Eighteenth-Century Studies: Online Resources: 8. U.S. Government documents

Includes Congressional Record 1789-2001, Congressional Hearings 1824-2003, Congressional Serial Set, Committee Prints 1830-present, CRS Reports 1916-present, Executive Branch Documents 1789-1932, and U.S. Bills and Resolutions.The Congressional Serial Set is an on-going collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. This collection - 1789 to 1969 - offers the following types of publications: * Congressional journals, and administrative reports, directories, manuals, and related internal publications. * Congressional reports on public and private legislation considered during each Congress. * Reports resulting from Congressionally commissioned or conducted investigations. * Annually submitted reports from Federal executive agencies reviewing current problems and activities under agency purview. * Extended series of survey, research and statistical publications developed by executive agencies. * Selected annual or special reports of nongovernmental agencies.

More than half of America’s states began as territories. From the 1760s to the 1950s the United States of America expanded southward and westward, acquiring territories that spanned from Florida to California to Alaska. Before they evolved into twenty-seven American states, these territories were managed by the U.S. State and Interior departments. The official history of their formative territorial years is recorded in the “Territorial Papers of the United States”—a collection of Native American negotiations and treaties, official correspondence with the federal government, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more.