Congress: Thomas

White House

Senate

House

Congressional Quarterly Alert

Carl Albert Center: archives on Congress.

C-span

Ted Kennedy info

CIA Publications 

State of the Economy (Dryden Press) 

US Census: Statistical Abstracts 

Frequently Requested Census Tables

US Dept of Commerce

Fedstats 

Edgar database of SEC: Company reports.

Fedworld NTIS gateway to U.S. govt

Gov't Printing Office

Fed Info Exchange WWW servers list

Justice Information Center (National Criminal Justice Reference Service.)

U.S. Government Printing Office 

U.S. Information Agency 

U.S. Office of Government Ethics

Consumer Info Center

Dept of Education

EPA environmental page

FBI (crime reports; constitutional restraints)

FBI Uniform Crime Reports

NASA

National Performance Review

Fed Reserve of NY (obtain value of your bonds)

Smithsonian Institute

US Postal Service (Zip Code and rates search)

Uncle Sam (government documents at University of Memphis) 

White House: 20 Things to do with Federal Info

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Immigration news, statistics and reports.

U.S. Census Bureau Contains information on Census 2000 and demographic data for the United States and other countries.

Statistical Resources from The University of Michigan Documents Center Compendium of U.S. statistical data, including demographic and housing statistics.

• US Government Information via Public Interest Groups:

All Things Political (Washington Weekly.) 

Policy.com (public policy resource.) 

GovInfo: Government Information Sharing Project (Oregon State University.) 

Electronic Policy Network 

National Political Index 

Voter and Citizen Information. 

Policy News Stand 

http://www.vote-smart.org Project Vote Smart

http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols U. Illinois-Chicago

http://www.biz.uiowa.edu U. Iowa political "stockmarket" game

http://www.wvu.edu/polsci W. VA U.

http://www.missouri.edu/~polswww U. Missouri

http://garnet.berkeley.edu:80/igs Institute of Governmental Studies

http://jhuniverse.hcf.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins Universe

http://www.hist.umn.edu census database 1850-1990

http://www.fga.com/twc Washington Center for Internships

http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/uic Urban Info Center

http://198.80.36.91/ndu/inss/insshp.html National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies.

www.imfsite.org Hoover.org's IMF critical review page

www.FacultyOnline.com bestselling textbooks

Cornell's US Constitution Source

US Founding Charters (at National Archives)

http://www.wld.com West Legal Directory

AL Supreme Court web

ABA poll about confidence in judiciary, 1999

Comparing Constitutions (Danish site, in English; mirror site)

OMB Watch (evaluates US government; good guide to its websites)

Oyez: Supreme Court Multimedia Database (awardwinning site -- read decisions or hear oral arguments)

FBI (crime reports; constitutional restraints)

Lecture 1999 Notes: Derryn E. Moten, Alabama State University, "To Die in Dixie: Alabama's 1923 Law Adopting the Electric Chair" 

The Articles of Confederation 

The Charters of Freedom Page From the National Archives and Records Administration, this page provides links to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. 

The Founding Fathers Page Also from the National Archives, this page contains short biographies of each of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

The Federalist Papers Online 

The National Constitution Center Provides information about the Constitution and links to other historical documents.

The U.S. Constitution Online Provides information about the Constitution and links to other historical documents.

United States Constitution Search Allows you to search the Constitution and its amendments using keywords.

Constitutions from Around the World.  Provided by The International Constitutional Law Project 

The Bill of Rights 

Cornell Law School's Online Legal Information Institute (LII) LII allows you to search for law involving rights protected by the Bill of Rights.

Speech of Eugene Debs (For which he was prosecuted under the Espionage Act.)

Major Recent Decisions of the Supreme Court

Cyber-Tribune on Freedom of Religion Provides a summary of religious freedom as defined by U.S. Supreme Court Cases.

National Rifle Association

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

NYU's  site about the Alger Hiss story (espionage trial in McCarthyite period). 

Recommended from Hal Turk (thanks):

http://members.aol.com/schwenkler/wcc/legalnk.htm

http://www.findlaw.com/

http://www.ih2000.net/ira/legal.htm

http://www.lectlaw.com/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

http://www.washlaw.edu/

http://www.almd.uscourts.gov/

http://www.uscourts.gov/

• Declaration of Independence.  Jefferson's rough first draft at Libary of Congress.
• Library of Congress Timeline 
• Ratification Debates 
• Revolution to Reconstruction (Dutch site)
• Romer v Evans, Supreme Court decision (1996).
• Slavery Experience 
• US v Nixon.  The Supreme Court oral argument in the Watergate case, July 8, 1974, and decision July 24, 1974. (Listen via RealAudio Player.) 
• US Presidents' Inaugural speeches (U Md) with abstracts & notes. 
•  http://historyunbound.wadsworth.com History Unbound is an interactive, online history exploration from Wadsworth Thompson publishers.

 

• National Journal's Almanac/2004/states/al/. |National Journal's Almanac of the states is an excellent reference source on state districts & politicians, required reading for PSC 212. (edit the year in the URL to suit your needs.)
• Governing magazine . |Excellent reference source on state administration, required reading for PSC 212 and 207:
 
• "Grading the states" report; 
• AL section from "Grading the States" report Feb 1999.
• Stateline.org comparative evaluation of the states' institutions and policies. 
• Alabama contacts: |
• Secretary of State 334.242.7205; www.alalinc.net/alsecst. 
• Elections Division 334.242.7210; www.alalinc.net/alsecst/election.htm. 
• Alabama Republican Party 334.269.6993; www.algop.org . 
• Alabama Democratic Party 205.326.3366; www.aladems.org . 
• Governor.state.al.us
• alison (Alabama Legislature)
• al.com (news wire, includes good stories from Birmingham News).
• Republican National Committee
• Montgomery County, Alabama Republican Party |NEW!
• Piper Resources on State & Local Government (e-Govt services).
• AL Supreme Court web
• AL Constitutional Reform Organization. | 
• AL State Data Center at UA
 
• AL City & County Map
• Median Income for 4 person families by State
• Southern Politics at the Citadel, Southern Political Report online.
• US Census: State Tables and Sites
• Council for State Government 
• Iowa Official Register (redbook)
• New Federalism page 
• Martha Derthick on federalism (at the Urban Insitute)
• Search for federalism in Supreme Court cases
 
• US v Lopez
• South Dakota v Dole
• State Search National Association of State Information Resource Executives: topical clearinghouse.

PROL index: Political Research Online, alias www.politicalscience.org, 

full URL: http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/prol_index.php (Journals)

http://www.apsanet.org/ American Political Science Association.

 http://www.apsanet.org/PS/sept00/davis.cfm  APSA's 1998 job placement survey figures.

Political Science Annual Reviews - use restricted to the Huntingdon community. 

http://www.ouray.cudenver.edu/jwholbro/psrp.html Pol. Sci. Research page

http://www.ilstu.edu/kdepts/polisci/psrt-l/listof.htm Political Science list of 350 discussion group lists on politics.

http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/PoliSci/polisci.htm U. Conn.

http://www.trincoll.edu/pols/research/departments.html

http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Political_Science

http://www.mit.edu/projects/ppp/polisci.html MIT

http://uarizona.edu./bsjones/psdir.html individual political scientists.

http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/oyez.html Supreme Court arguments in Realaudio with some links to full opinions.

http://www.providence.edu/polisci/rep APSA section on race, ethnicity & politics.

From Barbara Goss, Brenda Kerwin (thanks) and others: 

• Alpha Search: 
• The Argus Clearinghouse:
• Librarians' Index to the Internet:
• INFOMINE (Scholarly Internet Resource Collections):
• Subject Guides A to Z:
• Social sciences world wide web virtual library: regularly updated subject index from the Australian National University
• Coombsweb - social sciences server (ANU): index on social science and Asian Studies from the Australian National University, updated daily
• College Source Online - The world-wide leader in college information resources. 
• Country Watch - use restricted to the Huntingdon community. 
• ERIC - the Educational Resources Information Center. - restricted to the Huntingdon community. 
• Ethnic Watch - use restricted to the Huntingdon community. 
• Gender Watch - use restricted to the Huntingdon community. 

http://www.google.com Google (best of 2000).

http://www.altavista.digital.com Alta Vista

http://www.yahoo.comYahoo

http://www.lycos.com Lycos

http://www.excite.com Excite

http://www2.infoseek.com Info Seek Guide

http://www.mckinley.com Magellan

http://www.pointcom.com Point-Com

http://www.metacrawler.com Meta Crawler (searches 9 engines)

http://www.search.com Search of engines

http://www.cnet.com Search news sites

http://www.searchallinone.comAll-in-One search

http://www.freeload.com FreeLoader: auto download of chosen sites

Alabama Republican Party 334.269.6993; www.algop.org . | 

Alabama Democratic Party 205.326.3366; www.aladems.org .|http://www.libertarian.party.org Libertarian Party

 Republican Conference Newsletter 

http://www.swip.net Swedish election results

http://www.iunet.it:8988/~forza-it Forza Italia party

http://www.pds.it/pds.htm Italian PDS (left) party

http://www.rtis.com/nat/pol/ list of parties & organizations' home pages.

http://dolphin.gulf.net/Primaries.html Washington Weekly web magazine with primaries info.

Democracy in Action promotes greater involvement of citizens in governing, information about political behavior, and about the practice of democratic systems abroad.

Impact On Line public interest organization providing access to other groups (both conservative and liberal), info about current issues and volunteer opportunities, and exchange of policy views.

Direct Democracy Center organization recommends direct democracy through interactive voting on the Internet.

Canadian folksinger Eileen McGann song about democracy. (Requires RealAudio installed)

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Center for Responsive Politics

2006 Election campaign

• Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Chris Cillizza, "'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote: With Wages Stagnant and Debt Growing, Democrats See an Opportunity,"Washington Post
• Dan Balz and David S. Broder, "More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable: Number Doubled Over the Summer," Washington Post
• 2006 NY Times Election Guide: 
• Senate Races map, NY Times [Also click Governors, then Alabama] 
• Gov. Riley, Profile, NY Times | BobRileyforGovernor.com, 
• Lucy Baxley, Profile, NY Times | www.lucybaxley.com, 
• NY Times Politics Navigator, an excellent source by Rich Meislin, of sites for paper research. (may need to register)

Alabama & Florida panhandle:

• State Rep. David Grimes, 2006, R-Montgomery NEW
• Probate Judge Reese McKinney, 2006, R-Montgomery county, Huntingdon alumnusNEW
• Alabama Public TV  Election 2000 
• Secretary of State 334.242.7205; www.alalinc.net/alsecst. 
• Elections Division 334.242.7210; www.alalinc.net/alsecst/election.htm. 
• Alabama Republican Party 334.269.6993; www.algop.org . 
• Alabama Democratic Party 205.326.3366; www.aladems.org . 
• Governor.state.al.us
• alison (Alabama Legislature)
• al.com (news wire, includes good stories from Birmingham News).
• Republican National Committee
• Montgomery County, Alabama Republican Party |NEW!
• Rep. Joe Scarborough, 2000 (R-FL)  Note: he became a national cable TV anchor.

•  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections/2004/ Wash Post
•  http://www.nytimes.com/top/news/washington/campaign2004/candidates/johnfkerry/Kerry
•  http://www.nytimes.com/top/news/washington/campaign2004/candidates/georgewbush/ NY Times on W. Bush 
•  http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/07/kerry.edwards/ Kerry adopts Edwards as running mate.
•  http://www.eurolegal.org/useur/bushcampaign.htm Eurolegal, critical of Bush.
•  http://www.politics1.com/bush.htm Politics 1, Ron Bunzburger's political guide.
• JibJab: animated online cartoon about the 2004 campaign, using Seeger's song "This land is our land.". (Didn't work for my Netscape browser over phone lines, though.)

• ABC News - & Washington Post Polls
• Economist /YouGov internet polling project, 2004. 
• YouGov US home page.
•  Pew Center for the People & the Press.  Plenty of polls and data.
• Kerry Support Rebounds, Race Again Even, Report 224, 19 Sep '04.
• A Year After Iraq War Mistrust of America in Europe Ever Higher, Muslim Anger Persists, Report 206, 19 Sep. '04
• http://www.pewtrusts.com/ Pew Charitable Trusts on press & politics, includes excellent polling data. Samples compiled 19 Sep. '04:
• GOP the Religion-Friendly Party; But Stem Cell Issue May Help Democrats 

August 2004 Polls/Survey Results
• Eroding Respect for America Seen as Major Problem, August 2004 Grantee Reports
• Public Faults Bush on Economy - 55% Say Jobs Are Scarce, August 2004, Polls/Survey Results
• Election Reform Briefing: the Business of Elections, August 2004, Grantee Reports.  A study by electionline.org on the business of elections.
• The Campaign Finance Guide, August 2004, This Guide provides citizens, candidates, political organizations and the news media with a brief overview of current federal campaign finance laws. It summarizes the rules governing the financing of federal political activities and describes how the laws are enforced.
• Commentary: Democrats gain edge in party identification,  July 2004
• Democratic Party Image Improvement: Democrats More Confident, Kerry Faring Better in Battleground States, July 2004, Polls/Survey Results
• YouGov.co.uk has best polling data in Britain, and in 2004 conducted massive US election polling for the Economist.

•  http://www.georgewbush.com/ Official Bush '04 site
•  http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/ Official Bush blog
•  http://www.gwbush04.com/ Bush/ Big Brother site
•  http://w-04.com/ Bush '04 site
•  http://www.bush2004.com/  Bush '04 site
•  http://www.blogsforbush.com/ Blogs for Bush
•  http://www.bushblog.us/ Bush Blogs
•  http://www.gwbush.com/ Bush spoof site: its slogans, "Drug Free since 1974" and "Hypocrisy with Bravado", give you the flavor.
•  http://www.johnkerry.com/  Official Kerry '04 site
•  http://blog.johnkerry.com/ (Blog about Kerry)
•  http://kerry2004.meetup.com/   Official Kerry '04 meeting up site
•  http://kerryblog.blogspot.com/ unofficial Kerry blog
•  http://johnkerrythenewsoldier.blogspot.com/  hostile site about Kerry's Vietnam service and anti-Vietnam years.  Claims to hold text of Kerry's anti-VN protest testimony.  (Unable to verify the truth of the materials.)
•  http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/kerry.html George Wash. U. site
•  http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/taxes.htm slow, fun movie 
•  http://www.votenader.org/ Official Ralph Nader '04 site

 

• New York TImes Election Campaign Index
• Washington Post OnPolitics Index
• Politics on Yahoo (streaming media, discussions, links.)
• Voter.com (political news, commentary, candidate info, issues, election results.
• Politics1 (political directory of presidential & state candidates, elected officials, parties & groups, news sources)
• Web, White & Blue (temporary Fall 2000 cyber debate between major parties)
• Federal Election Commission (campaign regulation, voting systems, voter stats, electoral college).
• National Archives (for electoral college buffs)
• Project Vote Smart (nonpartisan info on fed and state campaigns, candidates, officials, finances, voting records).
• Open Secrets (Center for Responsive Politics, public interest group analyzing campaign finances of presidential and congressional campaigns, PACs by industry and region).
• National Institute on Money in State Politics (database of donors in states.)
•  http://www.drudgereport.com/ Drudge specializes in breaking scandalous stories, often picked up by major newspapers.

Issues2000 (presidential candidates' positions on major issues)

Public Agenda Online (20 major issues, news, stats, poll results, debates framed by various American perspectives.)

Council on Foreign Relations Campaign 2000 (major foreign policy issues & candidates' positions).

Ballotwatch (initiatives & referenda on state ballots)

Washington Post (presidential, congressional, gubernatorial coverage, candidates, poll results, analysis -- and CQ's state and district stats.)

New York Times 

CNN AllPolitics

National Journal Cover Stories (open, but rest of journal needs password)

Roll Call Online (Mon & Thurs commentary from capitol hill)

C-SPAN streaming video (needs fast connection) on presidency.

Slate Politics (dot com magazine)

Salon magazine (dot com magazine, lie of the week)

Mediatrip: The infamous satire on the presidential concession and retraction phone calls, Nov. 2000.  (Link may expire shortly).

• American National Election Studies (at University of Michigan).
• Gallup Survey data
• National Opinion Research Center (at University of Chicago)
• Roper Center (at University of Connecticut, but data search requires Lexis/Nexis subscription).

• Bowling alone article: decline of clubs
• Communitarian Network
• Christian Coalition
• Libertarian Students Network
• Lefties on Web
• promoting democracy abroad
• Right Side of Web

• http://www.nytimes.com New York Times
• Washington Post OnPolitics Index
• http://update.wsj.com/update/edit/front.html Wall Street Journal
• http://www.usnews.com US News magazine (highly rated website)
• http://www.timeinc.com/time/universe.html Time
• http://www.pathfinder.com/time Time
• http://www.politicsUSA.com  Politics USA newsletters
• http://chronicle.merit.edu Chronicle of Higher Ed
• http://www.leadstory.com AT&T's topical links to day's news story.
• http://www.mojones.com Mother Jones magazine (tracks campaign funding)
•  http://www.npr.org/  National Public Radio.

Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh 

Nelson Polsby, University of California at Berkeley 

Bert Rockman, University of Pittsburgh 

E.S. Savas, Baruch College, City University of New York 

David Walker, University of Connecticut  

Herbert Weisberg, The Ohio State University 

Pippa Norris, Harvard's Kennedy School of Public Policy

Fred Riggs, University of Hawaii (extensive list of comparative web sites in the social sciences)

• Http://logic.cqpress.com Kernell American Government text w/links at CQ Press
• Chatham House Publishers (books & links)
• Marcel Dekker (search public administration books & journals)
• Wadsworth /Thomson Learning, Political Science

 

St. Thomas Aquinas (Catholic Encyclopedia) Life and writings.  Why did he chase a temptress from his room? Why did he suffer an ecstasy during Mass?  23 pages' worth, but fascinating.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Bhagavad Gita  (Theosophical Society Site: text and essays)

John Locke (at Hypermall)

Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

The Federalist Papers Online

Interactive Citizens' Handbook

Political Theory Links at the University of Michigan Documents Center

VoxCap.com The web home "for the engaged citizen," providing an interactive community dedicated to serving the public interest.

Political Compass: plots your ideological position from a quiz.

Political compass explanation of the two dimensions of political thinking [local file]. 

 

Machiavelli Was Not Machiavellian

Marx (at Sheffield University, UK)

Marx and Engels WWW Library

Perseus (Tufts Ancient Greek Project: e.g. Thucydides biography.)

Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech full text 

Project Gutenberg (classical manuscripts)

• Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Urban Institute 
• Civil Rights Project

• Rutgers University, Center for American Women and Politics
• Gender Gap in Government center
• Sue Thomas, Georgetown University Political Science Dept
• Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington DC

• The Holocaust
• Video: One Survivor Remembers [1995; 39 mins.] 
• Literature of the Holocaust
• The Nuremberg Race Laws
• Holocaust: Its Foundation In Christian AntiSemitism
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Krister Stendahl on Minorities
• Krister Stendahl on Antisemitism
• Elie Wiesel_Profile

Biography
Interview
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Nobel lecture
• Guernica

Mini-lecture: "Approaches to the Declaration of Human Rights and Web of Life," by Dr. Jeremy Lewis

Human Rights Watch (reports on rights abuses worldwide)

Links to Human Rights Related Sites

50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UN reports on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human Rights Issues in Specific Countries

1998 Reports on Human Rights, U.S. State Department

UN Convention on Genocide, 1948 (text: was the Serb action in Kosovo technically genocide?)

http://www.epn.org/psq.html Political Science Quarterly

http://osiris.colorado.edu/prq/prq.html Political Research Quarterly

http://www.polisci.nwu.edu:8000 Party Politics Journal (abstracts)

http://www.pioneernet.org public policy discussion forum

www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/giq/conlink.html Govt Info Q tables of contents w/ abstracts

Annual Reviews of Political Science

Policy Studies (from Policy Studies Institute, UK.)

Policy Studies Monthly (free online journal, started 2001)

APSA political science conference papers Political Research Online (needs password).

American PSA: conferences, grants, depts

International PSA: conferences, etc

International PSA 1997 Seoul, S. Korea conference.

Bush presidency conference '97 at Hofstra University (annual series of presidency conferences).

Southern Politics at the Citadel, Southern Political Report online.

Amer. Pol. at N.W. University

APSA Computer Users section

• King Lear by William Shakespeare (U. Penn  Library site: text, summary, links)
• Richard III by William Shakespeare (Lecture notes, Dr. Kenneth Deal)
• A Man for All Seasons (film reviews) Notes by Dr. Lewis
• Missing by Costa Gavras (The Execution of Charles Horman. Chile, 1973)
• Z by Costa Gavras (Greek colonels' coup d'Etat destroys democracy).
• Seeing Red (FBI spies on US communists, 1950s).
• The War Room (documentary on Clinton campaign 1992.)

Student Services (scholarship search)

• GWU Semester in Washington (good quality program, various times of year)
• Public citizen (public interest watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader, seeks consumer and citizen rights, good government.)