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Announcement:  "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation" Debuts Online 
 
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Law 
Library of Congress announce the online publication of the first part of "A 
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and 
Debates, 1774-1873" as part of the American Memory Collections of the 
Library of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html. 
 
This first release includes the records of the First and Second Congresses, 
1789-1793: the House and Senate Journals, the Senate Executive Journal, the 
Annals of Congress, and the Journal of William Maclay, Senator from 
Pennsylvania in the First Congress, approximately 4,400 pages in all. The 
Journals are available both as digital facsimile images and as searchable 
texts. The Annals of Congress are available as digital facsimile images 
accompanied by searchable page headings (subject terms) and indexes. Users 
will now have unprecedented access to these historic records for research 
in law, history, genealogy, and many other areas. 
 
The Law Library of Congress houses one of the fullest collections of U.S. 
Congressional documents in their original format. In its final form "A 
Century of Lawmaking" will bring together online records from the 
Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress, some 355,000 pages 
in all. Plans for the second online release include the Journals of the 
Continental Congress, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and the 
subsequent debates over the adoption of the Constitution. Further releases 
will bring the records of the U.S. Congress up to 1873, the year in which 
the Government Printing Office assumed the publication of the proceedings 
of Congress in the Congressional Record. In addition, the final collection 
will include the United States Statutes at Large from 1789 to 1873 and the 
American State Papers, 1789-1838, legislative and executive documents 
published by Congress. 
 
For further information please contact: 
Emily Lind Baker 
Law Library of Congress 
National Digital Library Program 
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