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The United States lie at a great distance from Europe, and at a considerable distance from all other places with which they would have extensive connections of foreign trade. The passage from them to us, in a few hours, or in a single night, as between the coasts of France and Britain, and of other neighboring nations, would be impracticable.
August 15th marks the anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, a tremendous engineering endeavor that has played a major role in trade and commerce over its hundred years. The canal was a feat of endurance, as well as engineering, connecting two oceans in a way that made shipping and commerce faster and more economical.
United States (2012) was a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing Arizona Senate Bill 1070. On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 (also known as the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act).
The papers of Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804), first treasury secretary of the United States, consist of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings (although not his Federalist essays), and correspondence among members of the Hamilton and Schuyler families.
This is also seen as the Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Digital versions are available at the Library of Congress via STACKS.
This guide, prepared by the Law Library of Congress, includes links to free online resources regarding the country of Togo, focusing on its constitution; executive, legislative and judicial branches; legal guides; and general sources.
The first Mississippi steamboat was a packet, the New Orleans, a sidewheeler built at Pittsburgh in 1811, designed for the New Orleans-Natchez trade. Containing almost 6,000 entries both passenger and freight steamers. The main listing is alphabetical by ship name.
This guide, prepared by the Law Library of Congress, includes links to free online legal resources regarding New Mexico, focusing on its constitution; executive, legislative, and judicial branches; legal guides; and general sources.
For detailed guidance on how to find briefs, oral argument transcripts, and docket information for cases considered by the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. federal appellate courts, visit the Law Library's companion research guides: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs; U.S. Federal Appellate Courts: Records and Briefs
While the Southeast Asian collection contains the first Asian works in the Library, serious collecting only began in earnest after 1945. In the 1950s, the US government's concern about rising communism in the region drove the search for knowledge about Southeast Asia.