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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849: An Annotated Bibliography. By Suzanne M. Clark. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xvi, 598 pp. $125.00, isbn 0-313-28128-9.)

Unfortunately, many historians underutilize government documents in their research. As primary sources, these publications are a gold mine of information for a seemingly endless variety of topics. Their use has been simplified and demystified in recent years by a number of important reference guides, and this one, by Suzanne M. Clark, is a fine example. 1

In her introduction to New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849, Clark writes, "this bibliography is intended to provide a guide that will ease and benefit the research process and open a vast new body of primary and secondary source material that has previously been neglected." She clearly accomplished what she set out to do. 2

Clark's bibliography provides references to New England and New Englanders that appear in United States government documents published from 1789 through 1849. She painstakingly combed through a vast amount of government publications relating to the New England states, including all congressional and executive branch reports in the American State Papers and the Congressional Information Service Index to the U.S. Serial Set Index, the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, Public Statutes at Large, and other major series of government sources. . . .

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