A Little U.S. Legal History

 

Organizational Archives

ACLU Records, The Roger Baldwin Years, 1917-1950 - Princeton
Papers of the NAACP
Urban League Papers

Supreme Court Justice Archives

William O. Douglas Oral History Transcripts and Audio, 1961-63 - Princeton
William O. Douglas Papers, 1923-1975 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark - University of Texas
Sandra Day O'Connor Papers, 1963-1988 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division (not yet open for research)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Papers, 1972-1997 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
The Harry A. Blackmun Papers, 1959-1994 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Papers of Thurgood Marshall, 1949-1991 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
William J. Brennan Papers, 1945-1998 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Byron R. White Papers, 1961-1993 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Earl Warren Papers, 1953-1974 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Hugo Lafayette Black Papers, 1883-1976 - Library of Congress Manuscript Division (permission required)

Presidential Papers

Richard Nixon Presidential Library - College Park, Maryland
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum - Texas

Online Documents and Archives

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Freedom of Information Act - Electronic Reading Room
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Social Security Online History
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Archival Research Catalog at the National Archives
Sweatt v. Painter Archive
Online Archive of California
The Adoption History Archive
The Curiae Project
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
The Tax History Project
Women's Legal History Biography Project
Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Making of America - 19th Century Social History
Freedom Now! - Mississippi Freedom Movement Archive Project
Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
Brown v. Board 50th Anniversary Archive
Women Working, 1800-1930
The Papers of John Jay
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
Documenting the American South
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
Emma Goldman Papers
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: 1992-2004
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Legal Foundation for Hawaiian Independence
Tobacco Archives
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Dred Scott Case Collection
Legacy Tobacco Documents Archive
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
New Jersey State Records and Archives
Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
Texas Constitutions Digitization Project: 1824-1876
19th Century Texas Law Online
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy