ITHS Library - Government Websites

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES Annotations for Selected Sites
FEDERAL
Ben's Guide to US Government
	Contains a variety of information about basic aspects on the United States and its government, such as how a bill becomes a law.
Contacting Congress
	Consult this database for congressional contact information. Includes Congressional Leadership and Committee Members, email addresses, and phone numbers.
Gov: Making government user friendly
	Tabs give access to every publicly official government information channel. 94 million pages available.
Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court
	Selected historic decisions of the United States Supreme Court can be searched by topic, party, name and author's opinions, links to other sites also includes.Open Court Opinions on drop down menu.
Internet Public Library
	Menu: Law and government, drop down menu: government
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
	Includes statistical data about social, economic and international subjects. Search for Statistical Abstract in search box.
SThomas-U.S. Congress on the Internet
	Legislative information.
U.S. Government Manual
	Official handbook of the Federal Government which lists all the agencies of the executive, judicial and legislative branches.
U.S. Government Websites
	An alphabetical list of government websites.
INTERNATIONAL
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
	Search by country name to find biographical date.
CIA World Fact Book
	Full profiles of the countries of the world. Select a country on dropdown menu.
Foreign Embassies in the U.S
NationMaster
	A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. Compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. Profiles of individual countries, fully integrated encyclopedia, Statistics, Flags, etc.
Portals to the World
	The Library of Congress site is a global gateway with authoritative, in-depth information about nations and areas of the world in a wide range of broad categories.
United States Department Background notes
	Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy. Search "countries"

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