Subjects: History, Legal History
An index to scholarly literature covering the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada, America: History and Life includes abstracts for more than 1,500 journal articles from 1895 to the present. Full-text articles are included when available, as well as links to the full-text in other databases.
Subjects: Constitutional Law, Legal History
"The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. It adds value to texts by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. The Federalist Papers are a collection of 85 essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay that explain the philosophy and defend the advantages of the U.S. constitution. They are available at the web site of the Avalon Project. [Internet resource: free on the Web]"""
Subjects: Biography, History, Legal History, Reference
Full text biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Subjects: Great Britain, History, Legal History
British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Much of the material in this digital library is free, but additional premium content is available by subscription only. The library does not subscribe to the premium content.
Subjects: Great Britain, History, Journals and Journal Indexes, Legal History
Full text of British periodicals from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. We have access to Collection I & II.
Subjects: Government Documents, Legal History, Legislation
From the Library of Congress's American Memory collection, this site consists of browsable scans of published congressional records from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, (1774-1875). It includes the Statutes at Large (1789-1875), congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799), The House Journal (1789-1875), the Senate Journal (1789-1875), the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875), and Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89).
Subjects: History, Legal History, Race and Ethnicity, Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Digital Library contains three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film of key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources .
Subjects: History, Legal History, Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes, Social Sciences
Offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876. Focusing largely on the 18th century, Series 1 is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies.
Subjects: Arts and Literature, e-Book Collection, History, Legal History, Social Sciences
Digitized books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, and broadsides published in the English language in any country from 1475 through 1700. Note that searching is limited to title, author, and subject. It includes the works listed in: --Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (printed materials published in English from 1475 to 1640) --Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (printed materials published in English from 1641 to 1700) --Thomason Tracts (compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661).
Subjects: Arts and Literature, e-Book Collection, History, Legal History, Social Sciences
"Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contains digital images of every page of over 180,000 books published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It offers full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages. Georgetown subscribes to both the main ECCO database and ECCO II."
Subjects: History, Legal History, Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes, Social Sciences
Provides electronic access to all issues of Harper's Weekly (including all illustrations and advertisements) published between 1857 (first issue) and 1912, with the capacity to browse or search by date, by literary genre, and by a person's occupation. Provides four topical indexes: subject, illustrations, literature & publishing, and advertising.
Subjects: Great Britain, Legal History
Search all 176 volumes of the English Reports which has English court decisions from various sources from 1220-1867. There is a finding aid and index if you have citations to the original nominative reports. We have the print version in the library.
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Great Britain, Legal History
"The initial release of this collection on HeinOnline contains official publications from the Selden Society, including the Selden Society Annual Series vols. 1-117 (1887-2000), the Supplementary Series vols. 1-13 (1965-2000), and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society. Also included are links to law review articles that discuss the development of early English history, plus English legal history classics."
Subjects: Legal history, Slavery
This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
Subjects: Government Documents, Legal History, Legislation
"HeinOnline has various modules, which are are fully-searchable. This database contains PDF documents for Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, Congressional Record, American State Papers, and Journals of the Continental Congress."
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Legal History
"The World Trials library on HeinOnline contains, in addition to trial transcripts and other critical court documents, trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials as well as biographies of many great trial lawyers in history."
Subjects: Constitutional Law, Legal History, Supreme Court
Produced by the Legal Information Institute, this collection includes historic Supreme Court decisions and includes all justices who have served on the Court. Also includes short biographies of each justice.
Subjects: Legal History
"Historical Abstracts provides bibliographical coverage of the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Included are article abstracts from over 2,000 journals published worldwide, plus citations to books and dissertations."
Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain, Legal History
The Justis UK Statutes database (with JustCite add-on) contains the full text of all Acts of Parliament in England, Wales and Scotland as enacted from 1235 to the present day. UK Statutes is the only statute law database to contain Scottish Acts of Parliament and repealed legislation. All Acts appear as enacted, with links to amended and amending legislation allowing the user to trace the development of the law. A notable feature of the Justis services is the JustCite tabs, which provide users with a visual display of the path of legislation. You can also use this link for JustCite (NB: Georgetown does not subscribe to Justis content other than UK Statutes, JustCite and International Law Reports.)
Subjects: Government Documents, Legal History
LLMC Digital is an electronic database of historical legal materials containing case reporters, statutes of the U.S. and selected foreign nations, U.S. government documents, and many other legal materials. It is a rich source for legal history researchers.
Subjects: Legal History
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Papers cover the years from before the ACLU’s official founding in 1920 through 1990 and include records from the Southern Regional Office. The archive consists of case files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and more, and offers a primary source perspective on civil rights issues from voting rights to the dismantling of the Jim Crow system.
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Legal History
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926 is a comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. The archive covers nearly every aspect of American and British law and encompasses a broad array of the analytical, theoretical, and practical literature for research in U.S. and British legal history. It features casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works from the most influential writers and legal thinkers of the time.
Subjects: Legal History
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more. It is cross-searchable with Primary Sources II.
Subjects: Legal History
The Making of Modern Law Primary Sources II database consists of United States state and territorial codes, municipal codes, and constitutional convention and compilations. Scholars of America's common law heritage will find this resource invaluable for tracing major legal topics across all states and territories. It is cross-searchable with Primary Sources I.
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Great Britain, Legal History
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries. The Harvard collection contains a vast number of popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes. The overall archive comprising more than 10,000 titles and almost two million pages also contains unique documents from the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. It includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
Subjects: Constitutional Law, Legal History
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978 is a full-text collection of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court from 1831-1978. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements, and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions.
Subjects: Legal History
"Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) is a resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). It contains digital versions of key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history and original manuscripts ."
Subjects: Government Documents, Legal History, Legislation, Political Science and Government
Providing access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources, Nexis Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information.
Subjects: Biography, History, Legal History, Reference
"The ODNB an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. It excludes living persons. It has themed entries (e.g. Roman Britain) and groups of subjects with a common attribute (e.g. Archbishops of Canterbury). The database contains 10,000 images. The print edition is in the Williams Law Library's Reference collection."
Subjects: Legal History, Reference
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History covers legal history from ancient to modern times. It provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world's legal systems. The print edition of this publication is in the Williams reference collection.
Subjects: Government Documents, Legal History, Legislation, Political Science and Government
ProQuest Congressional is a source for the full text of congressional and executive branch publications, including bills and laws, hearings, House and Senate Reports and Documents, the Congressional Record, Congressional Research Service Reports, legislative histories, annual reports, executive orders, the Congressional Serial Set, and more. Coverage dates vary.
Subjects: Legal Briefs, Legal History
Selected records and briefs from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
