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  Government, Politics, Law

o All Law
    ...consumer-oriented legal information, advisories, forms, inc. usage cautions
o Allpolitics
    ...national legislative, judicial and executive branch news
o America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia (Duke Special Collections)
    ...exhibit includes letters, sheet music, leaflets, buttons, bumper stickers
o Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: Australian National U.
    ...comprehensive collaborative project linking over 6700 Asia-Pacific resources
o Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    ...documents relevant to law, history, politics, economics, diplomacy, government
o Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy
    ...73 historical documents with notes, published by U.S. Information Agency
o California State Home Page
o Capitol Spotlight
    ...tracks bills through the U.S. House and Senate
o Case Western Reserve University School of Law
    ...extensive legal resources links
o Century of Law Making for a New Nation, 1774-1873
    ...Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, other primary source docs
o Clamen's Political Archives
    ...international historical documents collection
o Congressional Contact
    ...fax, phone, e-mail addresses, and WWW sites
o Constitution of the United States of America
    ...searchable analyses of Supreme Court constitutional cases through June 1996
o Cornell University Law School
    ...extensive legal resources
o Democratic National Committee
o Domestic and Foreign Government Informaton
    ...resources from the Library of Congress
o Embassy Page
    ...links to foreign embassies located in the U.S. and embassies worldwide
o Federalist Papers
    ...85 essays published to urge ratification of the proposed U.S. Constitution
o FedStats
    ...statistics from more than 70 U.S. government agencies
o Findlaw's Internet Legal Resources: Main Index
    ...full-text resources, inc. Supreme Court Decisions from 1893 to the present
o Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
    ...searchable locator of government information resources
o Hieros Gamos: The Comprehensive Legal Site
    ...Internet Law Library provides links to legal forms, cases, publications, more
o INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
    ...U. of Calif. cooperative links to govt., arts, sciences, and education, searchable
o Internet Guide to California's Legislature
    ...up-to-date California legislative information, free subscriptions to bill-tracking
o League of Women Voters of California
    ...legislative watch, issues analyses, voter pamphlets, elected officials contact info
o League of Women Voters of the United States
    ...legislative watch, issues analyses, advocacy, election news, voter education
o Military Intelligence Sites
    ...links to unrestricted documents, other military information
o Presidential Elections Maps: 1860-1996
    ...maps showing each election's state-by-state winners, inc. vote percentages
o Project Hermes: Supreme Court Decisions
    ...all decisions rendered since May 1990, 580 other historical decisions
o Project Vote Smart
    ...performance reports on political leaders, inc. voting records
o Repositories of Primary Sources
    ...2100 sites with manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photos, more
o Republican National Committee
o Rulers of the World
    ...20th Century heads of state and heads of government for current countries
o State and Local Government on the Net
    ...searchable Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites
o THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
    ...legislative information from the U.S. Congress, named for Thomas Jefferson
o United Nations Home Page
    ...daily news updates, history, access to departments, projects, and services
o Web Sites on National Parliaments
    ...partial European, Asian, African, British, S. American, and U.S. listings
o Welcome to the White House
    ...historical tour, portrait galleries, Citizens' Handbook, news, e-mail First Family


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  History

o American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers)
o American Civil War Homepage
    ...access to timelines, letters, diaries, graphics, military info, discussions, more
o American Culture in the 1930s
    ...extensive collection of essays and topical links to Depression-era information
o American Life Histories: Federal Writers' Project Manuscripts, 1936-40
o American Memory Project: Library of Congress
    ...searchable photos, prints, films, recordings, documents
o Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: Australian National U.
    ...comprehensive collaborative project linking over 6700 Asia-Pacific resources
o Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    ...documents relevant to law, history, politics, economics, diplomacy, government
o Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy
    ...73 historical documents with notes, published by U.S. Information Agency
o bigchalk (The Educational Network): A Changed World
    ...extensive photo & print resources for schools regarding Sept. 11th terrorism
o BUBL Link - 900
    ...history and geography links organized by Dewey Decimal number
o Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
    ...links to medieval history, art, documents, literature
o California Mission Studies Association
    ...illustrated text of mission history, architecture, community life, inc. many links
o Chronology of Russian History
    ...860 A.D.-current chronology with links to documents, biographies, arts
o Civil War Women
o Clamen's Political Archives
    ...international historical documents collection
o Cybrary of the Holocaust
    ...eyewitness accounts, background material, images
o Discovery Channel
    ...stories focusing on historical curiosities, biographical sketches, topical issues
o Documenting the American South: Southern Experience, 19th-century America
    ...primary sources document Southern culture from Southerners' viewpoints
o Documents Room (U. Kansas)
    ...international collection of historical documents, searchable
o Eighteenth-Century Resources
o Ellis Island
    ...wealth of historical info, includes immigation museum and genealogy research
o Exploring Ancient World Cultures
    ...Egypt, China, Greece, Roman Empire, Islamic World, India, Medieval Europe
o EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
o Federalist Papers
    ...85 essays published to urge ratification of the proposed U.S. Constitution
o From Revolution to Reconstruction
    ...American history outline juxtaposed with primary source documents
o History and Images Index
    ...links to historical images organized by region, time period, and genre
o History Channel
    ...historic sites, tours, exhibits, audio archive, trivia quizes, This Day in History
o Horus' Web Links to History Resources (UC Riverside)
    ...major ancient, medieval, modern world history site, inc. Egyptology resources
o Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
    ...100 medieval images from Columbia U.'s Rare Book & Manuscript Library
o Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-50
    ...essays, newspaper articles, diaries, glossary, photographs, drawings
o Making of America
    ...primary sources from pre-Civil War through reconstruction, searchable
o Manuscript Resources for the Civil War (U. Arkansas)
o Mayflower Web Page
o Medieval and Renaissance Culture
    ...comprehensive site inc. art, architecture, heraldry, daily life, manuscripts
o Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
    ...political, cultural, religious, and everyday life docs, English translations
o Military History: World War I (1914-1918)
    ...collection of links to World War I historical and pictorial sites
o National Archives: The Exhibit Hall
    ...permanent and rotating exhibits of Americana, inc. posters, docs, artifacts
o National Portrait Gallery
    ...searchable image database of nationally significant Americans
o National Women's History Project
o NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
    ...links to medieval history, arts, cultures, people, philosophy, law, religion
o New Deal Network
    ...Great Depression primary documents, features, oral histories, online resources
o 1920s
    ...arts, news, politics, science, business, society, fads, sports, links to other sites
o Northern Ireland Conflict
    ...scholarly materials illuminating "the Troubles" from 1968 to present day
o Plimoth Plantation
    ...historical database from Plymouth, Massachusetts
o Presidential Portraits at the Library of Congress
    ...156 portraits of presidents and first ladies
o Repositories of Primary Sources
    ...2100 sites with manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photos, more
o Roaring Twenties (Austin State U.)
    ...detailed outline of decade's arts, economics, politics, social movements, more
o Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature
    ...comprehensive links to social, cultural, political, and artistic background info
o Today in History
    ...daily historical facts highlighted with Library of Congress materials
o Tribe Finder
    ...clickable U.S. map linking to Native American tribal history and cultures
o USA Page: History of the United States
    ...diverse links to .gov, .edu, and personal sites featuring primary sources
o U.S. Civil War Center
    ...Louisiana State U.'s comprehensive site
o United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    ...images, documents, oral histories
o Viet Nam Generation
    ...historical records project from U. Virginia
o Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941
    ...Dust Bowl refugees' music, storytelling, camp meetings, personal narratives
o World War I: Trenches on the Web
    ...links to photos, posters, maps, weapons, biographies, oral histories, documents
o World War I Document Archive
    ...documents, maps, statistics, bios, reminiscences, images, articles, links
o World War II
    ...links to events, battles, timelines, women's role, social history, posters
o WWW Medieval Resources
    ...links to sites with texts, maps, images, timelines, music, discussion
o WWW-VL The History Index
    ...U. Kansas' links to historical sites organized by eras, regions, subtopics
o WWW-VL History: The United States
    ...U. Kansas' links to U. S. history sites organized by time period and topic


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  Geography

o Atlapedia
    ...brief country profiles, inc. geography, climate, people, religion, language
o Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: Australian National U.
    ...comprehensive collaborative project linking over 6700 Asia-Pacific resources
o BUBL Link - 900
    ...history and geography links organized by Dewey Decimal number
o CIA World Factbook 2000
    ...extensive information about countries, including maps
o City.Net
    ...city and country information, inc. CIA World Factbook
o Country Studies
    ...from L.C.'s Federal Research Division, inc. substantial historical, cultural info
o Ethnic World Survey
    ...extensive links to historical/cultural/ethnic info and current country news
o Flags of the World
    ...color printable current and historic country and organization flags, flag history
o Geography
    ...exceptional, up-to-date country info, world flags, govt. leaders, features, quizes
o Great Globe Gallery
    ...over 100 ancient, medieval, contemporary globes pictured on the Web
o Horus' Web Links to History Resources (UC Riverside)
    ...major ancient, medieval, modern world history site, inc. extensive Egyptology
o Latin World
    ...links to Latin American and Caribbean Internet resources (English and Spanish)
o Map Collections: 1544-1996
    ...search historical maps by keyword, subject, creator, geographic location
o Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
    ...lucid presentation of cartography principles, differing map projections
o Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
    ...substantial repository of U.S., world, special interest, and historical maps


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  Economics

o American Stock Exchange
    ...market summaries updated daily, listed companies, information exchange
o Bank Rate Monitor
    ...daily updated bank rates on mortgages, credit cards, auto and personal loans
o BUBL Link - 330
    ...economic information organized by Dewey Decimal number
o Consumer Price Indexes
    ...inc. news releases, publications, frequently asked questions, contact info
o EDGAR Databse of Corporate Information
    ...Security and Exchange Commission's searchable database of corporate reports
o Federal Reserve Bank of New York
    ...publications, statistics, banking and savings bond info, news, reserve site links
o Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
    ...FinCEN's advisories describing trends and developments in financial crime
o Foreign Exchange Rates
    ...Washington Post's currency rates and information updated three times daily
o Government Securities Market Regulation
    ...Securities Act regulations, frauds, protection from investment scams
o History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
    ...Glyn and Roy Davies' annotated chronology of money and barter, inc. articles
o Money.com
    ...Money Magazine's site, inc. up-to-date "Quick Quotes," business and tech news
o New York Stock Exchange
    ...extensive databases of economic information, designed as an educational tool
o Securities and Exchange Commission: Investor Alerts
    ...informs consumers of cases involving specific securities fraud investigations


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  Genealogy

o Christine's Genealogy Website
    ...African American focus, also chronicles discrimination against persons of color
o Cool Sites for Genealogists
    ...Colorado Genealogical Society features cool site of the month, backfiles
o Genealogical Hotlinks
    ...extensive links collection from Utah State Archives and Records Service
o Genealogy Gateway
    ...over 20,000 genealogy and history resource listings, inc. query search
o Genealogy Online
    ...chat, database search, links, host name, e-mail forwarding services (small fee)
o Genealogy Page: National Archives and Records Administration
    ...free genealogical publications (order off-line), bookstore, microfilm catalogs
o Genealogy Resources on the Internet
    ...many unique links, inc. ethnic data, using photography resources, gravestones
o Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
    ...links by geographical area (Atlas), surname, and subject category
o National Genealogical Society
    ...booklist for students (Society's bookstore has some titles), fees for other services
o RAND Genealogy Club
    ...Roots Location List, Roots Surname List, Soundex Converter, family tree links
o RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
    ...extensive database and search capabilities, fees for some non-basic services
o USGen Web Project
    ...Internet genealogical materials organized by state and county


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  Social Science Gateways

o Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
o Geospatial and Statistical Data Center: U. Virginia
o Social Sciences Virtual Library





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