Legal Databases by Subject: Legal History
Legal History Databases
This is a selective list. Other databases may include additional resources relevant to the topic.
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new windowA vast collection of American historical periodicals, 17th-20th century. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- American Founding Era Collection (Rotunda) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the papers of some of the major figures of the early republic such as: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and more. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School LibraryDigitized documents in law, history and diplomacy.
Collections include:
--Ancient Documents 4000bce - 399
--Medieval Documents, 400 - 1399
--15th Century Documents, 1400 - 1499
--16th Century Documents, 1500 - 1599
--17th Century Documents, 1600 - 1699
--18th Century Documents, 1700 - 1799
--19th Century Documents, 1800 - 1899
--20th Century Documents, 1900 - 1999
--21st Century Documents, 2000 -
--Major Document Collections
--Project DIANA - An Online Human Rights Archive
--International Military Tribunal for Germany - A Document Collection
- British History Online This link opens in a new windowA database of primary and secondary English and Irish history resources. More InfoUB ONLY
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowsee Cambridge Core More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Early American Imprints I This link opens in a new windowDefinitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window22 million digital page images of every work printed in the English language as well as works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies from 1473-1700 in any language. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowSee these databases in HeinOnline:
Legal Classics
History of International Law
World Trials Library
World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents and Resources
Early American Case Law
Prestatehood Legal Materials
State Reports: A Historical Archive
State Statutes: A Historical Archive
Session Laws Library
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
Congress and the Courts
History of Supreme Court Nominations
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America Part III
English Reports
Scottish Legal History: Featuring Publications of the Stair Society
Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
Statutes of the Realm
More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, c. 1600-1926 This link opens in a new windowCollection of legal treatises, historical records and written material. More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970 This link opens in a new windowCollection of foreign codes and laws. More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 This link opens in a new windowCollection of British and American treatises. More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: Primary Sources I & II, 1620-1970 This link opens in a new windowInformation for researchers of American legal history. More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 This link opens in a new windowPrimary documents focused on court activities in America, the British Empire, and the world. More InfoUB ONLYMaking of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 This link opens in a new windowRecords and briefs brought before the United States Supreme Court. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYOxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History This link opens in a new windowCovers legal history from ancient to modern times. More InfoUB ONLYProQuest British Parliamentary Papers Collection, 18th-21st Centuries This link opens in a new windowThe Parliamentary Papers empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new windowProQuest History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history, including African American studies, women’s studies, political science, social sciences, sociology, and international studies. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYSabin Americana This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the contents of a legendary bibliography covering every aspect of the history and culture of the Americas.More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYSeventeenth & Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new windowSee 17th & 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYWomen’s Studies Archive: Issues and Identities This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents from the 19th and 20th centuries covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women’s lives and spanning multiple regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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