Prestatehood Legal Materials

Prestatehood Legal Materials (print version)

Prestatehood Legal Materials is a one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this set identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the under-lying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this two-volume work, nearly 70 of the nation's foremost legal research professionals were tapped to share their wealth of knowledge to the research community. It provides the reader with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the U.S. It also shows how foreign countries controlled the laws of the territories and eventually broke away. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

U.S. History Primary Source Timeline

Explore a variety of primary sources documenting important moments in early American history through the Library of Congress's U.S. History Primary Source Timeline, covering colonial settlement, the American Revolution, the new nation, expansion, and more.

Early American History Collections

The American Philosophical Society hosts a repository of historical material from the late colonial and early republic periods in America, including Benjamin Franklin papers, a Thomas Paine collection, and more.

Journal of Early American History

Since 2011, Brill has published the peer-reviewed Journal of Early American History which features scholarly analysis of the colonization of the Americas through the early nineteenth century.