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Legal Information
Institute
Developed by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law
School, this site allows you to easily search Supreme Court
decisions in a variety of different ways. You can also search for
opinions by state courts and federal courts.
A
Century of Lawmaking
Another excellent site from the American Memory collection. You
can search records, debates, bills, and proceedings of America's
national legislative bodies beginning with the 1774 Continental
Congress and continuing through the 42nd Congress in 1873. Special
presentations include "Indian Land Cessions in the United States,
1784 to 1894" and "The Impeachment Trial of President Andrew
Johnson."
U.S. Census Bureau
An enormous amount of historic and current economic,
demographic, and geographic information.
The Supreme Court
Historical Society
This site provides biographical sketches, timelines of the court
and the major decisions during the tenure of each Chief Justice.
FirstGov.gov
A central site to find local, state, and national government
information. For specific information about the different branches
of government look at The
White House, House
of Representatives, Senate, and the Supreme Court.
American
Presidency Project
This site has a wide range of materials - presidential
communications, election data, speeches, party platforms etc...
There are audio and video clips from late 1800s to the present.
The PBS webpage on The
Presidents is geared toward teaching the
history of the American presidency. Biographies provide links to
primary documents. The Living
Room Candidate offers television commercials of each
presidential candidate from 1952 to 2004 along with analysis of
each party's campaign strategy. Presidential Oral
History includes dozens of interviews with the most
important people in the Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43
administrations. The site also includes some interesting
interviews from the Hoover and LBJ presidencies.
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