U.S. Federal Govn’t Info

Digital national security archive
Database contains comprehensive collections of declassified documents, and new collections will be added yearly. Data is owned by the National Security Archive.

Declassified documents reference system
The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others.

Foreign Relations of the United States. US Dept of State

• http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html
• http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Thomas
Provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 103rd to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedule for the House, and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Includes text of “How our laws are made,” by Edward F. Willett Jr.

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information for compiling this list.