This page will contain links to open access internet resources such as digitized archives, digital encyclopedias, and more. These links are very helpful in finding primary sources.
ProCon is a leading nonpartisan site for learning the top arguments behind debatable issues of the day. ProCon’s mission is to promote civility, critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to debatable issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way. ProCon works to achieve those goals by presenting sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues, all thoroughly researched and compiled by its research staff and editors.
"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions."
Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.
The main principle of Ad Fontes (which means “to the source” in Latin) is that we analyze content. We look as closely as possible at individual articles, shows, and stories, and analyze what we are looking at: pictures, headlines, and most importantly, sentences and words.
