The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643: The Articles of Confederation between the Plantations under the Government of the Massachusetts, the Plantations under the Government of New Plymouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut, and the Government of New Haven with the Plantations in Combination therewith:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/art1613.htm
The Albany Plan of 1754
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/albplan.html
Resolutions of the Stamp Act (Oct. 19, 1765)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/stamp.html
Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
The Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation
(S. Doc. 103-6) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/browse.html
The Constitution of the United States: plain text http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
http://thorpe.ou.edu/
Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
http://www.constitution.org/cons/iroquois.htm
Alabama
An Overview of Alabama's Six Constitutions with links to each document
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/constitutions.html
Alaska
The Alaska State Constitution Jan. 3, 1959
http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php
Minutes of the Constitutional Convention 1955-6
http://www.law.state.ak.us/doclibrary/cc_minutes.html
Arizona
Arizona State Constitution and Enabling Act
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/Constitution.asp
Arkansas
Constitution of the State of Arkansas of 1874
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/data/constitution/ArkansasConstitution1874.pdf
California
California State Constitution
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const.html
Colorado
Colorado Constitution adopted March 14, 1876
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/constitution/index.html
Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/orders.html
The Connecticut Colony Charter (1662)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/colony.html
Constitution of the State of Connecticut 1818
http://www.sots.ct.gov/RegisterManual/SectionI/1818CTCO.HTM
Constitution of the State of Connecticut 1965
http://www.cslib.org/constitutionalAmends/
Delaware
Charter of Delaware 1701
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/de01.htm
Constitution of Delaware 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/de02.htm
Constitution of Delaware, June 4, 1987
http://www.state.de.us/facts/constit/welcome.htm
Florida
Constitution of the State of Florida
as revised in 1968 and subsequently amended
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Mode=Constitution&Submenu=3&Tab=statutes
Florida Constitution of 1838
http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/1838con.html
Florida Constitution of 1861
http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/1861con.html
Florida Constitution of 1865
http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/1865con.html
Florida Constitution of 1868
http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/1868con.html
Florida Constitution of 1885
http://www.law.fsu.edu/crc/conhist/1885con.html
Georgia
Georgia Rules and Regulations of 1776
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/con1776.htm
Constitution of 1777
Constitution of 1789
Constitution of 1798
Constitution of 1861
Constitution of 1865
Constitution of 1868
Constitution of 1877 (as ratified without subsequent amendments)
Constitution of 1945 (as ratified without subsequent amendments) Constitution of 1976 (as ratified without subsequent amendments) Constitution of 1983 (as ratified without subsequent amendments)
Constitution of 1983 (as amended through Nov. 1998)
All at: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gacontoc.htm
Hawaii
The Constitution of the State of Hawaii
http://www.hawaii.gov/lrb/con/
Idaho
Constitution of the State of Idaho (1890)
http://www3.state.id.us/idstat/const/constTOC.html
Illinois
Constitution of the State of Illinois (1970)
http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/conmain.htm
Indiana
Indiana State Constitution
http://www.state.in.us/legislative/ic/code/const/
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/inconst.html
1816 Constitution of the State of Indiana
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/resources/doconst1816.html
Iowa
1857 Constitution of the State of Iowa, Codified
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Constitution.html
Kansas
Topeka Constitution of 1855
http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/online/topekaconstitution.htm
Constitution of the State of Kansas
Adopted at Wyandotte, July 29, 1859
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/schs/ritchie/education/standards/7thgrade/benchmark2/Wyandotte%20Constitution%201859.pdf
Kentucky
Kentucky Constitution of 1891, as amended through 9-13-99
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legresou/constitu/intro.htm
Louisiana
The Louisiana Constitution of 1974
http://senate.legis.state.la.us/Documents/Constitution/Default.htm
Maine
Constitution of the State of Maine 2003 Arrangement
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/const/
Maryland
Bacon's Laws of Maryland: Charter of the Province of Maryland (latin and english) http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000075/html/index.html
Constitution of Maryland
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/43const/html/const.html
Conventions of 1774-1776
Constitutional Convention of 1850
Constitutional Convention of 1864
Constitutional Convention of 1867
Constitutional Convention of 1967-1968 (The proceedings of the Constitutional Conventions contain the text of the Constitutions.)
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/conventions.html
Massachusetts
Mayflower Compact 1620
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/amerdoc/mayflower.htm
The 1629 Charter of Massachusetts Bay
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/massbay.html
The Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1691
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/mass07.htm
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1641
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/masslib.htm
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/const.htm
Massachusetts Constitution 1780
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch1s6.html
Michigan
Constitution of the State of Michigan of 1835
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(ogltvubeczvihx45owr2wk45))/documents/historical/miconstitution1835.htm
Minnesota
Constitution of the State of Minnesota 1857
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/mncon/mncon.htm
Mississippi
The Mississippi Constitution of 1817
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=100
1832 Constitution of the State of Mississippi
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=101
The 1868 Constitution of the State of Mississippi
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=102
1890 Constitution of Mississippi, as originally adopted
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=103
Constitution of Mississippi 1890, as amended
http://www.sos.state.ms.us/ed_pubs/constitution/constitution.asp
Missouri
Missouri Constitution
http://www.moga.state.mo.us/homecon.htm
Montana
The Constitution of the State of Montana as adopted by the Constitutional Convention March 22, 1972 and as ratified by the people June 2, 1972, referendum no. 68 (as of July 1, 1999)
http://leg.mt.gov/css/mtcode_const/const.asp
Nebraska
The Organic Act of 1854 (creating Nebraska Territory)
http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/territory/territory-p2.html#organic
State of Nebraska Constitution
http://www.neded.org/files/research/stathand/parttwo/nebconst.html
Nevada
The Constitution of the State of Nevada of 1864 as amended to 1999
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVConst.html
New Hampshire
Constitution of New Hampshire, Jan. 5, 1776
http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/nh-1776.htm
New Hampshire State Constitution 1783, as amended through 1990
http://www.state.nh.us/constitution/constitution.html
New Jersey
The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey, Agreed Upon - 1676
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nj05.htm
Constitution of New Jersey 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nj15.htm
New Jersey State Constitution 1947 as amended through 2007
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/lawsconstitution/constitution.asp
New Mexico
Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico; September 22, 1846
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nm/kearney.htm
Constitution of the State of New Mexico Adopted Jan. 21, 1911 (as amended through 1974)
http://www.harbornet.com/rights/newmexio.txt
New York
New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges 1683
http://www.montauk.com/history/seeds/charter.htm
Constitution of New York April 20, 1777
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ny01.htm
Constitution of New York as amended Nov. 11, 1821
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/constitutions/1821_constitution.htm
The Constitution of the State of New York of 1894, as revised, with Amendments Adopted by the Constitutional Convention of 1938 and Approved by vote of the People on November 8, 1938, as Amended and in Force January 1, 2002, but with November 2003 results included
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/lbdcinfo/senconstitution.html
North Carolina
1663 - Charter of Carolina : March 24
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc01.htm
1663 - A Declaration and Proposals of the Lord Proprietor of Carolina, Aug. 25-Sept. 4
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc02.htm
1665 - Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc03.htm
1665 - Charter of Carolina; June 30
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc04.htm
1669 - The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina : March 1
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc05.htm
1775 - The Mecklenburgh Resolutions : May 20
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc06.htm
Constitution of North Carolina : December 18, 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc07.htm
Constitution of North Carolina 1971
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/stgovt/preconst.htm
North Dakota Constitution
http://www.legis.nd.gov/constitution/const.pdf
Ohio
Constitution of the State of Ohio--1802. Ratified by the Constitutional Convention on 29 November 1802
Constitution of the State of Ohio--1851. Ratified by the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution on 10 March 1851.
Current Constitution of the State of Ohio, from the State of Ohio's Laws, Rules and Constitution website.
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/funddocs.html
Oklahoma
Constitution
http://oklegal.onenet.net/okcon/index.html
Oregon
Constitution of Oregon 1999 edition
http://www.leg.state.or.us/orcons/
Pennsylvania
1681 - Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania : February 28
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa01.htm
1681 - Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania - July 11,
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa02.htm
1682 - Penn's Charter of Libertie - April 25
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa03.htm
1682 - Frame of Government of Pennsylvania - May 5
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa04.htm
1683 - Frame of Government of Pennsylvania - February 2
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa05.htm
1696 - Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa06.htm
1701 - Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories, October 28
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa07.htm
Constitution of 1968
http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Constitution.html
Also http://www.paconstitution.duq.edu/PAC_C_1968.html
Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa08.htm
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1790)
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/pde_internet/LIB/pde_internet/20/65/1790.pdf
Constitution of Pennsylvania 1838
http://www.paconstitution.duq.edu/PAC_C_1838.html
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1874
http://www.paconstitution.duq.edu/PAC_C_1874.html
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Royal Charter July 8, 1663
http://www.sec.state.ri.us/pubinfo/rigomstatic/richarter.html/?searchterm=royal%20charter
Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640 (1)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ri01.htm
Government of Rhode Island-March 16-19, 1641 (1)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ri02.htm
Patent for Providence Plantations - March 14, 1643
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ri03.htm
1986 Rhode Island Constitution
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/RiConstitution/riconst.html
Rhode Island Constitution of 1843
http://www.state.ri.us/rihist/riconst.htm
South Carolina
1663 - Charter of Carolina : March 24
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc01.htm
1663 - A Declaration and Proposals of the Lord Proprietor of Carolina, Aug. 25-Sept. 4
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc02.htm
1665 - Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc03.htm
1665 - Charter of Carolina; June 30
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc04.htm
1669 - The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina : March 1
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc05.htm
1775 - The Mecklenburgh Resolutions : May 20
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc06.htm
Constitution of South Carolina 1776
http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/sc-1776.htm
Constitution of South Carolina 1778
http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/sc-1778.htm
Ordinances and Constitution of the State of South Carolina, with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/southcar/menu.html
South Carolina Constitution updated through 2006
http://www.scstatehouse.net/scconstitution/scconst.htm
South Dakota
South Dakota Constitution
http://legis.state.sd.us/statutes/ConstitutionArticleList.aspx
Tennessee
Constitution of the State of Tennessee of 1870, as amended through 1998
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/bluebook/online/section5/tnconst.pdf
The Constitution of Tennessee 1796
http://www.tngenweb.org/law/constitution1796.html
Texas
The Texas Constitution of 1876, as amended through 2005
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/txconst/toc.html
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, March 17, 1836
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/1836cindex.html
Utah
Utah Constitution
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/const/const.htm
Constitution of the State of Utah 1896
http://historyresearch.utah.gov/exhibits/Statehood/toc.htm
Vermont
Constitution of Vermont, July 8, 1777
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/vt01.htm
Constitution of Vermont, July 4, 1786
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/vt02.htm
Admission of the State of Vermont February 18, 1791
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/vt03.htm
Constitution of the State of Vermont as established July 9, 1793, and amended through November 5, 2002
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/const2.htm
Virginia
The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606 (1)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va01.htm
The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va02.htm
The Third Charter of Virginia; March 12, 1611
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va03.htm
Ordinances for Virginia; July 24-August 3, 1621 (1)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va04.htm
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/vadeclar.html
Virginia Constitution
http://legis.state.va.us/Laws/search/Constitution.htm
Virginia Constitution 29 June 1776
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch1s4.html
Excerpts from the 1902 Constitution of Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/afam/politics/legislation.html#amendment
Washington
Washington State Constitution
http://www.leg.wa.gov/LawsAndAgencyRules/constitution.htm
West Virginia
Constitution of West Virginia 1872
http://www.state.wv.us/const/default.htm
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Constitution
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/tp&CISOPTR=25969&CISOSHOW=25950
Wisconsin Constitution of 1848 as amended through 2004
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/2wiscon.html
Wyoming
Constitution of the State of Wyoming of 1889 as amended through November 15, 2006
http://soswy.state.wy.us/informat/07Const.pdf
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/decind.html
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms. July 6, 1775
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/arms.htm
Declaration of Arms (July 6, 1775)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/arms.html
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection includes materials relating to the work of Congress, dating from 1774 to 1788. Most items consist of a single sheet and provide a significant supplement to the Journals of the Continental Congress.
Journals of the Continental Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjc.html
The First Continental Congress met from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The Second Continental Congress ran from May 10, 1775 to March 2, 1789. The Journals are the records of the daily proceedings kept by the office of its secretary, Charles Thomson. The Journals were printed contemporaneously; however the "Secret Journals", confidential sections of the records, were not printed until 1821. They are included here.
Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm
Washington's Resignation Address to the Continental Congress
Annapolis, Maryland, 23 December 1783
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/revolution/resignation.html
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-Present
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ordinanc.html
The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/annapolis.html
Library of Congress: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress; the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents and reports from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available as well. Also included is the Supplement to The Congressional Globe Containing the Proceedings of the Senate Sitting for the Trial of Andrew Johnson.
United States Serial Set
http://web.lexis-nexis.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/congcomp/
The U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection includes indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all Serial Set publications from 1789-1969. For a description of the Congressional documents in the Serial Set, see http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/help/CU/CU.htm#TP/Cong_Pub_Types.htm
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, James D. Richardson, ed.
Digitized by The Gutenberg Project at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=mppresidents and at HeinOnline http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?collection=presidents
This is an 11-volume work (10 numbered volumes, plus one supplement) of the messages and papers of the presidents of the US from 1787 through 1902. The main 10 volumes of this edition were published in 1902, and the supplemental volume was published in 1904. (Some later editions include additional volumes for later presidents, and in some cases the volumes were reorganized as well.)
The Papers of the Presidents, at Yale University's Avalon Project, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/presiden.htm
Selected papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson.
Executive Orders
Until the Federal Register Act of 1935, the Department of State was the official repository of executive orders. Two series of executive orders exists, one a numbered series covering (roughly) 1862 to the present, and the other an unnumbered series starting in 1789. Many orders from the later period never were numbered and are consequently included in the unnumbered series.
The Federal Register Act of 1935 required filing of executive orders with the Office of the Federal Register and provided for the publication of all orders of general applicability in the Federal Register. From 1935 to the present, executive orders may be found by consulting the annual volumes of Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations, online at http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?collection=presidents, or the Federal Register. There are two guides for finding executive orders from years prior to 1935:
The unnumbered series: List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders: Unnumbered Series (1789-1941) Online at http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?collection=presidents
The numbered series: Presidential Executive Orders: Numbered Series (1862-1938) Online at http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?index=presidents/peo&collection=presidents
Other Presidential Materials
"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music. Online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html
The American President, An Online Reference Resource, from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Contains links to digitized speeches of the early Presidents, essays about them and other online resources.
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident
President - Office and Powers 1787-1957 - History and Analysis of Practice and Opinion , Corwin, Edward Samuel , 1 v. New York: New York University Press, 1957. Online at HeinOnline http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?collection=presidents
POTUS, Presidents of the United States, from the University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/fedprsfr.html
Provides Electoral College voting results for each President, historical documents and notable events.
Life of George Washington, by John Marshall, in 5 vols. , first published in 1804-07 and later substantially revised by the author, and published in 1926, online at
http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/HOL/Index?index=beal/lifegw&collection=presidents
History of the Federal Judiciary
The History of the Federal Judiciary portion of the Federal Judicial Center's Web site presents basic reference information about the history of the federal courts and the judges who have served on the federal courts since 1789. Online at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf
Biographical Dictionary of Federal Judges
The Biographical Directory of Federal Judges contains the service record of all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court since 1789 together with limited personal information about each judge. See a more extensive introduction to the Biographical Dictionary with searching suggestions at http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf under the heading Judges of the United States Courts.
The Supreme Court Historical Society
The Society publishes books, journals, and electronic materials, and collects antiques and artifacts related to the Court's history. See especially the Journal of Supreme Court History, full-text since 2000 at http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c_journal.html The Society has published in print The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800, 8 volumes to date. Several copies may be found in the D'Angelo Law Library.
Dates of Supreme Court Decisions and Arguments, United States Reports Volumes 2-107, 1792-1882
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/datesofdecisions.pdf
Most states have websites with government information. The amount of information available varies, especially in the area of historical information. Any internet search engine will locate the states' official websites. Look for a URL with a string that includes the state's two-letter abbreviation followed by ".us", e.g. http://www.legislature.state.al.us/index.html or the state's name followed by the .gov domain, e.g. www.michigan.gov. This list suggests the best online sites for historical government information for each state.
The Making of America Project: A joint undertaking of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, currently containing approximately 10,000 books and 150,000 journal articles with 19th Century imprints.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (1850-1877)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mnchome.html
19th-Century Books Masterfile
http://poolesplus.odyssi.com/19centWelcome.htm
Early American Imprints, I., 1639-1800
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.
Early American Imprints, II., 1801-1819
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Both at http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/iw-search/we/MultiSearch?p_product=AOFA&p_action=keyword&p_theme=americana&p_nbid=X70I60MUMTE5NjIwMTAzMS43MDI4MTI6MToxNDoxMjguMTM1LjEyLjEyNw&p_clear_search=&s_search_type=keyword&s_category=none&d_refprod=AOFA
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 - 1924)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2004)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1990)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877 - 1991)
All from ProQuest Historical Newspapers http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/pqdweb?RQT=306&TS=1196200173&clientId=13392
America's Historical Newspapers
Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758 - 1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829 - 1922).
All at: http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/iw-search/we/MultiSearch?p_product=AOFA&p_action=keyword&p_theme=americana&p_nbid=X70I60MUMTE5NjIwMTAzMS43MDI4MTI6MToxNDoxMjguMTM1LjEyLjEyNw&p_clear_search=&s_search_type=keyword&s_category=none&d_refprod=AOFA
The Making of America Project: A joint undertaking of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, currently containing approximately 150,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/
The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (1850-1877)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html
Poole's C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Periodicals:
American Periodical Series
British Periodicals
Periodicals Index Online
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
All at http://c19index.chadwyck.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/infoCentre/about.jsp
Broadsides and Printed Ephemera c. 1600-2000 (AM)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 (books and pamphlets)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sundayschool/
American Radicalism
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/NWLDlive/
More than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950.
Civil War Letters and Diaries
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/CWLDLive/
Approximately 100,000 pages from published memoirs, letters and diaries, drawn from more than 500 sources, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Includes 1000-item bibliography and 1000 biographies.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html
15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
Documenting the American South.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Over 1,000 books and manuscripts on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Early Encounters in North America
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/EENALive/
100,000 pages of accounts describing exploration of North America or interaction between various cultural groups, limited to events taking place between 1534 and 1860.
JSTOR: Full text of leading historical journals
http://www.jstor.org
HeinOnline http://heinonline.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/
Full-text of American law journal literature from date of first publication to the present.
LexisNexis and Westlaw
All leading law reviews, including the Journal of Legal History. They are available by subscription and password only, although LexisNexis has a related database, Academic Universe, available at many academic institutions.
Historical Abstracts http://sb1.abc-clio.com:81/
Abstracts and indexes articles and reviews appearing in 2,000 journals covering world history since 1450. The electronic database covers citations from 1971.
America: History and Life http://sb1.abc-clio.com:81/
Abstracts and indexes articles and dissertations covering America since 1450 from 2,000+ journals.
EbscoHost Academic Search Premier http://search.ebscohost.com/
Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,500 journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further. Searchable citing references are available for many titles,
ProQuest Digital Dissertations http://wwwlib.umi.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/dissertations/gateway
Abstracts of dissertations and masters theses submitted since 1861,
with PDF copies of University of Chicago dissertations from 1997 to
present.
Web of Knowledge http://portal.isiknowledge.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/portal.cgi?Init=Yes&SID=1FPlCMkHCf6cn3CMcpC
Contains three databases, including the Arts &
HumanitiesIndex and the Social Sciences Index. Indexes thousands of journals from
1982 to present, with a cited reference search feature.
ATLA Religion Database http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.uchicago.edu/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=102&sid=5f6346c3-fd33-490e-89b6-1a6096c132dd%40sessionmgr107
Contains thousands of citations from over 1,430 sources
in the field of religion, spanning over 50 years. Some records
go back to 1818.
Cohen, Morris L., Bibliography of Early American Law, 6 vols. 1998
Morris Cohen's Bibliography of Early American Law, popularly known as BEAL lists and describes the monographic and trial literature of American law from its beginnings to the end of 1860. It also includes works on foreign, comparative and international law published in this country. The Bibliography is divided into four sections: Monographs, Civil Trials, Criminal Trials and Special Proceedings. Special Proceedings includes selected legislative and administrative proceedings of an adjudicatory nature and arbitrations.
For more information on sources for American legal history, see Cohen, Morris L., Researching Legal History in the Digital Age," 99 Law Library Journal 377 (1007).
ArchiveGrid (formerly Archival Resources) http://www.archivegrid.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/web/index.jsp
1,000,000 records for archival and manuscript collections at
research libraries worldwide, plus Encoded Archival Description online
digital finding aids.
ArchivesUSA http://archives.chadwyck.com
Includes a directory of manuscript repositories, collection records from
the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, and names and
subject indexing of 160,000 collections.
National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/index.html
The National Archives and Records Administration holds extensive collections of historical documents with searchable finding aids.
Comprehensive coverage of NARA's holdings of federal records is provided by the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/ . Some of NARA's holdings have been digitized; examples include:
Title: Declaration by President of Senate of the results of the election for President and Vice President of the United States 02/08/1837
Title: Telegram from Henry Ford of Detroit, Michigan, concerning the contested 1918 election of Truman H. Newberry 04/08/1920
Title: Certification of the electors of the state of Delaware 03/06/1789
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