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- Economic Data (St. Louis Fed)Includes US Banking and Monetary Statistics
- A New Nation VotesSearchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Mapping Early American ElectionsOffers a window into the formative era of American politics by producing interactive maps and visualizations of Congressional and state legislative elections from 1787 to 1825. The project makes available the electoral returns and spatial data underlying those maps, along with topical essays on the political history of the period and tutorials to encourage users to use the datasets to create their own maps.Developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new windowICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. To access this site, you must create an account using your SHU email address.
- Pew Research Center DatasetsA nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
- Data.govPortal for US government data, browse by topic. Includes geospatial data.
- Data and Statistics about the United StatesFind Maps and population, demographic, and economic data. Also includes links to federal statistical agencies.
- Prices and Wages by Decade: IntroductionThis site is based on freely available historic resources, most of which come from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRASER® digital library and the HathiTrust Digital Library.