Collected by: Internet Archive Global Events

Archived since: Oct, 2013

Description:

This collection documents United States federal government shutdowns. Documentation of the September 2013 government shutdown consists of websites that address the impact of the shutdown in some way on their front page. These URLs were suggested by a very active community of librarians and archivists using an online seed URL nomination form created by Archive-It staff. Documentation of the January 2018 shutdown additionally includes a dataset of 29,403 seed URLs extracted from #shutdown-related Twitter data using Social Feed Manager.

Subject:   Government - US Federal,  Politics & Elections