Category: General Information

FedStats A-Z :Topic links to federal and international statistics.

The Univeristy of Texas Perry-Casta?eda Library Map Collection offers an impressive variety of online maps, including political, geographic, and maps relating to current events (Madrid bombings, U.S. elections maps, etc.).

The Lucy Parsons Project: “The Lucy Parsons Project is an online educational resource designed to publicize the life of Lucy Parsons and the struggles she championed. There is a rich and vibrant history of anarchist, labor and racial and gender struggles for social change which have been systematically ignored by conventional histories of the United… Continue reading The Lucy Parsons Project

The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century: This exhibition from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture “presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the Center’s collections since the death of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1938) and explores the Center’s role as the premier public… Continue reading The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century

A petition by Michael Newdow to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance when led in public schools goes before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. He contends it’s a violation of the First Amendment. Additional resources are available through One Nation, Under God, a tipsheet from the Religion Newswriters Association and… Continue reading Pledge of Allegiance Resources

ePodunk (free site) offers links to data for communities throughout the U.S. covering census & demographics, companies, crime & arrest statistics, the economic climate, education, high school graduation rates, environment, etc. Also includes lists such as claims to fame, festivals, imaginary places, literary quotes about places, &etc. Most/all of the information is collected from other… Continue reading U.S. City/County/State Info & Demographics

NationMaster Country Statistics: Looking for some quick information on countries? Use Nation Master on the web. Some of this web site is fee based, but there is a nice part of it that you can use immediately.

Librarian’s Index to the Internet: “A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. lii.org is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.”

The College Blue Book: This book is the source for college information. It is one-stop shopping that is often easier to use than the Web. I really like the search by program option of volume three. It lists schools by state under program type. It’s in the library’s reference section. This book works nicely with… Continue reading The College Blue Book

Contemporary American women poets : an A-to-Z guide: From Greenwood Publishing Group “(A)lphabetically arranged entries on nearly 70 American women poets who published significant works after 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and presents a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the poet’s critical reception, and… Continue reading Contemporary American women poets : an A-to-Z guide