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Treaties in Force: A List Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States
Online: Treaties in Force
Print: REFERENCE KZ235 .T74 CATALOG RECORD
Bilateral treaties are listed by country and then by subject; multilateral treaties are listed by subject.  Lists only  "treaties and other agreements which on that date had not expired by their own terms or had not been denounced by their parties, replaced or superseded by other agreements, or otherwise definitely terminated." Citations give references to full text of treaties in the following resources owned by Pollak Library:

Treaties [Thomas] (1968-current date)
This database fully covers treaty information from the 94th Congress to the present. Treaty information is also available from the 90th to the 94th, though some data may be missing. Information is available about only a few treaties from the 81st through the 89th Congress. New information is added daily. Links to full text of treaties for the 104th through present Congress.
Search by Congress, Treaty Number, Word/Phrase, Type of Treaty, Date of Transmission. Searches all parts of the Treaty record (including Index Terms) but not the text of the treaty itself.

World Treaty Index
REFERENCE
JX171 .R63 1983  v. 1-5 CATALOG RECORD
v. 1. Reference volume -- v. 2. Main entry section, pt. 1, 1900-1959 -- v. 3. Main entry section, pt. 2, 1960-1980 -- v. 4. Party index -- v. 5. Keyword
index

Index-Guide to Treaties: Based on The Consolidated Treaty Series
Edited and annotated by Clive Parry, LL.D.
5TH Floor South JX120 .P352 (12 volumes)  CATALOG RECORD
Volume 1: General chronological list, 1648-1809.


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Current treaties:
Treaties and Other International Acts Series
REFERENCE
KZ 235.2 .U55 CATALOG RECORD
TIAS is a series of consecutively numbered pamphlets containing the text of treaties. TIAS is the first official publication of U.S. treaties. They first appear in this "slip" form and then eventually are published in the bound volumes of UST (United States Treaties and Other International Agreements). The TIAS series begins with the number 1501, the combined numbers in the Treaty series and Executive agreement series having reached 1500, the last number in the Treaty series being 994 and the last number in the Executive agreement series being 506.

1950-Current date:
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements

Vol. 1 (1950)-present. Washington: Dept. of State
Annual.
Cited as UST.
REFERENCE
KZ235.2 .U553  CATALOG RECORD
Since 1950 this has been the official publication for treaties and other international agreements to which the United States is a party. Such publications had previously been included in the United States Statutes at Large. Arrangement is numerical, following the numbering used for the pamphlets in the Treaties and Other International Acts Series. Texts are in original languages; each volume includes subject and country indexes. Index: A four-volume cumulative index for Vols. 1-21, covering the years 1950-1970 has been issued.

1776-1949:
Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949
[Bevans]

REFERENCE  KZ235.2 .U552 (13 volumes) CATALOG RECORD
Cited as BEVANS; supersedes Malloy and Miller.
Covers the period before publications of United States Treaties and Other International Agreements began. Text is in English only with some commentary.
V. 1. Multilateral, 1776-1917. --v. 2. Multilateral, 1918-1930. --v. 3. Multilateral, 1931-1945. --v. 4. Multilateral, 1946-1949. --v. 5. Afghanistan- Burma. --v. 6. Canada-Czechoslovakia. --v. 7. Denmark-France. --v. 8. Germany- Iran. --v. 9. Iraq-Muscat. --v. 10. Nepal-Peru. --v. 11. Philippines-United Arab Republic. --v. 12. United Kingdom--Zanzibar. --v. 13. General index

1910-1938:
Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols, and Agreements Between the United States of American and Other Powers, 1910-1938
[Malloy]

DOCS/US   Y 4.F 76/2:T 71/4/  v.1-4 CATALOG RECORD          
Within the chronological volumes material is arranged by country, and covers the period 1776-1931. The text is in English only and includes annotations and index.
Vols. [I-II] 1776-1909, compiled by William M. Malloy and issued as Senate doc. 357, 61st Cong., 2d. sess
Vol. III, 1910-1923, issued as Senate doc. 348, 67th Cong., 4th sess. Denys P. Myers, co-editor
Vol. IV, 1923-1937, issued as Senate doc. 134, 75th Cong., 3d sess., contains a chronological index and an alphabetical index to the contents of vol. I-IV

1920-1946:
Treaty Series / League of Nations [LNTS]
5th Floor South
JX170 .L4 Volumes 1-205 CATALOG RECORD
Indexes.

1789-1873:
United States Statutes At Large

Online: Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
Treaties that appeared in the Statutes at Large from 1789-1873 are available full text at the Library of Congress's web site.

1778-1950:
United States Statutes At Large

REFERENCE  KF50.U5 CATALOG RECORD
DOCUMENTS MICROFILM 1(1789)-76(1962).
From 1778 to 1950 this was the official publication source for U.S. treaties. Treaties are included in each volume except for the years 1778-1845, when treaties were all collected in Vols. 7-8. Some executive agreements are not included. A list of all treaties included in Vols. 1-64, arranged alphabetically by country and by topic within each country, appears in Vol. 64, pt. 3, p. B1107-B1182.

1649-1919:
Consolidated Treaty Series
5th Floor South
JX120 .P35 Volumes 1-231CATALOG RECORD
Indexes.


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Senate, House and Treaty Documents (1995-present)
This section of GPO Access provides access to Senate Treaty Documents as text and PDF files, from the 104th Congress to the present. Accompanying messages from the President and the Secretary of State are included with the treaty text.

Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Digital documents from pre-18th century through 1999.  Coverage is international, but the primary focus is on the U.S. Includes U.S. bilateral treaties 1778 -1999, U.S. multilateral treaties 1864-1999 and treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans.

Multilaterals Project, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
The texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments including treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas.  Although the vast majority of texts date from the second half of the 20th century, the collection also includes historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia to the Covenant of the League of Nations.

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