Key Subjects

Explore the collections by clicking on these broad Key Subjects tagged in the records for the documents. Results are arranged by date, with undated items appearing first. (For narrower results, search by Library of Congress Subject Headings provided here.) 

• Accounting and Finance
• Civil War
• Commerce and Trade
• Dutch Language Documents
• Enslavement
• Farming
• French Language Documents
• Government
• Indigenous Peoples
• Land Records
• Legal Proceedings
• Military
• Politics
• Poverty
• Real Estate
• Receipts
• Religion
• Revolutionary War
• Social History
• Textiles
• Transportation
• War of 1812
• Voting and Elections 
• Wills and Estates
• Women's Lives