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  <title>Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online</title>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) Millennial Edition Online&lt;/i&gt; provides data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American history. Data is available in HTML, PDF, and Excel. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000700&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/historical-statistics-of-the-united-states-millennial-edition-online.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <title>Encyclopedia of the American Constitution from Gale Virtual Reference Library</title>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Encyclopedia of the American Constitution&lt;/i&gt; provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF concerning issues and concepts related to the constitution, court cases, biographies, and judicial decisions handed down by the Supreme Court. It includes a glossary of terminology, a case index, name index, and a subject index. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000876&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/encyclopedia-of-the-american-constitution-from-gale.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Gale Encyclopedia of American Law&lt;/i&gt; provides articles in HTML and PDF on all aspects of American law: legal terms and concepts, cases, people, entities, and events. In Focus essays accompany related entries and provide additional facts, details, and arguments on particularly interesting, important, or controversial issues raised by those entries. Details on landmark legal cases and several primary documents are also provided. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000876&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/G/gale-encyclopedia-of-american-law.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;CRSR&lt;/i&gt; allows browsing and full-text searching of Congressional Research Service (of the Library of Congress) reports, which are provided to members of Congress and Congressional committees and could cover any topic. By law, most CRS reports are confidential, so this database is not complete. 1978-present. &lt;span class=&quot;majax-erm-advisory&quot; title=&quot;e1000233&quot;&gt;&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/congressional-research-service-reports-crs-from-cqpress.html&quot;&gt;Full record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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