Research Guides: Legal History Quick Guide: Electronic Resources

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Legal Classics [HeinOnline] This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to 580 legal monographs published from 1802 to 1979. The format is image-based, presenting the exact page image and complete contents of the original materials.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online [Gale] This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to more than 150,000 volumes of significant English-language and foreign-language title publishing in the UK and the United States during the 18th century, as well as contemporary works of analysis.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 [Gale] This link opens in a new window
22,000 legal treatises digitized and searchable on U.S. and British law from 1800 -1926. Presenting the exact page image and complete contents of the original materials.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs [Gale] This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive online collection of U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs (1832-1978). Topics include the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution and its amendments, states’ rights and national sovereignty, business and labor law, civil rights and gender law, and much more.

American Memory Project
Search for Statutes at Large, American State Papers, and U.S. Serial Set; Journals of Congress; and Debates of Congress including the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates, the Congressional Globe, the Congressional Record, and a lot more.
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Anglo-American Legal Tradition
Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History