Research Guides: HIS 499: Gender, Sex, and Family in U.S. History: Government Documents

Federal & State Resources

Federal Register The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) provides access to the official text of: Federal Laws, Presidential Documents, Administrative Regulations and Notices

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1970 Contains the published records and codes of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, early state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, and digests. A fully searchable digital archive drawing on documents from the Harvard Law School Library, the Yale Law Library, and the Law Library of Congress.
ProQuest Congressional Full-text documents of congressional publications.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States These publications are a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (Making of Modern Law) 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.