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Reference Tools

Biographies

• Government
  • Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774 - present
  • Governors
  • Judges
    • Judges of the United States Courts 1789-
    • Portraits of Justice: WI Supreme Court 1848-1998
  • Political Graveyard
    Biographical information on deceased U.S. politicians
  • Presidents, U.S.
    • Presidents of the United States
    • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (Univ. of Michigan, Hoover Administration, 1929- )
• WI Genealogy Index (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  Contains pre-1907 vital records, including birth, death and marriage records as well as 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000.
• Women's Legal History Biography Project

Citation Guides & Legal Abbreviations

• Bluebook Abbreviations of Law Review Titles
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• Understand Legal Citations
  
  • Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
  • Reading Legal Citations (Boston College Law Library)
• Wisconsin
  • Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin State and Federal Tribunals (WI Lawyer article, 2004)
    Includes Mechanics of Citation table
  • WI Supreme Court Rule: SCR 80 "Publication of Opinions"

Dictionaries

• Abbreviations & Acronyms of the U.S. Government
• Dictionary of Wisconsin History (Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Law
  • Dictionary of Legal Terms (Nolo.com)
  • Law.com Dictionary
• MediLexicon
  Medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations

Encyclopedias

• Wex (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• Zimmerman's Research Guide (LexisNexis)

Quotations & Speeches

• American Rhetoric
  Includes the Online Speech Bank of over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of speeches and the American Top 100 Speeches database
• Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

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