Web Links

Adam Smith

• The Adam Smith Institute: http://www.adamsmith.org

Agriculture History

• United States Department of Agriculture: A History of American Agriculture (1776-1999): http://www.usda.gov/news/pubs/99arp/timeline.pdf

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

• AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org

American Revolution

• Library of Congress: The American Revolution and Its Era: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
• Library of Congress: The American Revolution and Its Era - Related Resources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armrel.html

Articles of Confederation

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall//charters_of_freedom/constitution/constitution_history.html

Bill of Rights:

• http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights.htm

Bretton Woods System

• Benjamin Cohen: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen/inpress/bretton.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

• About the BEA: http://www.bea.gov/
• BEA digital library of seminal documents related to the history of the U.S. national economic accounts: http://library.bea.gov
• All National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) from 1929 to present: http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/NIPAHelp.htm

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• About the BLS: http://www.bls.gov/bls/proghome.htm
• Homepage: http://www.bls.gov

Central Banking History—Fed

• U.S. Banking and the Central Banking Time Line in the U.S.: http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/index.htm

Constitution of the U.S. and its Amendments

• The Constitution of the United States of America: http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
• Amendments 1-10 (Bill of Rights): http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html
• Amendments 11-27 http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

Economic History

• EH.net: http://www.eh.net
• How Much Is That? http://eh.net/hmit/

Great Depression and World War II (1929-45)

• http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html

Immigration

• Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org/
• Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS): http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm
• Statistics Immigration and Naturalization Legislation History: http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/legishist/index.htm

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank)

• The World Bank Group: http://www.worldbank.org

International Monetary Fund

• About The IMF: http://www.imf.org/external/about.htm

Keynes, John Maynard (1883 - 1946)

• Keynes and Keynesian at EH.net: http://eh.net/HE/he_resources/keynes.php

Library of Economics and Liberty

• Data and Research: http://www.econlib.org/library/data.html
• Economics Reading Lists by Topic: http://www.econlib.org/library/list.html

Monopolies and Restraint of Trade in the U.S.

• Legal Information Institute: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_1.html

Social Security

• Social Security Online History Page: http://www.ssa.gov/history

U.S. Bureau of Transportation (BOT)

• The evolution of the BOT: http://www.bts.gov/about/history.html

U.S. Census Bureau

• Census Bureau Home Page: http://www.census.gov
• History of the Census Bureau and other facts: http://www.census.gov/main/www/aboutus.html
• Historical Information on How the Census is Taken: http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/photos/historicalidx.html

U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

• DOC Home Page: http://www.doc.gov
• International Trade Administration: http://trade.gov/index.asp

U.S. Department of Labor

• About the DOL: http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol
• History of the DOL: http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/main.htm

World Bank (the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

• The World Bank Group: http://www.worldbank.org

World Trade Organization

• About The WTO: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/thewto_e.htm