Social Sciences

American Foundations

Databases

• ProQuest Congressional - Explore a collection of historic and current U.S. Congressional information and publications on all aspects of legislation from 1789 to the present. Full text is available for many resources beginning in 1990 through present day. Use this resource to browse bills, laws, legislative histories, hearings, committee prints, House and Senate documents and reports, the Congressional Record, Congressional Research Service reports, Code of Federal Regulations, and Federal Register.
• HeinOnline U.S. Congressional Documents Library - provides more than 233 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.
• America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1956 - Includes thousands of titles from all 50 states chronicling the evolution of American culture and society through eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries, and much more. Contains images and full-text content access to historic newspapers.
• American History, 1493-1945 - This collection documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The collection is organized into two modules: Module I Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859, Module II Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945.
• Early American Imprints. Early American Imprints is a digitized collection of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800. 
• Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books - Developed in conjunction with the New York Historical Society, this collection offers access to Orderly Books found nowhere else and contains handwritten volumes documenting military orders, movements and engagements by brigade, regiment, company and other specific military units between 1748 and 1817. Users will discover detailed accounts of troops' daily lives, documenting everything from court martial cases to the price of necessities charged by locals. This resource provides historically valuable information about soldiers' lives.

Websites

• Founders Online - Discover correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States, namely George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison. Includes over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the Founding Fathers Papers projects.

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