The sources below were compiled by Information USA, a service of the U.S. State Department: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/ref.htm
Directories: Peoples, Places, Businesses
AnyWho Directories
http://www.anywho.com
Big Book
http://www.bigbook.com
Forbes' Best of the Web
http://www.forbes.com/bow/
InfoSpace
http://www.infospace.com
Mr. ShowBiz Celebrities
Part of ABC news
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/index.html
Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com
U.S. Postal ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com
Zip2
http://www.zip2.com
Research
American College and Research Libraries Listing of the Best
Internet Resources in All Subject Areas Regularly updated links
to major academic journals
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/index.cfm
World's Fairs
Although the US is no longer a participant, world's fairs
continue to be a research lode for scholars and hobbyists.
http://www.worldsfairs.com/home.html
Virtual Libraries
American National Biography Online
ANB has replaced the Dictionary of American Biography as THE
American biographical source and it is updated weekly with new
entries.
http://www.anb.org
Global Legal Information Network
The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) maintains and
provides a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary
legal sources. The documents included in the database are
contributed by the governments of the member nations from the
original official texts which are deposited, by agreement of the
members, in a server initially at the Library of Congress of the
United States of America.
http://www.loc.gov/law/glin/GLINv1
H-Net Discussion Networks
H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking
professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of
ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research,
teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion;
decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists
Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: General
Reference
http://infomine.ucr.edu/reference
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov
LibrarySpot
http://www.libraryspot.com
My Facts Page--Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html
RefDesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com
Smithsonian Institution Archives. SIA contains the records of one
of the most well-known museums and research centers in the world.
This site will be useful for the breadth of its
collections.
http://www.si.edu/archives
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. SIL is one of the foremost
research libraries in the US and its collections are invaluable
in their subject depth. The homepage contains links to other
treasure troves of information,
http://www.sil.si.edu