H-Law Archive of websites important for legal and constitutional historians.
 
United States Government
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Courts
FBI
Congress
State Legal History
Municipal Ordinances and Codes
American South
Jurisprudence
Classics
Roman Law
Medieval Law
English Sources
Global Legal Resources
Quantitative Data
Old Bailey

 

Manuscript and Archival Sources
Bibliographies
Biographical
Manuscript and Archival Collections
Law Libraries
Bar Associations
Historical Journals
American Legal History Texts
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections 

Academic Resources
History Departments
Institutes
Law and Society Programs
Law and Economics Programs
Legal History Courses
Blogs
Associations

 

 

            Blogs

            http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com

 

History Departments
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
    History departments around the world.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/
    Yahoo's guide to colleges and universities.


Institutes
http://docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/
    The Institute for Constitutional Studies. The Institute for Constitutional Studies ("ICS") is a university-based institute dedicated to ensuring that future generations of Americans understand the substance and historical development of the U.S. Constitution. Established by the Supreme Court Historical Society, ICS is now located at the George Washington University and associated with the GWU Law School. The Institute is co-sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Association of American Law Schools, the American Political Science Association, and the Organization of American Historians. ICS prepares younger scholars and educators to convey to their readers and students the important role the Constitution has played in shaping American society.


The Supreme Court
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
    In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court.  This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War.  The records displayed in this exhibit document the Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation and are the only extant records of this significant case as it was heard in the St.Louis Circuit Court.

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
    FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text. This is a free service that will remain free. 

http://www.oyez.org/
    The OYEZ Project contains many hundreds of hours of audio materials delivered through a free player available  from Progressive Networks. Simply download and install  the Real Player for your operating system.  Of course, you will need a sound capable computer and speakers. The Project also contains dozens of panoramic images of the Supreme Court Building. To view these images in the Tour section, you will need to download and install QuickTime (for Windows or for MacOS). QuickTime is available from Apple Computer.

http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/
    The U.S. Air Force has agreed to release a historic file of Supreme Court decisions from its FLITE ("Federal Legal Information Through Electronics") system. The file consists of over 7,000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports.

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
    The LII collection of historic decisions of the US Supreme Court contains over 600 of the court's most important decisions through the whole period of its existence. The decisions can be accessed by party name, by topic, and by opinion author.

http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/sweatt/
    Sweatt v. Painter documents.

http://www.nps.gov/brvb/
    On October 26, 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-525, establishing Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools.  On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which  guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws."  The site is located at Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas. Monroe was the segregated school attended by the lead plaintiff's daughter, Linda Brown, when Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was initially filed in 1951.

http://www.supremecourthistory.org/
    The Supreme Court Historical Society.
 


 
Municipal ordinances and codes
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes
    In an effort to make municipal codes throughout the nation more accessible to the public, Seattle Public Library staff have prepared this list of  links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web.
 


Medieval
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/index.html
    WESSWEB has two goals:
* to provide western Europe specialists with information for their work
* to provide WESS members with information about the Section.
WESSWEB does not intend to replicate the excellent guides prepared in Europe, but to supplement them and make links among them from an international perspective.

http://www.williamtyndale.com/0characterswilliamtyndale.htm
    Fire for the Ploughman: A Gallery of Characters and Places.

http://www.medieval.unimelb.edu.au/ductus/
    Medieval Multimedia: Digitalizing the Middle Ages

http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
    Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book  reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Because of the explosion of  research in Women's Studies during the past two decades, scholars and students interested in women during the Middle  Ages find an ever-growing flood of   publications. Identifying relevant works in this mass of material is further complicated by  the interdisciplinary nature   of much of the scholarship. In order to help researchers find current articles and essays quickly and easily, librarians and scholars began compiling the Medieval Feminist Index (MFI) in July 1996. Books written by a single  author are not indexed in MFI; for these, check library catalogs that have strong collections in medieval studies.

http://www.netserf.org/
    Medieval resources.

http://www.the-orb.net/latwords.html
    Latin Word List. This upgrade of the Latin Word List contains some eight thousand entries, although a significant number are duplicates to allow the presentation of additional possible translations and some few are idiosyncratic personal reminders. Please note that this is only a word list offering some possible translations and is no substitute for working closely with a good dictionary. It can nevertheless be quite helpful, particularly if you download it to your own machine, where you can add to it and where your word processor's thesaurus can greatly increase the number of possible English translations.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html
    The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index  pages, with a number of supplementary documents. Each individual section is still large - an organizational goal here is to avoid incessant  "clicking" to get between pages and to information.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
    The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

http://www.itergateway.org/
    Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance  (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.

http://the-orb.net/medieval_terms.html
    Guide to Medieval Terms, which includes legal terms:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook-law.html
    This is the Ancient Legal History Sourcebook.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html
    This is the Medieval Legal History Sourcebook.
 


Bibliographies

http://www.law.duke.edu/prod/legal_history/portal/index.html

This website is a production of the Triangle Legal History Seminar, a regional group of faculty and graduate students interested in legal history. The site provides an annotated overview of online legal history resources in English, from all historical periods and regions of the world. These resources will be of interest to students hoping to orient themselves to the field or to begin legal history research, to teachers who wish to create new legal history courses, and to academics who wish to apply for research funding.

http://home.hetnet.nl/~otto.vervaart/legal_history_and_internet.htm

A European view of legal history on the internet.


http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
    Rutgers University Libraries guide to American and British history. This site is no longer actively maintained.

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
    The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web.

http://www.romingerlegal.com/
    Romlinger Legal Services - internet legal research tool.

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/cjl-main.php
    C. Greek's Criminal Justice Links

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
    The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~shadden/Legal19links.htm
    Legal History Links Page

http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/bibliography.shtml
    Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm
    FedLaw

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf.shtml#Laws

Firstgov Reference Center and General Government

http://www.fla-law.com/
    Florida  Lawyer

http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/
    Search Online Law Reviews

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Law/other.html
    The page that was formerly located here was long out of date. Instead of a comprehensive listing of law-related web sites, it has now been replaced with a set of jumping-off points for legal research on the Web. As this is primarily a service for University of Bristol students and staff, it is biased towards UK-based (and specifically English) sites.
 


 Roman
http://iuscivile.com/
    This site provides information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who engage in the study of Roman law. Anyone who wishes to submit  material to this site should inquire at  the address below.  Contributors may retain the copyright to their material.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
    The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.  The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting document.

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/aac-hist/index.html
    The History Guide, located at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen (Germany), is an internet-based subject gateway to  scholarly relevant information in history (main area Anglo-American History). Resources are described and evaluated with a set of  metadata. New resources are continuously added to the database, already cataloged ones regularly double-checked and updated.
 


English History
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html
    English legal history materials.

http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/resources_history.php
    British legal history: selected links on the web.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/selden_society/
    The Selden Society, founded in 1887 to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English law.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ames_foundation/index.html
    The Ames Foundation, founded in 1910 by contributions of the friends of  James Barr Ames for the purpose of continuing the advance of legal knowledge and aiding the improvement of the law.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
    The TEAMS Middle English Texts are published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and  students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions. The National Endowment for the Humanities has supported the creation of this website through a grant to sustain the Middle English Texts Series.
 


Historical Journals
http://www.indiana.edu/~ahr/index.html
    American Historical Review.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/aq/
   
Since its founding in 1949, American Quarterly has established itself as an outstanding guide to American studies.  The journal promotes a broad humanistic understanding of American culture and encourages cross-disciplinary work.  American Quarterly is the official publication of the American Studies Association.

http://earlyamerica.com/review/
   
Early America Review is a journal of fact and opinion on the people issues and events of 18th-century America.

http://www.columbialawreview.org/
    Columbia Law Review.

http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/clr/
    Cornell Law Review.

http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/
    Duke Law Journal

http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1054
    Emory Law Journal

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/
   
Essays in History, the annual journal sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, is now in its fifth decade.

http://www.harvardlawreview.org/
    Harvard Law Review.

http://www.historynet.com/
    Home to about a dozen historical magazines on American, world, cultural, and military history.

http://www.historyandtheory.org/
   
Studies in the Philosophy of History

http://oah.org/
    The Organization of American Historians publishes the Journal of American History.

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/index.html
    a leading scholarly publication in the field of 
American history.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JBS/home.html
    Journal of British Studies.

http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=subj&mnemonic=jeh
    The Journal of Economic History is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of history and economics, and is of interest not only to economic historians but to social and demographic historians, as well as economists in general.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jhi/
    Journal of the History of Ideas

http://www.jstor.org/journals/08993718.html
    The Journal of Military History --published in January, April, July, and October-- includes scholarly articles and book reviews on topics in military history from all chronological periods and geographical areas.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JMH/journal/index.html
    Journal of Modern History

http://jsh.rice.edu/
    Journal of Southern History

http://www.jstor.org/
    Scholarly journals, especially in history, available for searching, viewing, browsing,
and printing.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/lhr.html
    Law and History Review

http://www.michiganlawreview.org/
    Michigan Law Review.

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/lawreview/index.html
    New York University Law Review.

http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/tocmail/
    Oxford journals.

http://www.jstor.org/journals/00344338.html
    Renaissance Quarterly
publishes interdisciplinary articles (twelve to sixteen a 
year) and reviews (about thirty to thirty-five an issue) which cover the most important recent scholarly developments in Renaissance studies.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/
    Reviews in American History 

http://www.law.stanford.edu/lawreview/
    Stanford Law Review.

http://lawreview.uchicago.edu//
    University of Chicago Law Review

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~usclrev/
    University of Southern California Law Review.

http://students.law.wisc.edu/lawreview/
    University of Wisconsin - Madison Law Review.

http://www.virginialawreview.org/
    Virginia Law Review.

http://oieahc.wm.edu/wmq/
   
The leading journal in its field of interest, The William and Mary Quarterly publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from the initial Old World - New World contacts contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond.

http://www.yale.edu/yjlh/
    Yale Journal of the Humanities.
  
 


Classics
http://www.temple.edu/departments/classics/odysseyho.html
    Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University. These materials are intended for the fair use of all students and teachers. Any links should be duly credited to the author, and students should always cite in papers any help this guide has given them.  References will be to pages, not line numbers, in Robert Fitzgerald's translation. Important names, ideas or words are underlined, indicated hyperlinks to further information. When using the hyperlinks you must remember that you will often read variants in the myths which Homer uses; try to figure out which departures are significant and which myths help you understand the Homeric versions better.

http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/odysseyindex.htm
    Homer's Odyssey: Index of Web Pages

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/OM/grk-lat.html
    Greek and Roman language resources.

http://www.forlang.utoledo.edu/BOOKMARK/BookmarkLAT.html
    University of Toledo: Latin Language Bookmarks

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/OM/grk-lat.html#latin
    Latin.

http://www.centaursystems.com/sites.html
    Site links are provided to assist teachers and students of the Classics in acquiring information about other resources available to them on the Internet. There are also links to publishers' Web sites in the Publishers Directory section of the Software Directory.

http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/index.html
    The importance of such classical authors as Ovid to the art, music, and literature of western civilization is legendary, yet many are not familiar with the original works that have provided this inspiration. The University of Vermont's rare book department contains an extensive collection of illustrated works of Ovid. Included are several editions of engravings by the 17th century German artist, Johann Wilhelm Bauer, depicting 150 scenes from the Metamorphoses. Each scene has a brief description in both Latin and German. Some plates from a 1640 edition of the translation done by George Sandys are also available.

http://vroma.org/
    A virtual community for teaching and learning the classics.
    VRoma is first and foremost a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who help to create on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture and who use these resources in their courses. Many of these "VRomans" learned the skills they use to contribute to the project in the context of workshops held in the summers of 1997 and 1998. Using the VRoma MOO, e-mail, and our web discussion board, they continue to collaborate "virtually" even after the workshops have ended, in order to refine the skills required for successful on-line collaborative teaching and learning.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
    1100+ Photographs of Ancient Rome and Greece by Leo C. Curran.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
    The Perseus Project: an evolving digital library.

http://intranet.grundel.nl/thinkquest/
    At this web site you find a description of the Roman Forum.
 


Specialized Links via Law Libraries and Providers
http://www.law.cornell.edu/index.html
    Cornell

http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/
    Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington Law Library

http://lcweb.loc.gov/
    Library of Congress

http://lola.law.upenn.edu/
    Biddle Law Library University of Pennsylvania Law School

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/library/index.html
    U. Chicago

http://lawlibrary.uoregon.edu/
    U. Oregon

http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/
    U. Houston

http://www.washlaw.edu/
    Washburn University

http://www.law.yale.edu/library/
    Lillian Goldman Law Library – Yale Law School
  

http://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/welcome-guests.htm
    The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court. The other Inns are Middle Temple, Grays Inn and Lincoln's Inn. These are incorporated associations which have existed since the 14th Century. They play a central role in the recruitment , training and professional life of barristers, holding the exclusive rights to call candidates to the bar of England and Wales.
 


American Legal History Texts
http://www.state.co.us/columbine/
    Columbine Review Commission report on the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/studorgs/forum/audio.html
    AUDIO COLLECTION - HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FORUM. The Harvard Law School Forum is currently digitizing and posting to the web its collection of speeches and panel discussions from the last 40 years.  Tapes (and even transcription discs) of some seventy historic programs have been lying in a file cabinet for years.  Some probably have not been played since their recording.  To release these important programs to the public, they are being posted on the Forum website.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ames_foundation/
    The Ames Foundation, based at Harvard Law School, supports research into legal 
history through publications (notably the yearbooks of Richard II) and grants.  The site includes a catalog of their publications.

http://www.splcenter.org/
    The Southern Poverty Law Center

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
    Yale  Law School Avalon Project

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/
    National Constitution Center

http://www.ushistory.org/index.html
    Independence Hall Association

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.net
    Colonial Williamsburg Official Website

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html
    Documents in the news.

http://www.adl.org
    Anti-Defamation League Website

http://catalog.gpo.gov/F
    Catalog of U.S. Government publications.  The Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S.  Government information resources. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage begins with January 1994 and new records are added daily. Start searching below or learn more about the Catalog and how to  search it effectively.

http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/
    The Digital National Security Archive contains more than 35,000 of the most important declassified documents that led  to policy decisions. There are twelve complete collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis,  El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, and South Africa. The National Security Archive is an  independent  non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/gateways.html
    Federal depository library gateways.

http://library.cqpress.com/
    Congressional Quarterly.

http://www.oceanalaw.com/default.asp
    Literature of Legal History

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html
    The Online US Constitution

http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
    American Legal History Texts

http://www.wwlia.org
    General Legal History Texts

http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
    Documenting the American South -- UNC at Chapel Hill Library

http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
    Documents for American Legal History (Robert Palmer, University of Houston 
Law Center.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
    Famous American Trials (Douglas Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law).

http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/sweatt/
    Sweatt v. Painter Archive (Thomas Russell, University of Texas School of Law)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
    A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/statutes/menu.html
    Confederate States of America, The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America, Commencing with the First Session of the First Congress;1862. Public Laws of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the First Session of the First Congress; 1862.  Private Laws of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the First Session of the First Congress; 1862.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/sg_hist.htm#Articles
Legal History website edited by Thomas D. Russell, University of Texas at Austin School of Law. 
 


State Legal History Sites
Alabama Hawaii Massachusetts New Mexico South Dakota
Alaska Idaho Michigan New York Tennessee
Arizona Illinois Minnesota North Carolina Texas
Arkansas Indiana Mississippi North Dakota Utah
California Iowa Missouri Ohio Vermont
Colorado Kansas Montana Oklahoma Virginia
Connecticut Kentucky Nebraska Oregon Washington
Delaware Louisiana Nevada Pennsylvania West Virginia
Florida Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island Wisconsin
Georgia Maryland New Jersey South Carolina Wyoming

 

ALABAMA:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html
    Alabama Department of Archives and History

http://www.judicial.state.al.us/supreme.cfm
   

The Supreme Court of Alabama is composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices. As the highest state court, the Supreme Court has both judicial and administrative responsibilities.

The Supreme Court has authority to review decisions rendered by the other courts of the state. It also has authority to determine certain legal matters over which no other court has jurisdiction and to issue such orders necessary to carry out its general superintendence over the courts in Alabama. The Alabama Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction over all appeals where the amount in controversy exceeds $50,000 and appeals from the Alabama Public Service Commission.

The chief justice is the administrative head of the state's judicial system.


ALASKA:
http://archives.state.ak.us/ashrab/ashrabfaq.html
The Alaska State Historical Records Advisory Board (ASHRAB) is a state board that reviews and recommends grant proposals from Alaska to the National Archives, and encourages and promotes historical record preservation throughout Alaska.

http://www.library.state.ak.us/
    Alaska State Library Home Page TEXT ONLY Deyette's Water Wagon in Nome. William W. and Neeta Tobey Sale Collection Alaska State Library, PCA 384-285 MORE Quick Information Directory (Hours, Telephone Fax Numbers, Addresses More) Services Programs Services to State, and so on.

http://www.touchngo.com/sp/sp.htm
    Alaska Supreme Court Opinions
 


ARIZONA:
http://www.lib.az.us/archives/
    The Arizona History and Archives Division identifies, collects, preserves and provides access to the historical manuscripts, re offered to public libraries to strengthen county and local library services, and to government agencies of the cities, counties and state to assist them in the management of official records. State and federal grants for public libraries and other authorized services are administered and monitored. Special library and information services are offered for the visually and physically disabled and institutionalized.

http://www.supreme.state.az.us/azsupreme/
    Arizona Supreme Court.
 


ARKANSAS:
http://www.ark.org/ahc/
    Arkansas archives and Historical Reference.

http://courts.state.ar.us/courts/sc.html
    Arkansas Supreme Court
 


CALIFORNIA:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm
    The California State Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, continues to serve in the spirit of those early instructions, providing a repository for the state's permanent governmental records as well as other materials documenting California history.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
    The Online Archive of California, the American Heritage Virtual Archive, the Museums and the Online Archive of California, and the California Heritage Digital Image Access Project are four collaborative projects to create a searchable online union database of finding aids to archival collections. This database includes the finding aids to repositories from several institutions statewide and is continuing to expand.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/
    California Courts home page
 


COLORADO:
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/
    The mission of the Colorado State Archives is to ensure the preservation of the state's permanent legal records and information and to promote their use by the citizens of Colorado. Records management, archives management and micrographics quality control are administrative functions provided to state and local government agencies in Colorado to ensure the preservation of Colorado's permanent legal and historical records. Information and research functions provide for citizen access to public records created by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of state government.

http://www.coloradosupremecourt.com/
    Colorado Supreme Court

http://www.state.co.us/columbine/
    Columbine Review Commission report to Governor Bill Owns.  This report looks at the worst shooting in U.S. school history.
 


CONNECTICUT:
http://www.cslib.org/archives.htm
    Since 1855, the Connecticut State Library has acquired historical records from the three branches  of State government. In 1909, the General Assembly made the State Library the official State Archives.

http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/Default.htm
    Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts

http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib/
    Law Library System of the Connecticut Judicial Branch
 


DELAWARE:
http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/
   The Delaware Public Archives is one of the oldest public archives programs in the country. Created by the General Assembly in 1905, the Archives cut the ribbon on its current home on December 7, 2000.

 http://courts.state.de.us/supreme/
    Delaware Supreme Court
 


FLORIDA:
http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/
    The Florida Photographic Collection is a nationally recognized component of the State Archives of Florida and contains more than 850,000 photographs, and approximately 2,500 movies and video tapes. Over 128,500 of the photographs have been scanned and placed on this website.

http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/
    Florida Bureau of Archives and Records Management

http://www.floridasupremecourt.org
    Florida Supreme Court
 


GEORGIA:
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/
    The mission of the Georgia Department of Archives and History is to select and ensure the preservation and accessibility of government and other information constituting Georgia’s recorded history.

http://georgiahistory.com/
    Chartered by the Georgia legislature in 1839, The Georgia Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the historical society for the entire state of Georgia. For nearly 160 years, the Society has fulfilled its mission to collect, preserve, and share Georgia's history through a variety of exciting educational outreach programs:

http://www2.state.ga.us/courts/supreme/sclinks.htm
    Georgia Supreme Court
 


HAWAII:
http://www.hawaii.gov/dags/archives
    The Hawaii State Archives has over 10,000 cubic feet of material within its collections. The largest groups of government records include Records of the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judiciary Records, and Governor's records.  Over 483 collections of private papers, manuscripts and records documenting the social, economic, civic or political history of Hawaii.

http://www.courts.state.hi.us/page_server/Courts/Supreme/72D2460755E8199BEBD3ACE8C3.html
    The Supreme Court of Hawai`i is the State's court of last resort. The Supreme Court hears appeals that are properly brought before the court upon applications for writs of certiorari to the Intermediate Court of Appeals and applications for transfer from the Intermediate Court of Appeals.
 


IDAHO:
http://www2.state.id.us/ishs/index.html
    Idaho State Historical Society

http://www.isc.idaho.gov/
    Idaho State Judiciary.
 


ILLINOIS

http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/
    The Abraham Lincoln Association has placed the entire 1953 version of Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln online. This searchable textbase does not include the two smaller supplements published later. The textbase is made available through the efforts of the Humanities TextInitiative. You can conduct simple, boolean, and proximity searches and there is also a word wheel for the entire text.

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/isaholdings.html
    This on-line version of the Descriptive Inventory of the Archives of the State of Illinois, Second Edition, is a continuation of the efforts of the Illinois State Archives to make its records holdings as fully known and accessible as  practicable.

http://www.state.il.us/court/
    Illinois Supreme Court
 


INDIANA:
http://www.in.gov/icpr/archives/
  

The Indiana Supreme Court has generously partnered with the Indiana State Archives in sponsorship of a new database of Indiana Supreme Court cases.

The cases begin with the first session in 1817 following Indiana’s entrance into the Union on December 11, 1816. Territorial Cases will soon be added. Researchers will notice some overlapping of court proceedings between the territorial period and statehood. These historic cases involve freedom suits, Native American land claims, railroads, numerous criminal appeals, and legal disputes.

http://www.state.in.us/judiciary/supreme/
    Indiana Supreme Court
 


IOWA:
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dca/shsi/archives/index.html
    The function of the State Archives of Iowa is to document the rights of citizens, the actions of state officials, and the state experience. The State Archives of Iowa represents a public trust upon which our democracy depends and as such it must be an advocate for openness and accountability in government. The State Archives works to ensure that the essential evidence of government is created, maintained for as long as it is needed, and is available to the citizens of the state and to the public in general.


KANSAS:
http://www.kshs.org/
    Kansas State Historical Society

http://www.kshs.org/places/sites.htm
    The Society operates State Historic Sites around Kansas. Here's some information about the fifteen sites that are open to the public.

http://www.kscourts.org/supct/
    Kansas Supreme Court
 


KENTUCKY:
http://history.ky.gov/
    Founded in 1836, the Society is a state agency and non-profit membership organization that reaches across  the commonwealth to collect oral histories, promote folklife traditions, erect highway historical markers, publish historical resources, advise community museums, and organize special traveling exhibits.

http://courts.ky.gov/
 The American Judicial System and our legal processes are often misunderstood by citizens. This web site is designed to answer some of your questions about Kentucky's Court of Justice, one of our three branches of government, and to familiarize you with its operation.

 


LOUISIANA:
http://www.hnoc.org/
    Welcome to the website of the Historic New Orleans Collection. Through it, you can learn about current exhibitions and public programs, our publications, a complex of historic buildings, research collections, guided tours and gift shop. We hope that we will assist you in discovering and appreciating the history, art, and culture of one of the world's most fascinating places.

http://www.lasc.org/
    Louisiana Supreme Court
 


MAINE:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/me/mefiles.htm
    USGenWeb Maine Archives (Digital Library)

http://www.courts.state.me.us/
    State of Maine Judicial Branch.
 


MARYLAND:
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
    The Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the  central depository for government records of permanent value. Records date from the founding of the colony in 1634 to the 1990s.
 


MASSACHUSETTS:
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/sec/arc/
    Preserving Massachusetts historical and legal records and promoting their use by its citizens.

http://www.state.ma.us/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/supremejudicialcourt/index.html
    Massachusetts Supreme Court Official Website

http://www.SociaLaw.com/sjcslip/sjcslip.html
    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Slip Opinions
 


MICHIGAN:
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/
    The Michigan legislature.

http://www.ag.state.mi.us/index.asp
    The Michigan Attorney General.

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17445_19273_19313---,00.html
    With documents dating back to 1797, the State Archives of Michigan houses much of Michigan's record  heritage.

http://www.courts.michigan.gov/
    Michigan Courts.
 


MINNESOTA:
http://www.mnhs.org/
    Connect with Minnesota's people and their stories, past and present. You'll find lots to discover.

http://www.courts.state.mn.us/
    Welcome to the Minnesota Judicial Branch, a fully unified system of trial and appellate courts administered by the Minnesota Judicial Council.
 


MISSISSIPPI:
http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/arlib_index.html
    Mississippi Department of Archives and History

http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/
    Mississippi Supreme Court
 


MISSOURI:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/
  

The Missouri State Archives is the official repository for state records of permanent and historical value. Its mission is to foster an appreciation of Missouri history and illuminate contemporary public issues by preserving and making available the state's permanent records to its citizens and their government.

http://www.courts.mo.gov/
    The Missouri Judiciary consists of three levels of courts: The trial courts (also known as the circuit courts), an intermediate appellate court (the Missouri Court of Appeals) that is divided into three regional districts, and the Supreme Court of Missouri.
 


MONTANA:
http://www.his.state.mt.us/
    The Montana Historical Society is the oldest historical organization in the West. Founded in 1865, nearly a quarter century before statehood, the Society was initially a private organization restricted to prominent Montana pioneers.

http://www.montanacourts.org/
   

As we all know, access to justice is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government. This website is one important tool to ensure that people of Montana and others have easy access to public information about the Montana Judicial Branch.

I hope you find this website useful and that it helps you to better understand Montana's court system, the people we serve, and the talented and dedicated people who work and volunteer in Montana courts.


NEBRASKA:
 http://nebraskahistory.org/
    Nebraska State Historical Society Home Page.  The official source for Nebraska History

http://court.nol.org/judges/scjudges.htm
    Nebraska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions of the Nebraska Supreme Court And Court of Appeals (Criminal/Juvenile Cases).
 


NEVADA:
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/museums/reno/histweb.htm
    Nevada Historical Society - Nevada History on the Web. These links lead to various WWW sites about Nevada's history. Their contents range from classroom material, to commercial inducement, to the work of amateur historians, to tourist information, to academic scholarship...

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/NSLA/archives/
    NSLA - Archives Records - State Historical Records Advisory Board Nevada State Archives and Records Management State Historical Records Advisory Board About the State Historical Records Advisory Board State Historical Records Advisory Board Members Nevada Revised Statute -  Chapter 378A Grants for Historical...

http://silver.state.nv.us/
    Nevada Supreme Court Executive Branch | Legislative Branch | Judicial Branch Federal Representatives Nevada Supreme Court.
 


NEW HAMPSHIRE:
http://www.state.nh.us/state/index.html
    New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives
          
http://www.state.nh.us/nhsl/index.html
    New Hampshire State Library

http://www.courts.state.nh.us/
    Judicial Branch, state of New Hampshire.
 


NEW JERSEY:
http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/archives.html
    The State Archives operates New Jersey's research center for public records of enduring
historical value. Current holdings amount to nearly 33,000 cubic feet of paper records and
over 28,000 reels of microfilm. Located at 225 West State Street in downtown Trenton,
the State Archives provides reference and consultative services to thousands of
researchers, historians and public record-keepers annually.

http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/
    New Jersey Supreme Court
 


NEW MEXICO:
http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/archives/archives_hm.htm
    The Archives and Historical Services Division is the central archives of New Mexico State Government. The agency is mandated by law to collect, preserve and make available to the public and all branches of government, permanent public records, historical manuscripts, photographs and other materials that contribute to the understanding of New Mexico history. Records at the State Archives are available to the public in accordance with the New Mexico Public Records Act and agency rules. All records are open for use except those specifically restricted by law. The Division offers reference assistance on-site, by telephone, mail or e-mail.

http://www.nmcourts.com/
    New Mexico Supreme Court - State Judiciary and Court Information. Case Search facility to allow a search by name or case number for cases heard in either district or magistrate courts.
 


NEW YORK:
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
    The New York State Archives was established in 1971 and opened its doors to the public in 1978. It is a program of the State Education Department, with its main facility located in the Cultural Education Center on Madison Avenue in Albany. There it cares for and provides access to more than 130 million documents that tell the story of New York from the seventeenth century to the present.

https://www.nyhistory.org/web/

The Society is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and public programs, and fostering research that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. Founded in 1804, its holdings cover four centuries of American history, and include one of the world’s greatest collections of historical artifacts, American art and other materials documenting the history of the United States as seen through the prism of New York City and State.

Forty thousand of the Society’s most treasured pieces are on permanent display in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, and a self-guided audio tour brings these artifacts to life with anecdotes and stories. Our collections provide the foundation for exploration of the nation’s richly layered past and support the Society’s mission to provide a forum for debate and examination of issues surrounding the making and meaning of history.
   

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ctapps/
    The Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court, is composed of a Chief Judge and six Associate Judges, each appointed to a 14-year term. New York's highest appellate court was established to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of deciding particular lawsuits. The Court thus generally focuses on broad issues of law as distinguished from individual factual disputes. There is no jurisdictional limitation based upon the amount of money at stake in a case or the status or rank of the parties. 

              


NORTH CAROLINA:
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/
    North Carolina Division of Archives and History

http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/photos.html
    The North Carolina Collection, a department in the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began the formal development of a photographic archive in 1929.

http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/Appellate/Supreme/
    The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest court, and there is no further appeal in the state from their decisions. This court has a chief justice and six associate justices who sit together as a panel in Raleigh. The Supreme Court has no jury, and it makes no determination of fact; rather, it considers error in legal procedures or in judicial interpretation of the law.
 


NORTH DAKOTA:
http://www.state.nd.us/hist/sal.htm
    The State Archives and Historical Research Library division is responsible for the documentary collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. It is the official state archives, and acquires and preserves all types of research materials relating to North Dakota and the Northern Great Plains, including manuscript collections, books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, audio and video materials, and photographs.

http://www.court.state.nd.us/
    North Dakota Supreme Court
 


OHIO:
http://www.ohiohistory.org/
    Ohio History Central is a dynamic online encyclopedia of Ohio's history, archaeology and natural history. Using timelines, images, artifacts, maps and documents, Ohio's rich history is chronicled.  Current and future entries will give an overview of prehistoric and historic Native Americans and their cultures, Ohio's geology and geography, the diversity of the state's wildlife, and the growth of the region from settlement to statehood and beyond.

http://clelaw.lib.oh.us/public/decision/oh_sup.htm
    Ohio Supreme Court decisions.
 


OKLAHOMA:
http://www.keytech.com/~frizzell/ohspage.html
    Oklahoma Historical Society

http://www.oscn.net/
    Oklahoma Supreme Court Network

http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/trrc/freport.htm
    Final report of the commission to study the 1921 Tulsa race riot.
 


OREGON:
http://www.ohs.org/

Shortly after its formation, the Society opened its first office and museum in Portland City Hall and began the development of a regional research library and a collection of historical artifacts. In 1917 the Society moved into Portland’s Public Auditorium (now Keller Auditorium), and in 1966 moved to its current location at the corner of SW Jefferson and Park in downtown Portland.

The journal of record for Oregon history, the Oregon Historical Quarterly , has been published continuously since 1900. Over 150 books on Oregon history, politics and culture, as well as biographies, field guides and exhibit catalogs, have been published by OHS since the OHS Press was established in 1929.

The OHS artifacts collection comprises over 85,000 artifacts, including ancient objects from the earliest settlements, and obje/span>

The OHS Research Library contains one of the country’s most extensive collections of state history materials, including approximately 25,000 maps, 30,000 books, 8.5 million feet of film and videotape, 16,000 rolls of microfilm and 12,000 linear feet of documents. The Research Library’s photographic archives include over 2.5 million images from pre-statehood to the present day.
   

http://www.willamette.edu/law/wlo/oregon/
    Oregon Supreme Court
 


PENNSYLVANIA:
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/

As the official agency of the Commonwealth for the conservation of Pennsylvania’s historic heritage, the powers and duties of the Commission fall into these principal fields: care of historical manuscripts, public records, and objects of historic interest; museums; archaeology; publications; historic sites and properties; historic preservation; geographic names; and the promotion of public interest in Pennsylvania history. To see the legislation that describes the powers and duties of the Commission, see Title 37, Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (the "Pennsylvania History Code").

 The Pennsylvania State Archives is a major repository for official historical records of state government and other manuscripts and materials. Our 25 historic sites and museums (widely known as the Pennsylvania Trail of History® ) collect, preserve, and interpret objects and commemorate important events, people, and places. The PHMC publishes Pennsylvania Heritage® magazine, books, and leaflets on historical subjects; sponsors workshops and conferences; and installs and maintains more than 2,000 historical markers. The Commission offers historic preservation services, museum and preservation grants, and technical assistance; internships and scholars in residence opportunities; museum and distance learning programs; and so much more.  

http://www.courts.state.pa.us
    Pennsylvania Judicial System

    As one of three equal and independent branches of state government, Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System's role is to preserve the rule of law and guarantee the rights and liberties of citizens. It does so by fairly resolving disputes brought before juries and judges as prescribed by law and by administering all aspects of the judicial process consistent with provisions of the Constitutions of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
 


RHODE ISLAND:


http://www.courts.state.ri.us/Supreme/defaultsupreme.htm

    Rhode Island Supreme Court.

     The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and four (4) justices.  In selecting justices of the Supreme Court, the Judicial Nominating Commission publicly submits three (3) to five (5) names to the Governor.  The Governor appoints the justice from the names received, and the appointee must receive the advice and consent of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. 

      As the court of last resort, the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of state law.  The Supreme Court has final appellate jurisdiction over questions of law and equity, supervisory powers over other state courts, and general advisory responsibility to the legislative and the executive branches of state government concerning the constitutionality of legislation.  Regulating admission to the Rhode Island Bar and disciplining its members are also responsibilities of this court. 

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/beyond.html
    Less obvious places to research in Rhode Island.

http://www.sec.state.ri.us/Archives
    The Rhode Island State Archives, a Division within the Office of the Secretary of State, acts as the official custodian and trustee for public records possessing permanent historical value. These records are made available for research at our facility located in downtown Providence.  Our main reception area features exhibits and displays that are free and open to the public.
 


SOUTH CAROLINA:
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/homepage.htm
    The Department preserves and promotes the documentary and cultural heritage of South Carolina.  Explore the links below to learn more about South Carolina's rich history through our Homepage.

http://www.law.sc.edu/library/docs/legalhistory.shtml

The South Carolina Legal History Collection at the University of South Carolina School of Law -
A Selected Annotated Bibliography

 

 


SOUTH DAKOTA:
http://www.sdstatelibrary.com/
    South Dakota Library

http://www.state.sd.us/state/judicial/
    South Dakota Supreme Court
 


TENNESSEE:
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/tslahome.htm
    Tennessee State Library and Archives.

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/tn/tnca.html
    Opinions of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995.

http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/opinions/tsc/oplsttsc.htm
    Opinions of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995.
 


TEXAS:   
The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, dedicated to preserving the history of the state's highest civil court, is ten years old, and as of yet does not have a web site.

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/index.html

    Texas State Archives  houses the state's court records:


http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/
     The next best site in the state for legal research would be the UT School of Law Tarlton Law Library site.


http://www.cah.utexas.edu/
    The best general academic archives by far is the UT Center for American History, which includes judicial and legal collections

 

http://www3.baylor.edu/Library/BCPM/judicial.htm
    Baylor also has an excellent site, including judicial collections.
 
http://www.stcl.edu/library/SpecialColl.html
    South Texas College of Law Library: A small, but growing site on legal collections.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/
    The Texas State Historical Association, the p

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
    The online New Handbook of Texas, the best starting point for research on any individual involved with Texas legal history.

http://www.easttexashistorical.org/
    East Texas Historical Association

http://www.thc.state.tx.us/
    Texas Historical Commission

http://archives.tamuk.edu/STHA.html
    South Texas Historical Association The South Texas Historical Association was founded in 1954 "to encourage the organization and to aid in the development of local historical societies and to discover, collect, preserve, and publish historical.

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/
    Texas Supreme Court

http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas/
    This web site  contains Gammel's "The Laws of Texas" Vol 1-10 in electronic form with indexes.  This covers laws from 1823-1905 and is a very rare collection in hardcopy.
 


  UTAH:
http://pioneer.uen.org/
    Utah's online library.

http://www.archives.state.ut.us/
    Utah State Archives.

http://www.utcourts.gov/
    Utah state courts.
 


VERMONT:
http://vermont-archives.org/
    Vermont state archives.

http://dol.state.vt.us/WWW_ROOT/000000/HTML/SUPCT.HTML
Vermont Supreme Court opinions since volume 161.
 


VIRGINIA:
http://www.vahistorical.org/
    The Virginia Historical Society's mission is to collect, preserve, and interpret the commonwealth's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

http://www.courts.state.va.us/scv/home.html
    The Supreme Court of Virginia . The Supreme Court of Virginia is one of the oldest continuous judicial bodies in the United States.
 


WASHINGTON:
http://www.wshs.org/
    Washington State Historical Society.

http://www.cwu.edu/~archives/
    Washington State Archives Central Regional Branch

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/archives/
    Secretary of State Sam Reed opened the doors of America's first government digital archives built from the ground up - a facility designed to salvage critical, public records from local and state government that are born electronic.

http://www.courts.wa.gov/
    Washington State Supreme Court.
 


WEST VIRGINIA:
http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/opinions.htm
    Opinions of the West Virginia Supreme Court back to 1991.


 


WISCONSIN:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/
    Wisconsin Historical Society.

http://www.courts.state.wi.us/
    Wisconsin court system.
 


WYOMING:
http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/
    Wyoming State Archives.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/tsju.html 
    Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court

http://www.ck10.uscourts.gov/wyoming/district/index.html
    United States District Court: Wyoming                
 


Legal History Courses
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltf99.htm
    Western Legal Tradition.

http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/alh16.htm
    American legal history at University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

 


American South
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html
     The Southern Historical Collection, long known for its strong collections of antebellum plantation, Civil War, and Reconstruction South materials continues to acquire 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts along with substantial collections of 20th-century materials. The holdings are diverse. There are letters written by Southerners from remote parts of the world, journals of plantation owners from throughout the South, documents of people who spent their entire lives in small North Carolina communities, and oral history interviews with textile workers and bank presidents.

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.  It is organized into the projects listed above. The next one, now in the planning stage, will feature North Caroliniana. The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern  holdings. An editorial board guides its development.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2
    The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries,  photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.  Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. The project is intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and universities.
 


Manuscript Collections and Archives
http://www.nara.gov/
    National Archives homepage.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/index.php
     Harvard Law School Library, Special Collections.

http://nixon.archives.gov/find/tapes/watergate/
    Watergate tapes and transcripts.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/index.html
    Library of Congress homepage.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html
   Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
 


FBI
http://foia.fbi.gov/
    Cases from the FBI FOIA Reading Room which  have been selected for inclusion at this site.   These cases have been placed in categories by type of records and also alphabetically listed.
 


National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
    NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging  program operated by the Library of Congress. Check out the resources below to find out more about our program, about archives and manuscript repositories, and about topics of interest to archivists and their institutions' patrons.
 


Old Bailey

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
    The proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834. A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

 


 

Quantitative Data
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm
    Bureau of Justice Statistics

http://www.census.gov/
    U.S. Census Bureau

http://home.hetnet.nl/~otto.vervaart/legal_history_and_internet.htm
    A collaborative database on the history of violent crime from the medieval period to the present.

 


Associations

http://www.aslch.org/
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics.

 

 


 


Law and Society Programs


http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/csls/index.html
    University of California, Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society

http://www.law.wisc.edu/ILS/
    University of Wisconsin, Madison Law School Institute for Legal Studies

http://www.law.nyu.edu/ils/
    New York University's Institute for Law and Society

http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture
    Columbia Law School Center for the Study of Law and Culture

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/ 
    Edinburgh Law School Centre for Law and Society
 


Law and Economics Programs
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/students/curricularprograms/law_econ/index.html
    University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Program in Law and Economics.

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/
    University of Chicago School of Law Program in Law and Economics

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/
    Harvard Law School Center for Law, Economics, and Business.

http://www.yale.edu/law/leo/
    Yale Law School Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop.

http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/opile/
    Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics.

http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/olin/
    University of Michigan Law School Center for Law and Economics

http://www.law.upenn.edu/ile/
    University of Pennsylvania Law School Center for Law and Economics

http://hal-law.usc.edu/cleo/
    University of Southern California Center for Law, Economics, and Organization
 


Bar Associations

http://www.abanet.org/ 
    American Bar Association

http://www.cba.org/home.asp 
    Canadian Bar Association

http://fedbar.org/ 
    Federal Bar Association

http://www.lawscot.org.uk/ 
    Law Society of Scotland

http://www.nationalbar.org/ 
    National Bar Association 
 


Biographical
Oliver Wendell Holmes
    http://harvardregiment.org/holmes.html

    http://www.commonlaw.com/HP.html


John Marshall
    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/jmarshall/marsh.htm
    http://www.marshall.edu/johnmarshall/
   


William Howard Taft
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wt27.html

Earl Warren
    http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/govsgallery/t/biography/governor_text_30.html

Biographical Dictionary
    http://www.s9.com/biography/

Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography and Links
    http://www.mayfieldpub.com/lawhead/chapter6/martin_luther_king_jr_.htm
 

Abraham Lincoln Association

http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/

Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Selected Bibliography
http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/MARSHALL.HTM

Presidents of the United States Internet Public Library
    http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

The Booker T. Washington Papers
    http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html  

Women's Legal History Biography Project
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/


Federal Courts
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