THE ARCHIVE
56,447 DOCUMENTS // 74 COLLECTIONS // 3 REPOSITORIES // 4000 BCE – 2003
SERIES I // CHRONOLOGICAL
8 PERIODSAncient
4000 BCE – 399
20
Medieval
400 – 1399
60
Renaissance
1400 – 1599
7
17th c.
1600 – 1699
82
18th c.
1700 – 1799
5,997
19th c.
1800 – 1899
46,228
20th c.
1900 – 1999
2,562
21st c.
2000 –
1,491
SERIES II // SUBJECT
11 GROUPS // 3 AXESLAW
6,274 RECTerritory, Slavery & Native Nations
African-Americans — Biography Autobiography and History5Colonial Charters Grants and Related Documents18Native Americans — Treaties with the United States25Slavery — Statutes and Treaties5Texas — From Independence to Annexation 1836–18469US Statutes Concerning Native Americans35US Statutes Concerning Slavery5Law, History & Reference
American History — A Chronology 1492–Present212Ancient Medieval and Renaissance Documents81Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England 1765–1769117Economic and Legal Treatises42History Treatises40Project DIANA47United States Statutes8Government, Law & Administration of the Empire
Code civil des Français2,281Collection Conseil d'État3,255Gouvernement provisoire37Proclamation de l'Empire52HISTORY
46,007 RECFounding & Constitutional Documents
American Revolution — A Documentary Record59Journals of the Continental Congress 1774–178917Madison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 178788The American Constitution — A Documentary Record31The Federalist Papers85The Jefferson Papers56The Presidency
Annual Messages of the Presidents20Congressional Resolutions11Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents52Presidential Papers71Imperial Correspondence & Chancery
Collection Denon3,995Correspondance de Napoléon40,613Lebrun à Napoléon26Lettres de Cambacérès à Lebrun50Maret à Napoléon99Private Fonds, Soldiers & the Arts
Dessins d’architecture Bibl. Thiers84Houdetot227Lettres de soldats161Poème Bonaparte en Egypte22DIPLOMACY
4,166 RECBilateral Diplomacy, by Nation
American Diplomacy — Bilateral Treaties 1778–199990Austrian–American Diplomacy1Belgian–American Diplomacy11Brazilian–American Diplomacy 1829–3British–American Diplomacy 1782–49Chilean–American Diplomacy 1832–3Chinese–American Diplomacy2Cuban–American Diplomacy3Franco–American Diplomacy32Mexican–American DiplomacyNO RECORDS
Soviet–American Diplomacy6Spanish–American Diplomacy11Multilateral & International Diplomacy
American Diplomacy — Multilateral Treaties 1864–199919Diplomatic Document Collections55Foreign Relations of the United States90The Inter-American System22The Middle East 1916–2003184The US Southeast Asia and the Pacific 1950–19995United Nations — Documents22Western European Security and Co-operation 1948–8War, Conflict & the Laws of War
Cold War Diplomacy — Defense Treaties of the US4Confederate States of America — Papers23Indochina — Vietnam Cambodia and Laos36International Military Tribunal for Germany920Laws of War — Hague and Geneva Conventions31Nazi–Soviet Relations 1939–1941170Peace Conference at the Hague 189910September 11 20011,445Terrorism — A Document Collection35The Barbary Treaties 1816–183631The Cold War310The Quasi War with France 1791–180030The US and the USSR — Airplane Incidents 1950–196017World War II — Documents 1940–1945488SERIES III // RECORD GROUPS
PROVENANCENapoleonica
Fondation Napoléon, Paris
15 COLLS
48,861 DOCS
18th-century – 19th-century
RESEARCH MIRROR
The Avalon Project
Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
58 COLLS
5,305 DOCS
17th-century – Renaissance
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Code civil des Français
Wikisource · Archives nationales
1 COLLS
2,281 DOCS
19th-century
PUBLIC DOMAIN
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MATERIAL RESOLVES TO ITS SOURCE REPOSITORY. EVERY DOCUMENT HAS A PERMANENT ADDRESS BUILT FROM ITS
PROVENANCE AND THE SOURCE'S OWN IDENTIFIER.