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HIST 3301 (Dr. Elizabeth Clark): Historical Methods (Govt. Docs)

Historical Methods - Research U.S. Government Documents

Searching Sets

Generally, a search in the online catalog will not point you to resources within many of the sets in the Government Documents unit of the Cornette Library.

Many of these sets may be browsed by date or searched using their print indexes.

Public Papers of the Presidents - FDR

The papers of FDR are not included in the series Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States..  The papers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt were published privately, before the Government Printing Office began the series.  The 13 FDR volumes are available in the Loan Shelves of the Cornette Library.

The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt - LOAN SHELVES - J 81 .D6 1969

Sets for General History Research

CIS U.S. Serial Set Index (index set from 1780 – 1969)
Supplemented with CIS Annual vols. (1970 – 1998)
Gov Docs Ref Shelves
Z 1223 .Z9 C65 1975
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents [1789 – 1921]
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
Y 4.P 93/1:5/
(Online from HathiTrust)
Congressional Record : Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress [1873 - ] (print and microfiche)
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves (Print:  1908 – 1984)
Gov Docs – Microfiche Cabinet (1873 – 2007)
X 1.1:
(can browse or search online 1994 to present)
Foreign Relations of the United States
(print and microfiche; recent volumes online)
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelve
Gov Docs – Microfiche Cabinet
S 1.1:
Major Studies & Issue Briefs of the Congressional Research Service (1916 - 2004)
(Index in print, items on microfilm)
Location:  Statutes at Large microform file cabinet, near "Monthly Catalog"
Public Papers of the Presidents (some recent volumes are online officially in PDF and volumes for 1929-2001 unofficially in HTML)
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
GS 4:113 (has Herbert Hoover – Ronald Reagan)
AE 2:114 (has Ronald Reagan to date)
Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
S 9.12/2:
United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817 –
“The Serial Set”
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
Y 1.1/2:SERIAL
Print:  Many gaps; fewer gaps from 1906 - 1996
(Browse online from 1833-1917)
(Senate/House Documents and Senate/House Reports from 1995/1996 to date)
(database: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817 – 1980)
United States Treaties and Other International…
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
S 9.12:
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Gov Docs – US Docs Shelves
GS 4.114:(has 8/22/1965-11/7/1988)
AE 1.109:(has 1989 – 2000)
(browse online from 1993 to 2009)
Ceased Jan. 12, 2009. Now go to Daily Compilation of
Presidential Documents – online only, available via catalog.