videos, webcasts, and analyses.

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

Legal news, case law, Supreme Court cases, and related information (formerly LexisNexis Academic).

Readex offers reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes from 1817-1994. Terms of Use