Criminal justice

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Criminal justice statistics collected by the federal government.

CJ Central: Includes information on the criminal justice system, criminal justice careers, the U.S. Constitution, educational games, and a searchable "cybrary" of criminal justice links.

Criminal Justice Links: Extensive collection of criminal justice links compiled by a professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University.

History of the FBI: Overview of the FBI's history, from its earliest days to the present.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service: U.S. Department of Justice information on corrections, courts, drugs and crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement,  and crime victims.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: Data from more than 100 sources about  characteristics of the criminal justice system, public attitudes toward crime and criminal-justice related topics, nature and distribution of known offenses, characteristics and distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing of defendants, and persons under correctional supervision.

Uniform Crime Reports: The FBI's annual statistics about crime, hate crime, and law enforcement officers killed and assaulted.  Statistics, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.

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History-General

Best of History Web Sites: Annotated links to more than 1,000 history web sites.

Center for History and the New Media: Digital history tools and resources, including a web scrapbook, survey builder, timeline builder, and syllabus finder.

Google News Archive: search articles stretching back more than 200 years, from the archives of Time Magazine, The Guardian, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Washington Post and aggregators like LexisNexis and Factiva.

History Channel: Includes "this date in history," famous speeches, exhibits, and detailed timelines.

On This Day: Short descriptions of events that happened on this date in history from The New York Times .

Reading, Writing, and Researching For History: Analyzes and describes the process of writing a history research paper.

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History-American

American Cultural History: Decade-by-decade tour of 20th century American cultural life, including art and architecture, books and literature, fads and fashion, education, historic events and technology, music, persons and personalities, and the theater and film. From the librarians at Kingwood (TX) College.

American History: About.com's guide to American history links.

American Memory: Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photos, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Digital collection of legal, historical and diplomatic documents. Includes colonial charters, state constitutions from 1776 to present, papers of Confederate States, treaties with Native Americans and with foreign countries.

Best of History Web Sites: An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.

Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents:  Source for many of the primary documents of our history, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation and many more.

Herblock's History (Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Milennium): The Library of Congress' collection of political cartoons from the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Herb Block.

History and Politics Out Loud: A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials. selections have accompanying on-screen transcripts.

History Matters: Gateway to web materials on U.S. history.

National Archives and Records Administration: Official depository of U.S. government materials, arranged by branch of government, by media type and by selected topics. Includes links to all presidential libraries.

New Jersey Digital Highway: New Jersey history and culture from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies.

New Jersey Historical Society: Activities, programs, and collections of the New Jersey Historical Society.

Selected Historic Decisions of the United States Supreme Court: Compiled by Cornell Law school, these cases, which pre-date the regular release of Court decisions to the Internet, may be searched by topic, party names, or author of the opinion.

Today in History: The Library of Congress American Memory Project describes the significance of dates in history.

U.S. Historical Census Data Browser: Statistical data describing the people and economy of the United States for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

U.S.Army Center for Military History: Materials on all wars of U.S. history, including information on all Medal of Honor winners.

Veterans History Project: Audio- and video-taped oral histories and documentary materials covering the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean, Vietnam and Persian wars.

United States History Virtual Library: Includes research tools and chronologies from pre-Columbian period to the 20th century.

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History-World

16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa: Digital copies of antique maps from the Northwestern University Library.

AlternaTime: Timelines of history, science, art, literature and popular culture.

Arab Culture and Civilization: A post-9/11 initiative to improve Western understanding of both Muslim and non-Muslim Arab culture and civilization.

Asian Studies: Scholarly documents, resources and information relevant to Asian Studies.

Country Studies: Descriptions and analyses of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Prepared by the Library of Congress.

Discoverers Web: Links to sites about voyages of discovery and exploration.

Early Modern Women: Links to resources about women in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1500 to 1800.

EuroDocs: Links to Western European primary historical documents.

First World War.com: Political, military and literary history, including "vintage audio" from the time period.

Historical Text Archive: Articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links for a broad range of historical subjects. 

Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Resource Center: Links to sites related to the Shoah, and to genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Ireland, Nanking, Rwanda and among Native Americans and African Americans.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Primary and secondary history sources no longer under copyright (i.e., texts are more than 75 years old). Covers Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Rome, Late Antiquity and Christian origins.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Primary and secondary sources no longer under copyright (i.e., texts are more than 75 years old). . Covers Byzantium, Carolingians, Crusades, France, England, Iberia, Italy, Medieval Church, Renaissance, Reformation and Exploration.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Primary and secondary sources no longer under copyright (i.e., texts are more than 75 years old). Covers numerous topics in modern history, including American and European History, Western Civilization and World Civilization.

Labyrinth-Resources for Medieval Studies: Links to books, articles, and bibliographies on topics related to the Middle Ages.

Middle East History and Resources: Texts of reports, policy statements, and other findings from 1915 to the present day.

Perseus Project: Digital collection of resources for the study of the ancient Greek world.

Portals to the World: In-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. Prepared by subject specialists at the Library of Congress.

Teach Global Ed: High-quality scholarship, primary sources, and web-based connections to information about five world regions: Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Slavic and Eastern Europe, and East Asia.

Voice of the Shuttle History Page: Links to resources on Western and non-Western history.

World Factbook: Produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to give information about the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation and military strengths of many nations of the world.

World War II Timeline: Includes information on events as far back as 1917. Browse by date, topic, picture or map.

WWII Resources: Primary source materials pertaining to WWII. Includes treaties, declarations, speeches, chronologies.

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Political science

Congress.org: Membership directory for both houses of Congess and state legislatures.

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index: Gallery of political cartoons organized by issue, artist, and year.

Democratic National Committee: Official site of the Democatic Party.

FirstGov: Acess all online U.S. Federal Government resources as well as state and local government information.

Hunterdon County: Maps and links to county agencies and municipalities. 

New Jersey Congressional Delegation: Names, contact information and voting recrods for your representatives in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

New Jersey Judiciary: Includes an overview of the NJ court system, links to state, county and muncipal courts, NJ Supreme and Appellate Court opinions, and judiciary forms.

New Jersey Legislature: Includes information about members, senate and assembly committees, an overview of the legislative process, and links to specific bills.

Republican National Committee: Official site of the Republican National Committee.

State of New Jersey: Links to Governor's Office, departments, directories, towns, and counties. 

Supreme Court of the United States: Official page of the Supreme Court.

Thomas-Legislative Information on the Internet: Provides full text of bills, Congressional Record and most committee reports.

U.S. House of Representatives: General, schedule, and legislative information from the House of Representatives.

U.S. Senate: Votes, statistics, and contact information for members of the Senate.

U.S.Electoral College: Explanation of the electoral college and statistics on election results.

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