Executive Branch Documents

The U.S. Government is the single greatest collector and disseminator of information and reaches nearly every field of social science research. ProQuest offers unique insight into American society through our Executive Branch Documents, which boasts a wide array of materials produced by the Federal government. In addition to offering a record of Federal department and agency activities, Executive Branch Documents provides insight into virtually all facets of society — providing historical context for serious researchers across history, political science, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, business and more.

Collections Overview

Executive Branch Documents, Parts 1-6

These collections feature a wide array of documents produced by the Federal government from our nation’s founding through the early 20th century. Topics span business and industry, foreign trade, navigation, immigration and population, health, causes of death, religious affiliations, military operations, weather conditions and more. Available collections:

• • Executive Branch Documents 1 (1789-1932)
  • Executive Branch Documents 2 (1933–1939)
  • Executive Branch Documents 3 (1940–1942)
  • Executive Branch Documents 4 (1943–1945)
  • Executive Branch Documents 5 (1946–1948)
  • Executive Branch Documents 6 (1949–1952)

ProQuest Executive Branch Documents Great Series and Reports

ProQuest Executive Branch Documents (EBD) Great Series and Reports offers curated sets of executive branch documents that focus on complete series of document and reports plus monographs relevant to issues of today. EBD Great Series and Reports are released in parts annually with 25,000 documents from a variety of executive branch departments. Years of coverage are 1953-present building upon Executive Branch Documents 1-6 with coverage from 1789-1952.

• • Series Functionality: Each document in a series contains a series summary and a timeline showing changes in series over time with links to other documents in the series to which the user has access.
  • Cross-search with ProQuest Congressional: Retrieve legislative and executive branch content related to public laws in a single search and link from the executive branch document record to the related public law.
  • Executive Branch Documents 1-6: Search all executive branch content together and link back to pre-1953 documents from the later documents in a series

New parts will launch annually, with Parts 1 and 2 available now. Part 3 will be available at the end of 2025.