United States

Sub-headings:

East North Central (Midwest)

Find resources for the five East North Central states of the Midwest region: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

East South Central states (Southern)

Find resources for the four states of the East South Central states of the Southern region: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Middle Atlantic states (Northeast)

Find resources for the three Middle Atlantic states of the Northeast region: New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Mountain states (Western)

Find resources for the eight states in the Mountain area of the Western region: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming

New England states (Northeast)

Find resources for the six New England states of the Northeast region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

Pacific states (Western)

Find resources for the five Pacific states of the Western region: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington.

South Atlantic states (Southern)

Find resources for the eight South Atlantic states of the Southern region: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia and Washington, DC.

West North Central states (Midwest)

Find resources for the seven West North Central states of the Midwest region: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

West South Central (Southern)

Find resources for the four West South Central states of the Southern region: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

United States Travel & Tourism

United States History

Resources in this category:

El Boricua
http://www.elboricua.com/

An educational site dedicated to Puerto Rico's culture and history. Specifically designed for second and third generation Boricuas as a place where they can learn about their roots in English in simple and basic terms. Information about the Taínos (the original inhabitants of the island), African cultural influence, national symbols, children's songs, holidays, poets, and food (including recipes).

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
http://www.moneyfactory.com/

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) web site covers all aspects of currency and postage stamps. This web site is designed to be an easy to use resource for information on security documents.

CDC WONDER
http://wonder.cdc.gov/

The CDC WONDER--Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research-- homepage states, "WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data." This includes 40 text-based and numeric databases. Public-use available datasets available on WONDER include information on, "mortality (deaths), cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, natality (births), census data and many other topics."

City Town Info
http://www.citytowninfo.com/

Search for information on any place in the United Sates. Find out who lives there, what services available to residents. Anything and everything on what is good about the city and what is bad. Also has state information including population, flags and size.

CityTown.info
http://www.citytown.info/

The site is a project to collect all reliable and stable sources of city and town information such as city sites, chamber of commerce sites, convention and visitor bureau sites, etc. Some approximations have been made in the assignment of chambers of commerce to specific cities and towns.

Data & Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000ec28

This page is a gateway to the CDC's vast collection of public health statistics. Links are indexed by topic and also by key resources. Statistics come from various levels of aggregation: national, state, local.

Department of Health (DOH)
http://dchealth.dc.gov/doh/site/default.asp

The District of Columbia (DOH) has links to information on birth, death certificates; dog licenses, domestic partnership, environmental health, health promotion, HIV/AIDS, immunization, nutrition, and preventive health, among other topics.

Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS)
http://egis.hud.gov/egis/

A map site provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. View a map of any U.S. zip code or city with information on population, income, ethnicity, housing, or community development programs.

ERSys - Earth Resource System
http://www.ersys.com/

"Using maps, charts, reports, and relevant links, Ersys covers over 1300 US cities with detailed information on demographics, environmental factors, economic indicators, housing stats, media (newspaper, television, and radio), schools, transportation, local contacts, and much more!"

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Departmento de Salud
http://www.salud.gov.pr/

Information about the State Health Department of Puerto Rico in Spanish.

National Agricultural Statistics Service for U.S. Agriculture Statistical Information and Graphs
http://www.usda.gov/nass/

Each year, the employees of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conduct hundreds of surveys and prepare reports covering virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture -- production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm aspects of the industry. The online reports include their publications, charts and maps, and historical data.

National Atlas of the United States
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/

Interactive Layered maps of the United States providing sections on: elevation and terrain, exotic species maps, animated vegetation growth and interactive maps within your browser. Map layers can be downloaded from the USGS free via FTP. Maps have zoom function that allows users to examine over 2 million entries closely.

NetState
http://www.netstate.com/

Which state was the first state added to the Union? Why does the Florida quarter read "gateway to discovery"? Find out this and more information about the 50 states here.

North By South
http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1998/index.htm

North by South is the result of a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at Kenyon College. "This web page is the final product of a year long seminar researching the migration of African Americans from south to north. This seminar was the first part of a three year process to explore the reasoning, experiences, and contributions African Americans made to the greater community as they moved throughout the country." Illustrated text essays and bibliographies explore topics such as music, art, health, education, and death in African American culture at locations both North and South. Includes active message board.

Presidential Baseball
http://www.prezbaseball.org/

This interactive game was developed by history professors to teach about parallels between America's national pastime and national leaders.

Stately Knowledge
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

Need to know the capital of Alabama? Want to know which hockey teams are in California? How about the size of Montana? You can find all of that information here. This Internet Public Library resource lists official state sites for state government, library, historical society, museum, archives, parks, travel and tourism, kids, and the most interesting facts and people associatied with each state.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

This official site of the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides Department information as well as resources organized by audience and subject. Links to agencies within the USDA are helpful as well as links to USDA Publications, such as the Agricultural Fact Book. It also contains information on the Department, such as services and news. Users can perform both basic and advanced searches, and browse by audience (i.e., Consumers, Cooperatives, Producers) or by subject (i.e., Food and Nutrition, Laws and Regulations, Marketing and Trade). The site is also available in Spanish.

USA CityLink
http://www.usacitylink.com/

"Links to all United States city and state home pages."

Yahoo! Get Local
http://local.yahoo.com/

Interface to state and local resources in Yahoo, browsable by state/city or searchable by zip code. Entries for each city include links to Web resources, local weather and sports, searchable phone directories, and news headlines.