US presidential elections (again)
To celebrate (!) the forthcoming elections here are some favourite historic digital collections. Museum of the Moving Image: the Living Room Candidate Has online commercials from 1952 and includes examples from 2016. In terms of the latter the blog provides a great daily commentary on events. Search the site by candidate and issue. See some […]
US Elections 2016
Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media manipulates and is a form of political propaganda. It is surveying industry insiders as well as building a database of political incidents involving bots. Some […]
Free access to Congressional Research reports
EveryCRSReport.com provides free access to over 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and members of both the House and Senate regardless of party affiliation, therefore its reports clearly summarise legislative positions on domestic and foreign […]
USA Presidential debates new resources
Following on from last week’s list of resources. Here are some more new discoveries. This recent academic article examines whether academic staff are more likely to vote for Donald Trump It examines staff from law, politics and journalism and offers data on whether they are registered for a specific political party. CNN video library of […]
US Elections
The Electome Project from MIT Media Map is using Twitter data to look at reactions to the 2016 election race. It has articles and Twitter analysis of the first presidential debate. Log in to get a dashboard of results. The Social Media Analytic Command Center at Illinois State University. The most recent analysis is being […]
United States Treaty Series 1776-1949
Free access to the United States Treaty Series, compiled by Charles I. Bevans, via the Law Library of Congress website. It includes all bilateral and multilateral treaties 1776-1949. They also have a great introductory guide on understanding US treaties.
Understanding 9/11: A television news archive
Free access to this resource made available by the Internet Archive. It contains an online archive of TV programmes from September 2001 covering a week after the aftermath of events. Programmes have hourly updates and include materials from CNN, Beijing and the BBC as well as other international broadcasters. It also has materials from a […]
American Federal reserve launch Facebook page
On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised. The Federal Reserve is the central bank for the United States and was established in 1913. Find out more on its website where you can download a book on its purpose and functions. One […]
Other useful Cold War websites
Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive. The site also has other relevant collections, including the End of the Cold War. All have full text materials for downloading. Also associated with it is the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) whose website […]
Are corporate crimes serious?
Yes according to a new report Redefining criminality published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies which considers public attitudes to corporate and individual offending. It found that the majority of the population considered fraud by bankers and firms more serious than shoplifting. The study was based on a YouGov survey which sampled 1,745 […]
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