• Lots of stuff here: https://www.poliscidata.com/pages/americanPolitics.php
  • Poliscidata is a public academic source that helps researchers find, analyze and share datasets that help to better understand national politics. Whether it is for American politics, surveys, polls, voting, and elections, this source is a central location that is easy to find and engaging to understand.

• The American Presidency Project: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
  • The American Presidency Project is a non-profit and non-partisan organization that provides a searchable database with the most presidential documents. Ranging from Messages and Papers of Presidents from 1789-1929, the Public Papers of the Presidents since 1929, and the Weekly Compilation of Presidents since 1977, the archives provide a free and accessible site for all documents concerning the presidents, party platforms, elections, the branches of government, and more.

 

• Policy Agendas Project: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/news/feature-archive/the-policy-agendas-project.php
  • The Policy Agendas Project is an organization launched by the Department of Government at the University of Texas Austin that collects and organizes data that tracks change in the policy agenda and policy outcomes since WW2. This project allows journalists, scholars, and interest groups to compare issues that executives and members of Congress have sided with and assess how these actions correlated to the mood of the country.

 

• National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/
  • The National Center for Education Statistics partnered with The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is a statistical and research-based arm of the US Department of Education. As an independent and nonpartisan platform, they have a mission to provide scientific evidence with education practice that would be beneficial to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the general public. Ultimately, they provide data that describes how well the United States is educating students, what it needs to do to be improved, how much more funding there should be, conduct evaluations, training, and more.