History 152: Web Sites

Oyez Supreme Court Media
"The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955....For selected cases argued before 1979, and for nearly all cases argued after 1979, unofficial versions of the transcripts are provided along with the audio when available." To date, they have loaded the audio transcripts back to 1984.

Supreme Court of the United States
Official website of the Supreme Court. Includes oral argument transcripts from 2000-present and opinions from 2004-present.

Digital History: Landmark Court Decisions
Provides links to scholarly projects devoted to digitizing primary sources and trial transcripts of famous court cases (e.g. the Susan B. Anthony trial). Also provides annotations and links to the full text of decisions of historic Supreme Court cases.

Avalon Project
"The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. [They] intend to add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
A website created by Street Law and The Supreme Court Historical Society as a one-stop shopping site for activities related to key Supreme Court cases and concepts mandated by state high school curriculum standards. Includes various primary sources such as editorial cartoons, excerpts from newspapers, and text of opinions.

Websites selected by Professor Sara Dubow.