20th Century American Political Thought: Primary Source Collections

Massive collection of government documents, including statements in Congress, Congressional Hearings, research reports, public laws, and more.

1789 to present. The document section includes: Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Annual Messages to Congress on the State of the Union, Inaugural Addresses, News Conferences, Radio Addresses, News Conferences, Signing Statements, Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches, and more.

from ProQUest. Covers 1933-2016, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs.

Lower court cases.

Massive database of legal resources divided by genre and subject so that different perspectives on the law can be discerned.

Legislative histories from 1970-present and approximately 9,000 new histories from 1929-1969. Includes links to pdfs for all available documents.

Searches executive branch record sets, including FBI files (eg., COINTELPRO), governmental civil rights projects and records, records of the EPA, NASA, etc.

Includes:
-records of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, Black Power Movements
-Government records relating to civil rights, international relations, domestic issues (War on Poverty, violence,children, welfare, etc.)
-Women's rights movement records

Especially strong collections of primary sources about 1) gender, sexuality and civil rights, and 2) extremist political groups. Includes papers of ACT-UP, ACLU.

Database of public opinion poll questions and answers.

This collection consists of twentieth-century political pamphlets and periodicals from across the political spectrum. It includes runs of journals ranging from African Communist to East-West Digest, published by the Council Against Communist Aggression, as well as runs of newspapers such as The New Order, published by the National Socialist Party of America, and The Thunderbolt, Organ of the National States Rights Party. Included in the periodicals section are runs of published lectures, essays, and papers on economics and public policy, including those published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the IIER (Internation Institute for Economic Research). The collection also holds over seventy boxes of pamphlets on a range of political topics, from human rights and civil liberties to national security and disarmament, on African liberation movements and Cuba, Vietnam and China, on NATO and the Helsinki Accord.

Searchable database of U.S. public policy research from the 80s to the present.

Archive of publications, reports and meeting of the Libertarian Party.

The collection documents the varied research and policymaking career of Pope A. Lawrence, an environmental health specialist with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Public Health Service. His papers contain a wealth of primary source research materials and scientific data related to: environmental and industrial hygiene; radon activity; use of beryllium as a rocket propellant; uranium mining; and toxicological, biological and chemical weapon systems.

The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were a landmark effort to reduce air pollution through a variety of instruments including the use of a market-based system of trade-able pollution "permits" under its Title IV and Title V. This Archives Unbound collection consists of essential 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.

Extraordinary collection of sources from rightist and leftist extremist groups in the second-half of the 20th century.