Political Science Research

The Avalon Project includes digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, categorized by time period and broad subject collection.

Use NARA's catalog to search millions of archival items. Click on "Available Online" or "Archival Descriptions with Digital Objects" to focus on items that are available for online viewing and downloading.

Archives materials held by the Library of Congress, including early founding documents for each branch of government. Select Everything next to the search box at the top right before typing in keywords.

"Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ('the world's largest nongovernmental collection' according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets."

Through the Library of Congress - "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."

Digital collections of primary and secondary sources. Includes an archive of U. S. government websites as well as the websites of other government entities over time.