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Lexis Nexis AcademicProvides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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HeinOnlineThis legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).
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THOMAS - federal legislative information from the Library of CongressBeginning with 101st Congress (1989) through current Congress, provides full text of bills, public laws, Senate and House committee reports, Roll Call votes, and the Congressional Record. Also contains some historical Congressional documents that can be searched by keyword. (Scheduled to be replaced by http://beta.congress.gov/ in 2013).
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CQ AlmanacThe Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session since 1945. Arranged thematically, CQ Almanac organizes, distills, and cross-indexes for permanent reference the full year in Congress and in national politics. Authoritative coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress. Includes Comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation tables, graphs, and charts. Browse by subject, decade, or by a particular year's table of content. Use "Policy Tracker" to explore a specific policy topic and see how it has changed over the years
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Guide to Law Online from the Law Library of CongressA selective, annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online.
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United States CodeA consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States now available in a searchable online format. (9/2011)
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Supreme Court of the United StatesOfficial website of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court (U.S.) Cases PreviewAmerican Bar Association Preview of U.S. Supreme Court briefs from current and past terms beginning 2003-04 term.
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United States CourtsExplains how the U.S. court system functions. Includes answers to frequently asked questions.
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Fdsys- Federal Digital System from U.S. Government Printing OfficeProvides public access to the following collections currently available in FDsys: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present), Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present), Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present), Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present), Congressional Record (1994 to Present), Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present), Federal Register (1994 to Present) and Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present). FDsys will eventually replace GPOAccess.
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FDsys - GPO - Congressional RecordFDsys contains Congressional record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present. At the back of each daily issue is the "Daily Digest," which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities. The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session.
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OpenCRS - Congressional Research Reports for the PeopleA project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of Congressional Research Service Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports
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Jenkins: America's First Law Library - Legal Research LinksSince its founding in 1802, the Jenkins Law Library has been dedicated to bringing people and information together within the legal community. As the nation’s oldest law library, it is committed to providing value through its outstanding service, comprehensive access to legal and other information, relevant educational programs, the latest technologies, and a hospitable place to work and visit.
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SCOTUSblog - Supreme Court of the United States blogThe US Supreme Court weblog, featuring news, information, and commentary on all things related to the High Court.
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OYEZ: devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its workThe Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality 'tour' of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.
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Century of Lawmaking ... U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government."
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THOMAS - state legislature websitesInformation from state legislatures, often including video, audio, calendars, meetings, bills, house and senate members, some legislative history, etc.
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SCOTUSblog - Supreme Court of the U.S. - StatsStatistics about Supreme Court of the United States opinions and justices' votes.
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Books
Book Review Index OnlineA comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.
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Oxford handbooks for political science21st century handbooks related to political science published by noteworthy Oxford University Press.
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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.
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WorldCat (OCLC)A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
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Articles
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - WPSA (ProQuest)This database provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. The database is simultaneously searchable with other ProQuest databases such as ProQuest Newspapers.
PAIS International (ProQuest)The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs OnlineA resource that aggregates dispersed content about theory and research in international affairs. CIAO includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, full-text journal articles and policy briefs, and teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features. Advanced searching capability is present and results can be sorted by date and relevance. CIAO also provides links to international affairs Internet sources. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the physical and social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1956 to present.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)Index to international, English language journals in psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
Social ExplorerExplore thousands of historical data maps. Our maps are interactive and go from the first US Census in 1790 to the present.
America: History and Life (Ebsco)A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
Historical Abstracts (Ebsco)An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and dissertations.
JSTORA searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Project MuseSearchable collection of recent full-text humanities, social science and mathematics journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Congressional (Proquest)Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code.
HeinOnlineThis legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).
CQ Voting & Elections Collection (CQ Press)Organized into six categories of presidential elections, congressional elections, gubernatorial elections, campaigns and elections, political parties and voters and demographics generally covering from 1789 to the present. Includes candidate and office histories, seat status and competition, special elections, maps, bibliographies, encyclopedic information, chronology, definitions and sources and web links. Supports scholarly research in political science, particularly American Government, campaigns and elections, Congress, the presidency, and American history.
CQ AlmanacThe Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session since 1945. Arranged thematically, CQ Almanac organizes, distills, and cross-indexes for permanent reference the full year in Congress and in national politics. Authoritative coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress. Includes Comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation tables, graphs, and charts. Browse by subject, decade, or by a particular year's table of content. Use "Policy Tracker" to explore a specific policy topic and see how it has changed over the years
CQ Global Researcher (current reports cease Nov., 2012)CQ Global Researcher explores international perspectives in a digestible, easy-to-access format featuring popular sections such as "Current Situation," "Issue Questions" and "Pro-Con." Maps, charts, and other explanatory graphics are included as well. CQ Global Researcher is published monthly, with each report also available in magazine-style PDF format covering a pressing political, social, environmental, or regional issue from around the globe. Each original report is written by a seasoned journalist with years of international experience.
(FINAL Global Researcher report: November, 2012)
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CQ Electronic Library (CQ Press)Combines many CQ Press resources for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Access is provided to Congress and the Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972 -), Political Handbook of the World, Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 -), Vital Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)The database combines two earlier databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. This database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present.
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)A primary source database that ranges from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. Major foreign and domestic events from these years are covered such as: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and many others. After researchers visit presidential libraries and request documents, the libraries photocopy and provide them for filming, scanning, indexing and abstracting.
Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchFirst-time users have to register. The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and responses from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935. Among the many survey sources are Gallup, Harris, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. The archive includes full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses using RoperExpress.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)Commerce Reports, Country Reports, Country Profiles (last published in 2008) and Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure, demographics, political scene, domestic economy, foreign trade, including regional and industrial sector breakdowns for over 200 countries.
OpinionArchivesProvides an accessible and invaluable source of information of electronic archives to leading journals of opinion. Search the full text of over 740 years of archives including Harpers Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator, National Review and The New York Review of Books. An invaluable resource, providing in-depth analysis of topics such as the cold war, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, defense, the Supreme Court, affirmative action, welfare, crime, immigration, religion, education, art, literature, militarism, human rights violations, environmental destruction, classical music, and much more.
Academic OneFile (Gale)A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Alternative Press Index (EBSCO)Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API provides access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change with coverage both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Newspapers
AP Images (AP)The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. For more than a century, AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment.
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American Periodicals Series - APS Online (ProQuest)Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
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America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922, that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.
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Chronicling America Historic American NewspapersSearch America's historic newspapers pages from 1860-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Civil War: A Newspaper PerspectiveContains full-text of more than 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current two years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.
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Lexis Nexis AcademicProvides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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National JournalNational Journal Group's Policy Central includes campuses-wide access to National Journal online, The Hotline, CongressionalDaily, Technology Daily and The Almanac of American Politics.
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Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800Full-text transcription and digitized image of the actual newspaper page as it originally appeared.
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Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870Full-text transcriptions from 6 nineteenth century Delaware County newspapers.
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Philadelphia InquirerContains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and puzzles.
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ProQuest NewspapersIncludes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.
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The Current Digest of the Russian PressThe Digest is a comprehensive retrospective digest of the news presented to the Soviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Russia in the new balance of power. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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The Times Archives 1785-1985The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.
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News
Guardian.co.uk - UK National newspaperThe Guardian and Observer newspapers and guardian.co.uk website are published by Guardian News & Media (GNM).
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BBC World ServiceProvides international news, analysis and information in English and 32 other languages. Also includes a BBC "News and analysis in your language" section.
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Al Jazeera - AJE24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview.
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Mideast Wire.comA daily email newsletter offering a concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)-Selected Parts, Daily Report, 1974-1996To be released in eight parts, the collection, provides perspectives about more than 100 countries outside of the U.S, featuring transcripts of foreign news broadcasts translated into English from materials selected by the CIA for distribution to U.S. policymakers and security analysts. The first series of this historical archive features the Middle East, Africa (Sub-Saharan) and South Asia.
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Europe Media Monitor (EMM)European Commisssion, Democrate General, Joint Research Centre experimental news feed. The selection and placement of stories are determined automatically by a computer program.
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Deutsche-WelleGermany’s international broadcaster that produces television, radio and online content in 30 languages. It provides a European perspective to its global audience and promotes intercultural dialogue.
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Media Collections
The Vietnam CollectionVietnam: A Television History was a landmark documentary series produced by WGBH. This collection contains most of the materials gathered and created for the 1983 series, as well as additional Vietnam-related materials from the WGBH archive. Vietnam: A Television History was one of the last WGBH series produced entirely on film. Starting in 2008, materials were reconstructed, transferred, and digitized for preservation and access.
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WGBH Open Valult - Media Library and ArchivesProvides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the Boston public television and radio station, WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. Includes special "Vietnam Online" and "civil rights" collections.
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Wisconsin Advertising ProjectSince 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 100 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. Database made possible via technology developed by the Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), now contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002, see The Data. Data needs to be requested through an online request form but historic ads can be freely viewed.
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Web Sites
APSA
The American Political Science Association
American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project, was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain 102,014 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
American Presidency Project - Presidential Debates 1960-present
Information and full transcripts of all presidential debates 1960- present
Avalon Project - Yale Law School
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Collections include ancient to modern times, major documents collections, Project Diana - An Online Human Rights Archive and The International Military Tribunal for Germany - A Document Collection.
Bay of Pigs (declassified rpt.)
Black Americans in Congress
Features educational resources, historical essays, member profiles, artifacts and historical data. For more detailed information see also: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-224/index.html -- House Document No. 108-224, Black Americans in Congress 1870 - 2007.
Brennan Center for Justice - redistricting guides
A non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Work ranges from voting rights to campaign finance reform, from racial justice in criminal law to Constitutional protection in the fight against terrorism.
CIA Library - Historical Collection Publications (PDF)
Historical publications from the CIA Library available for download.
Cold War International History Project
The CWIHP "disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world"
Comparative Politics - A Vision of Britain Through Time
A geographical survey of Britain includes maps and data comprising census reports,election results, historical maps, employment rates, housing, politics, industry and social structure.
Conflict Barometer
The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg annually publishes the Conflict Barometer, which describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, settlements.
Constitution Finder
This database [from the University of Richmond School of Law] offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
The CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
Country Reports on Terrorism
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide these annual reports to Congress, by April 30 of each year, reporting on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. Replaces -Patterns of Global Terrorism-
Diplomacy Monitor - St. Thomas University School of Law
Tracking Internet-based Global Diplomacy- the latest communiqués, transcripts and news releases from around the world
Electoral Geography 2.0 - mapped politics
Studies international regularities and patterns of election results.
Europa
Gateway to the European Union.
European Election 2009: EU Country Results
BBC News experiments with tracking European Parliament election results. Page updated live as results are announced.
European Union - Summaries of EU legislation
Presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation. It provides approximately 3 000 summaries of European legislation, divided into 32 subject areas corresponding to the activities of the European Union.
FedStats
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies."
Federal News Service
Provides immediate verbatim transcripts of government briefings, speeches, press conferences and other newsmaker events to the many domestic and international news bureaus in Washington, D. C. FNS transcribs some Congressional hearings, National Press Club speeches, and significant events such as conferences at Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment and broadcast interviews with opinion leaders.
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
An independent, nonpartisan think tank, non-profit membership organization, dedicated to providing rigorous, objective, evidence-based analysis and practical policy recommendations on national and international security issues connected to applied science and technology. Founded in 1945 by many of the scientists who built the first atomic bombs,the founding mission of FAS was to prevent nuclear war. Includes reports, blogs, event information, publications, resources, and Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports.
Financial Report of the U.S. Government
FindLaw
Global Solidarity Network
To build global solidarity, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Catholic Higher Education have adopted modern information technology tools to make social justice education more accessible to students, faculty, and CRS staff working in the field. Once registered as GSN members, participants can "study ebroad" gaining access to social justice issue information, discussion forums, and live web-conference meetings.
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
An open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2011 (with additional annual updates planned for the future). Includes systematic data on domestic as well as transnational and international terrorist incidents. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and--when identifiable--the group or individual responsible.
Globalization 101
"Globalization101.org is an Internet resource offered by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote a greater understanding of globalization."
Human Security Gateway - Human Security Report Project
A research and information database regrouping electronic and bibliographic resources on human security. The Gateway is an initiative of the Human Security Report Project.
Human Security Report Project - HSRP
The HSRP tracks global and regional trends in organized violence, their causes and consequences. Research findings and analyses are published in the Human Security Report, Human Security Brief series, and the miniAtlas of Human Security. The HSRP also produces a range of online data, research, and news resources covering a broad range of global security issues. All publications and e-resources are available free of charge.
Humantrafficing.org
A web resource for combatting human trafficking
ICMA
ICMA is the professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators, and assistants in cities, towns, counties, and regional entities throughout the world. Since 1914, ICMA has provided technical and management assistance, training, and information resources to its members and the local government community. The management decisions made by ICMA's 9,000 members affect nearly 185 million individuals in thousands of communities--from small towns with populations of a few hundred to metropolitan areas serving several million. ICMA's mission is to create excellence in local governance by developing and fostering professional local government management worldwide.
ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.
International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre
A specialized division of the International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC), IMB was created in 1992. One of the IMB’s principal areas of expertise is in the suppression of piracy. The Centre is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It maintains a round-the-clock watch on the world’s shipping lanes, reporting pirate attacks to local law enforcement and issuing warnings about piracy hotspots to shipping. The IMB is a non-profit making organisation, established in 1981 to act as a focal point in the fight against all types of maritime crime and malpractice.
International relations and security network (ISN)
One of the world’s leading open access information services for international relations (IR) and security professionals. ISN is an online project of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). It is jointly funded by the Swiss Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) and ETH Zurich.
Library of Congress- United States Election Web Archive
Archived web sites selected by subject specialists to represent web-based information on a designated topic. Coverage from year 2000 - present.
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
National Consortum for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorrism (START)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research.
OpenCRS - Congressional Research Reports for the People
A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of Congressional Research Service Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports
OpenSecrets.org
Brought to you by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group tracking money in U.S. Linked tabs include politicians & elections, influence & lobbying (to search industry and issues) and news & analysis.
Openthegovernment.org
Works to broaden the base of national, state and local organizations active on right-to-know and anti-secrecy issues; advance the right to know what government is doing at the federal and state levels through legislation and other means; and shine an even brighter spotlight on government secrecy efforts. A Secrecy Report Card has been produced by OpenTheGovernment.org on an annual basis since 2003.(see http://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/otg/SecrecyRC_2010.pdf)
Policy Agendas Project
Tool for tracking policy changes in the United States. Users can trace, graph and download policy changes in many different arenas. Datasets allow users to immediately download and access full text source policy documents from linked websites. By providing direct information on the sources of the measures of policy changes, this website allows users to access the original material, which provides the historical context of policy choice. A long-term objective of the Project is to provide a systematic gateway to a virtual digital policy library through a ‘guided search’ function.
Political Advocacy Groups/Lobbyists
All national "cause lobbyist" organizations are considered for this list. As defined by Alan Rosenthal in his 1993 book The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States a "cause lobbyist" advocates for or against a particular cause like environmentalism or feminism instead of on behalf of a corporation. Limiting this list will enable it to be updated more often and provide information to interest the general public as a whole.
Political Violence Against Americans
Political Violence Against Americans, formerly Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans, is produced by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Office of Intelligence and Threat nalysis (DS/DSS/ITA) to provide readers with a comprehensive picture of the broad spectrum of political violence that American citizens and interests have encountered abroad on an annual basis.
Politics & Elections - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world.
ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996. It is part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Collects, reports, maps, curates country and disaster content and facilitates action through understanding and helping inform organizations.
SearchGov.com
Search engine for U.S. government sites.
Social Networks and Archival Context Project (The)
The SNAC project is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. SNAC aims to not only make the records more easily discovered and accessed but also, and at the same time, build an unprecedented resource that provides access to the socio-historical contexts (which includes people, families, and corporate bodies) in which the records were created.
State & Local Government on the Net
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Site provides access to current 2012 PDF and past editions. Includes everything from government spending to the environment to communications. It is a most comprehensive one-volume reference source on the Nation's economic and social condition.
U.S. Census Bureau - State and County Quickfacts
Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
U.S. Courts - The Federal Judiciary
The purpose of this site is to function as a clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of State - Electronic Research Collection
The Electronic Research Collection (ERC) is a partnership between the United States Department of State and the Federal Depository Library at the Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). ERC is responsible for electronically archived information products produced by State Department from 1990 to 1997.
U.S. Government Information by Topic
United Nations (UN)
Official United Nations web site in English
United States Historical Census Data Browser
Historical statistical data derived from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
"Voting America examines the evolution of presidential politics in the United States across the span of American history. The project offers a wide spectrum of cinematic and interactive visualizations of how American voted in the presidential elections at the county level over the past 164 years. You can also find expert analysis and commentary videos that discuss some of the most interesting and significant trends in American political history."
Wisconsin Advertising Project
Since 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 100 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. Database made possible via technology developed by the Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), now contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002, see The Data. Data needs to be requested through an online request form but historic ads can be freely viewed.
Women in Congress
Features educational resources, historical essays, member profiles, artifacts and historical data.
Women in Leadership - Worldwide guide
"The site contains lists of female Heads of State listed by country, a chronological list of Women in Power from B.C. 3000, female Prime Ministers, Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Defence and Ministers by country, female Chairpersons of Parliament, female Governors, Premiers and local Leaders by country, female Party Leaders for each country, a chronological list of female Presidential Candidates, Ambassadors to the United Nations and first female ambassadors for each country, lists of women's ordination to priesthood and female bishops and finally a list of female Danish leaders. (See entries to the left)."
World Legal Information
The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by the following Legal Information Institutes and other organisations: Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII); Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII); Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII); Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (LII (Cornell)); Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII); Wits University School of Law (Wits Law School).
World Trade Center Attack Official Documents
A selective guide to the official government documents related to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, NY, on September 11, 2001.
The American Political Science Association
American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project, was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain 102,014 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
American Presidency Project - Presidential Debates 1960-present
Information and full transcripts of all presidential debates 1960- present
Avalon Project - Yale Law School
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Collections include ancient to modern times, major documents collections, Project Diana - An Online Human Rights Archive and The International Military Tribunal for Germany - A Document Collection.
Bay of Pigs (declassified rpt.)
During the 1970s, CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer wrote a Top Secret multi-volume history of 1961’s Bay of Pigs intervention in Cuba. Before his death, Pfeiffer sued unsuccessfully to de-classify some of the History. One volume is available at National Archives’ JFK Assassination Records Collection at this site maintained by Dr. David.M. Barrett. Click for PDF files with the Introduction and Chapters 1 through 8. (Endnotes and Appendices are not posted here, but are available with the History in Box 1 of the “CIA Miscellaneous” sub-collection.)
Black Americans in Congress
Features educational resources, historical essays, member profiles, artifacts and historical data. For more detailed information see also: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-224/index.html -- House Document No. 108-224, Black Americans in Congress 1870 - 2007.
Brennan Center for Justice - redistricting guides
A non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Work ranges from voting rights to campaign finance reform, from racial justice in criminal law to Constitutional protection in the fight against terrorism.
CIA Library - Historical Collection Publications (PDF)
Historical publications from the CIA Library available for download.
Cold War International History Project
The CWIHP "disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world"
Comparative Politics - A Vision of Britain Through Time
A geographical survey of Britain includes maps and data comprising census reports,election results, historical maps, employment rates, housing, politics, industry and social structure.
Conflict Barometer
The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg annually publishes the Conflict Barometer, which describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, settlements.
Constitution Finder
This database [from the University of Richmond School of Law] offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
The CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
Country Reports on Terrorism
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide these annual reports to Congress, by April 30 of each year, reporting on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. Replaces -Patterns of Global Terrorism-
Diplomacy Monitor - St. Thomas University School of Law
Tracking Internet-based Global Diplomacy- the latest communiqués, transcripts and news releases from around the world
Electoral Geography 2.0 - mapped politics
Studies international regularities and patterns of election results.
Europa
Gateway to the European Union.
European Election 2009: EU Country Results
BBC News experiments with tracking European Parliament election results. Page updated live as results are announced.
European Union - Summaries of EU legislation
Presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation. It provides approximately 3 000 summaries of European legislation, divided into 32 subject areas corresponding to the activities of the European Union.
FedStats
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies."
Federal News Service
Provides immediate verbatim transcripts of government briefings, speeches, press conferences and other newsmaker events to the many domestic and international news bureaus in Washington, D. C. FNS transcribs some Congressional hearings, National Press Club speeches, and significant events such as conferences at Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment and broadcast interviews with opinion leaders.
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
An independent, nonpartisan think tank, non-profit membership organization, dedicated to providing rigorous, objective, evidence-based analysis and practical policy recommendations on national and international security issues connected to applied science and technology. Founded in 1945 by many of the scientists who built the first atomic bombs,the founding mission of FAS was to prevent nuclear war. Includes reports, blogs, event information, publications, resources, and Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports.
Financial Report of the U.S. Government
FindLaw
Global Solidarity Network
To build global solidarity, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Catholic Higher Education have adopted modern information technology tools to make social justice education more accessible to students, faculty, and CRS staff working in the field. Once registered as GSN members, participants can "study ebroad" gaining access to social justice issue information, discussion forums, and live web-conference meetings.
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
An open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2011 (with additional annual updates planned for the future). Includes systematic data on domestic as well as transnational and international terrorist incidents. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and--when identifiable--the group or individual responsible.
Globalization 101
"Globalization101.org is an Internet resource offered by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote a greater understanding of globalization."
Human Security Gateway - Human Security Report Project
A research and information database regrouping electronic and bibliographic resources on human security. The Gateway is an initiative of the Human Security Report Project.
Human Security Report Project - HSRP
The HSRP tracks global and regional trends in organized violence, their causes and consequences. Research findings and analyses are published in the Human Security Report, Human Security Brief series, and the miniAtlas of Human Security. The HSRP also produces a range of online data, research, and news resources covering a broad range of global security issues. All publications and e-resources are available free of charge.
Humantrafficing.org
A web resource for combatting human trafficking
ICMA
ICMA is the professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators, and assistants in cities, towns, counties, and regional entities throughout the world. Since 1914, ICMA has provided technical and management assistance, training, and information resources to its members and the local government community. The management decisions made by ICMA's 9,000 members affect nearly 185 million individuals in thousands of communities--from small towns with populations of a few hundred to metropolitan areas serving several million. ICMA's mission is to create excellence in local governance by developing and fostering professional local government management worldwide.
ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.
International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre
A specialized division of the International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC), IMB was created in 1992. One of the IMB’s principal areas of expertise is in the suppression of piracy. The Centre is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It maintains a round-the-clock watch on the world’s shipping lanes, reporting pirate attacks to local law enforcement and issuing warnings about piracy hotspots to shipping. The IMB is a non-profit making organisation, established in 1981 to act as a focal point in the fight against all types of maritime crime and malpractice.
International relations and security network (ISN)
One of the world’s leading open access information services for international relations (IR) and security professionals. ISN is an online project of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). It is jointly funded by the Swiss Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) and ETH Zurich.
Library of Congress- United States Election Web Archive
Archived web sites selected by subject specialists to represent web-based information on a designated topic. Coverage from year 2000 - present.
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
National Consortum for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorrism (START)
START is a university-based research center committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world. Headquartered at the University of Maryland, START supports research efforts of leading social scientists at more than 50 academic and research institutions, each of whom is conducting original investigations into fundamental questions about terrorism.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research.
OpenCRS - Congressional Research Reports for the People
A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of Congressional Research Service Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports
OpenSecrets.org
Brought to you by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group tracking money in U.S. Linked tabs include politicians & elections, influence & lobbying (to search industry and issues) and news & analysis.
Openthegovernment.org
Works to broaden the base of national, state and local organizations active on right-to-know and anti-secrecy issues; advance the right to know what government is doing at the federal and state levels through legislation and other means; and shine an even brighter spotlight on government secrecy efforts. A Secrecy Report Card has been produced by OpenTheGovernment.org on an annual basis since 2003.(see http://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/otg/SecrecyRC_2010.pdf)
Policy Agendas Project
Tool for tracking policy changes in the United States. Users can trace, graph and download policy changes in many different arenas. Datasets allow users to immediately download and access full text source policy documents from linked websites. By providing direct information on the sources of the measures of policy changes, this website allows users to access the original material, which provides the historical context of policy choice. A long-term objective of the Project is to provide a systematic gateway to a virtual digital policy library through a ‘guided search’ function.
Political Advocacy Groups/Lobbyists
All national "cause lobbyist" organizations are considered for this list. As defined by Alan Rosenthal in his 1993 book The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States a "cause lobbyist" advocates for or against a particular cause like environmentalism or feminism instead of on behalf of a corporation. Limiting this list will enable it to be updated more often and provide information to interest the general public as a whole.
Political Violence Against Americans
Political Violence Against Americans, formerly Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans, is produced by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Office of Intelligence and Threat nalysis (DS/DSS/ITA) to provide readers with a comprehensive picture of the broad spectrum of political violence that American citizens and interests have encountered abroad on an annual basis.
NOTE: This series was not produced for the years 2003-2007.
Politics & Elections - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world.
ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996. It is part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Collects, reports, maps, curates country and disaster content and facilitates action through understanding and helping inform organizations.
SearchGov.com
Search engine for U.S. government sites.
Social Networks and Archival Context Project (The)
The SNAC project is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. SNAC aims to not only make the records more easily discovered and accessed but also, and at the same time, build an unprecedented resource that provides access to the socio-historical contexts (which includes people, families, and corporate bodies) in which the records were created.
State & Local Government on the Net
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Site provides access to current 2012 PDF and past editions. Includes everything from government spending to the environment to communications. It is a most comprehensive one-volume reference source on the Nation's economic and social condition.
U.S. Census Bureau - State and County Quickfacts
Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
U.S. Courts - The Federal Judiciary
The purpose of this site is to function as a clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of State - Electronic Research Collection
The Electronic Research Collection (ERC) is a partnership between the United States Department of State and the Federal Depository Library at the Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). ERC is responsible for electronically archived information products produced by State Department from 1990 to 1997.
U.S. Government Information by Topic
United Nations (UN)
Official United Nations web site in English
United States Historical Census Data Browser
Historical statistical data derived from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
"Voting America examines the evolution of presidential politics in the United States across the span of American history. The project offers a wide spectrum of cinematic and interactive visualizations of how American voted in the presidential elections at the county level over the past 164 years. You can also find expert analysis and commentary videos that discuss some of the most interesting and significant trends in American political history."
Wisconsin Advertising Project
Since 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 100 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. Database made possible via technology developed by the Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), now contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002, see The Data. Data needs to be requested through an online request form but historic ads can be freely viewed.
Women in Congress
Features educational resources, historical essays, member profiles, artifacts and historical data.
Women in Leadership - Worldwide guide
"The site contains lists of female Heads of State listed by country, a chronological list of Women in Power from B.C. 3000, female Prime Ministers, Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Defence and Ministers by country, female Chairpersons of Parliament, female Governors, Premiers and local Leaders by country, female Party Leaders for each country, a chronological list of female Presidential Candidates, Ambassadors to the United Nations and first female ambassadors for each country, lists of women's ordination to priesthood and female bishops and finally a list of female Danish leaders. (See entries to the left)."
World Legal Information
The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by the following Legal Information Institutes and other organisations: Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII); Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII); Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII); Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (LII (Cornell)); Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII); Wits University School of Law (Wits Law School).
World Trade Center Attack Official Documents
A selective guide to the official government documents related to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, NY, on September 11, 2001.
Statistics
CenStats DatabasesFrom the US Census Bureau, several databases of demographic and economic information, including Building Permits Data; International Trade Data; Census Tract Street Locator; Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex; and USA Counties Data.
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Census (U.S.) Demographic ProfilesSearch by U.S. summary or by state geographic areas: nation, region, division, state, county, county subdivision, place, consolidated city, metropolitan area, American Indian Area/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land, and congressional districts.
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County and City Data BookPresents statistics on such topics as population, health, crime, education, income, trade for each county and incorporated city with 25,000 inhabitants or more.
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Data.govData.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
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Economic Policy Institute - EPI DatazoneA compilation of all the data behind EPI’s research, and includes historical data on wage trends, unemployment rates for different demographic groups and much more.
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Fdsys- Federal Digital System from U.S. Government Printing OfficeProvides public access to the following collections currently available in FDsys: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present), Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present), Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present), Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present), Congressional Record (1994 to Present), Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present), Federal Register (1994 to Present) and Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present). FDsys will eventually replace GPOAccess.
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Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor)This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cover consumer lifestyles, retailing, and consumer market sizes and forecasts. The data includes 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. Lifestyle indicators for 71 countries, lifestyle reports for 65 countries, and country profiles for 250 countries are also included.
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Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant 1975 and has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
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ICPSRInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.
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ICPSR Data Use TutorialTutorial for Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research which has holdings that include several time series and other types of aggregate data; its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.
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Policy Agendas ProjectTool for tracking policy changes in the United States. Users can trace, graph and download policy changes in many different arenas. Datasets allow users to immediately download and access full text source policy documents from linked websites. By providing direct information on the sources of the measures of policy changes, this website allows users to access the original material, which provides the historical context of policy choice. A long-term objective of the Project is to provide a systematic gateway to a virtual digital policy library through a ‘guided search’ function.
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Polling the NationsThe database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics. Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries.
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Roll Call Voting Data(base) 83rd-108th CongressThe PIPC (Public Institutions and Public Choice Program) codes each roll call from the 83rd to the 108th Congress for vote type, i.e. rule, amendment, final passage etc. as well as issue type. Also included are the vote margins.
See the accompanying (Adobe) codebook for explanations of dataset codes.
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Social ExplorerExplore thousands of historical data maps. Our maps are interactive and go from the first US Census in 1790 to the present.
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Social Trends and Indicators USA"Provides detailed statistics on social issues paired with expert analyses of the statistics."
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Statistical Insight (Proquest)Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000 statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.
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U.S. Census BureauCensus information about people & households, business & industry, geography, news, data tools, and fact finder resources
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UN Data: a world of informationThe United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)provides search and download capability for a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics - World Education IndicatorsGlobal and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, culture and communication.
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Wisconsin Advertising ProjectSince 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 100 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. Database made possible via technology developed by the Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), now contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002, see The Data. Data needs to be requested through an online request form but historic ads can be freely viewed.
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World Health Organization (WHO) - Data and statisticsData and statistics from WHO, the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.
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Biographies
American National Biography OnlineBiographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. All articles originally included in the ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates.
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Ancestry Library EditionA vast collection of genealogical data which traces the history of millions of individuals going in some cases as far back as 1300. The collection consists of census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.
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Biography Reference Center (EBSCO)Includes full-text profiles of persons, living and deceased, and prominent in many professions including literature, art, music, film, politics, education and history. The up-to-date bibliographies include links to book and articles about the person and in some citations there is a photograph of the person.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale)Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works, that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
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Biography in Context (Gale)A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles available from more than 250 magazines as well as more than 20,000 images, and in-depth coverage of key events.
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Biogrpahical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774-pres.[Details]
Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale)Includes entries of approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography OnlineA reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online.
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Social Networks and Archival Context Project (The)The SNAC project is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. SNAC aims to not only make the records more easily discovered and accessed but also, and at the same time, build an unprecedented resource that provides access to the socio-historical contexts (which includes people, families, and corporate bodies) in which the records were created.
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U.S. Househub Channel at YouTubeTo find your U.S. House representative's Youtube channel, click on the state in the U.S. map provided.
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U.S. Senatehub Channel at YoutubeTo find your Senator's YouTube channel, click on the state in the U.S. map provided
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Women in Leadership - Worldwide guide"The site contains lists of female Heads of State listed by country, a chronological list of Women in Power from B.C. 3000, female Prime Ministers, Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Defence and Ministers by country, female Chairpersons of Parliament, female Governors, Premiers and local Leaders by country, female Party Leaders for each country, a chronological list of female Presidential Candidates, Ambassadors to the United Nations and first female ambassadors for each country, lists of women's ordination to priesthood and female bishops and finally a list of female Danish leaders. (See entries to the left)."
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Handbooks
Almanac of American PoliticsAuthoritative source of information about members of Congress, their districts, the governors and the states. The Web site is organized according to people, districts and states, similar to the book. The most recent profile of a person, along with biographical data and voting behavior.
A detailed description of a congressional district, along with several tables of demographic data, the district's 2008 presidential results and its Cook rating.
Also includes a history and analysis of the politics of a state. The state pages also contain 2008 presidential election results, legislature party breakdowns, and analyses of demographic shifts that could affect redistricting for 2012.
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