US Census bureau historical voting publications
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/historical/index.html Statistical data on US national and presidential elections. Voting and Registration data has been collected biennially in the Current Population Survey since 1964. Data includes: Reported Voting and Registration by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Age Groups: November 1964 to 2010. Also the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk collects and publishes the […]
US elections and politics pages from Google
http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/calendar.html For a handy calendar of forthcoming events see the National Association of Secretaries of State website which has a 2012 Presidential Primary/Caucus Calendar and presidential primaries guides. http://www.nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=284&Itemid=439
Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library
http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/ Free access to a national collection about the life and career of the former American president. It has a timeline of key events. The digital library has diaries, letters, cartoons. Key issues are the presidency, also a bibliography of biographies key readings. http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library.aspx
Foreign Relations of the United States: latest release
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XV, Soviet Union, June 1972–August 1974 http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v15 Useful for historians of the cold war. Includes declassified document & exchanges between Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon. Topics include the SALT talks. Other volumes in the series are also available. http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments Time period covered 1940s-early 1970s.
Open Secrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections. Information on fundraising over time by different candidates, enabling candidate comparisons and fundraising in particular regions. . Charts and graphs of trends are provided.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Search-the-Digital-Archives.aspx An open access archive that includes more than 200,000 pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 movie reels, and 1,500 photos. They include materials relating to his assassination, and Cuba Bay of Pigs incident. The latter includes documents and contemporary telephone recordings.
Pew Internet and American Life
http://www.pewinternet.org/ A project which provides free access to reports and surveys on the impact of the Internet, Web 2.0 and associated technology on American life.
Truthy project
Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter. Particular focuses of information include the propagation of false information, political smears on Twitter and the creation of false news stories. At present there is a section on Sarah Palin which focuses on accounts falsely presented as belonging to the politician where […]
U.S Political Advertising
The Wesleyan Media Project 2010 political advertising <http://election-ad.research.wesleyan.edu/ This website is a collaboration between Drs Erika Franklin Fowler (Wesleyan University), Michael M. Franz (Bowdoin College) and Travis N. Ridout (Washington State University). It is tracking political advertising in the USA Midterm elections 2010 with the ultimate aim of tracing all forthcoming federal and presidential elections. The […]
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