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Digitized Historical Government Documents
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American Presidency Project by University of California Santa Barbara"The American Presidency Project is the only free online searchable database including all of:
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The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: 1789-1929
The Public Papers of the Presidents: since 1929
The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 1977-2009
The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents: post-2009" --- UC Santa Barbara
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Census of Population and Housing --- 1790-2010 by US Census Bureau"The census tells us who we are and where we are going as a nation. The census helps our communities determine where to build everything from schools to supermarkets, and from homes to hospitals. It helps the government decide how to distribute funds and assistance to states and localities. It is also used to draw the lines of legislative districts and reapportion the seats each State holds in Congress." --- U.S. Census Bureau
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Century of Lawmaking --- 1774-1875 by Library of CongressContains: Journals of the Continental Congress --- Letters of Delegates to the Continental Congress
--- Bills, Resolutions, and Statutes at Large --- American State Papers --- U.S. Serial Set --- Congressional Record --- House and Senate Journals
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HathiTrustHathiTrust contains millions pre-1926 volumes (books and magazines). HathiTrust also provides both historical and more recent public domain government publications. HathiTrust offers two different sophisticated search interfaces - Advanced full-text search and Advanced catalog search - that allow for truncation and Boolean operators.
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Library of Congress Digital Collections"The Library of Congress’ digital collections are dynamic; they continually grow and change as new content is acquired, processed, and made available. In 2018, the Library managed 15.9 petabytes of digital collection content, comprising 410 million unique files." --- Library of Cogress