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Search Engines, Statistics, and Databases |
Websites for our AP Government Units |
Projects / Assignments |
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Election Year 2008 Websites |
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| The Republican's McCain/Palin website | The Democrat's Obama/Biden website |
| The Libertarian's Bob Barr website | The Green Party's McKinney/Clemente website |
| Generally Helpful Sites for Government | |
| Search Engines | FirstGov
America's search engine for public government information
Divided into three sections: A Keyword Search engine, a directory of general subjects, and a list of links along the left side of the website that consists of several subcategories, such as timely Featured Subjects, U.S. Government, and State and Local Information. GoogleUncleSam
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| Statistics | Statistics Links Includes labor, census, information about war, population, diseases, and other stats from governmental agencies and other websites |
| RB's Subscription
Databases For home access, you may need a UserID and password. See a librarian. |
Local
Government: Chicago Tribune Online - searches articles from 1996 to the present State and Federal Government:
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| WWW sites to match our units of study (Advanced Placement) | |
| Unit 1 - Introduction to Government |
AP Central
Includes previous years’ free response questions, course materials, and web links
The New York Times |
| Units 2 and 3 - Political socialization, parties, and the media |
Hardball with Chris Matthews Maintains some recent video clips of Hardball interviews with politicians and political analysts Real Clear Politics A daily compilation of some popular political columns and blogs from newspapers and magazines all over the country; a great way to monitor the pulse of the “Gang of 500.” Living Room Candidate Compiles hundreds of campaign ads from 1952 to the present, and even categorizes them by subject and tone!
Project Vote Smart
Aims to educate voters about the candidates, providing biographical
information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and
interest group ratings |
| Unit 4 - The Congress |
Thomas, by the Library
of Congress
This website catalogs every
bill introduced on the floor, back to the 101st Congress
(1989). Also cross-indexes every Congressperson to every bill they have
sponsored or acted on in committee CQ Politics Congressional Quarterly, the non-partisan recorder of everything that happens in Congress, updates this political news website The Center on Congress Educational site for studying Congress, created by former Representative Lee Hamilton, a Co-Chairman of the Iraqi Study Group
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| Unit 5 - The Presidency |
Whitehouse.gov
Official site of the White House, including archives of President Bush’s
public statements
Public Papers of the Presidents
This website catalogues all
official statements of the presidents, although, unlike the paper copy,
it only goes back to George H.W. Bush in 1991 |
| Unit 6 - The Bureaucracy |
The Federal Register
Includes all rules and
proposed rules of the federal bureaucracy since 1994, as well as
executive orders from the head of the bureaucracy, the President |
Units 7 and 8 - The Supreme Court, civil liberties and civil rights |
U.S. Supreme Court Media
by Oyez
Supreme Court website started by Northwestern students (and Cub fans).
Categorizes all Court decisions by subject area, justice, and era, and
even provides some video |