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United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.
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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our...Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
British legal history links.
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/lawlinks/history.htm
Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous American trials. Assembled by Professor Douglas Linder, UMKC School of Law.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm
Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltlink1.htm
Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com.
http://www.historychannel.com/trial
Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/hammenu.htm
United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm
Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html
Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/connect.htm
Excerpts from the memoir of a Supreme Court clerk who served the notorious Justice James C. McReynolds during the year that FDR threatened to pack the Court.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/448622.html
An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956.
http://www.geocities.com/mike_donnelly_umkc/main.html
Introduction to medievel legal history.
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/law.html
List covering teaching and research in the history of all legal traditions, although participants generally focus on common-law and other Western systems. Site includes information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.
http://www.h-net.org/~law/
Translation of the Magna Carta into modern English, intended to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magnatranslation.html
A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html
Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.
http://www.lonang.com/
Promoting an understanding of legal history.
http://www.legalhistory.com/
Overview of the development of law in various nations and time periods.
http://www.historyoflaw.info/