History - Primary Sources: Politics & Law

Books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera on political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the United States and throughout the world. Covers topics such as the Rosenberg Case, Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco-Vanzetti, Students for a Democratic Society, and more. (Michigan State Univ.)

Digitized documents spanning from the Continental Congress in 1774 to the 43rd Congress in 1875. Arranged in four categories: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention; Journals of Congress; Debates of Congress; and Statutes and Documents.

More than 2,000 scanned FBI documents, encompassing all time periods of Bureau history. (Note: Dates in the list of topcis/files indicate when documents were put online, not when the content was originally created.) (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. (American Antiquarian Society and Tufts Univ.)

Documents from America's first century of political history. (Library of Congress)

Currently includes Presidents Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama. (more planned). (National Archives and Records Administration, and Government Printing Office)