Contents:
General Information
| History & Culture
| Law
| Government & Politics
| Defense, Security, Diplomacy & Int'l Affairs
| The 50 States
| Counties & Cities
| Nature & Environment
| Gazetteers & Maps
| PSU Related Sites
General Information
History & Culture
- Accessible Archives [18th & 19th century American newspaper articles] (Penn State Users Only)
- America: History & Life [citation database] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Broadsides and Ephemera (Penn State Users Only)
- American Civil War [has a listing of and links to over 70 parks in the National Park System having resources related to the history of the Civil War, with timeline and other information about the War] (National Park Service)
- American Cultural History: the 19th Century (Kingwood College)
- American Cultural History: the 20th Century (Kingwood College)
- American Decades [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Decades through Primary Sources [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900 (Penn State Users Only)
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
- Antietam on the Web (aotw.org)
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- Biography of America (Annenberg.CPB)
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers [BETA, ongoing project in partnership with NEH; currently has newspapers from 1900 to 1910 from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia (website, 4/20/2007)]
- Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents (OU)
- Civil War Letters and Diaries (Penn State Users Only)
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (GPO Access)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition (CQ Press)
- Diaries of John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society)
- Dictionary of American History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Digital History [Real Player, pdf; includes ethnic--African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American--historical materials as well as key primary sources in American history, biographies, images, maps, music, speeches, and an interactive time line of political/diplomatic, social/economic, and cultural events; an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04] (University of Houston)
- Discovering Lewis and Clark [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04] (lewis-clark.org)
- E Pluribus Unum Project [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (Assumption College)
- Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) (Penn State Users Only)
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 (Penn State Users Only)
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online [contains histories, geographies, travel accounts, gazetteers, social history, religion and philosophy, arts and music, science, medicine, and technology published in the 18th century] (Penn State Users Only)
- Empire Online, 1492-1969 [images of orginal sources documenting history of exploration, cultural contact and colonialism] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of the Great Depression [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of the New American Nation [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: U.S. History Topics
- From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards: Biographies [primary sources, essays, biographies, presidents] (University of Groningen)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04]
- Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, UMd)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenium Edition Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Historical Text Archive (Don Mabry)
- History Cooperative (Penn State Users Only)
- History E-Book Project (Penn State Users Only)
- History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web (Created by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University)
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Penn State Users Only)
- Images of American Political History (teachpol.tcnj.edu)
- Immigration and Multiculturalism [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library) [Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library, museum, and archive collections that explore immigration to the United States between 1789 and 1930]
- Landmarks of the American Revolution: Library of Military History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Liberty! The American Revolution [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (PBS)
- Lost Worlds: An Interactive History Museum, Native American Indians
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Native American History and Culture
- New Deal Project (newdeal.feri.org/)
- New Perspectives on the West (PBS)
- New York Times Historical (1851-2003) (Proquest) (Penn State Users Only)
- Newspaper Photos [logon required] (AccuNet/AP) (Penn State Users Only)
- Oral History Online (Penn State Users Only)
- OurDocuments.gov [100 milestone documents from 1776 to 1965]
- Papers of John Jay [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04] (Columbia)
- RLG Cultural Material [Maps, photographs, objects, documents, art, sound, and motion](Penn State Users Only)
- Sherman's March (history.com)
- Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (UWisc)
- Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
- Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000(Penn State Users Only)
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Laws & Regulations
- American Law Sources Online/ALSO (lawsource.com)
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- BNA Criminal Law Reporter (Penn State Users Only)
- BNA Environment Law Reporter (Penn State Users Only)
- BNA Family Law Reporter (Penn State Users Only)
- BNA Health Law Reporter (Penn State Users Only)
- BNA Labor and Employment Library (Penn State Users Only)
- BNA Law Resources (Penn State Users Only)
- Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline (National Constitution Center)
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 (Library of Congress, American Memory)
- Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents (OU)
- Citizenship Resources (The Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy, PSU)
- Code of Federal Regulations (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Crime and Punishment in America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Primary Sources includes many documents, from the Sherman Antitrust Law and the Harrison Narcotic Drug Act to Eleanor Roosevelt's letter against lynching and the Report on Lawlessness in Law Enforcement" (from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Editions: Rights, Responsibilities, and Criminal Justice (CQ Press)
- Digital History: Links to Key Documents in American History
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Exploring Constitutional Law [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (UMKC)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Reading Room
- Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)
- Hein Online (legal journal articles)
- How Our Laws Are Made (thomas.loc.gov)
- Landmark Civil Rights Legislation (infoUSA)
- LegalTrac [some full text](Penn State Users Only)
- Legislative Histories, United States Congress (UMich)
- Lemon Law Information and Sites (Autopedia.com)
- Links to Laws and Regulations (nafsa.org)
- Major Acts of Congress [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Native American Constitutions (OU)
- Pike & Fischer Communications Regulations [communications law](Penn State Users Only)
- Public and Private Laws (GPO Access)
- SeniorLaw: Elder Law and Legal Resources on the Web
- Thomas, Legislative History on the Internet
- United States Code
- United States Code, Title 8: Aliens and Nationality (Cornell Law School)
- United States Code, Title 26: Internal Revenue Code (Cornell Law School)
- United States Constitution Online
- United States Constitution Online: Other Historical Documents
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission [with EDGAR access]
- Westlaw Campus [federal and state cases, statutes and administrative codes,
as well as American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, and hundreds
of law journals] (Penn State Users Only)
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Government & Politics
General:
- AboutGovernment [U.S. Government, historical documents, politics & political parties, elections and voting, citizenship, icons, landmarks, traditions, news and guides]
- Budget Graph: A Visual Guide to Your Federal Taxes
- C-Span.org: Featured Links [links to topical political, governmental, and organizational sites]
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Penn State Users Only)
- Citizenship Resources (The Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy, PSU)
- CQ.com
- CQ Electronic Library (CQ Press)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition: Government and Politics (Penn State Users Only)
- CQ Researcher Plus
- CQ Weekly Report (Penn State Users Only)
- FedSpending.org
- Frequently Used Sites Relating to U.S. Federal Government Information (Godort)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- GPO Access
- OpenCRS: Congressional Research Reports for the People
- Outline of U.S. Government (U.S. Dept of State, Int'l Information Programs)
- Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- PolicyFile [some full text] (Penn State Users Only)
- Political Parties USA
- ThisNation.com
- United States Government Manual (GPOAccess)
- Uncle Sam Who's Who in the Federal Government (UMemphis)
Elections:
- American National Election Studies (Stanford & UMich, with funding by NSF)
- Campaign Finance Information Center
- Centre County Voter Information
- CQ Voting and Elections Collection (Penn State Users Only)
- EASE History: Presidential Campaign Ads [video clips of almost 200 US presidential campaign ads from the 1952 to 2004 elections (website, 3/29/2007)] (MSU)
- Elections and Candidates [with voter registration form](Congressional Information Center)
- FECWatch.org
- National Voter Registration Form Online
- opensecrets.org ["Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections"]
- Political Moneyline: Political Action Committees and Campaign Finance
- Project Vote Smart
- United States Elections 2004 (U.S. Dept of State, Int'l Information Programs)
- United States Electoral College [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designee for 2003-04]
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Executive Branch:
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- Abraham Lincoln Research Site (Roger Norton)
- American Presidency Project (UCSB)
- American President: An Online Reference Resource (UVa)
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Presidential (GPO Access)
- From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards: Presidents (University of Groningen)
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 (LOC)
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: Biographical Profiles [profiles of J.F. Kennedy and associates]
- Miller Center for Public Affairs: Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive [Real Player; presidential recordings, speeches, documents, oral histories] (UVa)
- Mr. President, Profiles of Our Nation's Leaders
- Papers of George Washington (UVa)
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designee for 2003-04] (IPL)
- President Bush's Cabinet (whitehouse.gov)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
- Presidents: A Reference History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (GPO Access)
- ThisNation.com: Media Gallery: Images of Presidents and Prominent Political Figures
- White House (whitehouse.gov)
- White House Tapes [from FDR through Nixon;a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award recipient for 2005-6 from the National Endowment for the Humanities]
Judicial Branch:
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Judicial (GPO Access)
- The Courts [facts about the American judicial system, how the courts and legal system work, steps in a trial, and more] (ABA)
- CQ Electronic Library: The Supreme Court Collection
- Federal Judicial Center
- History of the Supreme Court (historyofsupremecourt.org)
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- LII Supreme Court Collection (Cornell, Legal Information Institute)
- Oyez [Supreme Court]
- Supreme Court Decisions [civil rights] (infoUSA)
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Courts
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Legislative Branch:
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
- Congress and the Nation [covers a full range of topics for years 1945-2004] (CQ Press)
- Congress Collection (Penn State Users Only)
- Congressional Record (thomas.loc.gov)
- Congressional Research Service Reports [Gallerywatch] (Penn State Users Only)
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Congressional Universe LexisNexis [includes Committee Prints (1830-present); Legislative Histories (1969-present);
Hearings (1824-present); Serial Set Maps (1789-1969); House & Senate Documents (1817-present); Serial Set, with American State Papers, and all maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs from the Serial Set for the time period (1789-1969)]
- CongressLink
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Congressional (GPO Access)
- CQ Electronic Library: Congress and the Nation Collection
- CQ Electronic Library: Congress Collection
- Federal Register (gpoaccess.gov)
- First Federal Congress Project [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (GWU)
- Legislative Histories, United States Congress (UMich)
- LexisNexis Congressional Universe (Penn State Users Only)
- Library of Congress
- Major Acts of Congress [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- OpenCongress.org ["...brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress." (website, 4/26/2007)]
- Public Disclosure (U.S. House of Representatives, Clerk of the House)
- United States Congress Votes Database ["every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991"] (washingtonpost.com)
- U.S General Accounting Office Sitemap
- United States House of Representatives: Representatives
- United States House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk
- United States Senate [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06]
- U.S. Senate Virtual Reference Desk
Defense, Security, & International Affairs
- Afghanistan and the U.S. (UCBerkeley)
- Alternative Resources on the U.S. War Against Iraq (International Responsibilities Task Force of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table)
- Americans at War [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- CIA Electronic Reading Room: Freedom of Information Act
- Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Counterinsurgency (U.S. Army)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Editions: International Affairs (CQ Press)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Editions: Defense, Security, and Military Affairs (CQ Press)
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary (National Security Archive, GWU)
- Declassified Documents Reference System (Penn State Users Only)
- Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis (Mt. Holyoke)
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Federation of Atomic Scientists
- Foreign Relations of the United States ["...produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes." (website, 3/27/2007)
- FPB Monitor (from Foreign Policy Bulletin)
- Homeland Security Digital Library [provides "...access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies." (website, 4/17/2007)]
- Iraq Study Group Report (Baker & Hamilton, co-chairs)
- Military History Encyclopedia on the Web (historyofwar.org)
- Military Legal Resources (Library of Congress)
- Military Resources (globalsecurity.org)
- MIT Center for International Studies: Foreign Policy Index
- National Security Archive (George Washington University)
- Oxford Companion to American Military History (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Oxford Companion to World War II (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
- U.S. Chain of Command (Federation of Atomic Scientists)
- United States Department of State
- Vietnam Project (Texas Tech Univ.)
- War With Iraq (UCSD)
- Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 (Vassar)
- Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Women in Military Service for America Memorial
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The 50 States
Cities & Counties
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Nature & Environment
- American Discovery Trail
- American Trails
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Editions: Energy, Environment, Transportation, Science, and Technology (CQ Press)
- Discover Appalachia [interactive map] (nationalgeographic.com)
- Ecoregions of the United States (Robert G. Bailey, Forest Service, USDA)
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse [from EPA, identifies by zip code environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land quality anywhere in the United States, with mapping capabilities (website, 4/16/2007)]
- Great Lakes Information Network
- North American Mammals (Smithsonian)
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
- National Park Foundation
- Official State Parks Pages (Nat'l. Assn. of State Parks Directors)
- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources [outdoor Pennsylvania: state parks, forests, greenways & trails, rivers, heritage areas, geology]
- Pennsylvania Game Commission [information on hunting, wildlife, state game lands maps, rules & regulations]
- Plants Database (USDA)
- Trail Finder (GORP)
- UI Plants [searchable database of woody plants commonly found in the northern portion of eastern North America] (University of Illinois)
- United States Bureau of Land Management
- United States Drought Monitor (UNL)
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Green Building Council [includes information on LEED: "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating SystemT is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings." (from website, 2/2/2007)]
- U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- USGS Real-Time Water Data
Gazetteers & Maps
- All The Worlds Maps (Embassy World)
- Altapedia Online
- American Ethnic Geography: A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada (Kilpinen, Valparaiso)
- American Memory Maps Collections: 1500-2004
- American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 (Library of Congress)
- American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850 (NYPL)
- American FactFinder [thematic and reference maps ] (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Borchert Map Library: Online and Interactive Maps by Subject (UMinn)
- Cities Collection [NASA spaceflight images and maps of selected cities, mostly U.S.]
- Climate Maps for the United States (NOAA)
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America (Bartleby.com)
- David Rumsey Map Collection ["...over 14,800 maps online....rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented." (description from website, 12/22/2006]
- Digital Collection of Maps [Colonial, Federal Era and Civil War maps, West Point and vicinity maps] (United States Military Academy)
- Geodata.gov: U.S. Maps and Data
- Heading West: Mapping the Territories (NYPL)
- History Cooperative: Historical Map Collections ["maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory" (description from database, 12/21/2006)](Penn State Users Only)
- HyperHistory Online: Maps
- Images of American Political History: Maps of Growth, Population, and Elections (teachpol.tcnj.edu)
- Lewis and Clark Interactive Journey (nationalgeographic.com)
- Los Angeles Mapped (Library of Congress)
- Map Links (Oxford)
- Mapping History: American History (UOregon)
- Mapquest
- Maps On Us
- Modern Language Association Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States
- MSU Global Access: Map Tool
- Multimap
- National Atlas of the United States
- National Atlases: Historical: 1870, 1880, 1890, 1970 (Library of Congress)
- NationalGeographic.com Map Machine
- New Jersey Geographical Information Network
- Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection
- Place Name Sites (ASU)
- Rand McNally
- RLG Cultural Material [high quality digital versions of historical maps, photographs, objects, documents, art, sound, and motion pictures] (Penn State Users Only)
- TerraServer USA (microsoft.com)
- Texas Historic Sites Atlas
- TopoZone
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names (USGS)
- U.S. Cities Gazetteer ["census, demographic and income data, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports, hotels, environmental conditions, local newspapers, media outlets, employment, maps, coordinates and aerial photos" for 42,500 Cities, Towns & ZIP Codes (description from website, 12/21/2006)] (HomeTownLocator.com)
- U.S. Gazetteer (U.S. Census Bureau)
- US Map Collections: Relief, Elevation, Drainage, Political and Road Maps Geology.com)
- U.S. Historical Cities Maps (Perry-Castenada Library, UT)
- University of Chicago Library Map Collection [includes numerous maps of Chicago and other miscellaneous maps]
- WaterWatch: Current Water Resources Condition [with a variety of maps showing water and drought conditions over time for U.S. and states] (USGS)
- Windows Live Maps [street maps, satellite images , 3D & terrain maps; driving directions]
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See also these PSU Libraries' related pages:
Online Reference Shelf:
Business Library:
Earth and Mineral Sciences Library:
Maps Library
Social Sciences Library:
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