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First Year Seminars:
Beyond the Ballot Box

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of topics related to voting and the political process.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library's reference area:

The concise encyclopedia of ethics and politics in the media	REF PN4756 .C645 2001
The media and elections: a handbook an comparative study	REF P95.82 .E85 M42 2004
Elections A to Z	REF JK1976 .M57 1999
Political parties and elections in the United States: an encyclopedia	REF JK2261 .P633 1991
The historical atlas of political parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989	REF G1201 .F9 M26 1989
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. elections, 2nd ed.	REF JK1967 .C662 1985
America votes	REF JK1967 .A8 1982
Representative American speeches 2004-2005	REF PS668 .B3 2005
The unfinished agenda of the Selma-Montgomery voting rights march	REF F334 .S4 U54 2005
CQ almanac plus	REF JK1 .C66 2002
The Oxford guide to the United States government	REF JK9 .P384 2001

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the following call number ranges: F (American History); JK (Politics); PN90s (Media); PN4756 (ethics in journalism).

United States and politics and government

United States and law

History, America and the United States

Political Science (General)

Political Theory, Theory of the State

Political Parties and United States
Political Campaigns and United States
Political Corruption and United States History

Voting
Voter registration

Business and politics
Mass media and political aspects

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal articles.
LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
CQ Researcher: CQ Researcher provides in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics such as "Elections," "Voting Controversies," "Voting Rights," and "Campaigns and Elections."

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Government Sites and Law.