Textbook
Links
General
Government and Civic Resources
Executive
Branch
Legislative
Branch
Judicial Branch
California
Government Resources
Media
Media Literacy
and Election Links
AP
Comparative Government Links
Text
Book Links
McGruder's
American Government
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/Magruders/index.html
Links from Prentice-Hall
for students and teachers. Information includes internet resources
and lessons, updates, practice tests, lessons, and teaching tips.
Politics in America
http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/
Select a chapter to get
overviews and objectives. The frame on the left side will give you
various selections including web resources, documents online, student resources,
etc.
Documents Library for
Politics in America
http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/medialib/docs/doctable.htm
Documents on this part
of the web site are in alphabetical order on a chart that links them to
chapters and pages from the text.
General
Government and Civic Resources
SCORE-American Government
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/grade12/index.html
Resources on the Internet and online
activities arranged according to the History-Social Science Standards.
AP Government Course
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/gov-pol/html/us_cours001.htm
Links for AP Government
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/gov-pol/html/us_links.htm
The Digital Librarian-Government
http://www.digital-librarian.com/government.html
The Digital Librarians
guide to government resources.
Constitutional Conflicts
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/home.html
Librarians Guide to the
Internet-Government
http://lii.org/search/file/government
Close Up Foundation
http://www.closeup.org/
The Close Up Foundation
is affiliated with the publishers of the text book. The foundation
is dedicated to civic education and provides teaching materials, class
trips to Washington, and seminars for teachers.
About.Com-Political Science
Resources
http://polisci.about.com/homework/polisci/mbody.htm
Articles, papers, and
resources on the United States and foreign governments.
Center for Civic Education
http://www.civiced.org
U.S. Government Agencies
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Links from Louisiana
State University to government departments, agencies, bureaus, and committees.
World Wide Web Resources
for Government Information
http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
First Gov
http://www.firstgov.gov/
The official web site
for searching for U.S. Government information.
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Information on the people
who live in the United States, past and present.
Fed Stats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Easy access to statistics
generated bymore than 70 federal agencies. For example: crime
statistics, how much federal money was received and spent, births, deaths,
etc.
Bartleby Library-Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/
U.S. Immigration Policy
http://www.closeup.org/immigrat.htm
Federalism
http://www.closeup.org/federal.htm
Domestic Terrorism
http://www.closeup.org/terror.htm
Famous Trials Homepage
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Contitutional Rights Foundation
http://www.crf-usa.org/
Executive
Branch
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Presidential Records for Theodore
Roosevelt to Clinton
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/record/record.html
U.S.State Dept.
http://www.state.gov/index.html
U.S. Dept. of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/
Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.fbi.gov/homepage.htm
U.S. State Dept. Travel
Warnings
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
The State Dept. monitors
travel conditions for U.S. citizens all over the world. They issue
warnings for particular areas because of health, terrorism, civil unrest,
etc.
Legislative
Branch
Thomas Legislative Information
on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
This remarkable resource allows
students to track pending legislation.
U.S. Senate Web Page
http://www.senate.gov/
The offical web page
for the United States Senate.
U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.senate.gov/
The offical web page
of the United States House of Representatives.
Congress. Org
http://www.congress.org/
Congressional contact
information.
Biographical Directory
of the U.S. Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Congressional Quarterly
http://www.cq.com/
Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/
An online version of
a newspaper which covers Capitol Hill.
Judicial
Branch
U. S. Code
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
Laws and Legal Information by Topic
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topical.html
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html
Legal information by subject
Oyez Project-The Supreme Court Multimedia
Database
http://oyez.nwu.edu/
Recent Supreme Court Decisions
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
FLITE-Federal Legal Information
Through Electronics
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
Historic Supreme Court decisions
from 1937-1975 can be searched by case name or keyword.
Supreme Court Search
http://nt.scbbs.com/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=39695&infobase=USSC-1&softpage=USSC_srchframe
You will need to select the type
of search (e.g., by Citation, Parties, Docket, Word or Phrase) at the top
of the screen. This database provider allows online access to its collection
of over 5,000 U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
FindLaw’s Supreme Court Search
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme2.html
FindLaw's page that offers court
calendar, court rules, Real Audio recordings of the Oral Arguments, Law
Journal Extra! news stories, Justices' biographical information, etc.
The Washington Post-Supreme Court
News
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/supcourt.htm
Anatomy of a Murder: A trip through
our nation’s legal system
http://tqd.advanced.org/2760/homep.htm
Virtual Tour of the Supreme
Court
http://www.cnn.com/LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0011/reviewing.the.vote/supreme.html
Supreme Court of the United
States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
The official web site
of the United States Supreme Court.
The Federal Judiciary
Web Page
http://www.uscourts.gov/
Supreme Court Web Watch
http://www.wwnorton.com/scww/
Capital Punishment in
the United States
http://www.closeup.org/punish.htm
Teaching materials from
the Close-Up Foundation.
Explore D.C.
http://www.exploredc.org/index.php
A virtual fieldtrip to
Washington, D.C.
California
Government
Official California Government
HomePage
http://www.ca.gov/
Links to state agengies,
departments, and statistics.
My California Homepage
http://my.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_homepage.jsp
Information from governmental and non-governemental resources on
California history, drivers licenses, geography, weather , etc.
California Electronic
Government Information
http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/states/california/cegi.html
"Hypertext links &
resource descriptions for over 240 California state,regional & municipal
databases available over the Internet or through dial-up bulletin board
systems. Entries grouped by source & listed by title. Links to other
compilations & search engines. Entire file available for
downloading."
California Government
Organizations
http://www.webstart.com/ca/government.html
California Information-State
and Local
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/ca-gov.html
Information from the
Library of Congress.
California Bills
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html
Test of bill before the
California senate and Assembly.
California Statutes or
Chartered Bills
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/statute.html
State and Local Government
on the Net
http://www.piperinfo.com/state/state_detail.cfm?state=California
California Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/govpubsearch.phtml
An unbelievable number
of reports, statistics, and other information generated in the state.
If you are looking for it, it is here. From "Abandoned Mines" to
"Zoo Directories."
Death Penalty Information
http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
A complete information
guide from Michigan State University. This web site includes lesson
plans for teachers and links to other web sites.
George Magazine
http://www4.georgemag.com/xp6/George/main.xml
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/
Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/
The Polling Report
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Slate Magazine
http://slate.msn.com//
U.S. News and World Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/
Media Organization Links
http://www.closeup.org/media.htm
Links to TV, magazines and newspapers that cover the political process.
Think Tanks
http://www.closeup.org/thinktnk.htm
Links to the Aspen Institute
to the Rand Corporation.