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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The following is a guest post by Elina Lee, a library technician (metadata) in the Law Library of Congress Digital Resources Division. In 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (Public Law 85-568, 72 Stat. 426), and it was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on July 29, 1958. The act “provided …
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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
We’ve explored many types of documents in the Serial Set in our monthly series. Today, in honor of National Native American Heritage month, we will identify a Native American whose name appears throughout the Serial Set, and explore the legacy of his nation through the Law Library’s Indigenous Law Resources. Ely S. Parker was born …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
This post highlights some of the notable Latin American documents in the Library's collection.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
This post outlines the history of Native American citizenship and voting rights.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Congress has dealt with issues of voter disenfranchisement on the basis of race throughout history. The question of suffrage for District of Columbia residents in 1844 demonstrated how the enfranchisement of D.C. residents and Black American men was interconnected. In that year, the Senate Committee for the District of Columbia, which held jurisdiction over D.C. from 1816 until …
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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The following is a guest post by Elina Lee, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. In honor of Labor Day, we decided to explore the early history of the federal minimum wage as shown through the United States Congressional Serial Set. According to Serial Set Vol. No. 6857 …
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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
This post highlights a few entries from the U.S. Congressional Series Set related to Susan B. Anthony and the early women's suffrage movement.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Every so often, the Digital Resources Division comes across a unique subject of debate. Most recently, the question of “the uniform or costume of persons in the diplomatic or consular service” caught our attention. (S. Exec. Doc. No. 31, 36th Cong., 1st Sess., at 1 (1860) reprinted in Serial Set Vol. 1031.) In an 1860 …
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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Post describing the 1950 “investigation on a Government-wide scale of homosexuality and other sex perversion” and highlighting parts of the report contained in the Library's Serial Set
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, LGBTQ