The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)Chapter 12:
The Presidency: Leading the NationWeb Links
| The U.S. Constitution: Article II | | The text of Article II of the U.S. Constitution archived in the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
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http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art2.asp
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| POTUS: Presidents of the United States | | "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 Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site."
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http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
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| Winning the Vote: How Americans Elect Their President | | The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History put together this online set of activities that include objects from the museum and encourage students to consider the powers of the presidency as well how candidates are selected.
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http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/elections/index.html
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| U.S. Presidency Links—Russell D. Renka | | See also Renka's Modern Presidents from FDR to the present.
The first site covers general informational sources and topics. The second one covers each modern president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.
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http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/Renka/Modern_Presidents/index.htm
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| The American Presidency Project | | From UC Santa Barbara, this site is a comprehensive site with extensive audio-video links, a documents archive, an election file, and Public Papers of the Presidents.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu
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| American President | | From the Miller Center for Public Affairs, this site has two excellent compilations: Presidency in History; and Presidency in Action.
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http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident
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| American Experience: The Presidents (PBS) | | Covers each individual president in association with films in The American Experience series. See individual modern presidents in this file for coverage applied to them.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/index.html
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| Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections | | Has both data and maps for all presidential elections. The maps include county-by-county information dating back to 1960. Maps can easily be compared to show.
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http://www.uselectionatlas.org/
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