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Welcome to the Politics Research Guide. This guide is designed to support your research process. In this guide, you'll find:

subject-specific materials and resources, such as books, articles, and databases
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Find Articles

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
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Index of peer-reviewed articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Literature reviews for many different disciplines in biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
Anthrosource This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles published by the American Anthropological Association
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
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English language publications in all subject areas, especially the humanities and the social sciences, related to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Journal literature covering world history, excluding the United States and Canada (publications starting in 1955).
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
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An international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly books and journals in all disciplines.
National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS) This link opens in a new window
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
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Materials on all subjects
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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International academic literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Readers Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
American magazine articles published between 1890 and 1982 (citations only).
Social Science Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science social science collection.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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International literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.

Data & Policy Sources

Federal and State Information

Congress.gov
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.
Government Publishing Office
govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
United States Census Bureau
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
Access Washington
Information about all programs and services of Washington State.
Walla Walla County
Public records, services, and information related to Walla Walla County.
City of Walla Walla
Information about all programs and services of the City of Walla Walla
Caselaw Access Project
CAP includes all official, book-published United States case law — every volume designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States. Our scope includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Our earliest case is from 1658, and our most recent cases are from 2018. Each volume has been converted into structured, case-level data broken out by majority and dissenting opinion, with human-checked metadata for party names, docket number, citation, and date.
How to FOIA
This training guide is for anyone who is interested in filing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request related to public interest.

Find Reference Works

Cambridge Histories Online - Philosophy & Political Thought
This unique historical reference compendium provides instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series.

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Reference sources for all subjects, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles.
Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new window
Reference source for all topics relating to Islam; only 2nd & 3rd edition online.

Encyclopedia of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity
Explains the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large, including events, perpetrators and heroes, and international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity.
Encyclopedia of Population
Provides coverage of demographic topics both in the core field and in neighboring disciplines. Encompasses the large-scale changes in emphasis and research directions in population studies during the last 20 years.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
Covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United Nations involvement in the region.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
Provides a comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, and much more.

Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Fully searchable and downloadable edition of the standard source for facts about American history. Allows customized tables and spreadsheets.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
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Ranges from local papers like the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin to international papers. Can browse by region, century, or topic.
AllAfrica This link opens in a new window
African news and information (1997- )
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Formerly LexisNexis. Full text access to news, business, and legal sources, including federal and state court cases from 1790-present.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text, next-day access to New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Wall Street Journal, as well as many other national and regional newspapers.

African Newspapers, 1800-1922 This link opens in a new window
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Fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Papers are in English and other languages.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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This collection includes the Seattle Times (1923-1984), The Oregonian (1923-1987), "African-American Newspapers 1827-1998", and "Hispanic-American Newspapers 1808-1980"
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Digitized newspapers from all over the country, predominitely covering 1860-1922 with titles from 1777-1963.
Los Angeles Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
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Full coverage (1881-1996)
New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
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Full coverage (1851-2016)
South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
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Times of India (Historical) This link opens in a new window
Washington Digital Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Titles and coverage varies, primarily late 19th century.

Full Text Historical Magazines

American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Periodicals published from the 1680s to the 1930s (fully keyword searchable).
Economist: Historical Archive, 1843–2020 This link opens in a new window
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A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2020. Search "The Economist" in Sherlock to access the most recent issue.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Full text of 19th century British magazines.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized, full-image journal articles of backfiles for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Popular Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Titles include Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, US News & World Report, and The Nation.
Readers Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
American magazine articles published between 1890 and 1982 (citations only).
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014 This link opens in a new window
Women's Magazine Archive Collection This link opens in a new window
Full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
More than 170 African American Periodicals published between 1825 and 1995

Find Digital Collections

Digital Collections
General Digital Collections

Aluka (Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa) This link opens in a new window
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Primary source materials from archives and libraries around the world related to the dismantling of the Apartheid regime and Liberation of Southern Africa.
America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
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Primary sources (monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera) covering 1639-1900.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Content is provided by the BBC, the Canadian Broadcast Corp, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, and others.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Primary sources including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project This link opens in a new window
The vital history of Seattle's civil rights movements to life with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Openly available World Bank research and publications since 2000.

Internet Archive
In addition to digital text collections, there are also collections of music and video and the Wayback Machine to find archived versions of web pages.

Making of America This link opens in a new window
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Primary sources like maps, photographs, letters, diaries, newspapers, audio of personal accounts of events, sound recordings & historic films.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digital library of books and journals scanned by a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. Log in to access the largest number of volumes and features.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
Digitized collections from libraries, archives, and museums around the country. Find primary sources in the forms of images, documents, film, sound recording, and other mediums.