Trials in American History: HIST 2106/2906

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HeinOnline is an online product with pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline provides coverage from law and law-related periodicals. It also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754.

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 contains books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority are English-language and published in the U.S. or Great Britain

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides access to Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches from 1800 to 1926.

Supreme Court Records and Briefs (SCRB) covers many aspects of law including: civil rights law; constitutional law; corporate law; environmental law; gender law; labor law; legal history and legal theory; property law; taxation; trademark and intellectual property law, among other subjects. The resources included span from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War and Watergate.