American Center

Useful Websites

The IRC provides access to a wealth of information via free internet access, including:

Free Access Online Services

• Information USA 
• THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet
• U.S. Government Printing Office

Commercial Online Services

• Academic Research Library
• Leadership directories
• LEXIS-NEXIS
• OCLC FirstSearch
• STAT-USA Internet

Economics and Business in General:

• Small Business Administration
• United States Trade Representative
• Doing Business in the U.S.

Legislative and Regulatory Information:

• The White House
• The U.S. Senate
• The U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Department of Justice
• The U.S. Code
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Education and Cultural Exchanges:

• U.S. State Department - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• U.S. Department of Education
• Institute of International Education (IIE)
• Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
• American Universities

Environment:

• National Library for the Environment
• Resource Renewal Institute
• EnviroLink Network
• Environmental Law Institute

Information and Communication Technologies:

• Global Information Infrustracture Commission   (GIIC)
• Computers and Communication Technologies

Conflict Resolution:

• CRINFO - The Conflict Resolution Information Source
• The Conflict Resolution Network
• Peace Games

U.S. Society and Values:

• Civil Rights
• Women in the United States
• Islam in the United States
• Afro-American Almanac African - American History
• U.S. Population and Diversity

Think Tanks:

• The Brookings Institution
• Cato Institute
• American Enterprise Institute
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Rand Corporation
• U.S. Institute of Peace
• Woodrow Wilson Center
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Ready Reference

• Yahoo! People Search
• Law Resources
• Welcome to Who Where
• US Search: the one-stop access to record and information
• Presidential Visits Abroad
• The USA City Link Project

Virtual Library, Archives and Information Sources

• Facts and Reference: Source for Facts on the Net
• The National Security Archive
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• National Archives and Records
• An American Time Capsule
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives

Other resources:

• For all sorts of information about the United States
• The official site of the U.S. Department of State
• The Smithsonian Institution, the world's most extensive museum and research collection
• The Supreme Court
• FirstGov the portal to the entire United States government with access to 20,000 sites.
• For general reference
• An excellent search engine
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Dictionary.com