What is it?
Polling the Nations delivers 750,000+ global poll questions to drive critical thinking and real-world analysis in history, civics, and classroom debates. Covering more than 8,000 topics, the database includes polls from 1,000+ polling companies and sources.
Why it's great
Reliable, nonpartisan data
It provides a wide range of public opinion polls from trusted sources, ideal for teaching students how to evaluate credibility, detect bias, and interpret data—key components of information literacy.
Supports student research
User-friendly content helps students analyze trends and build arguments using real-world data, strengthening their ability to find, assess, and use information effectively.
Contextualizes public opinion
It connects historical and contemporary perspectives, encouraging critical thinking, analysis of primary sources, and the development of well-informed viewpoints—all essential information literacy skills.
Teaching and learning tools
Topical Activities
Connect your course objectives and activities to current events. Our editorial team highlights key topics through curated centers, collection highlights, and featured resources.
Organize Your Projects
Find, save, and organize your materials for a report, presentation, or research task. The interface enables users to display data in multiple formats: bar graphs, pie charts, and numerically.
Citation Tool
Move from information seeking to communicating by extracting the necessary resource citation for use in a variety of citation managers.
Trusted content providers
For students or professional pollsters, the capability of narrowing a search to the specific wording used and then seeing the outcome is quite remarkable. This resource has no competitors … highly recommended.”
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