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USA.GOV is the first page to visit for anything you want from the US Government. It is the home of all the other sites. You can link to any agency, program, or tool through it. Some more commonly used sites have their own links in this list.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS has been a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for more than a century. CRS is well-known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective and nonpartisan.  Search here for over 17,000 reports dating back to 1914.

The State Department manages our relationships with other countries. You can visit here to learn about policy, treaties, trade, and more.

The Census is a commonly used site for college students. It covers far more than how many people there are. Data from national to community level lets you explore housing, demographics, employment and earnings, migration; COVID and social factors.

The home of the US Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. From inland navigation charts to student loan data to housing price indexes, if you have a question, you can probably get a statistic here. Click the button that says “search over 335,221 datasets” for a list of agencies.

Federal employment covers every profession and is less subject to changes in the economy.

USA Spending is exactly that – the place you can go to find out how your tax dollars are spent.

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

See how FOIA inquiries work with this curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state, and federal government agencies. Find out where all the moon rocks are or see all the footage from the Mars Rover. Government information is available just by asking for it. Look what you can do with it.

Contains articles from over 2,500 United States newspapers. Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with areas of study such as Business, Health, Criminal Justice, Science, Humanities, Political Science and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.

Gale OneFile: News is a full-text newspaper resource providing access to major U.S. regional, local, and national newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.

The digital repository of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Find Texas history topics including maps, oral histories, newspapers, photographs, books, serials, periodicals, oil history, and music.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.

The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Access it through the link, but it is a publicly available resource and you will need to register your own account. You may view 100 free articles per month.

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to over 3.5 million articles from over 12,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 9,500 journals searchable at article level.

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. The database provides quality reference material—not not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico satisface las necesidades de investigación de los usuarios de habla hispana con una amplia gama de revistas y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués, tanto de América Latina como sobre ella. La base de datos proporciona material de referencia de calidad, no solo traducciones de materiales en inglés, en una interfaz poderosa y fácil de usar configurada para usuarios de habla hispana, lo que permite a los investigadores analizar temas y realizar investigaciones en español.

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. The database provides quality reference material—not not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico satisface las necesidades de investigación de los usuarios de habla hispana con una amplia gama de revistas y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués, tanto de América Latina como sobre ella. La base de datos proporciona material de referencia de calidad, no solo traducciones de materiales en inglés, en una interfaz poderosa y fácil de usar configurada para usuarios de habla hispana, lo que permite a los investigadores analizar temas y realizar investigaciones en español.

Audio books in multiple languages.

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Visual media from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists organized for scholarly use.

News film clips from the 20th century, British Pathé created the news reels so often seen in older movies as they covered the news of the world. Excellent primary source material for your classes.

Looking for a primary source for the study of Colonization? This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team.

Discover over 40 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States including numerous special collections.

The Internet Archive is a center for digital memory. Billions of webpages have been archived along with 28 million books, 14 million audio recordings, 6 million videos, 3.5 million images, and almost 600,000 software programs. They add another 1000 new digital books every day. Using their Wayback machine tool, you can archive any site you want to keep, regardless of how the owner changes it.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

View live cams from around the world as they observe nature in action. Eagles, bats, whales, condors, bison, hummingbirds, and more are just the beginning. Set in nature preserves and deep in the ocean, the variety is endless.

Download, share, and reuse millions of Smithsonian images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo

Founded in 2002, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. TAMI partners with the Office of the Governor’s Texas Film Commission to administer the Texas Film Round-Up program, which provides free digitization for Texas-related films and videotapes, online access to a selection of the contributed materials, and statewide public programming, as well as creates educator resources using these newly digitized Texas media in the classroom.

Gale eBooks offers broad cross-curricular collection of non-fiction titles, supporting science, geography, history, language arts, business and other subjects. Optimized for search and discovery, the Gale eBooks platform enables you to search through multiple nonfiction eBooks within a single search. Gale databases are accessible through their link and the Gale password found on our homepage or through TexShare directly.

Books about Texas, Texans, and Texas history, free to read online. Includes tons of DIY, recipes, crafts, business, art, self help, travel, and more.

Enjoy free classic books, search by author or title.

eBooks from ancient to modern in multiple languages.

The Internet Archive is a center for digital memory. Billions of webpages have been archived along with 28 million books, 14 million audio recordings, 6 million videos, 3.5 million images, and almost 600,000 software programs. They add another 1000 new digital books every day. Using their Wayback machine tool, you can archive any site you want to keep, regardless of how the owner changes it.

Audio books in multiple languages.

Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads

Millions of eBooks. Includes the option to set up your own bookshelf.

Planet Publish caters to anyone and everyone with an interest in eBooks. Contains many classics.

eBooks of all types, crowd sourced for scanning and proofreading.

Listing over three million free books, including collections in almost every language.