Additional Resources
Subject Guides and Images
- NEW! Primary Sources from the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection: A growing collection of primary sources selected by historians and scholars. Our first two modules focus on Senator Inouyeʻs work on behalf of Japanese Latin Americans interned during WWII, and on Senator Fong’s and Senator Inouye’s 1965 Pacific State Proposal to annex the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands into the state of Hawaiʻi.
- 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
