Resource Guide:
American Government and Politics
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- American Memory Collection – Library of Congress
- The Avalon Project – Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
- Documenting the American South
- FDR Presidential Library
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
- Eisenhower Presidential Library
- George Bush Presidential Library
- The American Presidency Project
- Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
- The National Security Archive
- Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2008
- Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
- American Rhetoric
- National Archives
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- United States – History
- United States – History –Archival Resources
- United States History 1945 –Addresses, Essays and Lectures
- United States – History, Local
- United States – History –Chronology
- United States – History – Religious Aspects
- United States – History –Biography
- United States – History –Congresses
- United States – History, Military
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- American Historical Review
- Appalachian Journal: a regional studies review
- The Historian: a journal of history
- Journal of African American History
- Journal of American History
- Journal of American Studies
- American Quarterly
- Labor: … Working-Class History of the Americas
- New England Journal of History
- Journal of Southern History
- History
- History Notes (with periodicals)
- History Today
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Rabble rousers : the American far right in the civil rights era | E 185.61 .W343 2010 |
| Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy | R 853 .H8 R48 2009 |
| Inventing the “American way”: the politics of consensus from the New Deal to… | E 743 .W355 2008 |
| The rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 : a brief history with documents | JC 573.2 .U6 S83 2008 |
| The age of Reagan : a history, 1974-2008 | E 839.5 .W535 2008 |
| The advancement of liberty how American democratic principles transformed… | E 744 .P745 2008 |
| King : pilgrimage to the mountaintop | E 185.97 .K5 S535 |
| American presidency : origins and development, 1776-2007 | JK 11 .M56 2007 |
| The movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 : a brief history with documents | JF 90 .R3 G65 2005 |
| The CIA & Congress : the untold story from Truman to Kennedy | JK 468 .B38 2005 |
| Presidential speechwriting from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution… | e-Book |
| Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 | e-Book |
| The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the solid South, 1932-1968 | e-Book |
| Working in America: an eyewitness history | REF HD 8066 .R44 2000 |
| Shadow : five presidents and the legacy of Watergate | E 839.5 .W66 1999 |
| The American promise: voices of a changing nation, 1945-present | E 743 .A568 |
| Encyclopedia of the Cold War | D 843 .A668 |