It is one of the most important sources of
primary research material for American history
and the social sciences.
What is the Serial Set?
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The United States Serial Set |
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Online via Congressional Universe
- a continuing series of over 14,000 volumes of reports, documents, and journals from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from the 15th Congress forward
- including administrative reports, annual reports of agencies, internal manuals, special reports, and congressional directories
- maps and illustrations, documents dealing with history of political, military, ethnic and cultural, genealogical, explorations, international relations, and commerce-industrial development.
American State Papers, 1st-14th Congresses, 1789-1838, Docs, Garden Level
- considered part of the Serial Set although compiled retrospectively
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Indexes to the Serial Set
These are housed in the Docs Index section in the Garden level.
CIS U.S. Serial Set Index, KF12.C57 1975
- multi-volume print index may be searched by subject/name or by document number in chronologically arranged volumes.
Numerical lists and schedule of volumes of the reports and documents of the … Congress, … session, KF12.N8 1933-42
- Annual starting with: 73rd Congress, 1933/34
- used to obtain serial numbers for the Congressional reports and documents
Specific Indexes
Finding Official records volumes in the U.S. serial set, KF12 .F3
- Summary Tool for finding Civil War sets in the U.S. Serial Set:
- The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies
- Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the War of the Rebellion
Guide to American Indian documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899 : a project of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, D 340.52 J637g