Political ScienceQ&A: Solicitor's OpinionsSubmitted by gideon@stanford.edu on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 17:04.Question: How can I locate the Solicitor's Opinion from the Dept. of the Interior from 1980 (M-36921)? Answer: This document can be found as part of the Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior (you can search this as a title in Searchworks). The detailed record shows a link to an online resource provided by the University of Michigan. The specific document is in v.87, p.291-304, and you can view a .pdf version. Alternately, the Law Library has this on microfiche. »
Q&A: Congressional Serial Set DatabaseSubmitted by jrjacobs@stanfo... on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 19:26.Question: I'm looking for U.S. Receipts and Expenditures from the 1850s through the 1890s. I understand that this is part of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set online, but when I construct a search with the terms above and the date range, I get a really long result. Can I narrow it down? Answer: Yes, by using Congressional Publications as an index to the Serial Set. It's on the Databases list. Then construct your search as follows:
This will narrow your results to just two records. With two browsers open, you can move back and forth between the chronological list on LexisNexis and the full text display of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, pasting in each relevant Serial Set volume number. »
Decline of Presidential RhetoricSubmitted by aridzona@stanfo... on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 09:37.If you feel exasperated with the current election campaign rhetoric, you are not alone. Professor Elvin T. Lim, the author of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush, which we have in Green Library, is interviewed in the October 3rd issue (this link is good for 5 days) of The Chronicle Review of Higher Education. »
On vice presidentsSubmitted by Chris Bourg on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 07:39.Interested in the Vice Presidency? Want to learn more about former Vice Presidents or Vice Presidential candidates? Stanford Libraries can help.
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