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Remix America, launched last fall, makes it fairly easy for students to create their own US History documentary videos. Remix America provides video clips, audio clips, and images that students can arrange to create a Ken Burns-style documentary.

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Home base to find materials, lessson plans, and information about fact checking for educators.

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HeadsUp is a UK-based and oriented online space for teens to debate the political issues important to them. Young people share viewpoints with their peers and decision-makers up and down the UK.

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Opposing Views lets experts go “on the record” and state their position on a controversial issue.

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Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

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The American Presidency Project archives contain thousands of documents related to the study of the Presidency. The archives contain thousands of documents such as party platforms, candidates' remarks, Statements of Administration Policy, documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary, and election debates.

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"Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All"

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Archive of historical legal documents, including charters, treaties, and other agreements. From the site: "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."

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Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. Includes lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels

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Worldmapper aggregates data from many countries and displays it visually on a flattened global cartogram, which “re-sizes each territory according to the variable being mapped.” (e.g., a population cartogram shows a gigantic China).

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The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute. Full of Conservative Policy Research and Analysis

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Ballotpedia - the citizen powered encylopedia for democracy offers information on propositions. You'll find info on elections all 50 states here.

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Newyorker.com has a complete archive of The New Yorker back to 1925.

To search the archive, use the box to the right. Most articles published since 2001, and a few earlier ones, are posted in full text. For everything else, there is an abstract that links to a scan of the article.

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Track legislation and votes in the United States Congress with email updates and RSS feeds. Repackages THOMAS (Library of Congress Legislative resource) content in a user-friendly open-source and community project.

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

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The Miller Center's reference, American President, provides personal and political biographical information about every US President. Each profile links to dozens of essays about various aspects of each President's life and work. Each profile also contains images of each President. Some profiles also include audio files and video of the President.

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The Mission of The Fund for Peace is to prevent war & alleviate the conditions that cause war. To this end, the Fund for Peace produces materials such as the Failed States Index and coverage of foreign policy.

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This Web site is sponsored by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University to highlight significant political events in American history. A special interest of the Institute is the interaction of politics and policy, and how public officials, candidates, the media and others have influenced our changing perceptions of the role of government in our society.

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Maps-of-War is a multimedia site dedicated to producing diverse, creative visuals that enhance our understanding of war and its history.

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