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For more than 40 years, Historic Documents has made primary source research easy by presenting excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes. This page contains the most recent and past editions of Historic Documents.
All users will need to create a login for this database. Comprises a "vast archive of social science data." Please contact Scott Granberg-Rademacker (jeffrey.granberg-rademacker@mnsu.edu or 507-389-6939) for ICPSR assistance.
Provides full text newspaper articles from many states and countries as well as news transcripts, which are mostly from major American news sources. Also provides citations and selected full text to legal materials, including federal code and regulations, state codes, tax law, and state and federal case law.
Includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979.
iPoll is a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. See the "more information" link for user restrictions.
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