Contemporary History
(since 1945)

Current Events

• David Bollier, "Reclaiming the Commons: why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment," Boston Review 27 (Summer 2002)
• Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Education Pays (Employment Policy Foundation)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Beyond the 49th Parallell II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
• "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Martin Marty Center, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (University of Chicago Divinity School)
• Norman Lear Center: Exploring Implications of the Convergence of Entertainment, Commerce, and Society
  (University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication)
• The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline, PBS)
• Books for Understanding Current Topics (American Association of University Presses)
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Aileena: World-wide Media Index
• Live Radio and Television from Around the World (Broadcast-live.com)
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
• Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
• Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
• World Press Review
• G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto)
• The Cicero Foundation: 'an independent think tank focusing on European integration'
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University/Organization of American States)
• Summit of the Americas Information System
• International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
• North American Free Trade Agreement Secretariat
• Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with INfokrmation Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
• Childhood Under Threat: State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Teaching with the News: Crisis with Iraq Fall 2002 (Choices Education Program)
• Civic Education Network (American Political Science Association)
• Center for Civic Education
• Center for Millenial Studies
• The Freedom Forum
• The Jefferson Project
• Election Connection '96 (The Atlantic Monthly)
• Almanac of American Politics
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Electronic Policy Network
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
• Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (Michigan)
• Social Sciences Data Collection (U. California, San Diego)
• Facster: Facts at Your Fingertips [foreign, United States, and U.S. states statical abstracts]
• United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
• U.S. Census Bureau (Washington, D.C.)
• Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
• The Political Scientist's Guide to the Internet
• American Political Science Association Gopher
• Political Science Resources
• Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System
  (Section on Political Organizations and Parties, APSA)
• Electronic Democracy Information Network Gopher
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Citizen's Guide to Resources on the Rights of Americans
• U.S. Government: Legislative Branch Information (U. Michigan)
• 1994 Election Results (University of Michigan)
• Commentary on 1994 Elections from H-Pol Discussion List
• Walter Dean Burnham, "Theses on the 1994 Election"
• Congressional Quarterly News and Analysis
• Congressional Information (University of Michigan)
• Political Science Texts with Coverage of 1994 Elections
• Dirksen Congressional Center
• U.S. Congress Information (Project Vote Smart)
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• National Council on Public Polls
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Ipsos Reid: Global Marketing Research and Public Opinion
• National Opinion Research Center
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• PollingReport.com
• Zogby International
• American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
  (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
• What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• H-Net and Sept. 11: Addressing Tragedy in the Classroom
• Teaching 9-11-01 (Clarke Center, Dickinson College)
• Terrorism Studies -- September 11 (Academic Info)
• Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
• START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
  (U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
• September 11 and Beyond (Librarians' Index to the Internet)
• Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990 (Digital National Security Archive)
• The September 11th Sourcebooks: National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War
• Afghanistan Resources (Professor F.W. Kagan, History Department, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY)
• Terror and Tehran: Does America's War on Terror hold democracy hostage in Iran? (Frontline, PBS)
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
• "The View From Inside," Interview with Robert D. Kaplan, author of Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1990,2001), The Atlantic Monthly, November 2001.
• Robert D. Kaplan, "The Lawless Frontier," The Atlantic Monthly, September 2000.
• J. Miller, "Greetings America. My Name is Osama bin Laden," Esquire, February 1999
• Richard H. Kohn, "A War Like no Other," OAH Newsletter, November 2001
• Hunting Bin Laden (Frontline, PBS)
• Osama bin Laden-al Qaeda Network Government Files (Paperless Archives)
• Transcript of Usama Bin Laden Video Tape, December 13, 2001 (DefenseLink) (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
• Target America (Frontline, PBS)
• Looking for Answers (Frontline, PBS)
• Saudi Time Bomb? (Frontline, PBS)
• America Responds (PBS)
• Television and the War on Terrorism: The War at Home and Abroad
  (Museum of Television & Radio)
• September 11 [,2001]--Journalists' Resources
• Professor Sir Michael Howard, "Mistake to Declare This a War," Royal United Services Institute Journal 146 (December 2001).
• David Talbot, "The Making of a Hawk," Salon.com, January 3, 2002.
• Victor Davis Hanson, "Why the Muslims Misjudged Us,"Opinion Journal (WSM.com), February 25, 2002.
• After September 11: Essays...Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Social Science Research Council)
• Documenting the [World Trade Center] Tragedy [September 11, 2001]
  (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board)
• September 11 Digital Archive (American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media)
• September11.archive.org
• Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
• Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
• America Attacks (New York Times)
• Privacy vs. Security: Terrorist threat shifts priorities in online rights debate (News.com, C-Net)
• News International Pakistan
• Reconstructing Afghanistan (CARE)
• Donor Assistance Database Afghanistan (United Nations Development Programme)
• Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrosist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
  (Senate Report No. 107-351 and House Report No. 107-792, 107th Cong. 2nd Sess. (released July 24, 2003)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after rlease of final report]
• Afghan War Lessons and Future U.S. Policy (Global-Defence.com)
• Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
• What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
• Frontline documentary series (PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
  [official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
• Nuclear Threat Initiative: NTU, Working for a Safer World)

American Studies Sites

• American Studies Association
• American Quarterly
• International American Studies Asociation
• European Association for American Studies
• British Association for American Studies
• American Studies Web (American Studies Assocation)
• American Studies WWW Server (Yale University)
• American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown University)
• American Studies Programs on the Web: Programs Inside the United States (by state)
• American Studies Programs on the Web: Programs Outside the United States (by country)
• American Studies Association of Turkey
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• ASRP: American Studies Research Portal: An Online Resource for American Studies Researchers in the UK
• ARNet: On-line Resources for American Studies (American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London, United Kingdom)
• Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies (American Quarterly)

International Terrorism

• Terrorism: Questions & Answers (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Terrorism news coverage (Yahoo News)
• Terrorism Studies -- September 11 (Academic Info)
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• Books for Understanding: A Resource to help understand the events of September 11, 2001
  (American Association of University Presses)
• History of Terrorism (History News Network)
• START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
  (U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
• Terrorism Project (Center for Defense Information, Washington, D.C.)
• Terrorism Research Center
• Centre for the Study of Terorrism and Political Violence (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
• Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
• Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
• Undermining Terrorism (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
• Ivan Eland, "Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism?" [December 17, 1998] (Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 50, Cato Institute)
• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism, August 2000 report
  (U.S. National Commission on Terrorism)
• Bioterror: The Invisible Enemy (The Discovery Channel)
• Chemical and Biological Weapons Resource Page
  Monterey Institute of International Studies
• War on Terrorism web sites
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Looking the World in the Eye [Samuel P. Huntington]," The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?," Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993)
• Samuel P. Huntington, "If Not Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to His Critics," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993.
• Joel Achenbach, "The Clash," [Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama] Washington Post, Sunday, December 16, 2001, p. W17.
• Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, "American Primacy in Perspective," Foreign Affairs July/August 2002
• "The Hard Questions": The first war of the twenty-first century demands unsentimental thinking about many subjects. Here are five. The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001.
• Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
• Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power," Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
• Bernard Lewis, "What Went Wrong?" The Atlantic Monthly, January 2002
• "The War on Terror," a collection of articles from The Atlantic Monthly
• "11 September: A Symposium," The Journal of the Historical Society 2 (Spring 2002)
• Defend America: U.S. Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• The War Behind Closed Doors: The People, the Clashes, and--Ultimately the 'Grand Strategy'--Behind George W. Bush's Determination to Go to War with Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• Carl Kaysen, Steven E. Miller, Martin B. Malin, William d. Nordhaus, John D. Steinbruner, "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives"
  (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
• C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
  (Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
• Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
• Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• A Nation at War (New York Times
• War in Iraq (Washington Post)
• Opening the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War Baghdad, A report of the Iraqi Observatory
  (K. Watenpaugh, E. Metenier, J. Hanssen, Halla Fatah)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
  [official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
  Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review, August 2004
• Military History
• Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
• Information Sources On Afghanistan
• The War Behind Closed Doors: The People, the Clashes, and--Ultimately the 'Grand Strategy'--Behind George W. Bush's Determination to Go to War with Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
  (Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
  Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
• Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• Frontline documentary series (PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
  [official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
• Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review, August 2004
• Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• Nuclear Threat Initiative: NTU, Working for a Safer World)
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• Books for Understandingn Kashmir (American Association of University Presses)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• U.S. Election Campaign Information (Tennessee Tech University)
• U.S. National Election Studies (University of Michigan)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• PoliticsUSA
• All Politics (Time/CNN)
• National Politics and Personalities (Real Com)
• Citizens '96 (PBS)
• On the Road to the White House
• Hail to the Candidate: WebArchive 96
• Campaign '96: Third Party Time? (Kennedy School of Government)
• "I Do Solemnly Swear...":Presidential Inaugurations (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Congressional Quarterly
• Project Vote Smart WWW site
• Voter Information Services
• Civic Education--State Legislative Database (National Conference of State Legislatures)
• U.S. Superintendent of Documents site (Washington, D.C.)
• Charles Babbage Institute (History of Information Processing)
• State and Local History
• GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
• State and Local Government on the Net
• U.S. State Government Information
• Council of State Governments
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
  (Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
• State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• 2002 State New Economy Index (Progressive Policy Institute)
• Measuring Fiscal Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach, Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Books for Understanding Taxes (American Association of University Presses)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Rebels with a Cause (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
• Middle Tennessee Poll
  (The Survey Group at Middle Tennessee State University)
• Tennessee History
• Official Tennessee WWW site
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Government and Politics