"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation" Debuts Online
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Law
Library of Congress announce the online publication of the first part of
"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and
Debates, 1774-1873" as part of the American Memory Collections of the
Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html.
This first release includes the records of the First and Second
Congresses, 1789-1793: the House and Senate Journals, the Senate Executive
Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay,
Senator from Pennsylvania in the First Congress, approximately 4,400 pages
in all. The Journals are available both as digital facsimile images and
as searchable texts. The Annals of Congress are available as digital
facsimile images accompanied by searchable page headings (subject terms)
and indexes. Users will now have unprecedented access to these historic
records for research in law, history, genealogy, and many other areas.
The Law Library of Congress houses one of the fullest collections of U.S.
Congressional documents in their original format. In its final form "A
Century of Lawmaking" will bring together online records from the
Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress, some 355,000 pages
in all. Plans for the second online release include the Journals of the
Continental Congress, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and
the subsequent debates over the adoption of the Constitution. Further
releases will bring the records of the U.S. Congress up to 1873, the year
in which the Government Printing Office assumed the publication of the
proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record. In addition, the
final collection will include the United States Statutes at Large from
1789 to 1873 and the American State Papers, 1789-1838, legislative and
executive documents published by Congress.
For further information: Emily Lind Baker at [log in to unmask]
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Judith K. Graves
Instructional Technology Designer
Educational Services
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
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