 | 0 | Country Profiles | | BBC country profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives. | |
| 0 | Country Profiles | | The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map. | |
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This site creates a virtual classroom for comparative civics and encourages global education for the 21st century. The interactive map of civic engagement will help you navigate the site and discover all the valuable resources and participatory learning opportunities it has to offer. | |
| 0 | Country Profiles | | Background Notes include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. | |
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Award-winning educational and academic reference products, including resources for scholars, students, teachers, and librarians at secondary schools and universities. Login required from off-campus. | |
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Current political and economic issues succinctly explained, from the Council on Foreign Relations. | |
| 0 | General Resources | | A nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. FactCheck monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Their goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding. | |
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Background information on regions, countries, and issues, from the ICONS project of the University of Maryland. | |
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Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Login required from off-campus. | |
| 0 | General Resources | | Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help American leaders better understand the public's point of view, and to help citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions. | |
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Full-text articles covering social, scientific, health, political, and global issues. Information is also available on government documents, artists, musicians, and authors. Login required from off-campus | |
| 0 | General Resources | | Bi-weekly magazine produced jointly by the New York Times and Scholastic. | |
| 8 | Health Care | | As the nation’s largest association of long term and post-acute care providers, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) advocates for quality care and services for frail, elderly and disabled Americans. AHCA represents the long term care community to the nation at large – to government, business leaders, and the general public. | |
| 8 | Health Care | | Video from the Kaiser Foundation summarizing the Health Care Reform law. | |
| 8 | Health Care | | Official government web site. | |