Government Information: History

CGP is an index to government publications printed by the Government Printing Office. Links to full-text when available.

Digital collection of 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints covering the antebellum period through reconstruction. From the University of Michigan.

Full-text of 100 milestone documents in US history, such as: the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the Emancipation Proclomation, the Gettysburg Address, the Manhattan Project Notebook, the Civil Rights Act, and many more. From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Links to over 130 collections of full-text primary documents covering a variety of topics in American history: discovery of the Americas, Salem witch trials, world wars, dust bowl, great depression, civil rights movement, September 11, and more.

 

 

Digital collections including the original State Constitutions, copies of land grants, and photographs and information on the physical collections available at the Archives.