Politics, Elections & Political Parties

The American Presidency: K-12 TLC Guide Famous Americans in Politics & Government: K-12 TLC Guide United States Government: K-12 TLC Guide

Law & Legal Resources: K-12 TLC Guide

Political Cartoons: K-12 TLC Guide Propaganda: K-12 TLC Guide

Presidential Elections: K-12 TLC Guide

Campaigns/Campaigning, Elections, Voting/Voting Rights
The Electoral College, Presidential Conventions
Parties, Third-Party Politics
Politics and the Media
Study Aids

Politics, Elections
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Political Parties

Famous American Politicians: K-12 TLC Guide .

Politics and Latin Americans: K-12 TLC Guide .
Politics and Religion: K-12 TLC Guide .
Politics in Movies: K-12 TLC Guide .

WHITNEY V. CALIFORNIA (1927): K-12 TLC Guide .

The African American Registry:
- 03/10/1972: First National Black Political Convention Is Held in Gary, Indiana.
American History 102: Civil War To The Present, University of Wisconsin:
- The Rise of Populism.
- The Dawn of Liberalism: Progressivism.
- The Politics of Prosperity: The 1920s.
- The Politics of Frustration: The 1920s.
- The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s.
- The Twilight of Liberalism: The Nixon Years.
American Political Thought On The Web.
The American Prospect.
British Politics & Elections: 1700-1920, Spartacus Educational.
BUBL Link.
Campaigns and Elections Online.
The Carter Center, Emory University.
Center for Responsive Politics.
The Chicago Seven Trial (1969-70), University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The College Board Online:
- Advanced Placement Government & Politics.
Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley.
Debs, Eugene V.: K-12 TLC Guide.
E.Politics.
The Electronic Policy Network:
The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption, University of Wisconsin.
Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership, The Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Hellenic Resources Network.
International Republican Institute.
Law, Politics, and Issues, Suite 101.
Lincoln - Douglas Debates: K-12 TLC Guide.
The National Endowment for Democracy.
National Organization for Women.
The National Political Index.
National Public Radio:

Bob Squier (audio: 3:22).
The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political and Playing to Win.
A Century of U.S. Campaign Finance Law.
Citizen Initiatives Gone Too Far? (audio: 5:00).
Cuban-American Political Power (audio: 7:15).
Disregarding Laws for Politics (audio: 3:00).
The Economic Theories Behind Modern U.S. Politics:

Feminization of Politics (audio: 3:00).
Iowa Caucuses (audio: 3:30).
Leading Women.
Limiting Campaign Contributions (audio: 5:00).
Moms and Politics (audio: 4:00).
Political Diversity of U.S. Hispanics (audio: 8:47).
Political Bent Affects How We View Skin Tone.
Political Redistricting (audio: 6:30).
Politics & the Law (audio commentary: 6:00).
Politics and Demographics (audio: 4:30).
The Politics of Ridiculing Scientific Studies.
Polls and Polling Methods (audio: 4:30).
Powerful Voices: Women in Global Politics.
Re-imagining Politics and Society (audio: 6:20).
Religion In American Politics (audio: 2:42).
Religion & Politics (audio: 6:00).
Russian Politics & Media (audio: 5:00).
Three Books to Get You Out of a Political Wilderness.
When Extremism Moves Mainstream.
Women and Politics (audio: 5:30).

The Political Debates, Politics1
The Political Graveyard.
Political Parties & Youth Organizations in the U.S.
Political Resources: Rome Project, The Dalton School, NY.
Political Science Resources:
- Keele University.
Political Science Resource Centre, Thompson Learning Companies.
Political Science Vocabulary, Quizlet.
Politics1.
PopandPolitics.
Power, Politics and Protest in 19th Century England, British National Archives.
Race and Affirmative Action, The Atlantic Monthly.
Stateside Associates.
Thomas Paine: K-12 TLC Guide.
Voting Reform in the U.S., University of Virginia.
World Socialist Web Site.
Yahoo.

Politics, Elections
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Campaigns/
Campaigning

2010: Citizens United v. FEC (Campaign Finance Regulations):
- BBC.
- National Public Radio:
- Oyez.org.
America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia, Duke University.
Campaign '96: Third-Party Time?, Harvard University.
Campaigns and Elections Online.
Granny D's Walk Across America: K-12 TLC Guide.
National Public Radio (audio):
- Campaign Finance Reform:
  - 12/10/99 (3:32).
  - 3/27/00 (5:30).
- 6th-grade Teacher Runs for Congress: 11/4/00 (4:30).
- 40 Years of Presidential Debates: 9/23/00 (10:15).
- Are Dead Politicians Best Candidates?: 11/4/00 (2:30).
- Campaign Journalism: Whose Interest?: 2/3/00 (6:00).
- Campaign Management Class: 1/14/00 (5:50).
- Candidates and Education: 2/22/00 (7:34).
- Concession Speeches:
  - Commentary: 12/06/00 (2:30).
  - Importance of Concession: 12/03/00 (4:20).
- Democrats at the Apollo Theater: 2/22/00 (7:30).
- E-Mail Campaigns: 1/24/01 (5:00).
- Getting Electorate Interested (satire): 3/5/00 (4:00).
- GOP Changes the Primary Process: 5/2/00 (3:30).
- Influence of Wealthy Contributors: 3/3/00 (3:15).
- Iowa, New Hampshire & Campaigns: 1/17/00 (2:33).
- Life After Losing an Election: 12/07/00 (3:30).
- Marketing v. Political Pandering: 09/30/00 (6:30).
- Negative Campaigning:
  - Impact of Big Money: 12/20/99 (3:29).
  - North Carolina Law: 4/28/00 (4:34).
- Parents, Politicians and Education: 3/2/00 (9:30).
- Political Advertising:
  - 4/5/00: Political Ads and Accuracy (6:15).
  - 6/9/00: Financing Political Advertising (4:00).
- Presidential Campaign Songs: 11/7/00 (5:00).
- Presidential Campaign Volunteers: 2/1/00 (4:45).
- Push Polling: 2/14/00 (4:30).
- Separation of Church and State: 8/30/00 (4:59).
- Spinning the News After the Vote: 2/20/00 (8:00).
- Thoughts on Presidential Debates: 9/16/00 (3:57).
- U.S. Process Penalizes Third Parties: 5/8/00 (3:00).
- Why Run When You Have No chance?: 1/19/00 (5:30).
Opensecrets.org.
Politics and Political Campaigns, ThinkQuest.
Will Rogers Campaign Speech in 1922 (Audio: 1907K), Michigan State University.

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Elections

U.S. Presidential Elections: K-12 TLC Guide.

2000 Presidential Election in Peru: K-12 TLC Guide.
2000 Presidential Election in Russia: K-12 TLC Guide.
2000 Presidential Election in Yugoslavia: K-12 TLC Guide.

11/04/1845: Americans Observe First Uniform Election Day, Library of Congress.

10/23/2011: Tunisia's First-ever Democratic Election: K-12 TLC Guide.

British Politics & Elections: 1700-1920, Spartacus Educational.
Bureau of Elections, Michigan Department of State.

Election Day, Writer's Almanac.
Election Laws Study, http://www.lwvor.org/.
Election Resources on the Internet.
Elections and Electoral Systems Around The World, Keele University.
Elections around the World.
Federal Election Commission.
First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary, State of New Hampshire.
History Channel:

12/21/1958: Sweeping Majority Elects de Gaulle President of France.

How to Fix an Election, Mathematical Association of America.
The International Foundation for Election Systems.
Kids Voting USA.
The National Election Studies, University of Michigan.
National Public Radio:
- Close Elections:
- Election Fraud and Error (audio: 2:30).
- Elections & Supreme Court (audio: 12:48).
- Elections in Rome v. Those in America (audio: 6:00).
- Finnish National Elections (audio: 2:00).
- History & the 1800 Presidential Election (audio: 3:42).
- Life After Losing an Election (audio: 3:30).
- Mathematical Voting (audio: 6:00).
- Oil and Presidential Elections (audio: 3:00).
- Small Towns & National Elections (audio: 9:30).
- State Legislatures & 2000 Election (audio: 4:00).
- Teaching the Election (audio: 4:00).
- Thailand Addresses Vote Buying (audio: 3:32).
National Student/Parent Mock Election.

Presidential Elections, The History Channel.
Project Vote Smart.
Smithsonian Magazine:

Four Fateful Elections.
Top 10 Historic U.S. Mid-Term Elections.

Stateside Associates.
U.S. Elections, LearningNetwork.
Voting Rights for Convicted Felons: K-12 TLC Guide:
Web White & Blue.
Youth-e-Vote.

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Parties

British Political Parties: K-12 TLC Guide.
Political Parties & Youth Organizations in the U.S.

Communism:

Luxemburg, Rosa: K-12 TLC Guide.

Communist Party U.S.A..
- The Communist Manifesto: K-12 TLC Guide.
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - Gus Hall: 10/16/00 (4:00).

Democratic Party:
- Democratic National Committee.
- The History Channel:
- National Public Radio (audio):
Democratic Socialists of America.
German Political Parties: K-12 TLC Guide.
Green Parties of North America.
The Libertarian Party.
The Natural Law Party.
The New Party.
The Reform Party of the USA.
- Buchanan, Patrick: K-12 TLC Guide.
- National Public Radio (audio):
Republican Party:
- Nast, Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 2000GOP.com.
- Republican National Committee.
  - History.
Social Democrats, USA.
The Socialist Party of the United States of America.
The United States Pacifist Party.
The Whig Party, The History Channel.

Austria's Freedom Party.
National Public Radio (audio):
- The Canadian Alliance Party: 11/24/00 (4:46).
- Israel's SHAS Party: 2/27/00 (6:20).
- Proposal to Limit Russian Parties: 01/30/01 (4:31).
The Ontario New Democratic Party.
Political Parties of Haiti, Embassy of the Republic of Haiti, Washington, D.C.
South African Political Parties.

Politics, Elections
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Political Parties

Exploring the Language of Post-Sept. 11 U.S. Policy.

Politics, Elections
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Political Parties

Third Party Politics

Bull Moose Party: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dixiecrats: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Progressive Party: K-12 TLC Guide.
Reform Party of the USA: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Tea Party:
- CBS News.
- Generation America.
- National Public Radio:
  - Ronald Reagan: The 'Original Tea Party Candidate'.
- The TeaParty.net.
- TeaParty.org.
- Wikipedia.
Third-Party Presidential Conventions: K-12 TLC Guide.

Campaign '96: Third-Party Time?, Harvard University.
Nader, Ralph:
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - Nader & the Green Party in 2000: 11/8/00 (3:30).
  - The Nader Effect: 11/8/00 (4:45).
National Public Radio (audio):
People's Party Platform (1896), U.S. Secretary of State.
The Progressive Populist.
Third Party and Independent Candidates, University of Groningen.

Politics, Elections
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Political Parties

Voting/
Voting Rights

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Women's Suffrage: K-12 TLC Guide.
24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Poll Taxes: K-12 TLC Guide.
26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Voting Rights for 18 Year Olds: K-12 TLC Guide.

Constitutionality of Blanket Primaries: K-12 TLC Guide.
Politics and Latin Americans: K-12 TLC Guide.
Women's Suffrage: K-12 TLC Guide.

01/12/1915: House Rejects Proposed Women's Suffrage Constitutional Amendment, New York Times.

1965 Voting Rights Act:

History Channel:

01/08/1867: District of Columbia Grants First Voting Rights for African-American Men.

How We Use to Vote, New Yorker.
Inside the Voting Booth, PBS.
National Public Radio:
- Oregon's Vote by Mail Initiative: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Black Bear & the Ballots (audio: 3:30).
- The Black Vote (audio: 7:34).
- Deadlines for Counting Votes (audio: 5:00).
- Electoral Votes for Puerto Rico? (audio: 3:30).
- Exit Polling (audio: 4:15).
- Florida Law Turns Away Voters (audio: 6:00).
- Florida's Invalidated Black Votes (audio: 5:00).
- Getting Out the Black Vote (audio: 5:00).
- Hand Counting Ballots (audio: 3:00).
- Hand v. Machine Vote Counting (audio: 3:00).
- I Want to Vote (audio: 3:00).
- Identifying Candidates on Ballots (audio: 3:27).
- Internet Voting (audio: 5:30).
- Learning to Vot (audio: 3:00).
- Making Sure Every Vote Counts (audio: 4:00).
- Military Ballots (audio: 4:00).
- Obstacles of Online Elections (audio: 4:53).
- Old-fashioned Election Machines (audio: 5:30).
- Problems with Motor Voter Laws (audio: 7:00).
- Punch Card Machines (audio: 4:00).
- Restoring Voting Rights for Felons (audio: 7:00).
- RV Voters (audio: 4:00).
- Senior Voters (audio: 6:15).
- Should Incarcerated Felons Vote? (audio: 6:37)
- South Carolina Voting Rights (audio: 4:09).
- Splitting 1 Man, 1 Vote (commentary) (audio: 3:00).
- Uniform Ballot Guidelines (audio: 5:15).
- Voter Apathy (audio: 2:36).
- Voter Knowledge (audio: 5:12).
- Voting at the Grand Canyon (audio: 4:13).
- Voting Options (audio: 4:22).
- Voting Process Around the World (audio: 6:15).
- Voting Reforms Considered (audio: 4:12).
- Voting Rights Protection Reduced (audio: 3:30).
- Voting Technologies (audio: 5:00).
- Why Courts are Important (audio: 5:45).
- Why Some Dead People Are Registered to Vote.
Overseas Vote Foundation.
Project Vote Smart.
Votelink.

Teacher Lesson Plan.

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Study Aids

CollegeTermPapers.com.
Cyber Essays.

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K-12 TLC Guide to Timelines & Chronologies

1858
Aug 21	Lincoln-Douglas Debates Begin in Ottawa, Illinois
1956
Aug 20	Republican National Convention Begins in San Francisco
1976
Aug 19	Gerald Ford Wins Republican Presidential Nomination

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Young Adult:
- The Kid Who Ran For President, Dan Gutman.
Adult:
- Burke, Edmund: K_12 TLC Guide.
- Ivins, Molly: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Klein, Joseph: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character,
  Roger C. Kennedy.
- Fat Man in a Middle Seat, Jack Germond.
- The Running Mate, Joe Klein.
- National Public Radio:

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K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

02/26/1869: Congress Proposes 15th Amendment to Protect Voting Rights.

03/04/1917: Jeannette Rankin is First Female Member of Congress.

05/21/1832: The First Presidential Convention Begins in Baltimore, MD.

08/26/1920: The 19th Amendment Goes into Effect.

09/26/1960: The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate.


Famous Americans in Politics and Government U.S. Congress U.S. Presidents Barbosa, Rui Hern�ndez Col�n, Rafael Paine, Thomas S�nchez, Oscar Arias

Grades 2-4:
- Electing a President, Colette Eileen Graybeal,
  Ardmore Elementary School, WA,
  MN Center for Community Legal Education.
Grades 3-5:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Current Events.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
Grades 4-5:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Forming Opinions.
  - 'Toon Tic Tac Toe.
Grades 5-8:
- Curriculum Connections for White Lilacs,
  Mary Lou Meerson, Carolyn Meyer's Website.
Grades 6-8:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Analyzing Editorial Cartoons.
  - Cartoon Symbol Bingo.
  - Current Events.
  - Forming Opinions.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
Grades 9-12:
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:
  - Analyzing Editorial Cartoons.
  - Cartoon Symbol Bingo.
  - Current Events.
  - Forming Opinions.
  - Scavenger Hunt.
- The Declaration Versus the Communist Manifesto, Larry Nickell, Educator's Reference Desk.
- National Constitution Center.
- Propaganda and Political Parties, Bill Wessler
  New Castle Chrysler High School
  New Castle Community Schools
- Teaching the Election,
  National Public Radio: 11/10/00 (4:00).
Grade 12:
- 3rd Party Politics and Presidents,
  Mike E. Neilson,
  Danville Community High School, IN.
Others:
- The Constitution Community,
  The National Archives and Records Administration:
  - 1824: Tally of the Electoral College Vote.
  - 1912: Cartoons, Progressivism & Election.
- Humanities To Go, The Indiana Humanities Council.

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This guide last edited 02/14/2012
This guide last revised 02/04/2009