Just got an e-mail from The Indiana Lawyer with an article entitled Indiana Legislature proceedings from 19th century now available online
A joint project between the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Library and the IU Digital Library Program has digitized nearly 8,000 pages of General Assembly proceedings from the 1800s, creating an online repository that is accessible free of charge.
The Brevier Legislative Reports, published biennially from 1858 to 1887, offer a verbatim accounting of day-to-day activities in the Indiana Legislature. All sessions are covered, with the exception of the latter part of the 1875 Regular Session, the 1875 Special Session, and the 1877 Regular and Special Sessions.
The archives are available here. I probably won’t geek out over this too much.
Civil War proceedings might prove interesting
OMG – the history geek in me wishes I had a LOT of free time. Would be a great paper/ book in the making.