U.S. Supreme Court

Official website of the Supreme Court. Includes docket, oral arguments, court rules, opinions, history, etc.


Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture

Collection of primary sources that provide a context for understanding the place of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in American culture. Includes representative antebellum texts related to Christianity, sentimental culture, anti-slavery, and minstrel shows as well as responses to the novel.

United Nations

Official website of the U.N. Contains relevant information on this institution, its members, meetings, resolutions, etc.


United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL)

Collection of full-text, United Nations documents related to the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East from 1917 to the present.


United States Government Manual

The official handbook of the Federal Government. Provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the U.S. participates, and boards, commissions, and committees.


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Online exhibitions plus full-text Holocaust Encyclopedia containing articles on Holocaust-related topics. Includes testimonies, documents, historic images, and film clips.


USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System

Reports and datasets from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Includes production and prices of crops and food. Some international coverage.


USENIX Conference Proceedings

Coverage: 1993 to present

Full-text proceedings from conferences, symposia, and workshops sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association.


Valley of the Shadow

Collection of resources documenting two Shenandoah Valley communities in the years before, during, and after the Civil War. Contains searchable newspapers, population census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slave owner census data, tax records, letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters.


Value Line Investment Survey (Standard Edition)

Reports on 1700 stocks, including past performance, current status, and outlook. (Note that our subscription allows only two users from Lafayette to access the database simultaneously. If you see a message saying that the licensed number of users is already logged on, ignore the rest of the message and try again later.)