History of Law, Government & Political Science

Sub-headings:

Historical Documents

Resources in this category:

Alcatraz: The Warden Johnston Years
http://www.alsirat.com/alcatraz.html

Resource on the infamous American prison, Alcatraz. Site hosts a wealth of information including a detailed timeline, searchable database of prisoners, and a collection of maps.

The Avalon Project at Yale University Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Searchable archival legal documents - electronic texts.

The Chairman Smiles
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/

"Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The former Soviet Union, Cuba and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and got a large amount of artistic attention as well. This is a selection of 145 political posters, famous masterpieces next to equally beautiful, but unknown examples, drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Additional information is provided on: the poster designers, collecting and collectors, the conservation of posters, postcard reproductions and further reading and some links."

Famous Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Offers accounts of many of the most famous trials in world and American legal history, such as the Salem witchcraft trials, the Rosenbergs case, the Scopes "Monkey" trial, the Amistad affair, and the O.J. Simpson Trial among others. Includes articles , court records, and other official documents.

The File Room
http://www.cd.sc.ehu.es/FileRoom/documents/index.html

"The File Room is an illustrated archive on censorship that you can browse, as well as add cases to." You can browse the archive by date, location, grounds for censorship, or medium. Each case includes a picture, a description of the artwork, of the incident, and the result. The website also provides a bibliogaphy and list of anti-censorship resources.

The History Guy: The War List
http://www.historyguy.com/index.html

"Hello, and welcome to The History Guy Website! Here you will find links and content pages to use in researching politics and history. " Includes sections on American Politics and Government, Historical Personalities, Governments of the World, Military History, and New and Recent Conflicts of the World.

Roman Law: Homepage
http://www.jura.uni-saarland.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum...

The Roman Law branch of the Law-related Internet Project at the University of Saarbrücken, dedicated to Roman Law: the legal system invented by the Romans more than 2000 years ago, which - having undergone the process of decay, revival, transformation and reinterpretation innumerable times - continues to influence legal thinking and legal practice to our days.

Rulers
http://rulers.org/

"This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders which don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories. Inasmuch as countries which no longer exist are included, they are found under their main successors (e.g., for the Soviet Union, look under Russia). "