Legal Studies: Historical Primary Sources

We use the term primary sources not in the historian's sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. This archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history

Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.