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ENG/HIS 194 Origins of American Identity in History and Literature

Librarian: Lisa Kammerlocher

Congressional Directories Tools
Congressional Hearings and Documents Citing Your Sources
Locating Digital Images and Photos Developing a Poster Session
Locating Materials to Explaining the Opposition   

Congressional Directories

Congressional Directory: Browse 109th Congress

Enables you to view information about Congress persons by state.

Congressional E-mail Addresses

 

Sources of Congressional Hearings and Documents

THOMAS

The free web tool was created by the Library of Congress.  "THOMAS has the Congressional Record and full text of legislation available from 1989 (101st Congress) to the present. In addition, THOMAS has summaries (not full text) of legislation are available back to 1973 (93rd Congress)."

Congressional Universe

U.S. legislative information; hearing transcripts; committee reports; bills, bill tracking; Congressional Record; Federal Register; Code of Federal Regulations; U.S. Code; Public law; the National Journal; Congress Daily, and member information.

 

Locating Digital Images and Photos

Link to the Photographs and Digital Images quick reference web page developed by the Fletcher Library.

Key sources on this page include:

  • AP Photo Archive
  • Library of Congress American Memory Project
  • New York Public Library Digital Library Collections

 

Locating Materials to Explain the Opposition

Link to the Database Finder to find general and history article databases.

For example:

  • Academic Search Premier
  • America History and Life
  • New York Times 1851-2001
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