2021 Fall Elective: American Cultural History: U.S. Government

University of Virginia. Multimedia, government documents, and cabinet information for each President.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 107,661 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information.

This is a large database of government documents, limit to digital documents only in the advanced search screen. Visit the National Archives' topic guide for help searching the digital items in the catalog: http://www.archives.gov/research/topics/index.html

The George Washington University. Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.

University of Virginia. Contains more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, audio and video recordings.

Budget of the U.S. Government, Congressional Documents, Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Economic Indicators, Federal Register, Public and Private Laws, United States Courts Opinions

Yale University. The Avalon Project contains "digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."

"Searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations."

US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875.

The FBI's Freedom of Information Act Library.

University of South Florida, 1871 - Present.

1950-1980. University System of Georgia.

Library of Congress. Original work by political cartoonist Herb Block. Focuses on six major themes: ethics, environment, extremism, the Middle East, privacy/security, and war from the 1940s through the 1990s.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 107,661 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program

University of Virginia. Multimedia, government documents, and cabinet information for each President.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. "The President's Daily Diary: November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969"

The Nixon Library makes available almost 50 million pages of documents, over 300,000 photographs, thousands of motion pictures and videos, and the Nixon White House Tapes.

US Government Publishing Office

Ford Library & Museum. "The Watergate exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Museum immerses the visitor in one of the most critical constitutional crises in the nation's history."

Library holdings include more than 25 million pages of documents, over 450,000 photographs, and thousands of audiotapes, videotapes, and films.

Currently the Digital Library collection includes papers from the Office of the Chief of Staff and the Office of Staff Secretary during the Carter Administration.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

The Bush Library and Museum’s textual and audiovisual archives and museum collections document the life and times of George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States.

Most collections are organized hierarchically by White House Office & Staff names; collections created by Freedom of Information Act requests are organized topically by title. The great majority of documents in the Clinton Digital Library are keyword searchable.

Documents created digitally and issued by FOIA requests.

US. Dept. of State, Office the Historian."Presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity."

University of Wisconsin. "Presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity."

Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world.

In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)

National Archives. "Political cartoons from the first half of the 20th century provide relevant commentary and fascinating insight into the campaigns and elections of today."

"Collection of cartoons and prints commenting on United States presidential elections from 1860-1884."

Museum of the Moving Image. "The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952."

Find statistics about housing, employment, education, etc.

Created by the University of Virginia.

Use this page as a starting point for navigating the U.S. Census

"The Economic Census is the U.S. Government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy."

"American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys."

University of Virginia

University of Minnesota. IPUMS-CPS is an integrated set of data from 48 years (1962-2009) of the March Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

US Census

1878 - Present.