Reference Guides

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (K-12) -  Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids. http://bensguide.gpo.gov/index.html

• FedWorld - FedWorld offers a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.   FedWorld Information Network consists of an integrated network offering the public broad access to information including searching the WWW and over 20 government related databases.   http://www.fedworld.gov/

 
• Govspot.com - A free, virtual resource center for U.S. citizens, students, educators, business people, government employees and anyone exploring the Web for government information, GovSpot simplifies the search for the best government Web sites and documents, facts and figures, news, political information and much more.  http://govspot.com

 
• GPO Access -  This service of the U.S. Government Printing Office provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html

 
• Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School offers an excellent guide to primary law documents and secondary information sources on Internet. It was of the first extensive legal guides available and remains a leader in this category.  http://www.law.cornell.edu/

 
• Legal Research Compass - Villanova University School of Law.  Villanova's Federal Court Finder and State Court Finder provide researchers with easy  tools for locating official court sites on the Internet. http://vls.law.vill.edu/compass/

 
• New York Times Guides to Government - http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/index-tools.html

Includes a White House guide, a Guide to Congress, a Guide to the Supreme Court and a Governor's Guide.  Links to sites and individuals within those categories.
 
• State of Kansas Home Page -  Everything from a visitors guide to elected public officials email addresses to legislative updates.  A great site for a great state! http://www.accesskansas.org/

 
• TAXinteractive (TAXi) - http://www.irs.gov/taxi/

The goal of TAXinteractive is to educate teenagers about the U.S. tax system, the effect of taxes on their day-to-day lives, and new electronic ways to file tax returns.
 
• WashLaw Web - Washburn University (Topeka, KS) School of Law web site.  An amazing and highly touted site with a large assortment of links.  The best source for Kansas law links.  http://www.washlaw.edu/

Bills and Laws

• Federal Laws (FedLaw)  - Provides a directory of federal laws, rules and regulations.  http://www.legal.gsa.gov

 
• Kansas Legislative Services - A good source for finding elected officials, recently filed bills, House and Senate activities, and other Kansas legislative information.  Some of the services are by subscription only, but most are free. http://www.accesskansas.org/government/laws-legal.html

• Kansas Statutes- This is a searchable database of Kansas laws (either by the Statute number or by keyword).  The Statutes listed here are current through the 1998 Legislative Session.  The Statutes found here do not contain Annotations (descriptions of cases or explanations of the law in any form).

http://www.accesskansas.org/legislative/statutes/index.cgi
 
• US Code Search  - A great search engine for locating United States laws.  Hosted by Cornell University's law school.  http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

Supreme Courts

• The OYEZ Project (Northwestern University); A U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database - Interested in Supreme Court Justices (portraits included), various cases, the Supreme Court building itself?  Then this is the site for you!  Contains a searchable database and links to FindLaw and other helpful Court sources. http://oyez.nwu.edu/index.html

 
• US Supreme Court Decisions (FindLaw)   Provides a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1937.  http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

 
• Kansas Judicial Branch (Supreme and all other KS courts)   http://www.kscourts.org/

US Presidents

• POTUS - In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site. http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/index.html

• Presidential Speeches - A resource for people interested in presidential rhetoric. Since presidential rhetoric is not a thing of the past, but a continuous process, the amount and extent of the documents contained here will be evolving along with the production of new messages by the chief executive. http://www.tamu.edu/scom/pres/archive.html

Political Science

Institute of Governmental Studies (UC Berkeley) - http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/
A broad site on American government and public policy with pages on Election 2000 and links to:  Academic and research sites, indexes to government information, media sources, political parties, putlic advocacy groups (broken down by issue), resources for state ahd local law and policy, and links to statistical resources.

Political Science Resources (United States Politics) - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html
An extremely comprehensive site including:  web sites concerning political history, images from American political history, internet guides to political science resources, a database on past elections (results, speeches, etc.), links to political search engines, links to compaign finance information, links to lobbying and advocacy groups, links to information on minority politicians, and guides to media resources covering elections.  Maintained by the University of Michigan's (Federal Government) Documents Center, University of Michigan Library.

• Public Agenda Online - http://www.publicagenda.com/

Thorough coverage of national issues with background, debates, and opinion polls presented in a newsmagazine style.  Links to sites to find local candidates.  Also links to a series of inexpensive books called National Issues Forums Guides covering such topics as schools, Internet policy, unemployment, drug policy, environmental protection, the justice system and more.

Vital Statistics
 

• Kansas Statistical Abstract - http://www.ku.edu/pri/ksdata/ksah/

The Kansas Statistical Abstract contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and
health, housing, elections, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, income, finance, state and local government, crime, recreation, communications, transportation, agriculture, climate, energy, and mining and
 mineral products.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (may download it from the site).
 
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment - http://www.kdhe.state.ks.us/hci/

The Office of Health Care Information (OHCI) helps provide a comprehensive picture of the health of Kansas citizens and looks for ways to improve their quality of life by combining and interpreting health care information from various data sources. OHCI researches and analyzes health, vital statistics, health insurance statistics and occupational data maintained within the State and generates information for State agencies, policy makers and the public on crucial issues.  OHCI generates periodical reports such as Annual Summary of Vital Statistics; Kansas Occupational Injury and Illness Survey; Health System Inventory; Kansas Health Data Resources; and Most Frequent Conditions Treated in Community Hospitals.

Federal Funding (Grants)

GrantsNet (Health & Human Services, et al).  http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/

Sites of Interest to Educators

Federal Government Educational Resources.  This helpful page outlines resources of special interest to educators, including students.  http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/govpub/education.html
 
• TAXinteractive (TAXi) - http://www.irs.gov/taxi/

The goal of TAXinteractive is to educate teenagers about the U.S. tax system, the effect of taxes on their day-to-day lives, and new electronic ways to file tax returns.

International Relations

• United Nations. http://www.un.org
• United Nations Core Treaties - http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/treaties/index.asp

 

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