American Politics and Society is a wide-ranging category, focused on American Politics in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections in this category range span records of Temperance organizations, 1830-1933; immigration records during the massive immigration wave from 1880-1930; legal collections from the Harvard Law School Library, including papers of three Supreme Court Justices; numerous collections on Progressive Era politics; and records from the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House through Gerald R. Ford presidencies. Notable events documented in this category include 20th century presidential elections; important legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, Fair Labor Standard Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; international events such as the Yalta Conference, the Berlin Airlift in 1948, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and the 1965 crisis in the Dominican Republic; and political events such as the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, the New Deal, McCarthyism, and the Great Society.
American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate, 1960–1975
American Politics in the Early Cold War: Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961
FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946
Law and Society since the Civil War: American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library
New Deal and World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999
Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights
Progressive Era: Robert M. La Follette Papers
Progressive Era: Voices of Reform
Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969
Temperance and Prohibition Movement, 1830-1933
Thomas A. Edison Papers