Additional Resources
Subject Guides and Images
- NEW! Archives and Political Processes: A Case Study on the History of the H-3 Freeway: A website that explains political processes (and where researchers can find documentation of those processes) using the H-3 freeway as a case study
- Primary Sources from the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection: A growing collection of primary sources selected and annotated by historians and scholars
- Dignity, Equality, and Opportunity for All: Patsy Mink and Title IX: an online exhibit
- Finding Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers: A guide to the locations of the papers of Hawaiʻi’s members of Congress (including territorial delegates)
- Hawaiʻi History Day: Collections of primary source relating to History Day themes from 2020-2022
- Images from the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection
Starting Your Research
- Congressman Ed Case Reports to Hawai’i: A Day in the Life in Washington, DC: A video introduction to the work of our members of Congress, and the activities that are documented in congressional collections
- Descriptions of the roles of congressional staff members, whose papers are also part of our congressional collections: Duties and Functions of Selected Positions (Congressional Research Service report); job descriptions from the Congressional Management Foundation
- Research Tips on Using Congressional Collections from the University of Mississippi Libraries
- Video overview of the legislative process from congress.gov
- Legislative Branch Resources 101: a Federal Depository Library Program webinar
- Government Information, A Reference for Librarians in Hawaiʻi: an open-access textbook by Gwen Sinclair
- Directory of archival institutions with congressional collections
- The American Historical Associationʻs Guide to Archival Research
Additional Websites About Congress & its History
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
- C-SPAN Congress Resource
- Historical Records of Congress (@ the Center for Legislative Archives)
- Legislative Search from Congress.gov (change the drop-down in the search box to limit your search to current legislation, all legislation, treaties, nominations, the Congressional Record, and more)
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (Search the databases for ‘HeinOnline’)
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- webharvest.gov: the National Archives and Records Administrationʻs archive of Congressional websites from the 109th Congress (2006) to the present
