General Interest:

Wilson Textbook Site

AP Review Quizzes Units 1-6

www.apcentral.collegeboard.com (General info and course-specific info about AP)

www.cagle.com (Lots of political cartoons.  Save these images as a full page with a right click)

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/cartoons/ (NYT cartoonists)

http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark/ (Terrific quizzes, reviews, flashcards)

http://www.hippocampus.org/ (Videos and text of virtually the entire course.  Easy to understand and user-friendly.)

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp (Original Documents from the last 6000 years)

Media:

www.c-spanclassroom.org (Everything from the Federalist Papers to current campaign video clips)

Unit Links

Unit One: Constitutional Underpinnings

http://usconstitution.net/constquick.html (Line by line explanation of the Constitution in easy-to-understand language)

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm (All of the Federalist Papers)

www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/federalist (Excellent summaries of Federalist Papers that are fairly easy to understand)

Unit Two: Political Beliefs/Political Behaviors

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/ (Analysis of campaign contributions by zip code, county, state.  Type in a zip code, get a list of contributors from that area, who they contributed to, and how much)

http://www.270towin.com/ (Great electoral college maps)

www.politicalcompass.org (Includes a survey to determine if you are to the left/right, authoritarian/libertarian

www.opensecrets.org (Just about anything you want on campaign finance.)

www.ammi.org/livingroomcandidate (Television political commercials in presidential elections since 1952.) 

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/calculator.html (Electoral college calculator)

www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/ (Lots on the Electoral College)

www.uselectionatlas.org (Unbelievably extensive analysis of elections in US history)

Unit Three:  Political Parties/Interest Groups/Media

http://www.twyman-whitney.com/americancitizen/links/lobbies.htm (Links to numerous interest group sites)

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm (Links to political party sites)

Unit Four:  Institutions

www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ (Lots on Congress)

www.redistrictinggame.com (Learn how to gerrymander!)

www.cagw.org (Citizens Against Govt. Waste.  Great examples of pork barrel.  Check out “Pork Per Capita by State,“ Pig Book Oinkers,” and Pork Trends, 1991-2006)

http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Current legislative information on Congress)

Unit Six:  Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

www.oyez.org (Supreme Court cases arranged by topic.  Great short summaries).

www.law.cornell.edu/focus/bulletins.html (Free subscription to email bulletins on Supreme Court decisions.  You will receive Supreme Court decisions before they are reported in the press)

www.landmarkcases.com