The Politics subject guide gives you access to useful library databases and trusted Web resources, relevant for researching many topics in politics & international relations.
Free online encyclopedia, started in 2007 & continually updated, covering all aspects of US politics. Aims for content to be neutral, objective and verifiable
The Reg Tracker was created by Brookings in 2017. It provides background information and status updates on a curated selection of significant regulatory and deregulatory changes made by the second Trump administration
cable TV project to provide free access to Congressional debates (some back to 1983) & other video content on US government, including presidential debates
Official Congress website for non-confidential CRS reports, an extremely useful source of information for US politics. Mostly recent, but older reports are being archived.
See: African-American members of the US Congress, 1870-2020 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL30378
Official portal to US government publications (replaces FD Sys & GPO Access). Freely accessible from about 1993 onwards, including Presidential documents, Congressional bills, documents, hearings & reports, the Congressional record, and Federal register. Provides access to Statutes at Large 1789- . Also:
MetaLib from GPO - searches across official databases for reports, articles & citations, with links to full text
Free site from UCLA that allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives
Elections
For resources relating to US elections please see the Politics subject guide section for Elections. Voting
Official records of the foreign policy and diplomatic history of the US from 1945 to 1988 (publication is ongoing). Older volumes are also available for the period 1861-1960 from University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. See also:
Secretaries of Defense historical series of freely available publications online (1947-)
United States Treaty Series - digitised multilateral & bilateral treaties 1776-1949 on Library of Congress website (and its U.S. Treaties : a beginner's guide)
Provide online access to key declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, and intelligence policy.
Part of the larger JSTOR Reveal Digital project, providing open access to rare primary source material expressing Right-wing opinions in 1960s & 1970s America
The Library of Congress has digitised the papers of 23 Presidents, from Washington to Coolidge, spanning the years 1789-1929. For digitised papers of more recent Presidents see the National Archives (Public Papers of the Presidents)
Compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), papers from 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to 1991 (George H.W. Bush) are available digitally through GPO digitization
Research centre at Rutgers with dataset on women who have held office at the congressional, statewide elected executive, and state legislative levels nationwide (1893-)
Nonprofit news team focused on public interest journalism, notably databases on who donates to politicians across Canada, who lobbies them, and how the government spends taxpayers money.
Portal to resources for Canadian politics, especially official sources such as the Cabinet Conclusions database. LAC also maintains the Government of Canada web archive
