Bill to Law
How a bill becomes a law (specific example)
Longer explanation with video (through Congress governmental website)
Electoral College
What is it? - National Archives
Why do we still let the electoral college pick our president? - Opinion piece
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts - UMKC website
Two cheers for the electoral college: reasons not to abolish it - Opinion piece from Brookings Institute
Introduction - Cornell Law
Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering and how to fix it - Brookings Institute
A primer on gerrymandering and political polarization - Brookings Institute
What is gerrymandering? And why did the supreme court rule on it? - NYTIMES
Gerrymandering, or how drawing irregular lines can impact an election - PBS Newshour
Twisted history of gerrymandering - The Atlantic
Redistricting and the Supreme Court: The most significant cases - National Conference of State Legislatures
How a case gets to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court - Southeast ADA Center
Supreme Court Procedures - U.S. Courts
How a case gets heard by the Supreme Court - U.S. News
How the court works - Supreme Court Historical Society
The court and its procedures - Supreme Court
How a case gets to the Supreme Court - TED Talk
Civil War Amendments
U.S. Constitution and the Civil War Amendments - University of Texas
The Impact and Legacy of the Emancipation Proclamation - Smithsonian
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Our Documents
Black Codes - Khan Academy
14th Amendment - Cornell Law
14th Amendment - Our Documents
The 14th Amendment was intended to achieve racial justice - and we must keep it that way - ACLU Opinion
15th Amendment - Our Documents
Race and Voting in the Segregated South - Constitutional Rights Foundation
Presidential Cabinet
Cabinet secretaries versus the White House staff - Brookings Institute
Who is in the president's cabinet - Brookings Institute
The Cabinet - White House
The Executive Branch - White House
Why does the President need a cabinet? - Harry Truman Library
Branches of the U.S. Government
A mini course on the Federal Government - American Foundation for the Blind
All the President's Men: The 15 Cabinet-Level Departments - Mental Floss
Political Parties
National Political Party Platforms
Breaking up is hard to do: America's love affair with the two-party system
Understanding American parties and factions
History of American Political Parties
What are the solutions to political polarization? - UC Berkeley
American's partisan identities are stronger than race and identity - Stanford
Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics
Equal Rights Amendment
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Why the Equal Rights Amendment is Back - NYTIMES
Vice President
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies of the United States
The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
Secret Service
What is it like to be an agent of the U.S. Secret Service?
U.S. Secret Service - NYTIMES entries
Navy Seals
The Navy gets its first female SEAL candidate
FBI, CIA, NCA
The FBI's role in national security
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
Working as a community - CIA
How does the FBI differ from the CIA
19th Amendment
Introduction to primary documents
Death Penalty (Capital Punishment)
Death Penalty Information Center
Is the Death Penalty a Necessary Evil?
The Problem with the Death Penalty
Does Death Penalty Deter Murder?
Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom?
Census
Stakes are high for cities and regions ahead of an unsettled 2020 census
Lobbying
Understanding the anti-lobbying law
Restrictions on entities lobbying the federal government
This is how lobbying really works
Filibuster
The Senate Filibuster, Explained
What is the Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it?
What is the filibuster -- and why do some Democrats want to end it?
Political polarization killed the filibuster
Filibuster and the mission of the U.S. Senate
Impeachment
What is the impeachment process?
Teaching impeachment in politically risky times
How the impeachment process works
Executive Orders
8th Amendment
Amendment plus interpretations
State Government
Nine facts about state and local policy
The relationship between the states and the federal government
How the United States is governed
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Top 10 controversial Supreme Court cases
10 important Supreme Court cases about education
Landmark cases of the Supreme Court
Voting in America
Is compulsory voting a solution to America's low voter turnout and political polarization?
Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives
U.S. Postal Service
Surprising Facts about the Postal Service
United State Postal Inspection Service
History of the United State Postal Service
History of American Postal Worker Union
Unions
The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
The History of Unions in the United States
A History of Labor Unions from Colonial Period to 2009
What have unions done for us? - Opinion piece
The Role of Labor Unions in Creating Working that Promote Public Health
Do Labor Unions Have a Future in the United States?
Federal Reserve
Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
The New Tools of Monetary Policy
The Federal Reserve: CNBC Explains
Speaker of the House
What does the Speaker of the House do?
About the Speaker of the House of Representatives
Key Differences between the House and Senate
Parliament and Congress: A Brief Comparison
Congress