Goverment Documents on Midwestern U.S. History
U.S. Government publications and state government publications are important sources for studying the development of Midwestern U.S. History from the 1787 Northwest Ordinance to the present.
Purdue Libraries have many government publications on the historical development and evolution of the midwest. This guide will consider the following states: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota as being part of the midwest. These publications will primarily include U.S. Government publications and Indiana State publications. Paper copies of these resources are available in the HSSE Library and in the Undergraduate Library's HIKS Repository. Many recent U.S. Government publications are in the Library Catalog but many historical government publications are not in the Library Catalog.. Locating these resources requires using a number of print indexes which listed below.
The principal index for U.S. Government Publications is Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications HSSE REF & Periodicals 016.353 Un36. This indexes all U.S. Government publications distributed to federal depository libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program administered by the U.S. Government Printing Office. An online version of this index from 1994-present is accessible here Additional indexes to historical U.S. documents include:
| Cumulative Title Index to U.S. Public Documents 1789-1976 HSSE REF 016.353 C913 |
| CIS U.S. Serial Set Index 1789-1909 HSSE REF 328.73 C761c |
| CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1789-1909 HSSE REF 351.C73 C497 1990 |
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CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents 1910-1932 HSSE REF 351.C73 C497 1996
(These two indexes feature a microfiche collection which Purdue doesn't have but which is available at Indiana University and
the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and can be requested thru Interlibrary Loan.)
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CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings Index 1833-1969 HSSE REF 348.731 C76
(Some of these hearings (1869-1934) are in the U.S. Senate Library microfiche collection in HSSE's 2nd floor microforms
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| CIS Index to Unpublished Senate Committee Hearings 1823-1964 HSSE REF 348.731 C497 |
| Guide to U.S. Government Publications HSSE REF 015.73 G943 |
General U.S. Document legal reference sources include:
| U.S. Reports HSSE DOC JU 6.8: |
| Lawyer's Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Reports HSSE REF 345.4 Un37r |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic (Provides comprehensive current and historical access to the full text of federal and state court opinions.) |
Other U.S. and Indiana document reference sources include:
| Women in Congress HSSE DOC Y 1.1/7:101-238 |
Guide to Records of the U.S. House of Representatives
at the National Archives, 1789-1909 HSSE DOC Y 1.1/7:100-245 |
Guide to Records of the U.S. Senate at the National
Archives, 1789-1909 HSSE DOC Y 1.1/3:100-42 |
| Biographical Directory of Indiana General Assembly HSSE REF 328.309772 In2zB52 |
Additional congressional and executive branch publications in HSSE include:
Senate Committee on Territories (Selected fulltext Hathitrust catalog documents.)
| History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old Northwest Territory HSSE 977 Un3 |
| Decennial Census of the United States (pre-1970) HSSE Repository 317.3 |
General Land Office Automated Records Project: Pre-1908
Patents: Homesteads..Michigan (CD-ROM) HSSE DOC REF I 53.57:M 58 |
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General Land Office Automated Records Project: Pre-1908
Patents: Homesteads..Minnesota (CD-ROM) HSSE DOC REF I 53.57:M 66
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General Land Office Automated Records Project: Pre-1908
Patents: Homesteads..Ohio (CD-ROM) HSSE DOC REF I 53.57:OH 3 |
General Land Office Automated Records Project: Pre-1908
Patents: Homesteads...Wisconsin (CD-ROM) HSSE DOC REF I 53.57:W 75 |
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: Navy HIKS Repository N 16.6:
(Digitized OR's courtesy of Cornell University Library)
