411 Locate
Find e-mail addresses for individuals.
E-mailAddresses.com
Reviews and background on about 100 free e-mail services.
Nicado
Helps you find e-mail addresses and phone numbers for friends, family you've lost touch with.
Lycos WhoWhere E-mail Directory
Locate Executive Branch Senior Executives
Federal Agency Employee Locators
Internet Address Finder
Six million listings worldwide.
Covering the Obama Administration
Politifact: Obama Meter
St. Petersburg Times site tracks President Obama's campaign promises. The site is a spinoff of the 2008 Election's Truth-o-Meter.
Whitehouse.gov
The official page.
U.S. Government 2010 Budget
President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2010 budget.
Recovery.gov
Track who gets what in the 2009 economic stimulus package.
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Find, discuss and rate shovel-ready projects that benefit from recovery spending.
Social Government
This site tracks ways that local, state and federal government use social media.
AskSam.com: Obama Speeches Archive
This site has a deep archive of Barack Obama speeches from 2002 to the present.
2009 Transition and Inauguration
Carroll Publishing Transition Tracker
A great site that tracks changes in appointed and elected government officials.
New York Times: Most-Used Words in Presidential Inaugural Addresses
From 1789 to the present.
Change.gov
Obama's transition web site.
SourceWatch Encyclopedia: Presidential Transition Resources
Council for Excellence in Government: Presidential Transition
The White House Transition Project
Program formed in 1997 to ease the transition between presidents. Includes resources from policy organizations, scholars, etc.
General Services Administration: Presidential Transition
Provides the services and facilities needed for the new administration's official duties. Helpful in tracking technology needs and other improvements (and costs) a new administration may have.
CNN: Interactive Inauguration Event Map
Bartleby: Inauguration Speeches of Past Presidents
Searchable database of speeches.
History Matters: FDR's 1933 Inauguration Speech
Famous speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt given in Washington, D.C., March 4th, 1933. "We have nothing to fear ... but fear itself."
Government Accountability Office: 2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition
Library of Congress: Presidential Inaugurations
"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.
Obama's Office of Urban Policy
Citizens can contribute ideas on policies to improve cities.
Library of Congress: Inauguration Dates
Great for quick reference.
infoPlease: Inauguraton File
A treasure trove of facts and background, including media coverage, famous addresses, inaugural trivia, and life after the presidency.
Federal Citizen Information Center: National Contact Center
A great resource for anyone covering the federal government. The site includes phone and hotline numbers to various agencies, Congressional phone directories, contacts for cabinet departments, etc.
U.S. Government Press Release Sites
A clearinghouse of agency press releases and announcements.
CBS News: An Agency-by-Agency Guide to Obama's Budget
MSN Money: The 102 Best Money Sites
Government RSS Library
USA.gov's RSS feed for news releases, agencies, etc.
WikiPedia: Inauguration Day
Includes history and traditions with the ceremony.
Poynter.org: Inauguration Resources List
WikiPedia: Inauguration Day
Scroll to the bottom of the page for a chronological chart of details of details from past ceremonies.
TeacherVision: History of Presidential Inaugurations
Truman Library & Museum: Inauguration Quiz
MSNBC: Mayors' Cries to Help for Obama
Survey, presented as an image map, of advice to Obama from mayor's of large and small U.S. cities.
TeacherVision: History of Presidential Inaugurations
MSNBC: Estimating Large Crowds
Steve Doig of Arizona State University uses a process to estimate large crowds. He uses Obama's Presidential Inauguration as an example.
Executive Branch
Whitehouse.gov
The official page.
National Archive: George W. Bush Public Papers
Searchable database that complements the printed volumes.
Library of Congress Executive Branch Links
One-stop shopping for government agencies (many of the links are listed below, by the way). This page is just a set of links to government agencies and are organized by the departments they're governed by.
Washington Post Watergate Archive
The Post put up this archive site in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. Site includes a chronology of events, bios of key players, articles, reforms and transcripts of chats with Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee.
Department of Energy
Another database of nuclear accidents.
Notable Names Database
More than 20,000 bios of famous people.
Department of Health and Human Services
Sunlight Foundation: Online Foreign Agent Lobbying Database
The Foreign Agent Registration Act requires the Justice Department to maintain detailed reports of lobbying firms hired by foreign governments and by organizations. Just select legislators from a menu and it will show their records, lobbyist ties, etc.
Presidents of the United States
Presidential/Congressional nominees history
Information about all nominees (received, rejected, confirmed) for the current session of Congress. It gives names, position for which the individual was nominated and the status of their nomination.
University of Texas: Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
Findlaw: Chronology of Congressional Sex Scandals
Polizine: Biggest Political Sex Scandals Ever
HuffingtonPost: America's Top Political Sex Scandals
Journalism.org: What Scandals Make the Biggest News?
Museum of Broadcast Communications: History of Presidential Debates
Commission on Presidential Debates
PIBuzz.com: Government Salary Lists
Look up salaries for all kinds of federal positions.
PBS: The American Experience - The President
A great interactive video site that lets you pick a question that a past president will answer in a video. (Examples: "How Influential is the First Lady?" and "How Do You End a War?"
Poynter.org: Backgrounding Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Links, documents, photos, news announcements, statements, etc.
Gerald R. Ford Historical Photographs
Links, documents, photos, news announcements, statements, etc.
White House Museum
Unaffiliated with the government, this site gives a tour, stats, details about the building and surrounding area.
American Society of Civil Engineers
A 2005 report on failing structures in U.S. infrastructure.
Journalist's Resource: Research and Background on Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI
Flowing Data: Religious Geography of the United States
Maps where various faiths are located.
American Religious Identification Survey (2008)
Disciples of Christ (Christian Church)
United Methodist Reporter Interactive
Undergoing some upgrades.
Crosswalk.com News Channel
Provides up to the minute news and comment with a Christian perspective.
Faith and Values
Information about Christian and Jewish faiths, including doctrines, text of speeches, video and audio. The site was built by a coalition of 70 Jewish and Christian faith groups.
Relevant Magazine
A Christian teen pop culture magazine.
ReligiousTolerance.org
Useful for backgrounding Christianity.
Greatbooks.org: Religions
A helpful resource in researching books on Christianity.
ChristianCentury.org
A Christian magazine.
America Magazine
Covers the basics of Christianity.
ChristianityBook.com
A mixture of editorial content and e-commerce, this site offers a Bible and religious song search as well as many other resources.
Gospelcom.net: Internet for Christians
A Guide to Christian Resources on the Internet
AmericanCatholic.org
Answers questions about catholicism.
Journalist's Resource: Research and Background on Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI
Catholic Church Cardinal Biographies
U.S. Catholic Population by State, 2008
From the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Vatican: Background on The Pope
PBS: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
American Family Association
America's largest pro-life family site, the AFA stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media - including pornography - on our society.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
News, sources, issues, list of key dates/observances, church documents, year-in-review and dozens of other resources.
The Pontificate of Pope John Paul II
From Eternal Word Television Network.
Eternal Word Television Network
A source of news and information on the Roman Catholic Church.
Jewish Community Online
Ask a rabbi,torah, jewish news, jewish chats, etc.
Azure Journal
Launched in 1996, Azure is a journal of philosophy, social thought and cultural criticism, which provides a forum for scholarship and opinion on issues of concern to the Jewish public in Israel and abroad. Azure has in-depth essays, articles and reviews that offer thought-provoking analysis in areas such as Israeli government policy, cultural trends in Israel, religion in public life, Israeli constitutionalism and judicial activism, Jewish philosophy, Jewish and Zionist history and much more.
FORWARD
An American Jewish newspaper.
Virtual Jerusalem
A good community site.
Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem's English-speaking paper.
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
An international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to "preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action."
The Jewish Museum
More than 50 pieces from the renowned collection.
Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount Guide
This online guide is a tour of what's called the Temple Mount by Jews, the Noble Sanctuary by Muslims.
American Baptist Churches, USA
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
Information on missionary trips, building homes, spiritual guidance, etc.
What About Jesus?
Basics of Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Mormon: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Mormon.org
Background resources on the church, LDS chapels locator.
MinistryWatch.com
Evaluates more than 500 religion-based charities.
The Bright Side.org: Wings of Support
This site posts stories about life experiences and coping with difficult situations.
Religious Tolerance: Native American Religions
CaoDai.org
Cao Dai is a religion that started in Vietnam in the 1920s.
About.com's Alternative Religion Guide
A hosted directory of thousands of religion links.
National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom
Quakers: The Religious Society of Friends
Center of Traditional Taoist Studies
International Shinto Foundation
An introduction to the ancient Japanese religion.
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