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History, California
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History, Middle East, Holocaust, Statistics,
Government
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Archives
Article Databases (to access articles from magazines, journals,
newspapers & books):
History
in Context (Gale Resource Center) - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Reference
articles, primary documents, and full-text magazine, journal and newspaper
articles covering all aspects of
Best for general/background history information, especially
articles under the “Reference”
category
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article (Under “Tools”.)
America:
History & Life with Full Text - on campus or off-campus w/ library
card - info
Current
and back issues of academic history journals. Best for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical
topics
JSTOR - Scholarly
journals archives - on campus or off-campus w/ library
card
Back
issues of important academic journals, including many
historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838.
Excellent for in-depth academic journal
articles on all historical topics except: recent history and articles
published within the last 3 – 5 years
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Gale
PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus
w/ library card
Articles
from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers and books; excellent set of
general periodical databases.
Best for articles on recent historical topics (within the last 10 - 20 years)
o To search for a specific topic, click on the Advanced search mode to search for multiple concepts.
o To limit searches to academic journal articles, click in the check box: “to peer-reviewed publications ” under “Limit results:”
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articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic
Journals” tab to display journal articles, click on "News"
to display news articles; click on "Books" to display book
articles.
History Cooperative - on
campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database
of full-text journal articles from
recent issues (going back about 5 – 10 years) from about 25 history journals,
including the following: Journal of American History, American
Historical Review, The History Teacher, Western Historical
Quarterly, Journal of American Ethnic History, Common-place, History
of Education Quarterly, Oregon History, Massachusetts Historical Review, New
York History & Environmental History.
In-depth academic journal articles
on all historical topics
Country
information:
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CountryWatch - on-campus - OR - off
campus w/ library card
Political, economic, business and
historical information on any country.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library Sources (subject encyclopedias):
- Arts
and Humanities Through the Eras
- Early
Civilizations in the Americas
- Encyclopedia
of Multicultural America
- U.S.
Immigration and Migration Reference Library
- U*X*L
American Decades
Gale Biography
Resource Center - on
campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of biographical articles on famous people.
N.Y. Times Archives: Search articles from 1851--1980 (pdf files) or 1981--present (text files). Full-text articles from 1851--1922 & from 1987--present are free. Articles from 1923-1986 cost $3.95 per article. Full-text of articles are also available at Skyline Library on microfilm for 15 cents per page. more info
Historical
N.Y. Times
(Access to
this database requires a SFPL library card number.)
Full-text of all N.Y. Times articles from 1851-2001.
Historical
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) (Access requires SFPL library card number.)
Full-text
of all S.F. Chronicle articles from 1865-1922
Google
Advanced News Archive Search
Historical
news archives.
For free results only, in “Price” pull-down menu, select “no price”. info
CQ Historic Documents - on
campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database
of over 3200 full-text documents covering the most significant events of each
year from 1972 to the present. These documents range from presidential
speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to
California History Quarterly Subject Index: This index allows
you to look up articles in the California History Quarterly journal by
subject so you can then find the print volumes in Skyline Library. Select the
alphabetical letter of your subject & then use the browser's Find command
(on Edit pull-down menu) to find the volume & page numbers of articles on
the subject. Skyline Library carries back issues of this journal for the
following volumes, issues and dates: v. 9, 10, 12, 14,16, (1930, '31, '33,
'37); v. 15 #1, 2, 3, (1936); v. 26-49, (1947 - 1970); v. 51 - 55, 1972 -1976;
v.56, 1977 (Incomplete set); v. 57, 1978 - present. (Note: This journal was
previously titled: California Historical Quarterly and
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:
- Type search words in the first search box & click Submit.
- The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system
- To Limit your results to books at Skyline
College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in
the Location: pull-down menu, select
- Once you find one book on your topic, click on the Subjects for that book to find other books on the same or related subjects
Online Books:
Hathi Trust Digital
Library: Search the full text of over 1.5 million fully viewable books in
30+ of the nation’s great research libraries, including U.C.,
Yale, Princeton, New York Public Library. Select “Full view only
” before searching to limit search to books that can be viewed in
full-text.
More information about Hathi
Trust Digital Library
UC Press E-Books
Collection: More
than 500 free online books
Project
Gutenberg:
Over 6,000 free out-of-copyright books in full-text
Links to electronic
books:
Excellent links from University of Texas Library
Selected Web Sites:
Primary Sources
U.S. History
California & Bay Area History
Women's History
Middle East
Holocaust
Statistics
Government Documents
General/World History
Best of History Web Sites: Extensive links to
recommended websites on all historical topics. Select a history category on
left.
History Topics: Links to recommended websites on all historical topics. Select a sub-category on left to narrow selection. (from IPL2)
World History Matters: portal to the
highly recommended world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media
World History Sources: resource center
designed to help teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from online
primary sources
Historical Text Archive: Comprehensive and
eclectic directory of historical resources. Includes primary
documents, related links, and electronic versions of print books.
History Guide: Subject catalog of recommended websites for historians, currently including
about 11.000 websites including the web directory of
Clio-Online
WebChron: The WebChronology Project: This ongoing project contains a
series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural
history. There is a major World History Chronology, and Regional Chronologies
that range from Africa South of the Sahara to
EuroDocs:
Online Sources for European History: European primary historical documents that shed light on key historical
happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of
political, economic, social and cultural history.
20th/21st Century Year by Year: Overview/timeline
of 20th & 21st Century events, issues, people & milestones
year by year.
Historypin: Digital time machine that creates a new way for the world
to see and share history, described in a YouTube video, “A Short Introduction
to Historypin”
Multiple time periods:
Using Primary Sources on the Web: A
research guide from the Reference and User Service Association History Section
in the American Library Association.
Library Research Using Primary Sources: A research guide
from U.C. Berkeley Library.
Historical
N.Y. Times
(Access to
this database requires a SFPL library card number.)
Full-text of all N.Y. Times articles from 1851-2001.
Historical
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) (Access requires SFPL library card number.
Full-text
of all S.F. Chronicle articles from 1865-1922
American
Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: An expansive
archive of American history and culture from the Library of Congress features
photographs, prints, motion pictures, manuscripts, printed books, pamphlets,
maps, and sound recordings going back to roughly 1490. Currently this site
includes more than 9 million digital items from more than 100 collections on
subjects ranging from African-American political pamphlets to
California as I Saw It:
First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849–1900: Part of the American
Memory project, these 190 works
presented on this site—approximately 40,000 written pages and more than 3,000
illustrations—provide eyewitness accounts covering California history from the
Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. Most authors represented are
white, educated, male Americans, including reporters detailing Gold Rush
incidents and visitors from the 1880s attracted to a highly-publicized romantic
vision of
Avalon
Project:
Extensive collection of documents in Law, History, Economics, Politics,
Diplomacy and Government. From
Internet
History Sourcebooks Project: Collection of public domain and
copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Hundreds of primary
source texts intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college
survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in
modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. (Part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.)
Many Pasts: Primary documents
in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans
throughout
A
Chronology of US Historical Documents: Key historical documents of the
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Current and
historical
Documents
For The Study Of American History: Important documents in
Electronic Text Center: Thousands of
literary and historical texts. From
EuroDocs: Western European primary
historical documents.
Eye Witness to History: Narratives and other first person sources for historical events prior to the 1940's, such as the World Wars, the Civil War, Medieval Europe, the Old West, and many others.
Hanover Historical Texts Project: Primary texts from all time periods and regions available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses.
In the
First Person:
Index to more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from
around the world.
National
Archives and Records Administration: Extensive archives of primary sources. Click on “Research Room” “Digital Classroom” and “The Exhibit Hall”. The Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System provides
access to material from more than 30 archival series of electronic records,
which include well over 50 million unique records. The series selected for AAD
identify specific persons, geographic areas, organizations, or dates. Some of
these series serve as indexes to accessioned archival records in non-electronic
formats.
Our
Documents:
100 milestone documents that chronicle
Online
Archive of California: Listing of materials such as manuscripts, photographs,
and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions
across
Project Gutenberg: Thousands of digitized historical and literary texts.
Regional Oral History Office: Transcripts of oral
histories from U.C. Berkeley's Regional Oral History Project in the following
subject areas: The Free Speech Movement, Women's Suffrage Movement, Disability
Rights and Independent Living Movement, The Earl Warren Oral History Project,
and Health Care, Science, and Technology.
Voyages: The Transatlantic
Slave Trade Database: This visually rich and authoritative
website provides information on the slave trade that spanned five
continents. Offers maps, images, timelines, tables, essays,
bibliographies, a database of African names, and more. Sponsored by
Specific time periods (rough chronological order):
The Chinese-American Experience: 1857-1892: From Harper's Weekly magazine.
Making of America: Collection of late-nineteenth-century American books
and journals covering social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal
articles. From the
Nineteenth Century Documents Project: A collection of
nineteenth century
North American Slave Narratives: Narratives of
fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form
from beginnings to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former
slaves published before 1920.
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925: About 8,000 images
and pages of primary source materials that describe the experiences of Chinese
immigrants in
Mr. Lincoln's Virtual
Library:
The Library of Congress presents information on Abraham Lincoln, including the
Emancipation Proclamation and his assassination, in this online exhibit of
primary sources.
First-Person Narratives of the
American South, 1860-1920: diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel
accounts, and ex-slave narratives, including not only
prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women,
African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company in
Early
Arrivals Records Search (EARS) database: Case files for early immigrants to
San Francisco & Hawaii from 1882-1943, a collaboration with the National Archives and
Records Administration, Pacific Region in
New Deal Network: Hundreds of primary
sources related to the Depression era and the New Deal, including letters,
photographs, posters, political cartoons, government documents, speeches, and
more.
U.S. Latinos and Latinas & World War II Oral History Project: More than 400 interviews documenting Latino WWII experiences.
World
War II Primary Source Document Collection: This Collection includes several
complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material
relating to WWII; plus the Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of
documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project: Personal
testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World
War II.
Suffering Under a Great
Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese
American Internment at Manzanar: In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the
Orchard Chronicles: Oral History
from Santa Clara County & Beyond: Small number of oral histories from
Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives: Student audio interview projects, largely first-person accounts related to 20th century Filipino-American history.
Article Databases
Finding Books
U.S. History Links from Librarians'
Internet Index
History Matters: U.S. history survey class and gateway to web
resources, offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history
A Biography of America: This public television telecourse, video series, and Web site explores United States history via 26 topics, each including interactive maps, key events, transcripts of the series, and Web links. Searchable.
Africans in America: "
The American Presidency Project: Historical and current information on US presidencies. Provides a searchable database of more than 85,000 documents, such as speeches, official papers, executive orders, proclamations, news conferences and press briefings.
The
American Revolution--H-Net
Liberty!: The
American Revolution--PBS
These
two sites are companion sites to the 1997 PBS documentary Liberty!: The
American Revolution. "Chronicle of the Revolution" contains
significant successes and setbacks in the revolution, as well as a bibliography,
time line, index of varied related subjects, and collection of annotated links.
Chronicling America: Historic
American Newspapers: This website serves as a comprehensive resource for
information on newspapers published in the
Documents For The Study Of American
History:
Important documents in
Documenting the American South: Thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs including "North American Slave Narratives", "First-Person Narratives of the American South" & "The Church in the Southern Black Community" and more.
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920: diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives, including not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
History Matters U.S. History Links: Annotated list of
Web sites for U.S. History survey courses.
In Motion: The African-American
Migration Experience: This extensive, well-designed website features images,
essays, lesson plans, and maps all focused on the movements of African Americans
from the 1400s to the present. The site is built around the history of 13
African American migration experiences: the transatlantic slave trade
(1450s-1867), runaway journeys (1630s-1865), the domestic slave trade
(1760s-1865), colonization and emigration (1783–1910s), Haitian Immigration
(1791–1809), Western migration (1840s-1970), Northern migration (1840s- 1890),
the Great Migration (1916–1930), the Second Great Migration (1940–1970),
Caribbean immigration (1900-present), the return South migration
(1970-present), Haitian immigration in the 20th century (1970-present), and
African immigration (1970-present). From the
Making of America: Collection of late-nineteenth-century
American books and journals covering social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject
areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and
science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500
books and 50,000 journal articles. From the
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser: Data describing the
people and the economy of the
U.S.
National Historic Landmarks Search: Search for information on National Historic
Landmarks by name or location. National Historic
Landmarks (NHLs) are exceptional places that form a common bond between all
Americans. NHLs can be found in our national parks and in communities in every
state and territory. Through the National Historic Landmarks Program, the
National Park Service oversees the designation of these special places and
helps to preserve them.
Also see: U.S.
National Historic Landmarks in Wikipedia
Vietnam Passage: Journeys from War to
Peace:
Companion site to PBS documentary that brings the last 25 years in
Voyages: The Transatlantic
Slave Trade Database: This visually rich and authoritative
website provides information on the slave trade that spanned five
continents. Offers maps, images, timelines, tables, essays,
bibliographies, a database of African names, and more. Sponsored by
Article Databases
Finding Books
California History Links from Librarians' Internet Index
The
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Prepared for the 100th anniversary
of the disaster, this exhibit and archive features an extensive collection of
primary source material, an interactive map, and a 360-degree view of the
damage to the city. The primary source material collection makes thousands of
images and text files available, including more than 8,047 photographs, 29
broadsides, 528 cityscapes, 538 letters, 18 oral history texts, 161 periodical
articles, 109 photomechanical prints, 272 reports, and more than 160
stereographs. From the Bancroft Library,
Before and After the Great Earthquake
and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916: Topics in this
collection of twenty-six films include the 1906 earthquake, the Panama Pacific
Exposition (1915), and a 1903 Chinese funeral. Searchable by keywords, and browsable by subject and film title. Also features brief
information on early
Bits of History: Exploring San Mateo County Historical Photographs: Historical photos from collections at South San Francisco Public Library, Redwood City Public Library and the San Mateo County Historical Society.
California as I Saw It:
First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849–1900: Part of the American
Memory project, these 190 works
presented on this site—approximately 40,000 written pages and more than 3,000
illustrations—provide eyewitness accounts covering California history from the
Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. Most authors represented are
white, educated, male Americans, including reporters detailing Gold Rush
incidents and visitors from the 1880s attracted to a highly-publicized romantic
vision of
California Ballot Propositions
Database:
A "comprehensive, searchable source of information on
California Heritage Digital Image Access Project: Archive containing over 28,000 historical photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.
California Historical Landmarks: Photographs of site
and/or plaque, explanation of significance, and location of
California Historical Society: includes a California History Online exhibit with over 400 images from the society's collections, a California Cultural Directory (under resources in Programs section) listed by county, with links to those organizations with Web sites, descriptions of the society's collections (with a slide show), and links to related sites.
California History Online: Brief overview of
California Recall Election: Links to
information on the October 2003 election to recall Gov. Gray Davis in which
Arnold Schwartzenegger was elected to replace
Chinese
Historical Society of America: Located at
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925: About 8,000 images
and pages of primary source materials that describe the experiences of Chinese
immigrants in
Cliff House: Brief, illustrated
history of the
"Daly City among top 5 in nation for foreign-born" S.F. Chronicle 20 December 2003.
Digger
Archives:
A historical commentary from the perspective of the Diggers, a
Filipino
San Francisco: Articles from the Shaping San Francisco website
The Fillmore Museum: A history of a
Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California: To "help people more fully recognize and appreciate the accomplishments and contributions of California's varied communities," the California Office of Historic Preservation recruited experts to write narrative histories and identify one hundred recorded historic property sites for each of five ethnic minorities in California: California Indians, Black Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans. Especially useful are the lists of historic sites, some with photographs and links to more detailed reports. .
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories: Virtual tour of the Oakland Museum of California's Gold Rush exhibition, including sections on art, Natives and Immigrants, a quiz, links to "tales from the mines," and curriculum materials for educators. The exhibit includes photographs, artifacts, primary documents, audio files (some in Chinese), maps, and much more.
Gold Rush City: San Francisco in the California Gold Rush: A few selective Web
resources and an extensive print bibliography about
H-California: Resources: History: Links to
Haight-Ashbury Archives: Includes a
bibliography, glossary, and annotated links to several sites about one of
History of Daly City California: “This site is being
created by the Daly City Public Library
for the purpose of preserving and making available to the community information
and artifacts from
KQED Education Network: Find pages related
to KQED programs, such as Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of S.F. (The Fillmore, The
Castro,
Marin County digital historical
archives:
The Anne T. Kent California History Room includes oral history transcripts of
prominent
Museum
of the City of San Francisco: Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, 1989 San
Francisco Earthquake, 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, Chronology of S.F. Rock
1965-69, WWII history, Flags of SF, and more. The Biographies section features
biographical sketches and/or links to material on about ninety prominent
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of S.F.: Pages related to KQED programs, including: The Fillmore, The Castro, Chinatown, and The Mission.
Old S.F.: Historical images from the S.F. Historical Photograph
Collection geocoded by neighborhood or street.
Orchard Chronicles: Oral History from Santa Clara County & Beyond: Small number of oral histories from Santa Clara Valley & beyond, including farm workers, Depression & Japanese internment camp experiences.
Rugged Justice: The 9th Circuit court
of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941: Full-text online
version of the book by David C. Frederick, published
by
San
Francisco 1905 Sanborn Maps: Insurance maps showing the city as it was
just months before the great earthquake and fire of 1906
San Francisco After the '06 Earthquake: "Images from
the days after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, including stereographs and
anaglyphic (3-dimensional) views" of these topics: Destruction, People,
Amidst the Rubble, The Hungry, The Homeless, and Recovery. From the
San
Francisco Cable Car Museum: Historical information on
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection: searchable database provides access to nearly 30,000 photographs covering S.F. history from the 1850s to the present (from S. F. Public Library). You can also browse images by subject.
San Francisco History Index: Includes full texts of books on the city's history; contemporary news articles (largely from San Francisco newspapers); and reference works such as an annotated list of alcaldes and mayors, the first telephone directory, a 1910 street guide, and a history of the cemeteries. News articles cover such topics as "first families," tunnels, and city railroads.
San
Francisco Museum and Historical Society: In addition to information about the
organization, this searchable site includes several online exhibits (for
example,
San Francisco Voter Pamphlets and
Propositions:
San Mateo County Historical Association and
Museum
Santa Clara City Library. Oral History Archive: Links to
information on history of
Shaping San Francisco: An interactive multimedia excavation of the lost history of San Francisco - featuring history from the perspective of labor, ecology, African Americans, Filipinos, women, transportation, literary SF and the gay liberation movement.
Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives: Student audio interview projects, largely first-person accounts related to Filipino-American history.
Suffering Under a Great
Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese
American Internment at Manzanar - In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the
Subject Index to California History
Quarterly journal: This index allows you to look up articles in the California
History Quarterly journal by subject so you can then find the print volumes
in Skyline Library. Select the alphabetical letter of your subject & then
use the browser's Find command (on Edit pull-down menu) to find the volume
& page numbers of articles on the subject. Skyline Library carries back
issues of this journal for the following volumes, issues and dates: v. 9, 10,
12, 14,16, (1930, '31, '33, '37); v. 15 #1, 2, 3, (1936); v. 26-49, (1947 -
1970); v. 51 - 55, 1972 -1976; v.56, 1977 (Incomplete set); v. 57, 1978 -
present. (Note: This journal was previously titled: California Historical
Quarterly and
Western
Neighborhoods Project (WNP): Western San Francisco: the
Article Databases
Finding Books
American Women's History: A Research
Guide:
Excellent guide to women's history resources, on and off the Internet.
Includes: bibliographies, scholarly books, encyclopedias, biographical sources,
Internet multimedia exhibits, and state-specific research guides. Check out Women's History
Bookmarks,
for the most useful sites in the field on a single page.
Women in World History Curriculum: biographies,
lesson ideas, essays on women in
history, brief reviews of books
on women's history, and
briefly annotated links.
Women's History Links: Links to a wide
variety of quality sites, from Librarians' Index to the Internet (IPL2).
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP): non-profit
organization that provides news and analysis about the contemporary
Global Connections: The Middle East: background
information for events in the
History in the
News: The Middle East: briefly annotated
resources about the
Middle East Studies Internet Resources: slightly
annotated compilation of online bibliographic resources and research materials
on the Middle East and
MidEast Web: “started by people active
in Middle East dialog and peace education efforts, our goal is to weave a
world-wide web of Arabs, Jews and others who want to build a new
Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: Produced by the non-profit, non-partisan American Educational
Trust, focus is on the
Holocaust:
Article Databases
Finding Books
Holocaust History Project: "free
archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation
of Holocaust-denial."
U. S. Holocaust Museum:
Holocaust Links: Excellent links to recommended websites (from IPL2).
Fedstats: Links to all federal government web pages that have statistics.
Statistical Sites on the Web: Recommended sites from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
U. S. Historical Census Data Browser: Data describing the
people and the economy of the
U.S. Government Documents: A Web site of frequently used government titles at Columbia University Library with their equivalent Web links. While this is not a comprehensive government publications listing, it is nevertheless, a handy directory to popular government reports on topics such as business, crime, education, energy, environment, health, and transportation.
Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information: This is a directory of links to popular government documents on the Internet. The links are organized by topics including major government indexes, business, crime, census, congress, consumer information, copyright, education, foreign countries, health, impeachment, natural resources, law, scientific reports, and tax forms.
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