Sites hosted by non-government organizations.
50 State Blue Book http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Blue_Books
State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Finding List A web-based finding list correlating Serial Set volumes to SuDocs numbers of annual reports and other serials, drawing information from the 1909 Checklist and the CIS U. S. Congressional Serial Set Index.
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789 - 1909
Congressional Quarterly Congress Collection Making sense of representative Democracy
The Dirksen Center's Congress in the Classroom Role of Congress in Formulating Policy The overall objective of this lesson is to help students learn that Congress plays a major role in how policies are formulated and carried out.
Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations provides access to the nine federally recognized Indian treaties that are absent from volume 2 of Charles J. Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. This site complements the digitized Kappler collection provided by the Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center
Google Patent Search Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006.
Law Libary of Congress Global Legal Monitor The Law Library of Congress foreign law bulletin
http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_roleofcongress.htm
Federal Glass Ceiling Commission
Federal Reserve Archival System It's mission is to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. The documents included are limited to government documents focused on national banking and economic data, ranging from 1896-1955 Banking Statistics to 1948-2005 Economic Indicators.
Historical Publications of the U. S. 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.
Historical Publications from WWII SMU Central University Libraries, which are part of GPO's Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), have digitized hundreds of historical World War II publications that are available to the public. With just a few keystrokes, Americans can access World War II reports and documents such as: Choosing Women for War - Industry Jobs, America's Biggest War Plant and Air Raid Shelters in Buildings.
Digitized World War II-era Standard and Armed Forces newsmaps, and World War Poster Collection from the University of North Texas Libraries
The HDSL is a project of the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security . As our website indicates, it "provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties digitized Kappler collection provided by the Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center
Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws in Electronic Format The selected laws are organized in alphabetical and public law number order and primarily come from the Department of Commerce (DoC) Law Library online catalog. The site also contains many explanatory notes while each law contains links to related bill information on the Library of Congress (LoC) THOMAS site, to a current related U.S. Code site, and to a current related C.F.R. site.
The public law legislative histories include Antidumping Act of 1921, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, the Copyright Law Revision of 1976, the Export Administration acts of 1965, 1972 and 1979, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976, amoung other laws.
Liber8 is a portal that links to economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and international economic data sources. The site was designed for university reference and government documents librarians, college and high school students and teachers, and Public library reference librarians. We have included Federal Reserve publications and information, as well as links to other government and private agency resources that would be useful to beginning economic or business students or others needing economic information. The resources included are designed to be a good starting point for access to reliable basic resources and research.
National Security Archive The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.
Opencrs Congressional Research Reports for the people
Policy Analysis Tool The Policy Agendas Project was born in 1994 to trace Congressional priorities back to World War II. Policy Analysis Tool can help researchers mine decades of longitudinal information that is reliable and backwards-compatible. The Project team members have imposed a categorization scheme (similar to very broad library subject headings) on the following government-related materials, from 1946 forward: Congressional hearings, U.S. laws, entries from Congressional Quarterly Almanac, selected articles in the New York Times Index, Budget of the United States.
Popular names of Acts in the U.S.Code
Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. This site currently covers the published speeches and documents of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. You can search across all volumes at the initial screen or search within a volume. Basic searches are amplified by boolean and proximity searches. Results can be sorted by author, title, date, and frequency.
The Way back Machine Browse through 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available.
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Congress Votes web page (Washington Post)
Women Working, 1800-1930, Open Collections Program Harvard University Library. Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3.500 books and paphlets, 1,200 photographs.