Archive of Americana
Digital Collections Training & Update Session for U.S. Legal History Researchers
On Wednesday, November 8th, from 2:00-4:00pm, August Imholz and Jim Walsh of the Readex Corp. will offer a demonstration/training and update session on the full-text digital collections of the Archive of Americanain the Langdell Library Computer Classroom (Room 233).
Collections of particular interest to researchers of U.S. legal history are the Congressional Serial Set (1789-1980) and American State Papers (1789-1838). These components of the Archive of Americanacontain a wide range of significant Congressional publications and Executive branch materials, including Congressional legislative history and investigative reports and documents, Presidential messages and documents concerning military affairs and international trade, early Native American as well as foreign treaty materials and Executive department annual reports and statistical publications.
The non-government document content of the Archive of Americana is provided by the newspaper coverage of America’s Historical Newspapers (1690-1876) and by the books, broadsides, pamphlets and other imprints coverage of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819). The collections of the Archive of Americana are available to members of the Harvard community as Harvard Libraries e-resources.