Primary Resources

Collection of Congressional materials, including hearings, documents, reports, committee prints, with coverage primarily from 1824 to present. Also contains the Serial Set and maps from 1789 to present.

Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.

Covering content from 1901 to 1991, the focus of this collection is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th Century.

This archive includes 4,285 pages sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Holdings begin with 1961. Included are surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.

This collection on law and order documents the efforts of district attorneys from southern states to uphold federal laws in the states that fought in the Confederacy or were Border States.

This collection provides access to the Custodial Detention Index (CDI), or Custodial Detention List that was formed in 1939-1941, in the frame of a program called variously the "Custodial Detention Program" or "Alien Enemy Control”.

This collection consists of documents on the promulgation and implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 and other environmental issues including endangered species and protection of American wetlands.

This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relates to commercial and trade relations beginning in the Tsarist Russia period and extending through Khrushchev period in Soviet history. It contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats including materials on treaties, general conditions affecting trade, imports and exports, laws and regulations, customs administration, tariffs, and ports of entry activities.

This collection consists of materials pertaining to political relations between the U.S. and countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Beirut.

This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities, reporting on the activities of the French colonial government and the activities of the native peoples.

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities, reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

This collection on Saudi Arabia, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, documents the formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as illustrates the day-to-day workings of the oil-rich state.

This collection covers U.S. perspectives on Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Trans-Jordan, from Ottoman rule to the era of British and French mandates following the First World War.