Research

AMDOCs Primary Sources

ARDA Religion Data

Bill of Rights Institute

Black Past Dedicated to providing the inquisitive public with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate information concerning the history of African Americans in the United States and people of African ancestry in other regions of the world. It is the aim of the founders and sponsors to foster understanding through knowledge in order to generate constructive change in our society.

Ellis Island Foundation

Art Cyclopedia

Google Arts & Culture

Ad Views: thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s-1980s

Career One Stop

BBB (Better Business Bureau)

Bank Rate

Federal Reserve Bank

ProCon.Org

FactCheck

Journalistic Resource

All Sides

American Rhetoric Database of Historical Speeches. Full text, many also have audio, and videos.

JSTOR Database of free journals, books, images, and primary sources.

British Library: Shakespeare Full text articles and artifacts from the British Library.

Google Scholar Search articles or case law with Google. 

Visual Manipulatives

Free Graphing Tools

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthroughalgorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology

New York Times

The Week

Long Reads

All Sides Balanced news. Read about a topic with articles from the left, the right, and the center. 

MIT: behind the science A series of two-minute videos relating concepts from textbook chemistry to current MIT research and applications in medicine, the environment, and energy

JSTOR Search journals, books, images, and primary sources

The World Fact Book. Published by the CIA, The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact sheets provided by the U.S. governement detailing relations with specific countires.

U.S. Copyright Office Learn about copyright or copyright your own intellectual property.

National Constitution Center Learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars of diverse legal and philosophical perspectives.

The Miller Center-Presidents

CSpan Presidents

UCSB American Presidents Project

Presidential Libraries (Links from the National Archives)

Black Past: Global African History BlackPast.org is dedicated to providing the inquisitive public with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate information concerning the history of African Americans in the United States and people of African ancestry in other regions of the world. It is the aim of the founders and sponsors to foster understanding through knowledge in order to generate constructive change in our society.

Biography.Com

Ad Acess Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories- Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda- dated between 1911 and 1955.

Calendars through the ages

Abbreviations.com

Acronym. Finder

Ask Oxford: access the Oxford English Dictionary in a variety of languages

JSTOR: text analyzer

All-Music Guide: use this website to find out news and information about your favorite musician or band.

Driving Tests: A comprehensive digital database of practice tests, handbooks and a driving test simulator. Includes information on car, motorcycle and CDL tests.

Alternate Search Engines: Thinking beyond Google

Google Deceptively Tracking (article, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint)

Chrome Books Monitor (article, Christian Science Monitor: Privacy complaints against Google raise questions about student data)

Wolfram. | Alpha is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.

Google Scholar searches scholarly literature. It searches articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.