Curriculum Links
Political History (U.S.)
- Open Secrets.org
Follows the money trail in politics and its effect on elections and public policy. - Fact Check.org
This site is a "nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. 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." (Text taken from web site.)
Legal History
General Sites
- Find law
- Comprehensive Legal Resource Pages
- GovSpot
Local, state, federal and international government resources - Laws Online
- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
- Foreign
Governments on the WWW
Governmental institutions: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, and city councils from 200 countries. - Library of Congress -- THOMAS
Resources by State
Washington State Resources
Supreme Court Cases
- Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court
This site was developed to help educators in teaching the landmark decisions of the Supreme Court, but the information is useful for students, too. - Supreme
Court Decisions
Contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. - Supreme Court Decisions from 1930 - 1975
- Selected
Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court
Pre-dating regular release of Court decisions to the Internet. - FindLaw:
Supreme Court Opinions
Searchable database of all decisions since 1893. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number, and searchable by citation, case title and full text. - Washingtonpost.com:
The Supreme Court
Summaries of all major cases of the current term including background stories and links to relevant laws and related Supreme Court decisions, plus the court's docket, from The Washington Post.
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