Past Hot Topics

Climate

Hurricane Katrina Flood Recovery (LA)

Hurricane Pam Simulation -- maps -- draft

On-Line Climate Atlas of the U.S.

Civil Rights

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library has been scanning hundreds of historical Civil Rights publications to make this digital collection possible. Americans can access Civil Rights documents such as The Civil Rights Act.

Constitution

Schools Ordered to observe  Constitution Day Sept.17th

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis & Interpretation

Campus Crime

FBI page related to their role in the VA Tech shootings

Violent Victimization of College Students, 1995-2002

Synopsis of Crime in Schools and Colleges: A Study of National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) DataCrime in the United States [TABLE 9 -- "Offenses Known to Law Enforcement by University and College"] link chnaged to 1/08 Not working

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/april07/addtn_resources.htm
OPE Campus Security Statistics Website
Indicators of School Crime and Safety.

Definition

What is an earmark?

Environment

Hot Spots and Health Risks – Diesel Construction in Connecticut

Genealogy

Genealogical Resources in U.S.Federal Depository Libraries

General

Benchmarking Connecticut's Economy - A Comparative Analysis of Innovation and Technology.  This report assesses Connecticut’s capacity and trends relative to other states in areas related to competitiveness and innovation in the knowledge economy.

Historic Videos

National Archives enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video

Immigration Issues

Fact Sheet on Employment-Based Legal Permanent Residents.

Fact Sheet on Family-Sponsored Legal Permanent Residents.

Mapping Immigration [Office of Immigration Statistics]

Influenza

Epidemic of 1918

Legislator Information

State of Connecticut : find Representatives, Senators, and Congressperson

Project vote smart :

search by 9 digit zip code

US Senators from Connecticut

US [House of] Represntatives from CT

CT Republican Party

CT Democratic Party

Congress.org

Search for and retrieve individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms. http://www.memberguide.gpoaccess.gov/

Podcasts

Governement Podcasts

Census Podcasts

U.S. Federal Government Libraries and Databases

AGRICOLA: ‘is the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library. Some printed works from as far back as the 15th century. Although AGRICOLA does not contain the text of to materials it cites, thousands of its records are linked to full-text documents on line.’

OLS:OLS is the Online Library System for the Library Network of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

ERIC: provides free access to records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text

GPO ACCESS:The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

Information Bridge:Department of Energy Scientific & Technical information from 1994 forward.

NTIS: largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. 1990 forward.

STINET:Public STINET provides access to citations of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.It also provides access to the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, Staff College Automated Military Periodical Index, DoD Index to Specifications and Standards, and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries.

Government News(RSS) Feeds

U.S. Government RSS Library

Census Bureau New on the Site

Computer Emergency Readiness Team RSS Channels

Department of Defense News Reader Feeds

Department of Education RSS Feeds

Equal Employment OpportunityCommission (EEOC) RSS News Feed

Geological Survey (USGS) Earth-quake RSS Feeds

National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) RSS Feeds

National Institutes of Health (NIH) News and Events

Experimental Listings of Watches,Warnings, & Advisories by State.

National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center RSS Feeds

Reports

U.S. Attorneys who have served less than full four-year terms, 1981-2006. CRS report for Congress

Same Sex Unions

Marriage and Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Unions  [Canada, A Discussion Paper]

Same-Sex Relationship Reports (Connecticut OLR)

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Nominees -

not confirmed         confirmed

Samuel A. Alito Nomination Collection: a bibliography

Reports about the "War on Terror"

A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership.

The Iraq Study Group Report.

al-Qaeda: The many faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat

Uniting Against Terrorism:
Recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy

UN action to counter terrorism

Congressional Restrictions on U.S. Military Operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, and Kosovo:

Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute