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An explanation of the structure of the Congressional Record over the years.
Congressional Journals, Annals, and Statutes from 1774 to 1873. Some of the texts are available in HTML format, as well as in GIF image formats, while others are only available in GIF format. It does not appear that the full text of items available only in GIF format is indexed, but the full text of HTML pages is indexed for searching.
This site contains numerous full text historical resources, including legal documents, treaties, and court cases from before the 18th century to the present. Some special collections include documents from the Arab-Israeli conflict, documents relating to Native American tribes, and documents from the Nuremburg trials. the Javascript requires Netscape and IE 4.0 or higher.
The basic text in HTML format. There are hyperlinks from the main text to any amendments that have altered the standing of the original article.
The text of the constitution with annotations to court opinions that have articulated the legal meaning of the original text. The text can be searched by keyword or browsed by Table of Contents. There is an index and Table of Cases, but they are not hyperlinked for convenience. The text can be downloaded as an ASCII text or in PDF format.
Detailed statistics of trade, economy, population, etc. for the United States from Colonial Times (mostly agricultural output at that time) to 1970. An electronic version of the two volume set in Reference.
This digital edition of the Foreign Relations of the United States from 1861 to 1960, with most volumes between 1900 and 1945. The digital version is not complete; there are volumes missing. This series contains the text of communications of the U.S. Department of State. It is both searchable and browsable. As the web site states: "The organization of FRUS is generally chronological, but the dates of the volumes do not necessarily reflect the dates of documentary history. For example, the volumes for 1900-1918 do not include the records dealing with World War I or the Russian Revolution."
Official site with recent FRUS volumes. Earliest volume is 1945, latest is 1976. Most are from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Contains full text PDF of all of the volumes of the decennial census on population and housing for each state and county from 1790 to 2000.
Contains data on the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.
The IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-precision samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses. This site has taken samples produced elsewhere, and has harmonized them so that users can query across samples.
This is an Excel spreadsheet of the wording of all of the questions on all of the census forms throughout American history. They are arranged by topic, so that one can see the questions relating to inhabitants for each census together.
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000.
Carlos Diaz has scanned the venerable Checklist of United States Publications, 1789 - 1909, and made it available. It is in PDF form. Originally published by the GPO in 1911. Organized by the Superintendent of Documents classification number. (C for Commerce Dept., etc.)
This site does not provide the full text of Presidential Executive Orders, but it does provide the title, date, and Federal Register citation to orders from the Truman Administration (1945) to the end of the Reagan Administration (1989).
Search for a property by County, City, name, etc. Or apply for your own listing.
This full text website lets you search Wisconsin State Geological Survey materials as well as the U.S. Minerals Yearbook from 1932 to 1993.
"Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939" comprises a historic selection of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation.
This site provides reports of the Commission from its enabling legislation to the present. Files in PDF form. They can be searched by date, title and subject. The reports detail the national situation on issues of discrimination, especially valuable during the 1960's civil rights movement.
Northwestern has digitized the League Yearbooks, which include international financial data.
The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913. It has the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts between 1690 and 1772. It allows access to almost 200,000 trials held in the Old Bailey Courthouse, free of charge for non-commercial use. In addition to the text, accessible through both keyword and structured searching, this website provides digital images of the 60,000 original pages of the Proceedings, and information on the historical and legal background to trials at the Old Bailey. Contemporary maps, and images and transcriptions of related manuscript and printed materials for the decade 1746 to 1755, have also been provided.According to John Langbein, the Proceedings are "probably the best accounts we shall ever have of what transpired in ordinary English criminal courts before the later eighteenth century". Although initially aimed at a popular rather than a legal audience the material reported was neither invented nor significantly distorted.