Social Science Sources

America's Children
A web site maintained by ChildState.Gov. It contains federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education.

American Civil War Page
Links to numerous sites on the Civil War, including primary source documents, letters, diary entries, images (photographs), chronologies, and miscellaneous military information.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
From the Library of Congress, a directory of links to primary sources in US History on the Internet.

Anthromorphemics: Anthropology Glossary
Definitions of terms from archaeology, cultural anthropology, and physical anthropology.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States
Links to documents depicting the history of the US from 1898 to 1935.

Archives of American Public Addresses
The text of numerous American speeches.

Complete List of Popes
From St. Peter to John Paul II, a chronology of popes, with a brief biography of each.

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
This bibliography is compiled by David Chalmers, a professor in the Philosophy Dept of Washington University. It provides 1800+ references covering books, chapters, and journal articles on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and more.

Criminal Justice Statistics
From the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. Numerous publications and reports on crime in the US.
The Durkheim Pages
The summary of several lengthy works by Durkheim, as well as a useful timeline and bibliography of works by and about Durkheim.

From Revolution to Reconstruction
A site dedicated to American history (including links to original documents) , from the Colonial period to World War I.

FundSource
A search tool for research funding in the behavioral and social sciences created with support from the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association.

Guns in American Society
This encyclopedia includes more than 400 entries on gun violence, gun control legislation, court decisions, gun organizations, gun owners and gun subcultures.

Handbook of Accreditation Standards and Procedures, Fifth Edition
Provided by the Commission on Accreditation (Commission) of the Council on Social Work Education (Council)for preparing for the accreditation process.

Handbook of Latin-American Studies
A searchable bibliography of works on Latin America.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Full text primary source materials on medieval history.

Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
Links to Internet resources dealing with this topic, such as the coverage of the Armenian genocide, documents on the Jewish Holocaust, Kosovo, war crimes sites, and more.

Making of America
A database of primary source material (scanned-in images) on early American history, searchable. From the U of Michigan's Digital Library.

Media and Communications Site
A guide to Internet resources in media and communications.

National Archeological Database
"An expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This 'gray literature' represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S."

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Links to statistics and reports about corrections, criminals and victims.

Penpages Database
Full text information (searchable) on a variety of subjects including agriculture, nutrition, aging, family, communication, and consumer issues.

Penn World Table
A link provided by the Center for International Comparisons (CIC) web site. It provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000.

Presidential Addresses
Full text of addresses of all US presidents - inaugural, farewell, State of the Union, and other speeches.

Project Vote Smart
A citizen's guide to the US political system. Includes information on how to contact people in the government, updates on current elections, state government sites, Senators' and Representatives' stands on certain issues, and links to other sites containing data on various political issues.

Public Anthropology
Includes topics on public anthropology, book series published by Univeristy of California Press, journal articles, interviews, people and programs, photo gallery, and links to other related websites.

Resources in Ethnographic Studies
From the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center, links to web resources in anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, and folklife.

Social Statistics Briefing Room
Easy access to current federal social statistics: crime, demographics, education, and health.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
An online version of the print source, with tables and statistics of criminal justice stats available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Teotihuacan: The City of The Gods
This site offers the general public and experts around the world the access to the information about this ancient city. It consists of introductory pages, recent excavation reports and academic journals. In addition, it provides links to other Mesoamerican sites.

WPA Life Histories
Life histories (full text) of thousands of people, recorded in the 1930's, as part of a WPA Writers' Program.

Women's Studies Librarian's Website
Maintained by the University of Wisconsin System, this site provides links to videos, journals, and other sites of value to researchers in Women's studies.

Last Modified: November 5, 2009