Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources

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Description: A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress. Among the resources listed are:

• Collaborative Digital Libraries
  • The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
  • France In America
  • Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West
  • Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
  • United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
• Digital Collections
  • Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
  • Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
  • Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
  • Lewis Carroll Scrapbook
  • Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
  • Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
• Portals to the World - Electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts.
  • Selected Web Resources on Terrorism
• Research Guides & Databases from the Library of Congress:
  • Country Studies - Historical, social, economic, and political analyses of individual countries.
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies - A multidisciplinary catalog of Latin American materials, compiled by more than 130 international academics.
  • Global Legal Information Network - A searchable database of laws, regulations, and legal sources contributed by member nations.
  • Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Database - Correlated and uncorrelated informaton relating to missing Americans in Southeast Asia.
  • U.S. Russian Joint Commission Database - Documents retrieved from various archives in the Russian Federation pertaining to American personnel missing from World War II to the present.

Subject(s):
African & Middle East Studies
Americas (Area Studies)
Area Studies
Asian Studies
Digital Archives & Collections
European Studies
Publicly Available Resources

Related Databases

Related Links
American Memory
Country Studies ** http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html **
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative ** http://ecai.org/projects/projectexamples.asp **
World Fact Book ** https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html **
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Business Internet Resources by Region and Country
YaleGlobal Issues Related Websites
YaleGlobal Online

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