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PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

White House - see our separate White House page.

USA.gov
The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal [was FirstGov].

Government Information Online - Ask a Librarian
"Government Information Online (GIO) is a free national online information service supported by nearly thirty public, academic, and state libraries throughout the United States. Participating librarians specialize in finding government information sources of all kinds, and will try to answer your questions through chat or email."

U.S. House of Representatives

AP Associated Press - Washington News

GPO Access
Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips
Superintendent of Documents Home Page

  • United States Code
    "The United States Code is prepared and published by the
    Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
    Representatives. This database contains the general and
    permanent laws of the United States."
  • Congressional Committee Prints
     "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses."
  • General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  • National Archives and Records Administration - Office of the Federal Register
    • Office of Federal Register
      Includes: Code of Federal Regulations ; Federal Register ; List of CFR Sections Affected ; Privacy Act Issuances ; Public and Private Laws ; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ; U.S. Government Manual ; United States Statutes at Large ; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
    Federal Bulletin Board

[The 9-11 Commission] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
"...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks."

Parameters
US Army War College Quarterly

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
 By Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library.

Action Agenda for Electoral Reform
"This site is designed to help you connect with the resources you are looking for! It is a clearinghouse for information, a springboard for action and interaction, and a resource for education."
From the Progressive Challenge, Institute for Policy Studies and The Nation.

The Albert Shanker Institute

  • Democracy: Teach It (September 2003)
    "...is a new statement calling for improvement in the teaching of democracy. Endorsed by a wide range of prominent Americansófrom former President Bill Clinton to President Reagan's UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, NEA President Reg Weaver to actor Christopher Reeveóthe document calls for an expanded course of study in history, civics, and the humanities, providing all students with a full, warts-and-all understanding of our own and other nations."

AllPolitics
Daily news and polls from Time/CNN

Almanac of American Politics 2002 - (dead link)
"This Web editon [sic] keeps you up to date with key votes of the 107th Congress, results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more."

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Museum of the Moving Image

  • The Living Room Candidate - (dead link)
    A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials.

The American Presidency
Selected Resources: An Informal Reference Guide
"Including bibliographies, biographies, quotes, trivia and sundry other source materials from the World Wide Web."
Compiled and maintained by Rick Matlick

The American Prospect Online
"...The aim of The American Prospect is to contribute to a renewal of America's democratic traditions by presenting a practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics, and public life."

American University Campaign Finance Website
 "Our files are taken directly from the Federal Election Commission's website as soon as the FEC updates its files each month. Usually, files will be ready for downloading beginning the second or third day of each month...We continue to create our files in .dbf format for optimum flexibility. And now, to make file access faster, all files are compressed using PKZIP ."
- School of Communication, American University

AmericanPresident.org
"AmericanPresident.org houses two primary modules: 'The Presidency in History' and 'The Presidency in Action.' The "Presidency in History' includes biographies of every president and first lady; richly detailed event timelines; biographies of cabinet officials, presidential staffers, and advisers; and multimedia resource galleries for each of the 43 presidencies. All of this material is vetted and overseen by a group of contributing editors-one per presidency-comprised of the nation's leading scholars on the presidency. The 'Presidency in Action' explores the process by which the president uses his staff to develop policy and make decisions."
- Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

Arab American Institute
"The Arab American Institute (AAI) represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system."

Beyond Delay
The 20 Most Corrupt Member of Congress
Annual report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Brookings Institution

Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
"Established by Caltech President David Baltimore and MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential election."

Campaign Finance Information Center
"...is dedicated to helping journalists follow the campaign money trail -- on the national, state and local levels.

Capitol Spotlight
A service of C-SPAN and CQ

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Recent publications.

Carter Center

Cases & Materials on American Federalism - (dead link)
"...used in American Government Courses at Purdue University Calumet. The site contains historical documents [American, British, and English], a timeline, a glossary, edited court cases, review questions, other materials, and links to other free resources."
Online textbook by Douglas G. Amber, Dept. of History & Political Science, Purdue University

Center for Immigration Studies
"It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States."

A Century of Law making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government...In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

  • The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States
    United States Serial Set Numbers 2484 to 2589
    U.S. Congressional Documents
    "The six-volume set entitled The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, from House Miscellaneous Document No. 603 of the U.S. Serial Set, was compiled by Dr. Francis Wharton and promulgated on August 13, 1888, by both houses of Congress."

Citizens for Tax Justice - (dead link)

  • Year-by-Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt to the Very Rich - (dead link) (June 2002)
  • Less Than Zero: Enron's Income Tax Payments, 1996-2000 - (dead link)
    "A January 17 analysis of Enron's financial documents by Citizens for Tax Justice finds that Enron paid no corporate income taxes in four of the last five years-- although the company was profitable in each of those years."

CNN.com Special Report - Change at the Supreme Court
Sections include: Miers Nomination ; The Roberts Court ; Rehnquist & O'Connor.

Commission on Presidential Debates
"Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation..."

  • Debate Transcripts
    "Transcripts of most presidential and vice presidential debates are available on this site. Several media and academic organizations also maintain tapes and transcripts of historic presidential debates."

Common Sense
Thomas Paine, 1776.

Common-Place: Special Issue on the Constitution
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2002
Roundtable Discussion: The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
"In eight paired essays, historians, political scientists, journalists, and lawyers examine the uses and abuses of the Constitution in contemporary American political affairs, from Bush v. Gore to the The Clinton Impeachment."
Sections include: Electoral College ; The Clinton Impeachment ; The Second Amendment ; Women and the Constitution.

Congress Online Project - (dead link)
"...to examine the use of Web sites and other forms of online communications by congressional offices. The goal of the project is to improve electronic communication between Members of Congress and the public."
Conducted by George Washington University and the Congressional Management Foundation

  • E-mail Overload in Congress - (dead link) "Thisis the first in a series of Online Issue Briefs that the Congress Online Project will be presenting to congressional offices

Congressional Hearings on the Web
Documents Center, University of Michigan

Congressional Quarterly

Congressional Reports
"Congressional reports originate from congressional committees and deal with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. There are two types of reports House and Senate Reports and Senate Executive Reports. The database for the current Congress is updated irregularly, as electronic versions of the documents become available."

Constitution of the United States of America : Analysis and Interpretation
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Supplements to the Constitution are cumulative.
Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
"...targets government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests. We will help Americans use litigation to shine a light on those who betray the public trust."

  • Beyond Delay
    The 20 Most Corrupt Member of Congress
    Annual report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Democracy Papers
"In these papers, we have tried to explicate what some of those principles are, indicating a little of their historical development and explaining why they are important to the workings of government in the United States in particular as well as democracy in general."
A U.S. Dept. of State publication.
By Melvin I. Urofsky, Professor of History and Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University

DemocracyNet (DNet)
"...is your premier public interest site for election information. Enter your zip code to find out who's running for offices on your ballot and where the candidates stand on issues you care about.
- The League of Women Voters'

Demos - A Network for Ideas and Action
"...is a new non-profit organization focusing on two of the
most urgent challenges facing the United States in the 21st century: strengthening our democracy and creating more broadly shared prosperity."

  • New Opportunities? - (dead link)
    Public Opinion on Poverty, Income Inequality and Public Policy: 1996 - 2001

Election 2000 - An Internet Library - (dead link)
"A publicly accessible repository of digital materials covering the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000."
"The Presidential Election of 2000 was one of the closest and most controversial elections in our Nation's history. This Internet Library was created to preserve this period of our digital history...The collection contains sites gathered from Aug. 1, 2000 to Jan. 14, 2001. You can now travel back in time and view these sites as they appeared during that period."
From Alexa Wayback Machine - Commissioned by the Library of Congress

electionline.org
Your First Stop for Election Reform Information
"The Project is not dedicated to advocacy, nor are we committed to any specific solution to the problem of election reform. Rather, the goal will be to offer everyone with an interest in the issues -- advocates, policymakers, officials, journalists, scholars, and concerned citizens -- a forum for learning about, discussing, and evaluating the whole array of information and ideas related to the issue of election reform."
By Election Reform Information Project, University of Richmond

Elections USA
An excellent site for current election news and analysis

Executive Agency Research
An extensive collection of resources including directories, laws, regulations, budgets, biographies, lobbyists, activities, and more
Documents Center, University of Michigan

FactCheck.org
"We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding."
- A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Federal, State and Commercial Bill Tracking Resources - Updated
By Kathy Biehl
LLRX.com ResearchRoundUp Published November 15, 2001

Fedstats
"More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use."

Fighting Corporate and Government Wrongdoing
A Research Guide to International and U.S. Federal Laws on White-Collar Crime and Corruption
By Kumar Percy
LLRX.com Feature, August 15, 2002

Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden
The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877
"...primarily from the pages of Harperís Weekly, as a public service to familiarize students and the general public with the historic events of the Electoral College controversy of 1876-1877.The organization of the site allows users to follow events day by day, to acquire a more in-depth understanding by reading the overview, and to gain insight into the pressís coverage by looking at the numerous period cartoons (most by Thomas Nast), along with corresponding explanations of their historical meaning.
From HarpWeek

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Special Report: If I Were President... (March-April 2003)
    "George W. Bushís policies toward North Korea and Iraq are under fire, and public approval of his presidency is declining. Whatís the Democratic alternative?"
    Essays by Sen. John Edwards ; Sen. John Kerry ; Rep. Richard Gephardt ; Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

Free Speech TV - (dead link)
"Free Speech TV broadcasts independently-produced documentaries dealing with social, political, cultural, and environmental issues; commissions and produces original programming..."

  • Toni Morrison and Cornel West - (dead link)
    "Toni Morrison and Cornel West discuss race and politics in America in a conversation presented by The Nation Institute at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on March 24, 2004. Toni Morrison is the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the author of Love, Beloved, Paradise, Jazz, Sula, Tar Baby, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye. Cornel West is Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University..."

George J. Mitchell Papers
 "This site is dedicated to providing information about, and access to, the papers of George J. Mitchell (Bowdoin 1954), as well as access to related information about American government, politics, and legislation... selected documents, photographs, and sound and video clips are be available at this site."
Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College

George Washington University - National Security Archive

GPO Access
Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips
Superintendent of Documents Home Page

  • United States Code
    "The United States Code is prepared and published by the
    Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
    Representatives. This database contains the general and
    permanent laws of the United States."
  • Congressional Committee Prints
     "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses."
  • General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  • National Archives and Records Administration - Office of the Federal Register
    • Office of Federal Register
      Includes: Code of Federal Regulations ; Federal Register ; List of CFR Sections Affected ; Privacy Act Issuances ; Public and Private Laws ; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ; U.S. Government Manual ; United States Statutes at Large ; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
    Federal Bulletin Board

The Great Debate & Beyond : The History of Televised Presidential Debates
 1960-1996
A wonderful multimedia presentation from "The Great Debate" between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 through the 1996 debate between Bush and Clinton.
Includes Curriculum Resources.
By the Museum of Broadcast Communications

Herblock's History
Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
"From the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000, editorial cartoonist Herb Block has chronicled the nation's political history, caricaturing twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979) and a fourth with Washington Post colleagues for public service during the Watergate investigation (1973)."
Library of Congress

Hind's Precedents of the of the House of Representatives of the United States:
Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and Decisions of the United States Senate
By Asher C. Hinds, 1907

http://politicalweb.info
"We are tracking the emergence and development of campaign Web sites, and will be sharing that information with you each week. We will provide data on the percentage of campaigns with Web sites and the kinds of features on those sites...The information and analyses presented on this site are based upon research conducted under the direction of Kirsten Foot and Steve Schneider."
- University of Washington - Center for Communication and Civil Engagement

Infosplease - U.S. Elections - (dead link)
Includes information on historical and current elections.

John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection - (dead link)
- From the National Archives and Records Administration

Justice Learning
"...is an innovative, issue-based approach for engaging high school students in informed political discourse. The web site uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy. The web site includes articles, editorials and oral debate from the nation's finest journalists and advocates."
- A Collaboration of NPR's Justice Talking and The New York Times Learning Network.

Late Night Comedy Counts - (dead link)
From the Center for Media and Public Affairs

[Libby Trial] U.S. Dept. of Justice - Office of Special Counsel

  • US v I. Lewis Libby
    "Due to public interest in this case, the Department of Justice is releasing the government exhibits in the format admitted in the court."

National Commission on Federal Election Reform - Federal Election Reform Network - (dead link)

  • Final Report of the Commission (07/31/01) - (dead link)
    "The Presidential election of the year 2000 has raised several issues about the voting technologies used in the United States. This report provides an overview of the technologies used and the issues raised, including a brief history and characteristics of the different methods, the design of ballots, kinds and sources of voter error, vote counting, and standards."

National Election Studies
"...to produce high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation that serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, and policy makers concerned with understanding the theoretical and empirical foundations of mass politics in a democratic society."
Includes their Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
Center for Political Studies at The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research

The National Security Archive
- The George Washington University

NORC - A National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago - (dead link)

  • The Florida Ballot Project
    "NORC is producing the definitive archive of the uncertified ballots from the recent presidential election in Florida...The goal of the project is not to declare a 'winner,' but rather to carefully examine the ballots to assess the relative reliability of the three major types of ballot systems used in Florida."

NPR - Warrantless Wiretaps: A Guide to the Debate
"The Senate held hearings Feb. 6 [2006] on the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program. President Bush calls the program a vital tool in the war on terror. Critics call it a breach of civil rights -- and possibly illegal. NPR examines the controversy."
- National Public Radio

Official Federal Government Web Sites
A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page. Directory of Internet addresses for the Executive Branch, Independent Agencies, Boards, Commissions and Committees, and Quasi-Official Agencies

OpenSecrets.com - Enron

[Pages] TIME Magazine

[Pages] Pages of the U.S. Congress: Selection, Duties, and Program Administration
CRS Report for Congress, Updated August 2006.

[Pages] C-SPAN's Capitol Questions - Pages
"Would you please explain who the young people on the House and Senate floor known as "pages" are, and what they do?

[Pages] Wikipedia - United States Senate Page - (dead link)
Sections include: Selection ; Uniform & Appearance ; Residence and Free Time ; School ; Commuter Pates ; Work ; Benefits.

Parameters
US Army War College Quarterly

PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

PBS FRONTLINE - News War
Companion website to the February - March 2007 special four-part into the future of news. Watch the full series online.
Includes: Secrets, Sources & Spin ; What's Happening to the News ; Stories From a Small Planet ; 50+ Interviews ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS Frontline - The Jesus Factor (April 2004)
"Examining George W. Bush's personal religious journey, its impact on his political career and presidency, and the growing influence of American's evangelical Christians."
Sections include: View the Full Program Online ; A President and His Faith ; America's Evangelicals ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS Frontline - Truth, War and Consequences (October 2003)
"As the Bush administration faces continuing questions about its failure to secure peace in Iraq, FRONTLINE takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at what some government officials say is the underlying cause of America's current problems in Iraq: the prewar political infighting among the Pentagon, State Department, and White House that hampered U.S. efforts to plan for an orderly postwar transition."
Sections include: Interview ; Why Did We Go to War ; What Went Wrong ; What's at Stake? ; Watch Online ; Discussion ; Links & Readings ; Teacher's Guide.

Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
"The resources collected here trace the history of political cartooning from the beginning of the nineteenth century and document its transformation during the watershed period at the end of the century when political cartoons emerged as one of the most popular and influential features of the daily press. It also documents some of their uses, from Nast's campaign of the 1870s through portrayals of political leaders, issues, and world events during the first decades of the twentieth century."
By Jim Zwick

Presidential Elections: 1740-
"...a continuing project which will eventually contain national election results for all presidential elections. Using authoritative statistical data and PC-based mapping software, we have created a series of maps showing state-by-state winners, along with percentage of vote received, for each election."
- Geographic Information Center, University of Virginia Library

Presidents of the United States - (dead link)
"...you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites."
From the Internet Public Library

Presidents of the United States
"The purpose of this site is to provide researchers, students, teachers, politicians, journalists, and citizens a complete resource guide to the US Presidents."
By Casper Bellville

The Price of Loyalty
"At its core are the candid assessments of former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill...He is the only member of Bush's innermost circle to leave and then to agree to speak frankly about what has really been happening inside the White House."
By Ron Suskind
[Note: The book in not available online but the files below are available.]

  • The Bush Files
    "These documents are drawn from a collection of 19,000 files of Paul H. O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary for the first two years of the Presidency of George W. Bush."

Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
"...is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership...It will also strive to rally support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense policy and America's role in the world."

["The founding members included Vice-President Dick Cheney; Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Paul Wolfowitz of the Defence Department; Richard Perle, head of the defence advisory board; Louis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff; John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control; and Elliot Cohen of the defence policy board." - From CBC News Online - (dead link), March 17, 2003]

Radical America
"...was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed. Its trajectory shows something about the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of the late twentieth century."
- Brown University Library - Center for Digital Initiatives

Road of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD)
"...data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). One collection of data sets includes every election at and above State House, along with party registration and other variables, in each state for the roughly 170,000 precincts nationwide (about 60 times the number of counties). Another collection has added to these (roughly 30-40) political variables an additional 3,725 variables merged from the 1990 U.S. Census for 47,327 aggregate units (about 15 times the number of counties) about the size one or more cities or towns. These units completely tile the U.S. landmass. This collection also includes geographic boundary files so users can easily draw maps with these data."
By Gary King and Bradley Palmquist

Speech & Transcript Center
Compiled by Gary Price

State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web
Compiled by Jennifer Bryan Morgan, Documents Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library - Bloomington.

Stateline.org
"Politics & Policy News, State by State"

StateNews - (dead link)
"Your Source for Daily State and CSG News"
- The Council of State Governments

Supreme Court of the United States
Official site of the U.S. Supreme Court
Sections include: About the Court ; Docket ; Oral Arguments ; Bar Admissions ; Court Rules ; Case Handling Guides ; Opinions ; Orders ; Visiting the Court ; Public Information ; Related Websites.

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
This useful Library of Congress page includes current Floor activities, Bill summaries from the current Congress as well as from previous Congresses, roll call votes, Public Laws and major legislation, text and index to the Congressional Record, Committee information, and historic documents and links to other Congressional Internet services and directories.

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Conference of Mayors

U.S. Department of Defense - DefenseLINK

  • DoD USS Cole Commission Report (January 9, 2001) - (dead link)
    "The attack on USS COLE (DDG 67), in the port of Aden, Yemen, on 12 October 2000, demonstrated a seam in the fabric of efforts to protect our forces, namely in-transit forces. Our review was focused on finding ways to improve the US policies and practices for deterring, disrupting and mitigating terrorist attack on US forces in transit."

U.S. House of Representatives
Includes House office web sites, media galleries, roll call votes and much more

United States Code

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

  • Probe of Election Practices in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - (dead link)
    • Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - (dead link) (June 8, 2001)
      " Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election. The disenfranchisement was not isolated or episodic ... State officials failed to fulfill their duties in a manner that would prevent this disenfranchisement."

U.S. Government: Commonly Used Abbreviations and Acronyms
"The following list reproduces Appendix A: Commonly Used Abbreviations and Acronyms, from the 2000-2001 United States Government Manual...."
From University of Washington School of Law Library.

United States Government Links - (dead link)
University of Central Oklahoma

U.S. House of Representatives - Committee on the Judiciary

United States Senate

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
Federal Bulletin Board
"Supreme Court Opinions and Orders from the 1992-1993 session through the 1999-2000 session in WordPerfect 5.1, ASCII and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (PDF) format. Current session files can now be found on the Supreme Court Web site."

Voting and Registration Data
- Census Bureau

[Watergate] washingtonpost.com - Watergate Revisited
Sections include: Post Coverage ; Chronology ; Sights & Sounds ; Key Players ; Documents ; Cartoons ; Live Online ; Interactive Quiz.

wartimeliberty.com
"...we will document this struggle between liberty and security by posting transcripts, documents and analyses -- and letting you make up your own mind."

Washington Post Politics
"...home for election and government news. Look here for continuously updated political coverage from The Washington Post, LEGI-SLATE News Service and news wires. Politics also has archived survey results from Washington Post polls..."

The Washington Times

  • Inauguration of the 43rd President of the United States - (dead link)
    A Special Section from The Washington Times

White House - see our separate White House page.

Who's Who in the Federal Government - (dead link)
- University of Memphis

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Maintained by Mike Madin.
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