2. The United States
Explore
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress
This
site has a searchable database with biographies of all senators and U.S.
representatives, from the Continental Congress to the present. Searches can be
performed by first name, last name, position, and state.
The American Presidency Project
The
American Presidency Project at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, is an on-line database
containing 66,423 documents related to the study of the presidency.
Presidential papers and addresses have been organized into a single searchable
database. A multimedia library searchable by name contains audio and video of
presidential addresses.
Impeachment Documents
Relating to a U.S. President
This
site, maintained by Auburn
University, has full-text
versions of selected government documents relating to the impeachments of
Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. The PDF files include procedures,
reports, and hearings.
Open Secrets.org
The
Center for Responsible Politics (CRP) is a campaign finance reform
organization. The CRP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group based in Washington, D.C.,
that tracks money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
Its Web site has a wealth of easily searchable official data about campaign
finance, campaign finance legislation, and campaign finance reform efforts.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the
Press
The
Pew Research
Center for the People and the Press is
an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press,
politics, and public policy issues in the United States. The center conducts
regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news
stories and trends in values and fundamental social attitudes.
Legal Information Institute
The
Legal Information Institute (LLI) at the Cornell University School of Law maintains
this Web site dedicated to legal research and electronic publishing activity.
The available databases include U.S. Supreme Court opinions and a collection of core statutes,
codes, and treaties.
American Experience
This
link is to the Web site that supports American
Experience, television’s longest-running, most-watched history series, on
PBS. American Experience Online encourages in-depth exploration, beyond
the television screen, of the issues surrounding each documentary subject. The
on-line archive has video, audio, and Web sites covering a wide variety of
topics including war and politics, political figures, technological
developments, and popular culture.
The Founders’ Constitution
The
Founders’ Constitution is a project of the University of Chicago Press.
The Web site provides links to writings of a wide array of people engaged in
the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. Most of
the documents outlining the fundamental principles of the U.S. Declaration of
Independence and U.S. Constitution can be found here. The documents included
range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s.
