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Primary Source Material (President and Congress)

ProQuest Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Congressional floor speeches, hearing statements/transcripts, etc
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Subject Areas: Law, Political Science, U.S. History, Current Events

Previously known as Lexis-Nexis Congressional, ProQuest Congressional Publications offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress.

ProQuest Congressional provides access to:
- Congressional publications from 1824 to the present
- CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970
- Bills as they move through the House and Senate
- The Congressional Record and Federal Register
- Information about members and committees
- The National Journal
- Access to testimony in full text from Congressional Hearings, covering the years 1824 to present

Format: Archival Resources
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Producer: ProQuest

Internet Archive - Wayback Machine
Find earlier iterations of a given Web site. (Note: You'll need to know the URL.)
Miller Center (Univ. of Virginia) - Presidential Speeches
More likely to have video and/or audio of a particular presidential speech than the American Presidency Project.
Presidential Libraries and Museums of the National Archives
Provides links to the 14 Presidential Libraries, going back to Herbert Hoover.
Project Vote Smart
Provides a wealth of information on elected officials and candidates for Congress, statewide office, and the state legislature: biographical, voting record on key issues, issue positions (response to candidate questionnaire), interest group ratings, endorsements, and campaign finances.
American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:
- Messages & Papers of the Presidents: 1789-1913
- The Public Papers of the Presidents: 1929-2007 & 2010
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 1977-2009
- Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents: 2009-2012

News Sources

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Almanac
Available in print, at the library, back to 1956.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Includes The New York Times (back to 1980), The Washington Post (back to 1977), and broadcast news transcripts.
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Nexis Uni provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text.

The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.

Subject Areas: General, Law, Political Science, Current Events

Format: Newspaper and Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Producer: LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions.
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
New York Times articles, from 1851 to three years ago.
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Subject Areas: Mass Media, U.S. History

Full page images of the New York Times newspaper, dating from 1851 to three years ago.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1851-three years ago (moving wall)
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.
Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Descriptions and abstracts of 725,000 broadcast news stories from 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, 1968 - present. keywords: mass media, current events
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Subject Areas: Communication, Mass Media, Current Events

Television News Archive is an archive of television news, containing descriptions and abstracts of 725,000 broadcast news stories from 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.

Online video is available for CNN news broadcasts from 1999 to the present. You can request complete programs or compilations of selected items to be copied onto videotape for a fee.

Format: Digital Media
Dates of Coverage: 1968-
Database Producer: Vanderbilt University Television News Archive.
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Contains dramatic stories as well as accounts of everyday life in historical New England.
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Subject Areas: History, Mass Media, Communication

The Boston Globe (1872-1990) provides a window through which to study firsthand this fascinating time and place in American history.

- The devastating 1872 Boston fire.
- The suspenseful 1893 Lizzie Borden ax murder trial.
- The catastrophic 1919 police strike.
- Mid-20th-century decline and renewal.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Boston, already one of Americas largest cities, was struggling to absorb the immigrants that continued to pour onto its shores. It was a time of rapid industrialization, technological innovation, and urban development. It also was an era that saw a dramatic rise in the cost of living, the deterioration of labor relations, and an increase in poverty and crime. By the mid-20th century, Boston had entered a period of decline, which was followed by controversial urban renewal projects and an economic boom in the 1970s.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1872-1990
Update Schedule: Completed Archive.
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.
Wall Street Journal (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Archival access to this historic newspaper, with full coverage from 1889-12 years ago
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Subject Areas: History, Political Science

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Format: Full Text Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1889-12 years ago (moving wall)
Database Producer: ProQuest

Polling/Public Opinion

IPoll databank @ the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new window
US public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion, 1935 to present.
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Subject Areas: Communication, Political Science, Sociology & Anthropology

Search and retrieve US public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion. A full-text retrieval system, iPOLL is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.
In order to create a personal login with this database, please follow the instructions found here.

Format: Statistical Resources, Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Pew Research Center
A self-described "fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." The center conducts extensive public opinion polling and analysis, and includes specific projects on Religion & Public Life, the Internet, and Hispanic Trends.