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For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

Web Sites

For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

• A New Nation Votes
  

  Election results from early elections.

• American Factfinder
  

  THE source for “population, housing, economic and geographic” info. Make tables, browse subjects, view maps and more. Find demographic information for towns, cities, counties and states.

• American Founders Online: An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications
  

  Online access to many of the founding Fathers’ writings, from the Library of Congress.

• American President: Resource on the U.S. Presidents
  

  From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, an excellent reference source for US presidents, with biographical and professional information and loads of links to more resources.

• Archives Made Easy
  

  Hosted by the International History department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Archives Made Easy aims to empower historical researchers of all levels and make unrewarding research trips a thing of the past.

  Archives Made Easy serves the global research community by providing transparency of the costs and processes involved in an archive visit – the kind of information researchers need to know beforehand in order to avoid costly mistakes and delays.

• Census Bureau Home Page
  

  Offers a variety of data access tools, including American Factfinder and CenStats. CenStats provides access to County Business Patterns, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, Occupation by Race and Sex, USA Counties, International Trade Data, etc.

• Checklist of United States public documents 1789-1909
  
• Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
  
• Congress Votes database
  

  Excellent resource for voting records of Congressmen/women from the Washington Post.

• County and City Data Books
  

  This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

• Crime Solutions
  

  The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov uses rigorous research to determine what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

• Data.gov
  
• Digitization Projects Registry
  

  The Registry is a listing of publicly accessible collections of digitized U.S. Government publications

• Dirksen Congressional Center: [Historical Collections] Everett M. Dirksen, Newsletters: Congressional Front, 1933-46
  

  From his first week in office in the House of Representatives through 1946, Congressman Everett Dirksen personally composed and typed weekly newsletters (while Congress was in session) to his constituents in central Illinois. Congressional Front, as it was called, covered the personalities, politics, and policies of Congress and the federal government.

• Disability.gov
  

  Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations.

• European Union Internet Resources – Berkeley Library
  
• FBI Records – The Vault
  

  The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.

• FDTF Government Information
  

  GODORT’s list of Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information.

• Federal Register
  

  “The Daily Journal of the US Government.”

• Geologic Atlas of the United States
  

  The Texas A&M University Libraries provides online access to the U.S. Geological Survey, 227 folios published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1894 and 1945.

• Government Document Resources Online
  
• Government Publications
  

  Find government publications from Canada. Lots of statistical information and more.

• GPO Access (archive)
  

  GPO access is/was an index to U.S. Government publications. It has been superceded by FDsys.

• Historical Census Browser
  

  “In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. Beginning with 1840, some economic characteristics such as education and occupation are included. Later decades have many variables, including ancestry, literacy, and income variables. In a few cases, the census data were augmented with information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Council of Churches of Christ.”

• Internet Archive
  

  3 million out of copyright texts, music, video and more!

• Library – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  

  Provides full text access to a selection of intelligence documents. The Historical Collection and Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room contain historical documents.

• Library Statistics Program: State Library Agency Report for FY 2006
  

  Information about state libraries, from the Census Bureau. PDF.

• Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000
  
• Medline Plus
  

  Health topics, drug information, medical dictionaries and directories and links to organizations, publications, and consumer health libraries. From the National Library of Medicine.

• MetaLib Search
  

  Search across multiple government databases.

• National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
  
• National Archives
  

  Exhaustive index to archives housed by the National Archives in Washington DC. Some fulltext online access available.

• National Atlas of the United States
  

  Create and view layered maps combining boundary, scientific/geologic, demographic, industrial, etc. factors, or print out pre-created subject maps of the U.S.

• National Library of Medicine- Health Information
  

  Link to MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus and research resources for information on AIDS, cancer, bioethics, the history of medicine, mental health disorders, and more.

• Printable Maps List: Reference and Outline Maps of the United States
  

  A U.S. Government source for maps of the US and individual states. Map types include county borders, counties and towns, rivers and lakes.

• Regulations.gov
  
• State Blue Books
  

  “SLDTF’s wiki for State blue books. Information for each state includes the following: State, “Blue Book” Title, URL (If available), and Notes (if any).”

• State Fact Sheets – USDA Economic Research Service
  
• State Government Information Index
  
• State of New Jersey
  
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  

  THE standard source for social, political and economic statistics from 1878 to the present. Government and private source data.

• U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventory
  
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  

  Site facilitates access to technical data, regulatory material and compliance information, and the EPA policy line. Keyword and other search capabilities are provided.

• UCB Libraries | GovInfo | Foreign Information by Country
  
• United Nations Statistics Division
  

  Access Social and Demographic statistics, and the Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)

• Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
  

  The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

• War Powers – Law Library of Congress
  

  Excellent site for legislative and legal resources on the War Powers Act, from the Law Library of the Library of Congress.