The History Place - Great Speeches Collection Famous Speeches From Around the World Great American Speeches (PBS) DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address Online Speech Bank Top 100 American Speeches by Rank Top 100 Speeches by American Women Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World Speech Archives: HISTORYCHANNEL.COM Digital History: Historic Speeches Speech & Transcript Center  Up to Page Top

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Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy Chronology of US Historical Documents Words and Deeds in American History AMDOCS : Documents for the Study of American History American History: 1492 - Present From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards Historic Documents: LibrarySpot  Up to Page Top

    

Supreme Court Decisions -Yahoo! U.S. Constitution and Related Court Cases FindLaw's excellent set of resources with annotations from the Congressional Research Service Library of Congress with links to cited Supreme Court Cases. Historic File of U.S.Supreme Court Decisions This system contains the full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975. Decisions are avialable as ASCII text files that can be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed by using most word processor programs. Most Decisions are verylarge and may take a while to download if you have a slow internet connection. After conducting a search, the search results screen lists the size of the Decision in bytes so that you can esimate download times. Supreme Court Cases Search the FindLaw database for many U.S. Supreme Court opinions on cases that are not covered by the recent and historic databases. Fills some of the gap between 1975-1990. U.S. Supreme Court Decisions The United States Supreme Court decides on the interpretation of laws passed by Congress. This site allows access to many of those decisions made since 1990. Also includes information about the Court, and links to selected Historic Supreme Court Decisions. Supreme Court Resources FindLaw's page that offers court calendar, court rules, Real Audio recordings of the Oral Arguments, Law Journal Extra! news stories, Justices' biographical information andCornell's free e-mail update service. The United States Code Search this database for the full text of the laws of the land. Or, if it is easier for you, use the Table of Contents at the bottom of the site to see laws according to their subject. Laws and Legal Information By Subject Cornell University provides a list of topic summaries with links to key primary source material and offnet references can be accessed through: a set of broad topic categories, and an alphabetical listing of topics, and a searchable index. Their commentaries and references are an excellent place to learn about the legal background of various issues. Just start with the general subject area, andfollow the pathways to more specific topics. FindLaw Knowing the law helps understand government, and vice versa. This site organizes useful links to resources where you can find vast amounts of information about laws on certain subjects.Very helpful. Good place to start looking! U.S. Supreme Court News From The Washington Post One of the nation's leading newspapers offers access to articles about the U.S. Supreme Courtand the cases tried there.  Up to Page Top

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