The American Center
Ready Reference
Almanac & Factbook
• The 50 States of the United States
http://www.50states.com
• Census 2000: State & County QuickFacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
• Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
• The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Associations & Organizations
• American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/
• Association for Information Management
http://www.aslib.co.uk/
• Associations on the Net (AON)
http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/
• Idealist
http://www.idealist.org
• International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
http://www.ifla.org/
• Special Library Association
http://www.sla.org/
• Visual Resources Association
http://www.vraweb.org/
Biographies
• Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/
• Biographical Sources
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_bio.htm
• Biographies of Pilots
http://www.xs4all.nl/~blago/planewriting/bios.html
• Biography
http://www.biography.com/
• Find-A-Grave
http://www.findagrave.com
• The List of Popes
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
• Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
• Women in Sports
http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/
• Current U.S. Population
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
Dictionaries
• allwords.com
http://www.allwords.com/
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
• Clear Ink's SpellWeb
http://www.spellweb.com/
• The College Slang Page
http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/ ~jasanders/slang/
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/frameset.html
• Dictionary of Slang
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
• Directory of Translation Dictionaries
http://www.lexicool.com
• Encyberpedia Dictionary and Glossary
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ glossary.htm#dictionaries
• English Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/
• LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/new_dictionary/index_en.html
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/
• OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
• Specialty Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html
• VoyCabulary
http://www.voycabulary.com/
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/ rbeard/diction.html
• yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Encyclopedia
• Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com
• Britannica Online
http://www.eb.com/
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
• Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/
• Encyberpedia
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm
• Encyclopedia.Com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
http://www.SYMBOLS.com/
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
http://auth.grolier.com/cgi-bin/authV2
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Flags
• Flags of All Countries
http://www.theodora.com/ flags/flags.html
• Flags of the Confederacy
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-csa.html
• Flag of the United States
http://www.usflag.org/toc.html
• Historical Flags of the United States
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-hist.html
• U.S. Flag
http://www.usflag.org/toc.html
Government Resources
• The Almanac of Politics and Government
http://www.polisci.com/
• American Law Sources On-line (ALSO)
http://www.lawsource.com/also/
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html
• Congressional Pictorial Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/index.html
• Federal Gateway
http://fedgate.org/
• Government Information Resources
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?govpub
• Government Information Xchange
http://www.info.gov/
• Law and Politics Internet Guide
http://www.lpig.org
• The Political Graveyard
http://politicalgraveyard.com/
• U.S. Blue Pages
http://www.officialusa.com/state/state.information/bluepages/index.html
• U.S. Government Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Maps
• 50States
http://www.50states.com/us.htm
• Maps and Driving Directions
http://maps.msn.com/(unhhus55lgj2t1nyqpf2aii5)/home.aspx
• Maps and Driving Directions
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py
• MapBlast!
http://mappoint.msn.com/(1xaivjui4z3rtx45twweysi2)/home.aspx?mapblast=true
• Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
• Maps.com
http://www.maps.com
• MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com
• Quick Maps of the World
http://www.theodora.com/maps/abc_world_maps.html
• U.S. Gazetteer
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
• Zoom Into Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/introduction.html
• Military Sources
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/news.cfm?id=908
Periodicals
• American Heritage
http://www.americanheritage.com/
• American Libraries Online
http://www.ala.org/alonline
• Asiaweek Online
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/
• Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/
• Brookings Review
http://bookstore.brookings.edu/
• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.bullatomsci.org/
• Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
• Discover Magazine
http://www.discover.com/
• The Economist
http://www.economist.com/
• Forbes Online
http://www.forbes.com/
• Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
• Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
• Fortune
http://www.fortune.com/
• Harvard Political Review
http://www.hpronline.org
• HotWired
http://hotwired.wired.com/
• Money
http://www.money.com/money/
• Mother Jones
http://www.mojones.com/
• Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
• National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
• National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/
• New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/
• New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
• PC Magazine
http://www.zdnet.com/
• People
http://people.aol.com/people/index.html
• Political Science Quarterly
http://www.psqonline.org/
• Reason
http://www.reason.com/
• Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/
• Sports Illustrated
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/index.html
• Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/
• Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/
• U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
• Wilson Quarterly
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.welcome
• Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/
• The World and I
http://www.worldandi.com
Phone Directories
• The AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
http://decoder.AmeriCom.com/
• AnyWho Directories
http://www.anywho.com/
• Area Code Download
http://www.areacodedownload.com/
• Big Book
http://www.bigbook.com/
• Internet Address Finder
http://www.iaf.net/
• Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com/
• The Ultimate White Pages
http://www.theultimates.com/yellow/
• U.S. Business Phone Listings
http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgidir.dll?MG=&BUS=&MG=
• White Pages
http://www.infospace.com/info/wp/index.htm?ver=08707
• WorldPages
http://www.worldpages.com/
Quotations
• The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/
• Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Thesauri
• Acronyms Finder
http://www.mtnds.com/af/
• Synonyms Dictionary
http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html
• Roget's Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
• Roget's Thesaurus (NIAID)
gopher://odie.niaid.nih.gov/ 77/.thesaurus/index/
• The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/index.html
• WWWebster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
• U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
U.S. Law & Legislation
• CapitolHearings.org
http://www.capitolhearings.org/
• Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
• Criminal Justice Links
http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/cjlinks.htm
• Federal Register
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/index.html
• FedLaw
http://www.legal.gsa.gov
• FindLaw for Legal Professionals
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
• FindLaw Guide to Legal Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/index.html
• GPOAccess
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/
• GigaLaw.com
http://gigalaw.com/
• Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html
• House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov
• Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm
• Lawyer Express
http://www.lawyerexpress.com/
• 'Lectric Law Library
http://www.lectlaw.com/rotu.html
• Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
• LEGI-SLATE's Legislative Highlights
http://www.statenet.com/
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
• Senate Web
http://www.senate.gov
• Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov
• Thomas - Legislation on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov
• U.S. Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
http://uscode.house.gov
• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
• U.S. House of Representatives Law Library
http://uscode.house.gov
• U.S. Law Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/us.html
U.S. Postal Services
• Area Code and Zip Code Look-ups
http://www.melissadata.com/keywordsearch/zipcode.htm
• Official Postal Service Abbreviation
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbrev.html
• US Postal Service
http://www.usps.gov/
• US Postcode Number
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
• ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.com/ncsc
Weather Forecasts
• CNN Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html
• National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov
• Unisys Weather
http://weather.unisys.com/
• US National Forecast
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/
• Weather Cams
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/wxcam.html
• Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/
• Weather & Climate
http://www.infoplease.com/weather.html
• Weather Information
http://www.nectec.or.th/weather.html
Recommended Site
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments has a list of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (useful in finding the important names)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html
• Electronic Embassy Website provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available.
http://www.embassy.org/
• InternationalAffairs.com has links to a wide variety of resources ranging from news wires and newspapers to economic think-tanks to strategic studies institutes to the official web pages of governments and international institutions like the World Bank, OECD, and the United Nations.
http://www.internationalaffairs.com/