Mrs. Ruland's United States History Internet Resources
Contemporary Issues Internet Resources
Contemporary Issues in USA
Many of these issues are currently and continually changing; it is impossible for me to keep up with them. I encourage you to not only look at the following links (representing various sides of the issues), but to also look for more current information. I would encourage you to look at more than one side of the issue so that you can decide where you stand.
- ACLU Legislative Analysis on USA PATRIOT Act
- AIDS at 20
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Anatomy of a Meltdown: The Credit Crisis - Washington Post
- Anti-Defamation League HateFilter
- Banned Books Quest
- Bill of Rights in Action - The Bush Doctrine
- Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- Checks and Balances
- Civil Liberties Online
- CRF Forum: Governmance: Immigration
- Culture Shock
- Current Issues of Immigration
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Digital History Contemporary Controversies: History Behind the Headlines
- Political Scandal in Historical Perspective
- The Politics of Oil
- Equal Protection Under the Law
- Faith and Reason
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- If you see as screen asking for contribution, just click on "No Thanks" and you will see the correct page.
- Freedom of the Press vs. Prior Review - A WebQuest
- Glass Slippers- NOT! A WebQuest
- Guardian Unlimited
- This site provides a different view on political issues than the US media. It also reports foreign affairs, including British, Western European and the Middle East with a British perspective on the events.
- A Guide to the Patriot Act
- Historical Text Archive - US Foreign Policy
- Historical Timeline of Legal and Illegal Immigration to the United States
- History of US Interventions
- Holes in the Wall by Melissa del Bosque
- Concerning the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
- How AIDS Changed America
- How to Handle the Guantanamo Detainees
- Lessons from 9/11 - Security vs. Freedom and Justice: A Balancing Act
- The New Americans
- Past Meets Present
- Collection of sites from History Matters. Historians offer their views on the relationship between current events and larger historical themes, between the past and the present, placing some of the most controversial political and social topics of the day in historical perspective.
- Patriot Act
- The Patriot Act: What is the Proper Balance
- PBS Frontline
- Frontline is a documentary TV show. This site provides text of all shows as well as additional topic information like timelines.
- POV: Borders
- Project Implicit
- Are you prejudiced? Find out and help contribute to this experiment run by Harvard University professors to determine current intolerance in the US.
- Religion and Prayer in Public Schools
- September 11: Bearing Witness to History
- September 11, 2001 Documentary Project at the Library of Congress
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Southern Poverty Law Center - Intelligence Project
- Stop the Hate
- Supreme Court and Guantanamo Detainees
- Timeline of U.S. Interventions
- The USA Patriot Act and the USA Department of Justice - Losing Our Balance?
- US History - Immigration
- Provided by Best of History Web Sites
- U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
- US - Mexico Border Fence May Snag Wildlife
- A Visual Tour of Detention at Guantanamo
- 9/11 Attacks on America
Last updated September 11, 2009
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