The Library of Congress houses one of the most complete collections of United States Congressional documents in their original format. These documents are available online to the general public in the database, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, which brings together the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress.

 

American State Papers, 1789-1838, a component of the Readex Archive of Americana, is a digital collection of approximately 6280 numbered publications largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials. (Off-campus access is controlled by CLS email username and password)

 

The Legal Treatises module of the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) comprehensively covers a critical era in the development of Anglo-American law and legal practice. ECCO (Law Module) consists of approximately 9,300 titles. The titles reflect the many genres occupied by legal writing during the 18th Century, and features many editions of works that changed the practice of law. The Eighteenth Century Collection Online compliments the Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises. (Off-campus access is controlled by CLS email username and password)

 

The HeinOnline English Reports provides full-text access to the original bound reprint edition of the English Reports together with the indexes and Book of Charts. The English Reports is a 178 volume set containing more than 100,000 early English cases published between 1220 and 1865.

 

The HeinOnline Law Journal Library provides full-text access to law reviews and journals. Coverage begins with a journal's first volume but does not usually include its most recent issues.

 

The HeinOnline Legal Classics Library is a digital collection of many of the most highly regarded works written on the law.

 

The HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library provides full-text access to several important treaty series including official and unofficial U.S. treaty publications, treaty guides and indexes, various treaty collections, books and texts, and other useful materials.

 

The HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library provides full-text access to a wide variety of sources of Presidential Documents, Messages and Papers, including A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents compiled by James D. Richardson (Volumes 1-20,1789-1916, George Washington to Woodrow Wilson); A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents (New Series) compiled by James D. Richardson (Volumes 1-22, 1789-March 1929, George Washington to Herbert Hoover) and other Presidential sources.

 

The HeinOnline World Trials Collection provides full-text access to transcripts and accounts of trials from around the world. Also included are works that analyze and debate famous trials and biographies of well-known trial lawyers.

 

Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for quantitative facts of American History.

 

House and Senate Journals
House Journal (American Memory; 1st-43rd Congress, 1789-1875)
Senate Journal (American Memory; 1st-43rd Congress, 1789-1875)

House and Senate Journals Americana, is a collection of the Journals of the United States House of Representatives and Senate covering the first 43 Congresses of the United States.

 

JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to the development of a digital library in support of the arts and sciences. JSTOR comprises the full-text of more than 200 academic journals covering a very wide range of disciplines. Coverage of a journal begins with its first volume. However, current volumes are embargoed for a period of 1 to 7 years and are unavailable on JSTOR. (Off-campus access is controlled by CLS email username and password)

 

LexisNexis Congressional is a major source of information about the members of Congress and their legislative activities and a primary resource for assessing the many publications of the U.S. Congress from 1969 to present. LexisNexis Congressional provides coverage of Congressional publications including House and Senate Committee Reports, Committee Hearings, Committee Prints and Documents. LexisNexis Congressional provides extensive legislative histories for acts passed from 1969 to present. (Off-campus access requires a CLS email username and password)

 

The LLMC Digital collection, produced by the Law Library Microform Consortium, includes both historical and current legal literature and government documents in full-text. (Off-campus access requires a CLS email username and password)

 

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 is a digital collection of 19th and early 20th century legal treatises compiled largely from Harvard Law Library Special Collections. The Making of Modern Law is a full-text, searchable collection of 21,000 British and American legal treatises.

 

The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926, is a digital collection that contains more than 10,000 titles including pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The Historic Trials collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority is in the English-language and published in the United States or Great Britain.

 

The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 is a digital collection of more than 350,000 separate documents from over 150,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases. Document types include Appellant’s Brief; Appellee's Brief; Application for Review; Application for Writ; Brief in Opposition; Brief of Real Party; Intervenor's Brief; Jurisdictional Statement; Letter Brief; Opposition for Review; Oral Transcript; Petition; Petition for Rehearing; Petitioner’s Brief; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Relator's Brief; Supplement to Petition; and Transcript.

 

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is the first encyclopedia to provide both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems.

 

LexisNexis Congressional is a major source of information about the members of Congress and their legislative activities and a primary resource for assessing the many publications of the U.S. Congress from 1969 to present. (Off-campus access requires a CLS email username and password)