Legal History

Seeks to increase citizen understanding of tort law and the role the body of law plays in the protection of personal freedom and safety.

Founded in 2002 with a mission is to preserve, protect and promote the legal history of New York.

Conducts and funds archive activism--identifying, conserving and interpreting the LGBT historical record.

Founded in 1979, the Society works to address common concerns, support shared interests, and stimulate discussion across the federal history community.

The Initiative partners with University of Kentucky Libraries to develop a complete history of Article III judges with Kentucky connections, collecting archives and oral histories.

The Caselaw Access Project includes over 6 million U.S. legal cases from the Harvard Law School Library. The Historical Trends tool graphs the frequency of words and phrases through time, similar to the Google Ngram Viewer.

Coverage of U.S. legal history includes primary sources containing constitutional conventions and compilations (reports, journals, proceedings, and debates, and supplementary documents published by the conventions including, manuals, rules of order, and information for the use of delegates); city charters (the texts of enacted and proposed charters and ordinances in American jurisdictions); law dictionaries; and early U.S. state codes.

Selected legal titles from 1639-1800. E.g., contains selected works by the Founding Fathers.

Guide to legal actions stemming from 1919 race massacre, including Moore v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86 (1923), and Hicks v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86 (1923).

Michael VanderHeijden (2018) How Little Is Known: Finding Regulations from the First 100 Years of the United States, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 37:3-4, 257-272.