Archive: March 2020 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Mayeaux; (Year) 2020; (Month) March

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Historical Law Library Reports to be Published Online

March 20, 2020

The Law Library of Congress has digitized and published its first batch of historical legal reports as part of a multi-year effort to archive and share thousands of these reports with researchers and other members of the public. These first 250 digitized reports are now available through the Publications of the Law Library of Congress …

Posted in: Collections, Congress, Global Law, Law Library

From the Serial Set: “Peculiarities” of Life in D.C. (1880)

March 10, 2020

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Bailey DeSimone, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. became the capital of the United States of America in 1790. On February 27, 1801, the District of Columbia Organic Act established the city as an unincorporated territory. Throughout the 219 years …

Posted in: Collections, Law Library

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Mayeaux; (Year) 2020; (Month) March