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Covers U.S. immigration history from the earliest colonial settlements to the present.
Comprehensive index and selected full-text source for Congressional publications. Coverage: 1819-
Primary judicial documents presented to the United States Supreme Court. Coverage: 1832-1978.
Comprehensive digital collection comprised of over 10,000 titles on Anglo-American trials 1600-1926.
Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.
Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
Includes pre-1926 treatises and similar monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law.
This Readex database provides reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Coverage: 1817-1980. For online content beyond 1980, try ProQuest Congressional or U.S. Congressional Serial Set from HeinOnline.
Find U.S. Federal government information from 1744 to present that aggregates foundational governmental document indexes and current collections to create a single index to U.S. government publications. Many collections include links to full text. Includes GPO and non-GPO distributed publications.
Extensive backfile volumes of more than 2,500 full text, core scholarly journals in History, Political Science and other disciplines. The backfiles begin with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s.
Searchable original, historical documents ranging from major historical events to personal accounts and family histories. Users can also share their own content and insights. Formerly known as "Footnote.com"
美国所藏容闳文献初编 = Collection of Yung Wing's paper in the U.S. Meiguo suo cang Rong Hong wen xian chu bian = Collection of Yung Wing's paper in the U.S. by Databases and Articles
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