U.S. CONGRESS RESOURCES
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Searchable biographical data on members of the U.S. Congress from 1774 to the present.
Women In Congress: Summary Statistics and Brief Overview
Center on Congress (Indiana University)
CONGRESS.GOV - United States Legislative Information (See also, "Resources A-Z").
Congress.org - A nonpartisan news and information Web site devoted to encouraging civic participation.
Women in Congress (House.gov)
CongressionalResearch Service Reports (via Open CRS) - A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present - Search by name, position, state, party, or date.
Congress.org - This resource provides information about current bills, key votes, and hearing schedules as well as a representative locator by zip code.
Congressional Directory (1997-present)
Congressional Pictorial Directory (105th-108th Congress)
EveryCRSReport publishes reports by the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate.
Keyword search, create custom clips. etc. from U.S. inaugurations back to 1953 via the C-SPAN Video Library: http://www.infodocket.com/2017/01/17/keyword-searchable-video-collection-of-u-s-presidential-inaugural-speeches-other-inauguration-video/
Primary Documents: Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies Releases Complete Inauguration Day 2017 Program: http://www.infodocket.com/2017/01/14/gov-documents-joint-congressional-committee-on-inaugural-ceremonies-releases-complete-inauguration-day-program/
U.S. GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Budget of the U.S. Government (Government Printing Office)
C-SPAN Video Library - All C-SPAN programs recorded since 1987.
Core Documents of Our Democracy (U.S. Government Printing Office)
C-SPAN - C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Its mission is to provide public access to the political process.
Elected Officials - (USA.gov) Find contact information for federal, state, and local government officials.
Federal Judicial Center website.
FDsys - (Government Printing Office) FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
Fedstats - A trusted source for federal statistical information since 1997. FedStats supports a community of practice for over 100 agencies engaged in the production and dissemination of official federal statistics.
GovSpeak: A Guide to Government Acronyms & Abbreviations
National Archives and Records Administration - (NARA) The official repository of documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government.
United States Government Manual - (Government Printing Office) The official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.
AvalonProject - Digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. A project of the Yale University Law Library.
USA.gov - The mission of USA.gov is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services.
Political Graveyard - This database of historic cemeteries and political families offers brief biographical data on 53,115 (as of December, 1999) deceased politicians, diplomats, and judges, and is indexed in a number of ways, including an alphabetical index (by last name). The site also features a list of links, and some of those sites might also be helpful.
FedStats - Easy access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the federal government.
American Presidency Project - Collection of primary documents and other materials relating to U.S. presidents. Includes public papers, addresses, executive orders, and proclamations.
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government - The educational website is named after one of our Nation’s most influential Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. The site is full of educational content on the workings of the U.S. Government and U.S. history.
I Do Solemnly Swear...: Presidential Inaugurations - Collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 54 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. Includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.
Digital National Security Archive - Declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Documents include presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. Coverage: 1942 to present.
Scholastic's American justice page
Radiolab's episode "The Girl Who Doesn't Exist" episode tells the story of Alecia Faith Pennington, who has had a really hard time getting official documentations, as her parents didn't get a birth certificate for her, she was homeschooled and almost never went to the doctor's (so no school/doctor records), etc... There is discussion about the sovereignty movement, and could open a discussion about the pros and cons of governmental records.
Trump Archive: The Trump Archive collects TV news shows containing debates, speeches, rallies, and other broadcasts related to President-elect Donald Trump. This evolving non-commercial, searchable collection is designed to preserve the historical record for posterity. The project is a work in progress, with improvements planned for expanding collection and making searching more efficient.
The Obama White House - Social Media Archive: President Obama and his White House have used social media to engage with people around the country and the world. This open archive provides public access to social media content created during the Obama White House years. It contains over 250,000 posts, photos, and videos shared by more than 100 official Obama White House social media profiles. The content in this archive is being made available in the interest of historical preservation and transparency.
GENERAL U.S. POLITICS RESOURCES
Factcheck.org - A nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
FOIA.gov - Resources related to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Resources for Legislative Researchers (THOMAS)
Politico - Covers political news with a focus on national politics, Congress, Capitol Hill, elections, lobbying, and more.
Marist Institute for Public Opinion - The Marist Poll regularly measures public opinion at the local, state, and national level. MIPO is a survey research center at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Pew ResearchCenter for the People & the Press - An independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
PolicyArchive - A digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. Collected materials include full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
InternetArchive - The Internet Archive is a non-profit founded in 1996 to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in its collections.
GovInfo - “the Google for government documents”! Users can access the Congressional Record, track the course of legislation or perhaps dive into a treasure trove of information specifically on President Gerald Ford.
U.S. CONSTITUTION RESOURCES
"The Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) seeks to revolutionize how people experience history by "democratizing access" to the source materials of the U.S. Constitution, such as related letters, journals, newspapers, articles, and speeches."
Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation - 1992-2010 editions.
Federalist Papers - The original text of the Federalist Papers obtained from the e-text archives of Project Gutenberg.
Scholastic's American justice page
U.S. SUPREME COURT RESOURCES
"Landmark Cases explores the human stories and constitutional dramas behind some of the most significant and frequently cited decisions in the Supreme Court's history." (Click on "Classroom" for an abundance of teaching materials to go along with the teaching of these Supreme Court cases.)
Oyez Project - An audio archive of the Supreme Court of the United States. Includes recordings from 1995 to the present and selected audio from cases argued prior to 1995.
Radiolab presents: More Perfect - A mini series of podcasts "dives into the rarefied world of the Supreme Court to explain how cases deliberated inside hallowed halls affect lives far away from the bench." (You can listen to the podcasts through their website, or download them through iTunes).
GENERAL ELECTIONS RESOURCES
OpenSecrets.org - A clearinghouse for data and analysis, tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Includes financial data on campaigns, independent interest groups (i.e., 527 committees), lobbyists, congressional travel, and the personal finances of the president and members of Congress.
VoterTurnout Database - Global collection of political participation statistics. Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945.
World Development Indicators - Comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960.
Project Vote Smart - Includes biographies, issue positions, voting records, campaign finance information, ratings and speeches.
AmericanNational Election Studies (ANES) - Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
LivingRoom Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - Presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2008.
The Political Image Machine - Explore the never-ending spectacle of 2016 candidate photos:
Access Deleted Tweets by Elected Officials and Candidates
IFESElection Guide - Global elections database, interactive map, RSS updates, and more from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Users can register (not a requirement) and create a personalized election guide.
GlobalElections Calendar - Searchable database of upcoming and past elections info provided by the National Democratic Institute. Data back to 2005.
THINK TANKS AND PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS RESOURCES
Think Tanks & Policy Centers - Compiled by the Lehman Social Sciences Library, Columbia University.
Think Tanks Directory - Compiled by the Kennedy School of Government Library, Harvard University.
PollingReport.com - Nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. State level data available only to individual subscribers.
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute - Regularly surveys residents in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and the nation about political races, state and national elections, and issues of public concern.
Pew GlobalAttitudes Project - A series of worldwide public opinion surveys, conducted by the Pew Research Center, on a broad array of subjects in the news.
WorldPublic Opinion.org - Provides information and analysis about public opinion on international policy issues from around the world.
GeneralSocial Survey - The GSS contains a standard core of demographic, behavioral and attitudinal questions tracking the opinions of Americans, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remain unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time trend studies.The GSS takes the pulse of America, and has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.
RESOURCES ON POLITICAL LOBBIES
MapLight - A nonpartisan research organization that reveals money’s influence on politics.
PoliticalAdvocacy Groups: A Directory of United States Lobbyists - A directory of "cause lobbyists" which is defined as advocates for or against a particular cause, instead of on behalf of a corporation.
GENERAL ECONOMICS RESOURCES
Compare 50: Comparing Economic Performance Across the United States - Compare 50 is an interactive website allowing users to compare economic and demographic data across all 50 states. Users select the type of data they want to see, the date range, and which states they would like included in the chart. The information updates in real time. The website is intuitive, fun to use, and presents the data in an interesting, understandable, and visually appealing way.
U.S. Women in the Labor Force: a Databook
Economic Policy Institute Family Budget Calculator
Statistics - Research Aid - A more comprehensive guide to statistical data and data sets.
EconData.Net - Guide to regional socioeconomic data on the web.
The wonderful FRASER database from the U.S. Federal Reserve in St. Louis has economic data and reports from the 1920s.
1,200 free online courses from top universities - Scroll down to the Economics Courses section
Entrepreneurship Corner - Collection of more than 1,600 videos and podcasts related to entrepreneurship, innovation, product development, and other business topics, including lectures from thought leaders in the field.
ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data) - Vintage versions of economic data. The earliest data is from 1927.
FRED(Federal Reserve Economic Data) - A database of over 3,000 U.S. economic time series.
FRASER(Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) - Links to scanned historical economic statistical publications, releases and documents.
PanelStudy of Income Dynamics - A longitudinal study of 8,000 families since 1968 collecting data on economic, health and social behavior.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis - The BEA's economic statistics provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the U.S. economy. Industry, GNP and GDP data for the U.S. is reported in the monthly report, Survey of Current Business.
World Development Indicators - Comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - The source for Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), and data on employment, unemployment, wages and salaries.
U.S.Economic Census - Profiles U.S. national and local economies every 5 years.
Africa Development Indicators - World Bank collected of data containing over 1,600 indicators, for 53 African countries. Coverage: 1961-current.
Eurostat - European Union demographic, economic, industry and environment data.
Exporter Dynamics Database - Based on data obtained from customs agencies, the database allows for cross-country comparisons. Variables include basic characteristics of exporters (their numbers, size and growth), their concentration and degree of diversification in products and markets, their dynamics in terms of entry, exit and survival, and the average unit prices of the products they trade. A World Bank project.
Global Development Finance (GDF) - Statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. Covers more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 128 countries. Coverage: 1970-current.
HumanDevelopment Reports (UN) - Research and data designed to assess long term well-being. An independent publication commissioned by UN Development Programme (UNDP). Coverage: 1990-present.
LABORSTA - Labor statistics and estimates for over 200 countries from the International Labour Office. Coverage: 1969-current.
OECD Economic Surveys - In-depth reviews of member and some non-member countries' economies.
UNdata - Search across over 14 UN statistical databases through a single portal.
WorldBank Open Data Catalog - Free download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.
Economic Report of the President - Annual report issued by the Council of Economic Advisors giving an overview the nation's economic progress. Reports available online from 1995 to present.
Statistics - Research Aid - A more comprehensive guide to statistical data and data sets.
EconData.Net - Guide to regional socioeconomic data on the web.
Prendismo - More than 14,000 video and audio clips on business and entrepreneurship.
Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America - A spatial interpretation of county-level, economic and social conditions along four dimensions: people, jobs, agriculture, and county classifications.
GlobalDistribution of Poverty - The Poverty Maps Collection includes poverty maps at a number of spatial scales (global, regional, national, and urban areas) and for a variety of poverty measures.
WallStreet Journal Glossary of Terms - Definitions of business and journalism terms.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository - World Bank resources include reports, academic books, journals and working papers.
Business& Economics Research Advisor (BERA) - A series of guides to business & economics topics from the Library of Congress.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers this inflation calculator that might be useful.
American Economic Alert - Founded by the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, a not-for-profit research and educational organization dedicated to improving the American people's awareness of critical public policy issues in trade, taxation, education, health care, foreign relations, defense, and national security, among others.
State of Working America, http://stateofworkingamerica.org/
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