NHPRC Publishing Projects Catalog
In 1934 Congress passed, and President Franklin Roosevelt signed, “An Act to establish a National Archives of the United States Government,” which also provides for a Historical Publications Commission to “make plans, estimates, and recommendations for such historical works and collections of sources as seem appropriate for publication and/or otherwise recording at the public expense.”
Three decades later, that program received its first appropriated funds, and since 1965, what is now known as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission has been funding projects that make historical works and collections of sources available through documentary editions, in print, microfilm, and digital versions.
This catalog is a descriptive list of those publication projects with links that will help users locate or access the materials.
A-C
Minutes and Correspondence of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1812-1924
Ethan Allen and His Kin: Correspondence, 1772-1819
Anderson Family Papers, 1802-1905
The Papers of David Avery, 1746-1818
Journals of Captain Edward Baker, 1846-1895
Richard A. Ballinger Papers, 1907-1920
George Bancroft Papers, 1811-1901
Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan Papers
John Macpherson Berrien Papers
The Papers of Charles E. Bessey
The Papers of Louis D. Brandeis
Joseph Little Bristow Papers, 1894-1925
John Stillman Brown Family Papers, 1818-1907
Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant
Callbreath, Grant and Cook, Merchants, Wrangell, Alaska: Letterpress Copy Books, 1878-1898ca
The Charles Carroll of Carrollton Papers
Carter Family Papers, 1659-1797, in the Sabine Hall Collection
George Washington Carver Papers at Tuskegee Institute, 1864-1943
An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cattell's Journal and Letters from Germany and England
Samuel M. Chapman Papers, 1866-1906
Correspondence of Charles Chesnutt
Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters and Correspondence
Circular Letters of Congressmen to Their Constituents, 1789–1829
Civil War Governors of Kentucky
Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi
Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
Documents Relating to the Coronado Expedition
County Court Houses of the United States: The Seagram County Court House Archives
D-G
Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803
The Papers of Frederick Douglass
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1877-1965
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Documentary History of the First Federal Elections
Manning Ferguson Force Papers, 1835-1885
Emerging Nation: Documentary History of the Foreign Relations of U.S., 1780-1789
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
The Franklin Institute and the Making of Industrial America
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
The Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont
Benjamin Brown French: Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 1828-1870
Robert W. Furnas Papers, 1844-1905
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
The Papers of Nathanael Greene
The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii, 1853-1858
D. W. Griffith Papers, 1897-1954
H-K
Papers of George Ellery Hale, 1882-1938
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Naval Papers of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond
Documentary History of George Rapp's Harmony Society, 1700-1916
Robert Goodloe Harper Family Papers
Papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957
Isabella Beecher Hooker Project
Papers of John and Lugenia Burns Hope
Records of the Johns Hopkins University Seminary of History and Politics
Papers of R.M.T. Hunter, 1817-1887
Thaddeus Hyatt Papers, 1843-1898
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
David Starr Jordan Papers, 1861-1964
Kansas Town and Land Company, Inc., 1888-1905
The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
L-M
Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790
Papers of Robert M. La Follette
"Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery"
The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Papers of William Livingston
Papers of Henry Demarest Lloyd
Chester I. Long Papers, 1890-1928
The Northern Expeditions of Stephen H. Long
Corcoran Journals of William MacLeod
The Correspondence of William Maclure and Marie Duclos Fretageot, 1820-1833
The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison
The Papers of George C. Marshall
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, 1832-1834
Samuel Maxwell Papers, 1853-1901
Philip Mazzei: Selected Writings and Correspondence
The Papers of Charles McCarthy
Social Reform Papers of John James McCook
John J. McGilvra Papers, 1861-1903
Jotham Meeker Papers, 1825-1864
Christopher Gustavus Memminger Papers
The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary (Joseph Mersman)
Robert Andrews Millikan Collection
The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
Papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D.
The Moravian Mission at Springplace
Morristown National Historical Park Manuscript Collection
J. Sterling Morton Papers, 1849-1902
The Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
N-R
Nebraska Farmers' Alliance Papers, 1887-1901
New England Emigrant Aid Company Papers, 1854-1909
Archives of New Mexico, 1621-1912
National Nonpartisan League Papers
Northern Pacific Land Department Records
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
Oregon Improvement Company Records, 1880-1896
Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus Native American Collections
The Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company
Charles Willson Peale Family Papers
Benjamin Franklin Perry Papers
The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Pinckney Statesmen of South Carolina
William Plumer Papers, 1778-1854
Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859
John Henry Ingram's Edgar Allan Poe Collection
The Correspondence of James K. Polk
John G. Pratt Papers, 1834-1899
Presidential Recordings Project
Papers Relating to the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Families
Race, Slavery, Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1775-1866
The Correspondence of Constantine Rafinesque
Alexander Ramsey Papers and Records
Private Papers of Charles and Sara T.D. Robinson, 1834-1911
The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Papers of Joseph Trimble Rothrock, M.D.
Letters and Papers of Richard Rush
S-V
Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
The Papers of Henry R. Schoolcraft
William R. Shafter Papers, 1862-1938
William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers
History of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
Records of the Socialist Labor Party of America
Socialist Party of America Papers
The Papers of the Society of American Indians
Documentary Relations of the Southwest
Selected Letters of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Papers of General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
The Correspondence of Thaddeus Stevens
Selected Letters of Charles Sumner
Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800
The Susquehannah Company Papers
Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
Temperance and Prohibition Papers
The Papers of William Thornton
St. George Tucker’s Law Reports and Selected Papers
Tuskegee Institute News Clippings
The Papers of Martin Van Buren
The Papers of Charles R. Van Hise
The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas
Virginia Gazette Daybooks, 1750-1752 and 1764-1766
W-Z
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Papers of George Washington
Washington Territorial Government Papers, 1853-1875
The Journals of Frances Willard
The Correspondence of Roger Williams
Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and its Principal Leaders
Wôpanâak Inscribed: Digital Edition of a 17th-Century Wampanoag Lexicon
Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Papers
Yellowstone National Park: Its Exploration and Establishment