Other Resources

Bibliographies

The attached two bibliographies are illustrative of the vast array of available materials; they are by no means exhaustive.

• Selected Books and Government Documents
• Corning's The Evolution of Medicare. The book was sponsored and published by HEW in 1969.

Other government history-related websites

• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - Historical Highlights
  • Public Health Service
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Current HHS Leadership biographies
  • Former HHS Leadership biographies
  • U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • The National Library of Medicine
• National Archives and Records Administration—Presidential Libraries.
  This independent Federal agency helps preserve our nation’s history by overseeing management of all Federal records. We link to the Presidential Libraries page which contain speeches, documents and other materials housed at the various Presidential Libraries around the country.
• Library of Congress.
  The Library has extensive collections of material available online.
• • Thomas Thomas is a comprehensive Federal legislative information site which contains all legislation introduced into Congress and the Congressional Record in recent years.
• U.S. Senate Historian’s Office.
  The Senate Historian’s Office has considerable institutional, biographical, and statistical information available online.
• Social Security Administration—Online History.
  SSA has a significant collection of materials related to Social Security programs. SSA administered Medicare from 1965-1977, prior to the creation of the Health Care Financing Administration, (now called Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)) and the website has considerable material, especially about the early years of Medicare.

Other websites

• Tennessee Technological University.
  Large collection of links to American history sites.
• Society for History in the Federal Government.
  Organization of professional historians in Federal agencies.