Social & Legal Studies Links

Back to the Computer Lab's Start Page		Social & Legal Studies Links the symbol on any line is a link to Logan Library's links for that subject jump down to: General Resources in Social and Legal Studies GOVT-Government (now called POLS) HIST-History IDST-Interdisciplinary Studies 1105 1201 4240 LGST-Legal Studies PHIL-Philosophy POLS-Political Science (formerly GOVT) RELI-Religion SOCI-Sociology
		General Resources in Social and Legal Studies
		United States Code--current U.S. laws Home - RGSS--Resource Guide for the Social Sciences--"The Guide is based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol. " "VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE" HOME PAGE--not the space shuttle, but rather a reference to a myth--a "Web Page for Humanities Research" from Univ. of California, Santa Barbara The English Server--collections in the Arts and Humanities WHTour UNESCO World Heritage in panoramic QTVR


		POLS-Political Science, (previously GOVT-Government)
		Hieros Gamos--"The Comprehensive Law and Government Portal" US States--on "Hieros Gamos: The Comprehensive Law and Governmnet Portal" United States Federal Government--on "Hieros Gamos: The Comprehensive Law and Governmnet Portal" Status of Major Legislation - Project Vote Smart Yahoo! GovernmentPolitics Yahoo! GovernmentU.S. GovernmentPoliticsPolitical Issues FindLaw - law, lawyer, lawyers, legal Yahoo! GovernmentU.S. Government Yahoo! GovernmentU.S. GovernmentExecutive Branch Yahoo! GovernmentU.S. GovernmentLegislative Branch Congress.Org -- Your Link to Congress Congressional Quarterly, Inc. CongressTrack - Project Vote Smart THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet: The 14 points of fascism - Project for the OLD American Century


		HIST-History
		Miscellaneous Recent Additions
		The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century Panoramic Views of Historic Sites around the World (China, Egypt, etc.) WHTour UNESCO World Heritage in panoramic QTVR Black History The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com Reconstruction: The Second Civil War--web companion to PBS "American Experience" broadcast The Time of the Lincolns--web companion to PBS "American Experience" broadcast
		From Schreiner's History Department's Link of the Week list
		AHR Home Page--"American History Review" at Indiana University Virginia Center for Digital History--University of Virginia Omaha Indian Music American Civil War History Guide .. The History Beat Meeting of Frontiers Home Page Constitution Society Home Page Alexander Palace Russian History Websites - educational and online books sites on Romanov Russia by Pallasart African-American Pamphlet Collection DavidRumsey.com
		From other sources
		From Revolution to Reconstruction--new layout From Revolution to Reconstruction--old layout USA index to sourcematerial Holocaust Era in Croatia Jasenovac 1941-1945 PBS History The History Guide --European History The American Experience Home Page PBS History History Channel's list of links History in The National Park Service - Contact The History Place World History-HyperHistory: Synchronous Timelines sbrowning.com-"whowhatwhen database" Yahoo! ArtsHumanitiesHistory Our Century--from the nando times Discovery Online, Search ==History Guide - History River of Song--PBS website for The Mississippi: River of Song--"a Smithsonian Institution series for public television and radio that explores the richness and vitality of American music at the close of the twentieth century. Through live performances and intimate discussions with musicians along the course of the Mississippi River, the series discovers the music that has flourished in the heart of the nation. Traveling from an Ojibwe powwow in northern Minnesota to the bandstands of New Orleans, the series builds a dynamic and complex portrait of music and the American community."
		From Lisa Julka's prepared list
		The following guide is adapted from material prepared by Lisa Julka, formerly with Schreiner University's Logan Library UNITED STATES HISTORY: CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION The American Civil War Homepage From the University of Tennessee-Knoxville http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ Exerpts from Slave Narratives From the University of Houston http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library Special Collections Library Duke University http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/slavery/ The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia From the University of Virginia in Charlottesville http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html Selected Civil War Letters from the Southern Historical Collection http://ils.unc.edu/civilwar/civilwar.html--"access denied" The Emancipation Proclamation http://www.nara.gov/exhall/featured-document/eman/emanproc.html Rare Maps from the University of Georgia: The New World, Colonial, Revolution, Union & Expansion, Nineteenth Century, Transportation & Others Rare Map Collection http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War: Political Cartoons Dating from the Years before the Civil War and Leading up to Reconstruction Civil War Cartoons http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SCARTOONS/cartoons.html Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cwphome.html Civil War: Regimental Histories Regimental Histories http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/regt.html Civil War Reading List The A.W.C.U Reccomended Reading List http://web.gmu.edu/departments/history/research/subject/rdgs.html (source: Establishment of the Center for History and the New Media formalized the collaboration between George Mason University (GMU) and the American Social History Project (ASHP) at the Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York (CUNY).)


		IDST-Interdisciplinary Studies
		IDST 4240 -- Global Issues (websites submitted by Dr. Tom Wells are indicated by *) Jenazbar for Schreiner University courses
		Here from Dr. Wells is the Outline for Chapter One (Global Issues) "General outline of the first reading assignment (pp. 1 - 17)" "Wide Angle" (PBS) 8/1/02: Land of Wandering Souls--hundreds of impoverished rural Cambodians lay Alcatel's fiber optic cable for less than $1/day. [ plus interview with Jeffrey Sachs] The National Security Archive, including Trading Democracy Center for Global Education, Augsburg College SURGE Students United for a Responsible Global Environment - Activism, Students, Socail Changes, Non-Violence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-CH Public Citizen Common Dreams NewsCenter - News & Views for the Progressive Community Corporate Watch --- www.corpwatch.org--a corporate "watchdog" site. very current info CQS--site on health and its relationship to environment Economic Policy Institute home page--very up-to-date info on economy as it effects all* income levels Essential Information WWW Server--excellent site that investigates corporations and their impact locally and abroad. Searches can be made by name of corporation or name of country (at essential.org) Multinational Monitor On-Line (at essential.org) Multinational Monitor Resources by Country Foreign Affairs Magazine--news with a foreign perspective -- daily updates Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC--the absolutte best site available for any* info on Central America and South America countries. Info runs the gamut from government/politics, culture, dance, music, education, to economics and more. OpenSecrets.org--This is the Center for Responsive Politics site. It lists the political contributions made to each federally elected official. In addition, it provides info on individual legislator voting records and possible tie-ins to monetary influence on the vote. oneworld.net--current foreign and corporate info> Human Trafficking -- 50,000 women and children per year into the U.S. -- 500,000 girls per year below age 18, worldwide -- 1 to 2 million women and children per year, worldwide -- SHALOM North America, the School Sisters of Notre Dame International Network for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation Click here to view a printable verision of their packet -- pdf file Trafficking in Human Beings - International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State Tigers in Thailand, and Exxon Corporation David Shepherd Conservation Foundation - Projects Tigers -- International Wildlife Magazine -- National Wildlife Federation Tigers In Crisis Solutions Part 1 tigers--"GeoGuide" from National Geographic the Lamp article: - - Poachers become true believers Tigers Conservation Issues ESSO IN THAILAND from Exxon Corporation website Save the Tiger Fund 5 TIGERS The Tiger Information Center Tiger Watch, Winter 2001- Exxon US Ambassador opens the Khao Yai Conservation Project Khao Yai National Park, Thursday, March 16, 2000 *WebActive--general site mainly useful for links to sites pertinent to global issues
		IDST 1205 Critical Thinking

		IDST 2270 Topics in IDST--The Internet and Society
		Jump to Links from Dr. Candice Scott's handout for this course: "Web Page -- Final Project", now located as part of our pages on Website design.
		IDST 3260 Aesthetic Experience
		Reflections on a Mote of Dust -- Carl Sagan, Excerpted from a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996.


		LGST-Legal Studies
		United States Code--current U.S. laws GUIDE--The Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress) United States section of GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE , Lib of Cong WWW Virtual Law Library Table of Contents--lots of resources, including lots of links FindLaw - LawCrawler--Search Engine for Legal Information FindLaw - LawCrawler--Search Engine for Legal Information
		---Law Schools and Law Associations:
		Law Schools - North America AALS Member Schools--Association of American Law Schools--list of member schools, links to each school's website, etc. WWW Virtual Law Library Law Schools-Libraries Links LSAT The official Law School Admission Council LSAT Web site. Welcome to the American Bar Association


		PHIL-Philosophy
		PHIL 2311-Business Ethics
		The Ethics Connection--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Business and Finanical Ethics Internet Resource Sit Josephson Institute of Ethics Applied Ethics Resources on WWW


		RELI-Religion
		Living Religions--Website to accompany the text
		Online Text Sources -- These would include many texts related to religion, but you would have to select them from among many others. PROJECT GUTENBERG - INDEX -- Free Books On-Line - Bartleby.com Great Books Online EServer.org Accessible Writing On-Line Bible sources (searchable by text or reference, various translations, etc. Bible Gateway On-Line worship-related texts Book of Common Prayer -- Episcopal worship service, etc. Forward Movement Publications (including Forward Day By Day) Today's Reading from Forward Day By Day Forward Movement - Crisis Edition -- response to the terrorist attack of 11 Sept, 2001 The Upper Room Today's Devotional from The Upper Room On-Line Hymnals Oremus Hymnal Anglican CyberHymnal The Cyber Hymnal The Confessions of St. Augustine The autobiography of the great defender of the Church. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VII, Part 1. Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers Frontline: from Jesus to Christ - the first Christians--the PBS series Frontline examines modern attempts to understand the early years of Christianity using scholarly techniques. Theories of the Historical Jesus An agency promoting religious tolerance as a human right--"Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance" has many articles of information about different religious groups, presented without taking any stand, in the hope that understanding what other people believe leads one to be more tolerant of them. Includes history of Christianity, especially early times. Islam "Muslims" PBS: Frontline website Carl Sagan's Appeal: THE APPEAL National Religious Partnership for the Environment Open Letter to the Religious Community and Response Reflections on a Mote of Dust -- Carl Sagan, Excerpted from a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996.


		SOCI-Sociology