American Revolution Institute
Extensive collection of Revolutionary War primary source materials, ranging from soldiers’ letters to loved ones, to official communications regarding strategy and reconnaissance to maps, medals, ceramics and artwork.
Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania
A premier nonpartisan research institution that investigates and examines the challenges facing the three branches of government, the press, and the public schools. Constantly releases surveys and survey-based research findings about American responses to sociopolitical and citizenship life. In addition, it runs FactCheck.org, which intends to hold politicians accountable, and the Civics Renewal Network, which provides civics education resources.
Bill of Rights Institute
The Bill of Rights Institute divides its “Resources” collection into three categories — “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”; “Documents of Freedom”; and “Heroes & Villains.”
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pursuit of Happiness” is a 93-lesson digital textbook “designed to meet the course needs of a yearlong U.S. History or AP U.S. history class.”
“Documents of Freedom” are 324 primary documents 1740’s-2010’s. These include Colonial-era proclamations, founding national documents, Congressional legislation, letters and addresses from prominent Americans, pivotal Supreme Court decisions, and Constitutional amendments.
“Heroes and Villains” is BRI’s 26 lesson compare-and-contrast narrative series on prominent historical Americans and their primary civic trait — or anti-trait.
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN)
A cable television and online broadcast network that records sessions of the U.S. Congress, addresses and conferences from political leaders, political candidate debates, historical programming and interviews of notable individuals.
C-Span has selected clips from these recorded exchanges to link to specific texts in the Constitution in a series called “Constitution Clips.” C-Span also uses its wealth of video footage as resources for describing political parties, interest groups, the media, campaigns, elections, presidents, and more. C-Span also has video series on world history, U.S. history and government, economics, geography and a student-centered podcast.
Center for Civic Education
Provides civic education guides, original literature, lesson plans and instructional strategies for grade-school teachers of civics. The organization’s main purpose is to instill “a deep commitment to the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship” in K-12 students in Fresno public schools.
Center for the Study of the American Constitution (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Online library with hundreds of primary documents related to inspirations of the Constitution, the Founding Fathers’ arguments for and debates over the Constitution, the Constitutional Convention, the ratification of the Constitution, and European reactions to the Constitution.
The center’s chief work is The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, an as-of-now 37 volume work published since 1976. It contains over 70,000 primary documents annotated by center historians to provide maximum context and cohesion.
ConSource
The ConSource Library holds a collection including state charters, state constitutions, Constitutional precedents, Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, The Federalist Papers, papers written in support and in opposition of the Federalist series, Constitutional Convention records, U.S. Constitution, state ratifications and debates in relation, the Bill of Rights debates and passage, papers of Washington, Adams, Madison and Mason, as well as political sermons.
Government Performance Action and Learning (GPAL) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Compiles community data on matters including economy, public safety, community health and community connection to provide a robust picture for government leaders and community researchers.
Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center hosts a vast selection of materials and resources, including a collection of modern-day translations and commentaries on America’s core documents. It also provides graduate courses, seminars, scholarships and networks for civics and social studies teachers.
Justia: U.S. Supreme Court Center
The official web archive of Supreme Court decisions from 1791 to present. Includes full opinion documents, opinion summaries, briefs, oral argument audio and additional resources that contextualize cases.
Library of Congress
Hundreds of thousands of materials focused on American citizenship and civics lie within the Library of Congress, many of them searchable online.
National Archives
The ultimate store of primary historical sources and documents. The on-site research rooms are available only by appointment; detailed online search tools provide access to thousands of documents, studies, records and works pertaining to American citizenship and civics. Additionally, the Archives oversees all Presidential Libraries and Federal Records centers, supplies links to their content, and provides information for visiting Presidential Library museums and the National Archives Museum in D.C.
National Constitution Center
Here the United States Constitution is the primary text, customized with interactive features. Resources for the multimedia curriculum centered around the Constitution include excerpts of and links to founding documents, historical addresses and court cases related to the most prominent amendments, the top 15 Supreme Court cases discussed in the AP American Government course, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Oyez Project
This is an unofficial online multimedia archive for all Supreme Court cases. For each case, Oyez links to the full documented opinion on Justia, provides a summary, provides a visual display of the Supreme Court justices who presided over the cases and their decision, as well as the list of advocates before the court, and dates of argument and decision. Individual cases are searchable in an in-site search tab, and can also be found by sorting for Chief Justices, individual justices, “courts” (Warren court, Rehnquist court, etc.), and advocates.
Polco
An online community engagement polling platform that measures community health, governance performance and policy strategy, and attitudes in relation thereto, for the benefit of local public-sector leaders. Affiliated with GPAL.
Quill Project
Working with ConSource, the Quill Project boasts a comprehensive collection of founding-era primary documents, as well as Congressional records, minutes and journals pertaining to the subject of the civil rights amendments — the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th amendments — both before and after their passage.
Roper Center
Roper Center collects and preserves public opinion data; serving a resource in improving survey research and broadening public understanding via survey data.
Teaching American History
Teaching American History hosts a comprehensive collection of primary documents regarding the lead-up to the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, the Founding, early government, major acts of government and the courts, major events and crises, political movements and parties, and cultural shifts. They are sorted both by theme on the main document page, and by era on the interactive timeline page.
Also available are scholarly analyses, artistic interpretations and educational dramas of the Constitutional Convention, the Presidential Election of 1800 and the Presidential Election of 1912, as well as the full Federalist series.
YouGov
An international online source of research data and analytics technology, YouGov collects measures and analyzes opinions and behaviors across many subjects and issues.
