History and Political Science Resources: Internet Resources

A wide variety of information and statistics is available through the census bureau.

Spanish language version of USA.gov

Search Utah Senate Journals, Vital Statistics, Public Service Announcements, and Air Quality Control Reports.

Official manual of the federal government that provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the U.S. participates and boards, commissions, and committees. The new edition of the Manual is available annually in late summer. GPO Access hosts the 1995 and subsequent editions online.

This collection of well-designed digital history projects provides opportunities for teachers and students alike to examine primary sources and consider history in context and from the perspectives of those who experienced it as well as experts in the field.

"The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America."

"Presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study. Visitors also are encouraged to reflect and share their thoughts about the Gulag system."

"Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed that its files, and the window they provide into the early federal government, had been lost forever. This collection unites copies of the lost files in a digital archive that reconstitutes this invaluable historical resource."

Browse through the digitized maps held by the British Library or try your hand and georeferencing them! Georeferencing is when you take a historical map and make it line up with a modern map in Google Earth.

Much like what you saw with the British Library maps but with the vast map collections of the NYPL.

Ever wanted to see the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland? It's called Alice's Adventures Under Ground and was handwritten and illustrated by Lewis Carroll himself.

An excellent online space that gathers together research, teaching tools, electronic editions, and a variety of other useful material on the Romantic period.

This amazing website brings together a variety of online projects to capture original source materials like photos, political cartoons, and documents from the 19th century.

The features primary source materials for southwestern Utah from the university's own collections.

"A central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. We provide free access to over 700,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the U.S. West."

"The Utah American Indian Digital Archive is a gateway to the best resources regarding Utah’s Indian tribes. With articles, books, government documents, tribal documents, oral histories, photographs, and maps pertaining to the Northwestern Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute, Utah Navajo, White Mesa, and Ute Indians"

"The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world."

Europe's digital collection provides access to over 50 million cultural heritage primary resources from across Europe in many different languages.

Provides links to writing support sites, events, and other resources provided by the DSU Writing Center in the Holland Centennial Commons.

A LibGuide prepared by librarians at Utah Tech University to help you properly format MLA and APA citations. It also provides information on plagiarism, research papers, and guidance on the preparing an annotated bibliography.

Provides instruction in basic grammar, sentence structure and word choice, as well as a guide to punctuation based on the Chicago Manual of Style.

The best known source for writing support. There are sections on grammar, professional writing, style guides, scientific writing, etc.

Link to archives of the Deseret News. Articles go back to 1988.