American Rhetoric
A comprehensive online speech bank that contains over 5,000 speeches.
Find links to the 100 most significant American political speeches of
the 20th century,
according to
leading scholars, as well as movie speeches and a section on rhetoric.
The Brookings Institution
Source for topics on domestic issues. From the site: "The Brookings
Institution, one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an independent,
nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public
education, with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, and
governance."
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Government site for socioeconomic data. Find information on wages,
health, demographics, consumer spending, and much more.
Cato Institute
Source for topics on domestic and international issues. From the site:
"The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane. It is a
non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in
Washington, D.C."
C-SPAN
Check this site for audio and video clips of current issues on the
political scene. Find links to related sites and research studies on
topics of current interest.
Documents in the News
(University of Michigan)
Good source for current events research. From the site: "Documents in
the News identifies issues about government making news headlines and
web sources with additional information."
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
(Northwestern University)
An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.
Speeches may be browsed by date, title, speaker, and by issue. The
Resource Desk and Featured sections of the site provide links
to Web resources on featured themes. Another section of the site
provides online access to An Outline of American History (USIO).
General Social Survey
From the site: "The GSS (General Social Survey) is an almost annual,
"omnibus," personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the
National Opinion Research Center....The first survey took place in 1972
and since then more than 38,000 respondents have answered over 3,260
different questions." Topics addressed include socioeconomic status,
social mobility, social control, the family, race relations, sex
relations, civil liberties, and morality, among many others.
History Channel: Speeches
Archive of speeches in categories of Politics & Government, Science &
Technology, Arts, Entertainment & Culture, and War & Diplomacy.
The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral
Behavior
From the site: "The Guide provides political observers, policy makers,
journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate
access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public
opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since
1948. The Guide presents responses to a small portion of the questions
that have been asked in the 1948-2002 National Election Studies."
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse
information to support research, policy, and program development
worldwide.
Social Statistics Briefing Room (The White House)
From the site: "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to
current Federal social statistics. It provides links to information
produced by a number of Federal agencies." Coverage includes Crime,
Demography, Education, and Health.
Technical Advisory Service for Images
Provides advice and guidance on the issues of finding and using digital
images to support teaching, learning, and research. Includes an
annotated list of existing digital image archives on the Web in various
disciplines.
Television News Archive
(Vanderbilt University)
From the site: "...the world's most available, extensive and complete
archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently
recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research,
review, and study....the ever-expanding collection holds more than
30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000
hours of special news-related programming."
U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice
Statistics
The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics.
