See Also
Colonial and United States
- For historical statistics see Historical Statistics of the United States.
- See also the guide to Oklahoma government information on the political science guide.
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American Founding Era Collection This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 18th and 19th centuries
Provides access to searchable, full text, primary and secondary materials related to colonial America and the early Republic. Includes the personal papers and manuscripts of the major figures of the early Republic.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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American Indians and the American West This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1809-1971
Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource consists of a large variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts of interactions between the U.S. Army and American Indian tribes in the west.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara)Sources include nearly every document from Messages and Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1787-1902) and The Public Papers of the Presidents (1929-present). Updated regularly from the materials provided by the White House media office, the Government Printing Office, and the National Archives (NARA).
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American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1946-1975
This database contains primary resources such as radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents from around the world and provides in depth analysis of the roots and history of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1941-1996
Digital archive covering foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the mid-20th century, containing unique primary source documents on racial justice from around the world and providing insight into many important historical events and movements.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1946-1996
International survey of the effects of apartheid on South Africa and the world with a digitized collection of primary source documents related to apartheid.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Avalon Project (Yale)Includes digital documents relevant to law, history, government, etc. from ancient times to the present.
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City of Oklahoma City RecordsOrdinances and various meeting minutes available online; other records available by appointment only.
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Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1890-present
Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to two modules:
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers Part 1
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1945-1991
International primary source documents on the Cold War. Resources include news broadcasts, reports, and publications.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1574-1757
Provides access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, English conflicts with the Spanish and French, maritime history, plantations, and slavery are all covered in this database.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Congress and the Courts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to relevant sources relating to the composition and structure of Article III Courts, as well as documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization and restructuring of the federal government. Features William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, Federal Judicial Center publications, links to various scholarly articles, CFR Title 28 (Judicial Administration), and other related works.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1954-1999
The DNSA collection is the most comprehensive collection available of significant declassified U.S. government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to four sub-collections relating to Latin American policy and human rights:
- El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
- El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
- Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Fold3 Library Edition (Ancestry/Proquest)A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Provides access to historic U.S. military records, including the stories, photos and personal documents of the men and women who served. You can also search archives for African Americans, Native Americans and the U.S. Bureau of Investigation case files, historical newspapers, historical documents, U.S. Census records, U.S. naturalization records, and city directories.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1941-1996
Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Foreign Relations of the United States (1861-1988; HeinOnline)Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies. Also available from the Department of State here.
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Founders Online (National Archives)Correspondence and writings of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 185,000 searchable documents, fully annotated.
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Freedom of Information Archive / Declassification Engine (Columbia University and the History Lab)Open access database for searching declassified documents. NOTE: As of 7-24-24, archive contains:
-Azeredo da Silveira Papers, 1973-1979
-Clinton E-Mail, 2009-2013
-Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861-1984
-Kissinger Telephone Conversations, 1973-1976
-State Department Central Foreign Policy Files, 1973-1979
-U.K. Cabinet Papers, 1907-1990
-U.S. Declassified Documents Online, 1900-2008 (Must access this database separately to see full text of documents.)
-World Bank McNamara Records, 1950-1981
--See "About Collections" tab for more information.
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. Each journal in the database begins from its inception. Also includes access to code of federal regulations, legal classics, treaties and agreements, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. statutes at large, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1941-1996
Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Indian Claims Insight This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1789-present
Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Joint Publications Research Service This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1957-1995
Provides access to English translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts. This database is ideal for the study of history of science, global economics, agriculture, health, political culture, international relations, and military affairs.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1789-present
Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. public laws. Texts available include the full text of the public law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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LLMC Digital This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1958-1994
Digital archive spanning 19 countries and four decades covering cultural, economic, and political developments within the regions.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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National Security Archive (George Washington University)Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive includes a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.
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Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower This link opens in a new window
Electronic version of the 21-volume publication; covers Eisenhower's career before and during World War II and through his presidency. Materials include maps, photographs, previously classified documents, handwritten correspondence, and cables.
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ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1789-present
Includes hearings (1824-present); CRS Reports (1916-present); House and Senate Documents/Reports (Serial Set; 1817-present); legislative histories (1969-present); bills and laws (1776-present); miscellaneous publications including GAO, CBO, the American State Papers, the House and Senate Journals (1789-present); vote reports (1987-present); maps (1789-2007); Congressional Record (1789-present); executive branch (1789-1932); and presidential materials such as executive orders (1789-present). Many of these are full text.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library)TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
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Treaties and Agreements Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to all U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital LibraryThe materials in this repository include information by and about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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U.S. Congressional Documents This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1774-present
Features the complete Congressional Record bound version, as well as the daily updated version back to 1980. Also includes the following predecessor titles: Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789), Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), as other important congressional material.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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U.S. Declassified Documents This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of previously classified federal records from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These documents cover significant foreign policy development and international crisis, as well as domestic issues. Materials include policy papers, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, military reports, diplomatic correspondence, CIA and FBI intelligence memoranda, and more.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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U.S. Documents Masterfile (1774-present; Paratext)References to federal, state, local and international public documents.
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U.S. Documents Masterfile This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1774-present
Comprehensive guide to federal, state, local, and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication. Includes title information for federal documents and subject index entries from Poore's, Hickcox, and the GPO Monthly Catalog.
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Yucca Mountain Archival DocumentsPreviously posted on the website for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. Includes links to other sites.
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Avalon Project (Yale)Includes digital documents relevant to law, history, government, etc. from ancient times to the present.
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British History Online (Institute of Historical Research)Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Most of the material is free, but some is not. See this page for a list of material that is NOT free. We have access to some of that subscription material in State Papers Online
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Cabinet Papers, 1915-1984 (National Archives)Records of the senior ministers of the British government.
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English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867; HeinOnline)Important legal cases.
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Georgian Papers Online (1714-1837; Royal Collection Trust)This catalogue currently contains descriptions and digitised images of documents dating from the reigns of George I to William IV, including personal letters, diaries, account books and records of the Royal Household.
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London Lives: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis (1690-1800; Digital Humanities Inst.)A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.
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National Archives (U.K.) CatalogSearching is free but there may be a fee to download records.
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England This link opens in a new window
Full text of the rolls of parliament, translated and in the original Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English. The rolls were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272) until the reign of Henry VII (1509).
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Parliamentary Debates (Library Research Guide)Parliamentary debates (often referred to as Hansard) are records of what is said in Parliament. Only since 1909 has Hansard been a verbatim report and official publication; before then, publications were based on secondary sources such as newspaper accounts. Link is to several sources of the debates.
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey (1674-1913; Digital Humanities Institute)Contains 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
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State Papers Online: The Government of Britain This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1509-1714
State Papers Online is published in four parts covering two hundred years of British and European history. Includes documents from the 16th-18th century British government, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Statutes of the Realm (1205-1713; HeinOnline)Acts of Parliament.
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Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1574-1757
Provides access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, English conflicts with the Spanish and French, maritime history, plantations, and slavery are all covered in this database.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1545-1900
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Collections include Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection (1800-1900), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection (1545-1900), Hume Tracts (1769-1890), Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (1792-1868), Selections - University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection (1799-1900), Selections - London School of Economics and Political Science (1800-1899), Selections - University of Bristol (1800-1899), and Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (1761-1900).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.