Serial Set records in the catalog

Government Publications and Cataloging and Metadata Services are happy to report that records for the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (a subscription database) are now available in Chinook, the library catalog. The Serial Set is an important source of information for the study of U.S. politics and history. The set includes gems such as (the links will take you to the record in the catalog):

• Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1867, a copy of the evidence taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, by a military commission, ordered to inquire into the Sand Creek Massacre, November, 1864. February 14, 1867 (Serial Set Volume 1277 includes eye witness testimony before the commission.)
• Message of the President of the United States, communicating a letter addressed to him from a committee of gentlemen representing the Freedman's Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, in relation to the freedmen under the Proclamation of Emancipation. December 17, 1863. (Serial Set Volume 1176--regarding the transition from slavery to freedom. Lincoln had not yet developed a "mature opinion" on the issue)
• The Louisiana Purchase and our title west of the Rocky Mountains, with a review of annexation by the United States, by Binger Hermann, Commissioner of the General Land Office. (Serial Set Volume 4002 -- an in-depth discussion of the expansion of the United States to 1900)
  

I encourage everyone to check these resources out, you will be surprised by the types of information you will find! If you want to search just for these titles in the catalog type the phrase "U.S. congressional serial set" and your topic in the advanced search in Chinook.