Topically-focused digital collections of primary, unpublished historical documents drawn from institutional and governmental sources and private collections. Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; women’s studies; and more.

Contains diplomatic dispatches, letters, and more that circulated between The British Foreign Office in London and British offices in the Middle East. Three modules cover: the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis, the Lebanese Civil War and the Camp David Accords, and the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer’s Index to the Times.

Contains documents from the US State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs from 1945-1955. Provides insight into the domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period.

Complete volumes of all British Government Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.

Information about congress, members of congress and more back to 1945. Vote records, voting scores, congressional profiles, biographical information and more.

Search across CQ Press content including: Congress Collection, CQ Almanac, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America, Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Voting and Elections Collection, Political Handbook of the World, and Supreme Court Compendium.

Significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Contains declassified documents that have been gathered through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Contains FBI files on a wide range of organizations, people, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements. Includes files on Abbie Hoffman, Ceasar Chavez, The Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society and more.

Contains Justice Department and FBI files on a wide range of African American organizations, people, and activities from 1928-1984. Includes Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, NAACP, and more.

Search major publications of the US government including s the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, the Monthly catalog, US Government Manual, the US Code, GAO Reports, public laws and the Congressional Directory.

Full-text seachable library of high-quality digitized materials such as books, articles, government information, and more from libraries around the world. Includes public domain and in-copyright content. Log in as a WFU user to download PDFs and access additional features.

Provides hundreds of millions of pages of law and law-adjacent periodicals, essential government documents (federal, state, and international), international resources, case law, and more.

Focused on strategy and policy in the various subject areas of homeland security research. Sources of information include governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non-governmental organizations, institutes and organizations, and other entities.

An archive of historic materials that reflect the influence that indigenous people have had on the development of the United States. Includes hundreds of treaties, treaty-related publications, tribal codes, constitutions, federal case law, government reports, scholarly works, and the entirety of Title 25 (Indians) of the U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations.

Documents from the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR), which was organized in London in August 1938 to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.

Legislative histories, including complete text of enacted laws and the full text of associated congressional documents (Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, etc.).

Provides full text from military and general interest publications including government offices, journals, think tanks and more. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military.

Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective.

Consists of the testimony and documents from Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission’s inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees.

Provides a unique look into the creation and activities of the temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, established by Congress and given exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of price control regulations under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.

All things Congress- full text of: federal bills and laws (1776-present); voting records (1987-present); U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers (1817-present); published and unpublished Congressional hearings from (1824 to present); Congressional Record (1873-present) and its predecessor publications (1789-1873); Congressional Research Service reports (1916-present).

Contains documents produced by US executive branch departments, agencies, and commissions from 1789 – 1952.

Provides full-text titles on military issues from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

Provides access to petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867.

Social Explorer allows users to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data. The site includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, and other data sets.

Contains a collection of the constitutions of the 50 states of the United States with related documents and resources. Contains the text of every constitution with the original, consolidated and current texts and an collection of documents from before statehood.

Contains information and data on cases, justices, and the history and power of the U.S. Supreme Court. Covers all supreme court justices from 1789 to the present.

Contains comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Reports, an indexed compilation of the official full text of all decisions of the Supreme Court and the official record of its rulings, orders, case tables, and other proceedings. Also includes books, periodicals, CRS reports, rules of the Court, and court history.

Until the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824, Indian affairs were under the control of the Secretary of War. This collection includes letters to and from the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents, territorial & state governors, military commanders, Indians, missionaries, and other public and private individuals. Additional attachments include vouchers, receipts, depositions, contracts, newspapers, copies of speeches, passports for travel in the Indian country, etc. Source Library: U.S. National Archives

Contains Hein’s U.S. Treaty Index (1776-Present), United Nations Treaty Series (1948-Present), League of Nations Treaty Series (1920-1946), Rohn’s World Treaty Index (1900-2000), Historical Treaty Index (1648-1919), Wiktor’s Multilateral Treaty Calendar (1648-1995) and Martens’ Treaties (1761-1944).