This is a guide to the more important resources—print and online—for the history of the United States available in the University of Delaware Library and through the Library’s Web site.
Not everything can be retrieved online via a Google search. Not only are many resources on the “hidden Web” but many substantive reference sources are still available only in paper. Most of these are located in the Reference Collection, First Floor, Morris Library[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/ref/coll.htm].
Internet Resources for U. S. History [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hist/ushist/internet/] provides starting point links as well as links to Text, Image, Sound, and Archival Databases.
These printed sources acquaint you with the various types of materials of interest to historians, such as books, periodicals, archival and manuscript materials, government documents, maps, and statistical compilations. They are not available online. (Hyperlinked titles below lead to detailed tables of contents.)
The American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature. 3d ed. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D20 .A44x 1995)
Selects and lists the finest and most useful books and articles available in every field of historical scholarship worldwide. A selective, annotated bibliography, arranged along regional, national and chronological lines. Each section is introduced by a brief historiographical essay. Arrangement within sections begins with reference and general works followed by subject-specific materials. Primarily includes books, but does include some journal articles.
Fritze, Ronald H., Coutts, Brian E., and Vyhnanek, Louis A. Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide[http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025558.html]. 2d ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO,
2004.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D20 .F74x 2004)
Provides an introduction to the major reference works for all periods of history and for all geographical areas, with an emphasis on English-language materials. Entries are arranged into 14 chapters on the basis of types of publications (e.g., bibliographies, atlases, microforms, journals). Works relating to various topics within the discipline of history, such as economic history, can be found by using the index. Individual entries are numbered and followed by complete bibliographic information and substantial annotations.
Mann, Thomas. The Oxford Guide to Library Research[http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006087.html]. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z710 .M23 2005)
Detailed guide whose purpose is to produce better informed, and thus more efficient and productive, researchers.
McDowell, W. H. Historical Research: A Guide. London; New York: Longman, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D1625 .M32 2002
Covers the study, research, and writing of history. Part I focuses on the study of history. Part II provides guidance on the practical aspects of historical research and research methods. Part III covers stylistic conventions, such as abbreviations, footnote and bibliographical references, and indexing.
Perrault, Anna H. and Blazek, Ron. United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Reference Sources. 2d ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E178 .P47x 2003)
Guide to the reference literature of U.S. history. It provides selective coverage of both bibliographic and informational materials, as compared to the focus on bibliographic and biographic sources presented by Prucha (see below).
Prucha, Francis Paul. Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and Other Reference Works. 2d ed., rev. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E178 .P78x 1994)
“Deals primarily with categories of material, from library catalogs, through manuscript, newspaper, and other guides, to legal sources and oral history. ... The Handbook is, in a sense, a bibliography of bibliographies and other reference works.” (Author’s introduction)
Storey, William Kelleher. Writing History: A Guide for Students. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
LOCATION: Morris Library - D16 .S864 2004
“Covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding topics and researching them, interpreting source materials, drawing inferences from sources, and constructing arguments.”
Using Primary Sources on the Web [http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/]
Designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate Internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.
American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. 3 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Salzman, Jack. American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1984-1988. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E169.1 .A436 1986 and Ref E169.1 .A4362 1990)
The original bibliography listed more than 6,000 annotated entries on books published in the field of American cultural studies between 1900 and 1983. The one-volume supplement includes entries for some 3,500 books published between 1984-1988. Not included are listings of books published outside the United States or of journal articles.
Freidel, Frank Burt, ed. Harvard Guide to American History. Rev. ed. 2 vols.
Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1974.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E178B .H35 1974)
Volume One has four parts: (1) Research Methods and Materials, (2) Biographies and Personal Records, (3) Comprehensive and Area Histories, (4) Histories of Special Subjects. Volume Two has five parts, arranged chronologically: (5) America, to 1789, (6) United States, 1789-1860, (7) Civil War and Reconstruction, (8) Rise of Industry and Empire, (9) Twentieth Century.
A Guide to the Study of the United States of America : Representative Books Reflecting
the Development of American Life and Thought. Washington: Library of Congress,
1960. Also Supplement, 1956-1965 (1976).
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E156 .U53 and Suppl.)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Government Documents (U. S. Docs. LC 2.8:Un3/4/supp.)
Merriam, Louise A. United States History: A Bibliography of the New Writings on American History. New York: Manchester University Press, 1995.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E178 .M47x 1995)
Selective bibliography of writings on United States history from the 1980s and early 1990s in English, arranged in ten chronological categories which are subdivided by subject matter. Most of the items listed are books—monographs, bibliographies, atlases, encyclopedias, biographies, and dictionaries. The articles listed are mostly review articles.
Readers’ Guide to American History. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E178 .R43x 1997)
Essays which describe and assess books on some 600 different topics. Entries are in three main categories—events, individuals, and broader themes and issues. The emphasis is predominantly on books; articles are included only when they are of seminal importance or when there is no adequate treatment of a particular aspect of the subject in a book-length study.
Writings on American History. Millwood, N. J.: KTO Press, 1902-1989/90.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1236 .L331) 1962/1972 to 1989/1990
LOCATION: Morris Library - Government Documents (U. S. Docs. SI 4.1: ) vols. before 1962
Lists books and articles having research value for the history of the United States.
America: History and Life [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/ahl.html] ![]()
Includes citations to articles, dissertations, and book reviews on the history of the United States and Canada published throughout the world. Citations to periodical articles include abstracts; there are links to full text in History Cooperative [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/eresources/ejcolls/histcoop.htm], JSTOR [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/jstor.html], Oxford University Press journals [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/eresources/ejcolls.oup.htm], and Project MUSE [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/muse.html].
Academic OneFile [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/expanded.html] ![]()
Coverage of more than 8,000 journals in all subject areas. Many articles are available in full text.
Periodicals Index Online [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/pio.html]
Online index to the contents of thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including periodicals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western languages. Some citations are linked to the full text in JSTOR[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/jstor.html].
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. New
York: H. W. Wilson Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI3 .R48)
Indexes United States periodicals of general interest.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/rgr.html] ![]()
Online equivalent of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, for the period 1890-1982.
Web of Science [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/websci.html] ![]()
“Science” defined in its broadest sense: “knowledge acquired by study; acquaintance with or mastery of any department of learning.” Produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Consists of Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is multidisciplinary. Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. You can also search for articles which cite a particular author’s work.
(see also Databases for History) [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hist/db.htm]
Accessible Archives [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/access.html]
Consists of six databases: Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1885); The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800); The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (1860-1865); African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-1870); and The Pennsylvania Genealogy Catalogue: Chester County (1809-1870).
America’s Historical Newspapers [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/ean.html]
Cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers.
APS (American Periodical Series) Online [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/apsonline.html]
Digitized American periodicals from the mid-18th century to 1940.
HarpWeek [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/harpweek.html]
A comprehensive index to, and digitized images of, Harper’s Weekly, the leading illustrated American periodical of the last half of the nineteenth century.
JSTOR [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/jstor.html]
Full-text backfiles of scholarly journals in a number of disciplines, including history.
The Nation Archive [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/nation.html]
The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine. Its more than 135 years of reporting, opinion, and criticism make for an unmatched collection of primary source material, indispensable to anyone interested in the history of politics, culture, books and the arts—in the U.S. and around the world.
New York Times [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/nytpq.html]
Full-page digitization of every page of the New York Times from 1851-2002.
See also Databases for History[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hist/db.htm], particularly the Full-Text Databases section.
America: History and Life[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/ahl.html] ![]()
One strategy is to enter the title of the book as a keyword, then limit to “book reviews”.
Book Review Digest. New York: H. W. Wilson Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1035 .A1B65)
Digest and index of selected book reviews in about 75 English and American periodicals, principally general in character.
Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1035 .A1B66)
Includes indexing for book reviews in both general magazines and scholarly journals.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.
10 vols. Arlington: Carrollton Press, 1979-1981.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1035 .A1C6)
JSTOR [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/jstor.html]
Click first on “Advanced Search”, enter the title of a book as an “exact phrase”, then limit to “Reviews”. Optionally, you can restrict to the discipline “History”.
Dictionary of American History. 3d ed. 10 vols. New York: Scribner,
2003.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E174 .D52 2003)
Concise articles, each dealing with a separate and definite aspect of American history. Also contains a number of articles on broader subjects, which include cross references to related articles on specific aspects. Covers political, economic, social, industrial, and cultural history, but omits biography. The Dictionary of American Biography can be considered a companion.
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E169.1 .E624 2001)
Composed of entries in a systematic “reference essay” format—more thorough than the usual encyclopedia entry and more accessible than a typical academic journal article.
Encyclopedia of American History. 7th ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E174.5 .E52 1996)
Greene, Jack P., ed. Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the
Principal Movements and Ideas. 3 vols. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1984.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E183 .F5 1984)
Authoritative, scholarly encyclopedia of some 90 articles on major issues, themes, institutions, processes, and developments in American history.
Encyclopedia of American Studies. 4 vols. New York: Grolier, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E169.1. E625 2001)
Interdisciplinary coverage of the American experience. Has over 660 articles on topics such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. An online version is on trial during Autumn 2007.
Encyclopedia of Historians & Historical Writing. 2 vols. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D14 .E53 1999)
Guide to influential historians and historical debates since the writing of history began. Has essays on individual historians, essays on nations and geographical regions, and topical essays.
The Great American History Fact-Finder. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1993.
LOCATION: Internet [http://www.credoreference.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=464]
More than two thousand brief, fact-laden entries on people, places, issues and events - arranged in a convenient A-to-Z sequence - cover the spectrum of American society, culture and history. Topics include politics, the military, business, entertainment, the arts, sports and the media.
Handbook of American Popular Culture. 2d ed., rev. and enl. 3 vols. New York:
Greenwood, 1989.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E169.1 .H2643 1989)
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 6 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 2005.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (CB9 .N49 2005)
A completely new revision of the 1974 classic, which explores major concepts and their significance across cultures and eras.
The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference. New York: Macmillan USA, 1997.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E174 .N48 1997)
Contains informaton and answers on the most frequently asked questions about American history—“a source of commonly needed information, facts, ideas, and figures in American history that often need to be verified, remembered, or used.” A selected bibliography appears at the end of each chapter. Timelines, tables, and alphabetical listings are prominent features.
The Reader’s Companion to American History[http://www.credoreference.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=400]. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1991.
LOCATION: Internet [http://www.credoreference.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=400]
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E174 .R43 1991)
More than 1,000 entries covering the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped American history.
The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History[http://www.credoreference.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=398]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
LOCATION: Internet [http://www.credoreference.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=398]
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HQ1410 .R43 1998)
More than 400 articles offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation’s past.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. 5 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E169.1 .S764 2000)
Includes over 2,700 essays on all elements of popular culture in the United States in the twentieth century. The entries vary in length from brief introductions to the topic to in-depth explorations. Entries are accompanied by a list of further readings.
Thernstrom, Stephan, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1980.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E184 .A1H35)
Over a hundred signed essays on immigrant and other ethnic groups (such as Mormons, Southerners, and Yankees). Each essay covers origins, migration, arrival, settlement, economic and social life, religion, culture, education, politics, and maintenance of ethnicity. Each is accompanied by a brief bibliography which stresses readily available works.
The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-1999. Millennium ed., 2nd ed.
Lakeville, Conn.: Grey House, 1999.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HB 235 .U6 V35x 1999)
Records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present.
United States Historical Census Data Browser. [http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/]
LOCATION: Internet [http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/]
Demographic and economic data for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present. Millennial ed. 5 vols.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA202 .H57 2006)
PDFs of the 2-volume previous ed. (Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970) are available on the Web: [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p1-01.pdf] Part 1 / [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p2-01.pdf] Part 2
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: G. P. O.
LOCATION: Databases
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA202 .A1) Latest edition in Reference, behind Reference Desk
LOCATION: U. S. Docs. Census Area
Complete run, 1878 to 2003, also available online[http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2878] in PDF format.
Directory of Archives and Manuscripts Repositories in the United States. 2d ed.
Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CD3020 .D49 1988)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Spec CD3020 .D49 1988)
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. 15th ed.
Nashville, Tenn.: AASLH Press, American Association for State and Local History, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E172 .A538 15th)
National Register of Historic Places [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/]
LOCATION: Internet
State Historical Societies [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hist/ushist/internet/societies.html#state]
American Biographical Archive. New York: K. G. Saur, 1989-1991.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Microfiche no. 1835)
A “cut-and-paste” compilation of entries on more than a quarter million individuals that appeared in 368 biographical reference works originally published between 1702 and 1956.
American Biographical Archive. Series II. New York:
K. G. Saur, 1993.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Microfiche no. 1835.5)
Complements Series I and extends the coverage with many more 20th century sources. The microfiche sets are accompanied by a printed guide: American Biographical Index, 6 vols. (New York: K. G. Saur, 1993) (Ref CT211 .A45x 1993).
American National Biography[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/anb.html]. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E176 .D565x 1999)
American National Biography is a comprehensive biographical dictionary intended to replace the Dictionary of American Biography, whose original twenty volumes were published between 1927 and 1936 and have not been revised since. ANB, published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies by Oxford University Press, is in 24 volumes and consists of 17,500 biographies.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 2d ed. Detroit: Gale Research Co.,
1980-
LOCATION: Databases
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CT3260 .N573) Index Table 4A
A master index to biographical sketches contained in over 350 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Biography Index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CT100B .B56) Index Table 4A
An index to biographical material published in English-language books, scholarly and general interest periodicals, and from other sources.
Full-text biographical information on people from all times and areas.
Biography Resource Center [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/biorc.html]
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfiche no. 1974)
Guide to the collection: Ref E185.96 .B53x 1991.
Dictionary of American Biography. 11 vols. and 8 supplement vols. to date. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1958-1964.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E176 .D56 1958)
Formerly the standard scholarly American biographical dictionary, with signed articles and bibliographies, now replaced by the American National Biography.
New York Times Obituaries Index, 1858-1968. New York: New York Times,
1970.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CT213 .N47)
New York Times Obituaries Index, 1969-1978. New York: New York Times,
1980.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CT213 .N47 1980)
Notable American Women, 1607-1950. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1971. Also Notable American Women : The Modern Period
(1980)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CT3260 .N57 and Ref CT3260 .N573)
Notable Americans: What They Did, from 1620 to the Present. 4th ed. Detroit:
Gale, 1988.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E176 .N89 1988)
Unlike most biographical compilations, where entries are arranged by biographees’ names, here the arrangement is chronological and organizational.
Personal Name Index to the New York Times Index, 1851-1974. Succasunna,
N. J.: Roxbury Data Interface, 1976-
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI21 .N443)
A single ablphabetized listing of the names included in the New York Times Indexes.
Who Was Who in America. Chicago: Marquis-Who’s Who.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E663 .W54)
See also Resources for Biographical Information[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/biography/].
Jackson, Kenneth T. Atlas of American History. Rev. ed. New York: Scribner,
1978.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref G1201 .S1J3 1978)
Martin Greenwald Associates. Historical Maps on File. New York: Facts on File,
1984.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref G1033 .M128 1984)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Maps
North America Map Archive.[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/maps.html]
LOCATION: Internet [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/maps]
Part of the OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource. Some interactive maps, which require the Shockwave plug-in.
United States. Geological Survey. National Atlas of the United States of America.
Washington, DC, 1970.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref G1200 .U57 1970)
LOCATION: Morris Library - U. S. Docs. (Folio+ I 19.2:N21a)
Brigham, Clarence S. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,
1690-1820.
2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z6951 .B74)
Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division. Newspapers in Microform: United
States, 1948-1983. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z6951 .U56a)
Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. 5 vols. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1930-1968.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PN4877 .M63)
Provides information on the nature and importance of individual journals and magazines.
New-York Daily Tribune Indexes for [1875-1906].[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/pooles.html]
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI21 .N48)
Also included as a component of the 19th Century Masterfile database.
U.S. Newspaper Indexes [http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/ind/newsind.html]
A listing of print and online indexes to newspapers, compiled by John Pluge, Jr., Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. Very few of these print publications are available in the University of Delaware Library.
See also Resources for Newspapers[http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/newspapers/].
Annals of America. 21 vols. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968-74.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E173 .A793)
LOCATION: Morris Library (E173 .A793)
Commager, Henry Steele and Cantor, Milton, eds. Documents of American
History.
10th ed. 2 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E173 .D59 1988)
Core Documents of U. S. Democracy[http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html]
Includes such documents as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, Supreme Court decisions (from 1937 to date), the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.
Historic Documents. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly. 1972-
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E839.5 .H57)
Our Documents [http://www.ourdocuments.gov]
“A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service.” Features 100 milestone documents in U.S. history that changed the course of history and helped shape the American national character.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States[http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html]
The papers of George H. W. Bush (1991 Book 1), Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush (2003 Books I and II) are online. The papers from Hoover through Clinton are available in paper in Government Documents, AE 2.114: