American Politics: Directories & Guides
Sources for U.S. political information
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Biographies
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index This link opens in a new windowAn index to all of the major biographical sets (many in paper rather than online).
- Congressional Directory This link opens in a new windowOffers short biographies for members of the House and Senate. Also contains information about other Federal departments & agencies, court officials, military, governors of states & territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press.
- CQ Encyclopedia of American PoliticsOrganized around five content categories, Presidency, Supreme Court, Congress, Elections, and Constitution, the Encyclopedia of American Government provides answers, facts and figures, images, primary source documents, biographies, bibliographies and annotated web links.
- Dictionary of Political Biography This link opens in a new windowThis dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world.
- Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History This link opens in a new windowExplores the events, policies, people, ideas, institutions, groups, and movements.
- Congressional by ProQuest This link opens in a new windowFormerly LexisNexis Congressional, this resource provides full-text access to historical (1789- ) and current U.S. Congressional publications, and information about members of Congress and Congressional committees. Track federal bills and laws.
- State Supreme Court Data Project This link opens in a new windowIn addition to decisions of the state supreme courts, includes biographical data from published sources for all justices sitting in 1995 through 1998
Guide to citing resources
The latest printed edition of the Style manual for political science (2018), American Political Science Association, is currently on order; an earlier edition is available in the Fondren Library Reference Collection (JA86.A52 2001).
- Chicago Manual of Style This link opens in a new windowQuick answers to your style and editing questions.
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