Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Use its Wayback Machine to see if they stored a cached copy of a website that is no longer accessible.
Websites
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (WWW Virtual Library)This database provides links to full-text, primary documents in American history from 1000 AD to the present. United States documents are organized by presidential administration.
- American Rhetoric (Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D.)Includes an Online Speech Bank which contains 5000+ full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
- Google TrendsGoogle Trends allows users to see what is trending in Google searches. See graphs and charts of real-time data, and search through various years, locations, and more.
- The Living Room Candidate (Museum of the Moving Image)American presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2024, search by year, political issue, presidential candidate, and more.
- September 11 Digital ArchiveUses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images.
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
Calculating Costs
- CPI Inflation Calculator (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.
- Measuring Worth.com (MeasuringWorth Foundation)Includes a calculator for determining historical exchange rates.