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  • United States Code
    "The United States Code is prepared and published by the
    Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
    Representatives. This database contains the general and
    permanent laws of the United States."
  • Congressional Committee Prints
     "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses."
  • General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  • National Archives and Records Administration - Office of the Federal Register
    • Office of Federal Register
      Includes: Code of Federal Regulations ; Federal Register ; List of CFR Sections Affected ; Privacy Act Issuances ; Public and Private Laws ; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ; U.S. Government Manual ; United States Statutes at Large ; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
    Federal Bulletin Board

THOMAS
"Legislative information from the Library of Congress"
Sections include: Bills, Resolutions ; Activity in Congress ; Congressional Record ; Schedules, Calendars ; Committee Information ; Presidential Nominations ; Treaties ; Government Resources ; For Teachers.

49th Parallel (electronic journal)
An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies
"...quarterly electronic journal which aims to promote interdisciplinary study of the North American continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
- Published by the University of Birmingham (UK) - Dept. of American and Canadian Studies

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
 By Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library.

Africa - See our separate Africa Studies page.

African Journal on Conflict Resolution - (dead link)

AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses
Highlights of the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security, Durban, South Africa, April 14-16, 2005.
The book is available for download in PDF format as an entire document or by chapter.
By Stuart Gillespie, ed., 2006.

The Albert Shanker Institute

  • Democracy: Teach It (September 2003)
    "...is a new statement calling for improvement in the teaching of democracy. Endorsed by a wide range of prominent Americansófrom former President Bill Clinton to President Reagan's UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, NEA President Reg Weaver to actor Christopher Reeveóthe document calls for an expanded course of study in history, civics, and the humanities, providing all students with a full, warts-and-all understanding of our own and other nations."

American Museum of the Moving Image

  • The Living Room Candidate - (dead link)
    A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials

American Political Prints, 1766-1876
Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
From HarpWeek

American Radicalism Collection
Contains a growing collection of digital images
Michigan State University

American University Campaign Finance Website
 "Our files are taken directly from the Federal Election Commission's website as soon as the FEC updates its files each month. Usually, files will be ready for downloading beginning the second or third day of each month...We continue to create our files in .dbf format for optimum flexibility. And now, to make file access faster, all files are compressed using PKZIP."
- School of Communication, American University

Amnesty International Report 2007

Arms Control Today
Published by the Arms Control Association

Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC)
"...is the largest private archives in the world which is dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and disseminating information on political assassinations."

  • AARC Public Library
    "The AARC Public Library is a collection of over 35,000 pages of reports, transcripts, and other documents relating to political assassinations. Many of these documents were recently declassified under the terms of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, whose mandate was carried out by the Assassination Records Review Board."

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (online magazine)

Bases... - (dead link) (Spanish)
"...educational information aboutthe most important work of Juan Bautista Alberdi [1810-1884] (Argentine political philosopher and diplomat), 'Departure bases and points for the political organization of the Argentine Republic', a masterpiece of political science. Many of the suggestions contained in it were incorporated into the Argentine constitution of 1853."
By Alberto Paronetto

BBC News : UK Confidential
Recently declassified government documents from 1970.

Beyond Delay
The 20 Most Corrupt Member of Congress
Annual report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 - (dead link)
A University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit
"The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917...Materials include I.W.W. publications, personal recollections, newspaper articles, court records, government reports, correspondence, and journal articles that are part of the collections of three libraries: The University of Arizona Library, the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona, and the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona.

[borderlines] Americas Program
"...goal is to help forge a new global affairs agenda for the U.S. government and people-one that makes the United States a more responsible global leader and partner. The primary way we do this is by producing policy reports, issue briefs, political commentary, and popular education materials offering essential information and credible, forward looking policy analysis."
Maintained by the Americas Program of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)

  • borderlines
    Journal on U.S.-Mexico border affairs (published 1993-2001).

British Library of Political & Economic Science (LSE)

Brookings Institution

Brown Electronic Article Review Service - BEARS
Moral and Political Philosophy
"We propose to electronically publish short but substantial reviews of articles that have appeared in the last six months."
Edited by James Dreier, David Estlund, Brown University

Canadian Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire
Maintained jointly by the Senate, House of Commons and Library of Parliament, offers information on the Canadian Parliament

  • History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1747
    "...is a unique electronic resource that provides information on the electoral history of Canada since Confederation. Included you will find the names of all the candidates to all the federal elections as well as a description of all the ridings." (February 2001)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)

Cases & Materials on American Federalism - (dead link)
"...used in American Government Courses at Purdue University Calumet. The site contains historical documents [American, British, and English], a timeline, a glossary, edited court cases, review questions, other materials, and links to other free resources."
Online textbook by Douglas G. Amber, Dept. of History & Political Science, Purdue University

Center for Democracy & Technology
"...works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media."

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

  • "Assessing the Assessment: The 1999 National Intelligence Estimate of the Ballistic Missile" - (dead link) By Joseph Cirincione, Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2000, Vol. 7, No. 1
  • CNS Reports
    • WMD Terrorism and Usama Bin Laden
      By Kimberly Resch and Matthew Osborne, March 2001
      "Following the links below to the testimony transcripts and to the U.S. indictment of Bin Laden et al. is a brief description of Al-Fadl and his testimony regarding the attempted acquisition of uranium, given on February 6, 7, and 13, 2001 during the trial at the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Also included are a chronology of key incidents related to Usama Bin Ladenís connection to and interest in nuclear weapons as well as a list of significant events allegedly related to Bin Laden and/or Al-Qaíida."

Center for the Study of Democracy - (dead link)
University of California, Irvine

  • "Constitutional Interpretation as Constitutional Creation" - (dead link)
    By Walter Murphy, Princeton University
    1999-2000 Harry Eckstein Lecture

Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) - Publications
"...is a non-profit organization, based in WashingtonDC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse. The organization was founded in March 1999 by a diverse group of academicians, professionals, and activists--both Muslim and non-Muslim--from around the who agree on the need for the study of and dissemination of reliable information on this complex topic."
Online Publications include: Muslim Democrat ; Conference Proceedings ; Democracy Watch.

A Century of Law making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
"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...In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

  • The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States
    United States Serial Set Numbers 2484 to 2589
    U.S. Congressional Documents
    "The six-volume set entitled The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, from House Miscellaneous Document No. 603 of the U.S. Serial Set, was compiled by Dr. Francis Wharton and promulgated on August 13, 1888, by both houses of Congress."

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)

  • "Foreign Policy in the Age of Terrorism - (dead link)" (31 October 2001) [.pdf]
    By Henry Kissinger
    Transcript of the 2001 Ruttenberg Lecture

Chile: 16,000 Secret U.S. Documents Declassified
"The release, totaling over 50,000 pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice Department records, represents the fourth and final ìtrancheî of the Clinton Administrationís special Chile Declassification Project ... The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents that the Directorate of Operations had refused to releaseórecords of U.S. covert operations between 1968 and 1975 to destabilize the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and, after the violent 1973 coup, to bolster the military regime of Augusto Pinochet."
See also NSA's Chile Documentation Project - (dead link).
National Security Archive

Chinese Military Power
A Compendium of Online Resources About Chinese Military Policy & Capabilities
"...your gateway to full-text online analysis and research tools essential to understanding China's military policy, capabilities, and potential. Here you will find access to the spectrum of U.S. opinion regarding China's strategic development, with regularly updated links to online articles, reports, and government documents assessing China's military modernization, relevant political and economic factors, the military balance in East Asia, and U.S. policy toward China
- Sponsored The Project on Defense Alternatives

CIFP - Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
"The CIFP project, [database] initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the economic, political, social and cultural environments of countries around the world."
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Common Sense
Thomas Paine, 1776.

Common Dreams - News Center
"Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community"
"An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard to find with our corporate-dominated media."

Common-Place: Special Issue on the Constitution
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2002
Roundtable Discussion: The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
"In eight paired essays, historians, political scientists, journalists, and lawyers examine the uses and abuses of the Constitution in contemporary American political affairs, from Bush v. Gore to the The Clinton Impeachment."
Sections include: Electoral College ; The Clinton Impeachment ; The Second Amendment ; Women and the Constitution.

Commonwealth Institute - QDR [Quadrennial Defense Review] Page
A Compendium of Online Resources about U.S. Defense Strategy, Force Planning, and Policy Reviews.

Comparative Connections
An E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations

Congress Online Project - (dead link)
"...to examine the use of Web sites and other forms of online communications by congressional offices. The goal of the project is to improve electronic communication between Members of Congress and the public."
Conducted by George Washington University and the Congressional Management Foundation

  • E-mail Overload in Congress - (dead link) "This is the first in a series of Online Issue Briefs that the Congress Online Project will be presenting to congressional offices

Congressional Research Service - CRS Reports for Congress

  • Trends in Terrorism: 2006 (July 2006)
    "This report summarizes and discusses trends in terrorism as identified in recent analysis by the State Department, the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and independent analysts."
    By Raphael Perl, Congressional Research Service.

Congressional Quarterly

U.S. Congressional Reports
- GPO Access

Congressional Staff Directory
Guide to members of the U.S. Congress
From CQ Press

Constitution Finder - (dead link)
"This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are listed alphabetically, and each is linked to its constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet."
Maintained by Christine Nguyen, The T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond

Constitution of the United States of America : Analysis and Interpretation
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Supplements to the Constitution are cumulative.
Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

  • Background on the News
    • Iraq - (dead link)
      Q&A Fact Sheets
    • North Korea - (dead link)
      Q&A Fact Sheets
  • Terrorism: Questions & Answers
    "If youíre bewildered by anthrax, Afghanistan, and a lot else thatís happened since September 11, join the crowd. Our aim is to help sort it all out for youóin a question-and-answer format thatís authoritative, easily understandable, and nonpartisan."
    Sections include: Afghanistan ; What is Terrorism? ; Terrorist Groups ; State Sponsors of Terrorism ; Havens for Terrorism ; Coalition States ; Weapons of Mass Destruction ; Homeland Security ; Causes of 9/11 ; Policy After 9/11.
  • National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency
    Task Force Report, October 2006.
  • The January 9 Elections and Beyond: The Road Ahead for Israelis, Palestinians, and the U.S. in 2005 (January 11, 2005) [Transcript]
    Speaker: David B. Makovsky, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Presider: Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations.

Current History
A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs.

Democracy Papers
"In these papers, we have tried to explicate what some of those principles are, indicating a little of their historical development and explaining why they are important to the workings of government in the United States in particular as well as democracy in general."
A U.S. Dept. of State publication.
By Melvin I. Urofsky, Professor of History and Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University

Democratic Vistas: The William Clyde DeVane Lecture Series
Part of Yale University's Tercentennial celebration.

Diplomacy Monitor
"Tracking Internet-based Global Diplomacy"
"The St. Thomas University School of Law (Miami, Florida, USA) has deployed specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiquÈs, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into a synthesized information stream for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations
- St. Thomas University School of Law

DISA - Digital Imaging Project of South Africa
"...is to make accessible to scholars and researchers world-wide, South African material of high socio-political interest which would otherwise be difficult to locate and use. In addition the project aims to provide experience and develop knowledge and expertise in digital imaging amongst archivists and librarians in this country ... The title of the project chosen is South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990. It covers the three key decades in the growth of opposition to apartheid rule, a period when the African National Congress (ANC), black consciousness, and other resistance movements were very active. Approximately forty periodical titles have been selected from a very comprehensive list, with a view to presenting not only a wide spectrum of political views published during these years, but also a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender. Publications reflecting both black and white viewpoints are included, and an attempt has been made to represent distinctive regional variations."
Located at Campbell Collections, University of Natal

Docs Populi - (dead link)
Searchable Database of Poster Art
"Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century."

Douglas - Archives of American Public Address - (dead link)
"Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University."

Dr. Seuss Went to War:
A Catalog of Political Cartoons By Dr. Seuss
400 political cartoons by Theodor Seuss Geisel penned from 1941-1943 in the New York newspaper PM.
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Economic and Political Weekly (India)

The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations

Election 2000 - An Internet Library - (dead link)
"A publicly accessible repository of digital materials covering the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000."
"The Presidential Election of 2000 was one of the closest and most controversial elections in our Nation's history. This Internet Library was created to preserve this period of our digital history...The collection contains sites gathered from Aug. 1, 2000 to Jan. 14, 2001. You can now travel back in time and view these sites as they appeared during that period."
From Alexa Wayback Machine - Commissioned by the Library of Congress

e-merge: A Student Journal of International Affairs

European Research Papers Archive (ERPA)
"ERPA is a common access point for...online working paper series in the field of European integration research ... At present [08/02/01], the ERPA database contains 454 papers."

European Journal of International Law
Past issues only

"Evaluating Implementation of Web-Based Teaching in Political Science" - (dead link)
Online article by G. David Garson, North Carolina State University
From PS Online - (dead link), American Political Science Association

Federal Election Commission

Federation of American Scientists

Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden
The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877
"...primarily from the pages of Harperís Weekly, as a public service to familiarize students and the general public with the historic events of the Electoral College controversy of 1876-1877.The organization of the site allows users to follow events day by day, to acquire a more in-depth understanding by reading the overview, and to gain insight into the pressís coverage by looking at the numerous period cartoons (most by Thomas Nast), along with corresponding explanations of their historical meaning.
From HarpWeek

Forced Migration Online (FMO)
"Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users."
Sections include: Digital Library ; Web Catalogue ; Regional Resources ; Thematic Resources ; Handbooks & Guidelines ; Image Database.

  • Lessons Learned Report (April 2001)
    Children and Adolescents in Palestinian Households: Living with Effects of Prolonged Conflict and Forced Migration - A Regional Study
    - Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Foreign Relations of the United States

"...is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office."

  • 1900-1918
    From Libraries, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • 1945-
     From Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department
    "This site is no longer updated" - After January 20, 2001

Freedom House
"...a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom."

From Marx to Mao
"My intention in setting up From Marx to Mao is not to "compete" with the MEIA, [Marx/Engles Internet Archive] which is an impossible task given the many volunteers who participate in that project, so much as it is to provide an on-line version of very important texts, most especially by Lenin, which are long, long overdue."
By Dave Romagnolo

George J. Mitchell Papers
 "This site is dedicated to providing information about, and access to, the papers of George J. Mitchell (Bowdoin 1954), as well as access to related information about American government, politics, and legislation...selected documents, photographs, and sound and video clips are be available at this site."
Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College

George Washington University - The National Security Archive
"...an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

  • The September 11th Sourcebooks
    National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War
    • Volume I: Terrorism and U.S. Policy (September 21, 2001)
      "...contains the documents that our staff experts, led by Dr. Jeffrey Richelson and coordinated by Michael Evans, have selected as the most important available primary sources on U.S. terrorism policy."
    • Volume II: Afghanistan- Lessons from the Last War (October 9, 2001)
      "...Archive experts John Prados and Svetlana Savranskaya draw on declassified records and the memoirs of former Soviet officials to examine Soviet policymaking, military operations, and lessons learned from the last war in Afghanistan, a bloody, ten-year conflict that pitted Soviet military forces against CIA-backed Afghan rebels."
  • Chile: 16,000 Secret U.S. Documents Declassified
    "The release, totaling over 50,000 pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice Department records, represents the fourth and final ìtrancheî of the Clinton Administrationís special Chile Declassification Project ... The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents that the Directorate of Operations had refused to releaseórecords of U.S. covert operations between 1968 and 1975 to destabilize the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and, after the violent 1973 coup, to bolster the military regime of Augusto Pinochet."
    See also NSA's Chile Documentation Project - (dead link).
  • The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal
    NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 32
    Presented in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1 June 2000
    "Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project releases two volume report and database on Guatemalan security forces."
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Database, 1945-1990 - (dead link)
    "...provides access to the documentary record of the nuclear activities and policy process of the U.S. government from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the IAEA inspections of the Iraqi nuclear program. The collection consists of 2,651 catalogued primary source documents totaling approximately 14,000 pages. The documents cover four aspects of policy over three policy making periods."
  • Shoot Down in Peru
    The Secret U.S. Debate over Intelligence Sharing in Peru and Columbia (April 2001)
    Edited by Michael L. Evans

Glossary of Political Economy Terms
By Dr. Paul M. Johnson, Auburn University

GPO Access
Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips
Superintendent of Documents Home Page

  • United States Code
    "The United States Code is prepared and published by the
    Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
    Representatives. This database contains the general and
    permanent laws of the United States."
  • Congressional Committee Prints
     "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses."
  • General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  • National Archives and Records Administration - Office of the Federal Register
    • Office of Federal Register
      Includes: Code of Federal Regulations ; Federal Register ; List of CFR Sections Affected ; Privacy Act Issuances ; Public and Private Laws ; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ; U.S. Government Manual ; United States Statutes at Large ; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
    Federal Bulletin Board

The Great Debate & Beyond : The History of Televised Presidential Debates
 1960-1996
A wonderful multimedia presentation from "The Great Debate" between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 through the 1996 debate between Bush and Clinton.
Includes Curriculum Resources.
By the Museum of Broadcast Communications

Guide to Researching the Council of Europe
"This guide is designed to assist the researcher seeking information and documentation about and from the Council of Europe (CoE). We begin with a brief history of the CoE and a table listing its major institutions in comparison with those of the European Union. The bulk of this guide discusses the major institutions of the CoE and their main forms of documentation. The final section lists CoE entities and conventions by broad subject categories."
By Anne Burnett, Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian at the University of Georgia School of Law Library

Habermas Online
Well organized website on the work of the German philosopher J¸rgen Habermas.
Includes Primary Texts ; Secondary Sources ; Introductions ; Reviews ; Links ; Tricks

The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
"The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection reflecting a complex career. With over 25,000 items (about 75,000 digital images), the papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmannís trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career ... Parts of the collection will be made available for public access on the Internet. The current preview of selections from Arendt's writings also includes an essay on Arendt's intellectual history, a chronology of her life, and an index of all folders in the Arendt Papers."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Harvard University - Institute of Politics (IOP)

  • Events and Programs Forum Archive
    "The Institute of Politics is proud to make available a searchable video archive spanning thirty years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (formerly the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs). The archive, featuring nearly 1,200 Forum events on politics, policy, culture, and academic life, will provide rich historical content and context to students, researchers, and citizens from around the world."

Historia Constitucional (Electronic Journal of Constitutional History) - (dead link)
Area de Derecho Constitucional, Universidad de Oviedo

History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)
"...is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics."
By Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University

Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 (January 2007)

How Polls are Conducted
The Gallup Organization - FAQ
By Frank Newport, Lydia Saad, David Moore

IDEA
"...is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide, democide, holocaust, and murder."

Identities: How Governed, Who Pays? - (dead link)
By H.B. Paksoy, 2001
Simultaneous print and e-version release

In Focus - (dead link) Foreign Policy In Focus Briefs Index

INCORE
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
"...a central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. It is intended to serve not only academic researchers but also policy-makers and practitioners."
A joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University

Independent International Commission on Kosovo

Institute for Science and International Security
"Its efforts focus on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. ISIS's projects integrate technical, scientific, and policy research in order to build a sound foundation for a wide variety of efforts to reduce the threat posed by nuclear weapons to U.S. and international security."

(Publications, Papers and Assessments selected)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  • "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" (January 2001)
    Download in PDF: Full document - (dead link)]
    "The full report, which runs to over 1000 pages, has been over three years in production and is the work of 123 Lead Authors from around the world."

International Crime Threat Assessment
"This Global assessment was prepared by a US Government interagency working group in support of and pursuant to the President's International Crime Control Strategy."

International IDEA - The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

  • Voter Turnout from 1945 to 1998:
    A Global Report on Political Participation
    "The International IDEA Voter Turnout Website contains the most comprehensive global collection of political participation statistics available. Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945 are presented country by country, (click on the maps) using both the number of registered voters and voting age population as indicators."

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
"The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. Thirty-four countries are members of the ISSP."

Kiosk: Journal of Geo-Politics
"...a unique and innovative collection of online newspapers and other resources related to the political world...also lists other resources under the following categories: General Information, History and Culture, Government and Politics, Economy and Development, In-Country Information Resources, and Travel/Tours."
Published bi-weekly by Fowler's Internet Library

Ku Klux Klan Collection
Selected documents available online
Michigan State University Libraries

Labor Art
"...a virtual museum designed to gather, identify and display examples of the cultural and artistic history of working people and to celebrate the trade union movement's contributions to that history."

Latin American Outlook
Online publications from the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Law and Politics Book Review
An Electronic Periodical Published by The Law and Courts Section of The American Political Science Association.

Library of Congress - American Memory

Lijphart Elections Archive
"...is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats. The Archive originally acquired print copies of the data and is now focusing on online data."
- University of California, San Diego Social Sciences & Humanities Library

The Living Room Candidate
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
- American Museum of the Moving Image

Los Angeles Times

Marxists Internet Archive
"The Marxists Internet Archive provides the most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials.

[Mills, John Stuart] John Stuart Mill Links
Sections include: Writings by JSM ; Writings about JSM ; Reviews ; General Sites.
Maintained by Pablo Stafforini

MIT - Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Modern Japanese Political History Materials (in Japanese) - (dead link) "The Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room of the National Diet Library holds documents, such as diaries, letters, and business papers, once owned by politicians in and after the latter half of the 19th century. Important items selected from these materials are electronically exhibited here, classified by period or theme. A summary of each collection, catalogued by the name of its former owner, can be retrieved. Searching individual documents included in some collections is also available on an experimental basis."
National Diet Library, Tokyo

"The Moral Equivalent of War"
By William James, 1906

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
American Memory, Library of Congress
"The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign."

National Public Radio (NPR) - The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shia Faith and Politics
Audio and Text of the February 2007 NPR series.
"The United States is immersed more deeply than ever in the Muslim world's sectarian divide. A five-part series explores the split between Shia and Sunnis, from its origins shortly after the death of Muhammed in the seventh century to the modern-day upheaval in Iraq."
In This Series: : The Origins of the Shia-Sunni Split ; Shi Rise Amid Century of Mideast Turmoil ; Export of Iran's Revolution Spawns Violence ; Iraq War Deepens Sunni-Shia Divide ; Shia-Sunni Conflict Forces U.S. Shift in Iraq ; Profiles: Key Individuals in the Shia-Sunni Divide ; Chronology: A History of the Shia-Sunni Split ; One Thousand Years of Shiite History ; Suggested Reading.

The New Republic

OJPCR - The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Online Journal of Justice Studies - (dead link) (electronic journal)
"...is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to investigation and discussion of a broad range of justice issues from around the world."

PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

PBS - Online Newshour Video
"Archive includes programs broadcast after February 7, 2000."

The PEW Forum on Religion & Public Life

  • Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
    Discussion held October 15, 2004.
    Speakers include: J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University, Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations, Louise Richardson, Harvard University, Shibley Telhami University of Maryland. Moderator: E.J. Dionne, Jr., The Brookings Institution.

Policy Library
"The aim of the Policy Library is to place public policy knowledge in the public domain. Placing policy research and analysis in the public realm enables ordinary citizens and non-governmental organisations to compete and contest the opinions and decisions of civil servants, local government officials and politicians ... There are two main components of the Library. The first is the database of online policy and research papers - which aims to be progressively comprehensive in its coverage - from UK think tanks to think tanks in English speaking world, to policy papers from universities and government research, to foreign language research papers. The second is an attempt in some policy areas to place those papers in context - through subjective literature reviews. The aim of these reviews is to point people in the direction of the most important research and away from the insubstantial or self-serving government puff."

Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
"The resources collected here trace the history of political cartooning from the beginning of the nineteenth century and document its transformation during the watershed period at the end of the century when political cartoons emerged as one of the most popular and influential features of the daily press. It also documents some of their uses, from Nast's campaign of the 1870s through portrayals of political leaders, issues, and world events during the first decades of the twentieth century."
By Jim Zwick

Political Science Manuscripts - (dead link)
"...is a project to distribute political science research and scholarship online. PSM indexes abstracts to scholarly manuscripts and provides facilities for researchers to make their manuscripts available online. PSM also hosts special collections and maintains links to online journals (and other online research repositories) in political science."
By William J. Ball, Dept. of Political Science, The College of New Jersey

Political Science Quarterly
Selected recent articles are available online

PopPolitics
e-zine Commentary on Popular and Political Cultures

PROceedings- Political Research Online - (dead link)
"...selected conference papers from the 1997 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Papers cover American politics, political theory, international and comparative politics, and other topics."

Radical America
"...was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed. Its trajectory shows something about the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of th