History: Online: Historical Government Documents

Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.

Includes thousands of scanned documents and bibliographic records relating to English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies from 1574 to 1757.

Includes numerous U.K. government documents relating to Britain’s international relations, including foreign policy instructions, letters, memos, and business reports.

This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. This is an incomplete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed.

The Senate and House of Commons Debates, commonly known as the Debates, or Hansard, contain the transcribed, edited and corrected record of full deliberations of both Houses of Parliament. Since the adoption of official reporting (in 1871 for the Senate and 1880 for the House of Commons), the daily editions of the Hansard were issued in bound, well-indexed volumes. This site has been produced from digitized editions of these volumes, all available under their corresponding Parliament and Session, in the Browse function of this portal.

This portal includes reconstituted debates, which represent debates for the years prior to the adoption of official reporting. These reconstituted debates are an unofficial version of the debates, drawn from newspaper reports of the day. Finally, the portal also includes translated debates for the Senate of Canada, which began its official report in English only. All of the reconstituted and translated content can be identified in the records.

This resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe reproduces the original historical manuscripts. It reunites State Papers Domestic and Foreign with the Registers of the Privy Council and State Papers in the British Library.

Features the complete Congressional Record bound
volume set from its inception in 1873 as well as the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824),
Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). Also available are the Congressional
Record Dailies from 1980-present.

Contains digitized maps from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.

Commonly referred to as the Serial Set, it refers to the sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from 1817 to 1994.