Political
Collections Online
Congressional Collections at Archival Repositories
http://www.archives.gov/records_of_congress/repository_collections/index.html
National Archives site with links to Archival Repositories who hold Congressional Collections. Can sort by archival institution, state, or member of Congress name.
Congressional Records Online
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/topics/congressional.html
National Archives site with links to and directions for finding digitized congressional records.
George Mitchell
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mitchell/
Senator from Maine. Content of site is for the most part the finding aid to the Mitchell papers, although there is some digitized material including photographs, a few video clips, and the text of several speeches. Very useful model for modern day political collections.
George Washington
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
Collection available online in its entirety. Includes educational content under Special Presentations section and at this Learning Page link
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/gw/
Abraham Lincoln
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
Very similar to Washington collection.
John Heinz
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Archives/Heinz/
Nearly 800,000 digital images from Heinz Papers at Carnegie-Mellon. Massive but awkward and slow. No additional educational content that I could find.
William S. Cohen
http://www.library.umaine.edu/cohen/
Finding Aid with some digital images.
Silvio Conte
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mu223_main.html
Finding Aid only, part of Five Colleges finding aids project. Very good model for delivering EAD finding aids.
The finding aids
included in this site are marked up in XML according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard.
The site runs Cocoon publishing
software that applies XSL stylesheets for displaying the finding aids as HTML
in any standard web browser. Lucene is the
site's search engine. Both Cocoon and Lucene are open source software projects
of The Apache Software Foundation.
Carl Albert
http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/main.html
Papers of over 50 members of Congress. Finding Aids to collections, some web exhibits, online journal for congressional topics, and information about outreach programs.
Dirksen Congressional Center
Three main collections and over 70 smaller collections. Good educational material at Congress in the Classroom Online portion of the site.
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/
Finding aids for political and other collections.
Albert Gore Research Center
Finding Aids and exhibits.
Tennessee political collections.
Richard Russell Library
http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/
Finding aids and exhibits.
The Russell Library
has over 100 collections of papers from politicians, political parties, public
policy organizations, federal and state appointees, and political observers
from modern Georgia (1900-present).
Stennis Center for Public Service
Promotes public service. Congress to Campus program might be worth looking into at some point.
Stennis Papers are at:
http://library.msstate.edu/congressional/stennis.asp
Cornell University Collection of Political Americana (IMLS)
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/
The central goal of the project
is to preserve, digitize, and catalog all items in the Susan H. Douglas
Collection of Political Americana. Acquired from an individual collector
between 1957 and 1961, the Douglas collection includes approximately 5,500
items of American political campaign memorabilia and commemorative items dating
to between 1789 and 1960. Mrs. Douglas characterized them as: ballots,
bric-a-brac (larger three-dimensional objects), broadsides, buttons, cartoons,
maps and charts, pamphlets, paper miscellaneous, parade items, posters, prints,
ribbons, sheet music, songbooks, textiles, trinkets, and wearing apparel.
In addition to the Douglas collection, Cornell University Library is conserving, digitizing, and cataloging approximately 1500 other similar items covering Presidential campaigns from 1960 to 1972. These items are found in a dozen other collections in the Cornell Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, including the 1960-1966 public relations records of the Republican National Committee. We have also preserved, cataloged, and digitized 393 additional pieces of campaign literature dating from 1800 to 1964 found the Rare Books collection. We intend to digitize all Presidential campaign items in Cornell collections to the extent that current technologies allow.
Getting the Message Out! National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (IMLS)
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/
Good educational content.
Getting the Message Out!
National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 presents an examination
of national popular political culture in antebellum America. It includes
histories of the presidential campaigns from 1840-1860, as well as primary
source material, such as campaign biographies and campaign songbooks.
Recordings of some of the songs are also available.
Georgia
Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA (IMLS)
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will create an electronic archive of State government
documents, including Georgia’s House and Senate journals, executive council
minutes, colonial government records, and other material. http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/