American Colonial Period                     

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INDEXES

Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington … with the Continental Congress

Library of Congress

Documents Stacks—LC 4.2:W 27/3

Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington … with the Officers

Library of Congress

Documents Stacks—LC 4.2:W 27/4/v.1-4

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909

Superintendent of Documents

Documents Workroom—Z 1223 .A113 V.1 (Ask at Documents Help Desk)

CIS U.S. Serial Set Index: American State Papers & the 15th-34th Congresses

Ready Reference—Z 1223 .Z9 C65 1975 Pt.1 V.1-3

Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, 1774-1881

Poore, Benjamin P.

Reference—Z 1223 .A 1885 Pt.1&2

Grassroots of America: A Computerized Index to the American State Papers

McMullin, Phillip, W., editor

Reference—J 33 .M3

Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States, 1775-1921

Bemis, Samuel Flagg & Grace Garner Griffin (Library of Congress)

Reference—Z 6465 .U5 B4; Bookstacks—Z 6465 .U5 B4

Index: Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Harris, Kenneth E. and Steven D. Tilley, compilers

Documents Reference—GS 4.2:C 76/2/1774-89; Reference—J 10 .A5 H3

Index: The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Butler, John P., compiler (National Archives and Records Service)

Documents Reference—GS 4.2:C 76/3/1774-89/v.1-5

Index to United States Documents Relating to Foreign Affairs, 1828-1861

Hasse, Adelaide R.

Reference--Z 6465 .U5 H2 Pt.1-3

Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution

Library of Congress

Reference—Z 1238 .U57 1975; Document Stacks—LC 1.2:M 31/3

Public Documents of the First Fourteen Congresses, 1789-1817: Papers Relating to Early Congressional Documents

Greely, A. W., editor

Reference—Z 1223 .A 1900

PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS (Reprints)

American State Papers (Classes 1-10)

Reference—KF 11 .A48 1998

Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

Richardson, James D., editor

Documents Reference—Y 1.1/2:3265/v.1-10;

Bookstacks—J 81 .B96 v.1, 3-6, 8-11

Congressional Globe

23^rd Congress (1833/34) – 42^nd Congress (1871/72), incomplete holdings

Documents Stacks—At the end of the Congressional materials

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Library of Congress

Documents Stacks—LC 4.5:1-26, 30-34

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789

Library of Congress

Documents Stacks—LC 1.34:1-25

Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States

Wharton, Francis

Documents Stacks—Y 1.1/2:2584-2585, 2587-2589 [Library has vol. 1-2, 4-6]

Territorial Papers of the United States

Documents Stacks—S 1.36:2-28

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949

Bevans, Charles I., editor

Law—S 9.12/2:1-13

Unperfected Treaties of the United States of America, 1776-1855

Wiktor, Christian L., editor

Reference--JX 236 1776 .U56 v.1

MICROFORMS

Annals of Congress / Debates & Proceedings in the Congress ...

1st Congress (1789) - 18th Congress (1824)

Documents Microfiche—Row 7 Microforms Area

Register of Debates in Congress

18th Congress (1824) - 25th Congress (1837)

Documents Microfiche—Row 7 Microforms Area

Congressional Globe

23rd Congress (1833) - 42nd Congress (1873)

Documents Microfilm—Row 7 Microforms Area

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Library of Congress – v. 1-34

Documents Microfilm—Row 7 Microforms Area

U. S. Serial Set

15th Congress, 1st Session (1817) - 24th Congress, 2nd Session (1837)

Documents Microcard—Reference Area, in red boxes

INTERNET RESOURCES

Library of Congress. American Memory
"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw

Library of Congress. American Memory
"George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html

Library of Congress.
"Primary Documents in American History, 1763-1815"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/NewNation.html

U.S. Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service Museum Collections
"American Revolutionary War"
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/revwar/index.htm

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
"Core Documents of U.S. Democracy"
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html

U.S. State Department. Office of the Historian
"Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History"
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/timeline.html

SOUTHCAT CATALOG

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