Featured Resource Repositories

1. Teaching Civic Engagement - A civic engagement portal featuring APSA's three teaching civic engagement books along with the supplemental teaching materials.
2. APSA's Resources on System Racism and Social Justice - A collection of resources and scholarly work from political scientists examining the linkages between race, power, governance, social injustice, and oppression. This project arose as a means to acknowledge the issues and debates that have re-surfaced into the public discourse as a result of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of police, and the resulting protests and civil debates about social justice, race, systemic racism and public policy.
3. APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion 2015 syllabi collection - In 2015, APSA's Diversity and Inclusion Programs circulated a call for syllabi that addressed diversity and inclusion in political science education.
4. APSA’s Teaching about Politics, Power, and Group Difference - APSA has collected teaching, learning and discussion resources on politics, power, and group differences in the US. This resource project arose as a means to acknowledge the issues and debates that have re-surfaced into the public discourse as a result of the Charlottesville, VA protests and violence.
5. APSA's Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism -  81 syllabi curated by theme, showcasing how political science educators use the classroom to explore how civil violence affect domestic and international political order.
6. APSAnet syllabi project - APSA's Syllabi Project made a wide array of syllabi for courses in all subfields of political science available to political science educators prior to APSA Educate.

1. Law and Courts -  Syllabus repository featuring courses on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Judicial Politics, Law & Society, and more.
2. Presidents and Executive Politics - This page contains resources for teaching presidency courses.
3. State and Local Politics - Archive of state politics and policy syllabi along with data resources.
4. Critical Political Science - Examples of critical political science courses.
5. Political Science Education - Edited essays featuring best practices in political science education from leading scholar-educators.
6. Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior - Publicly available data on elections, public opinion and political behavior.
7. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Example syllabi for courses related to Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
8. Human Rights - This collection brings together teaching resources developed by the Human Rights organized section.
9. Migration and Citizenship - For over a decade this section's leadership has maintained an active syllabi collection to facilitate collaboration between political science educators interested in teaching immigration and citizenship.
10. Class and Inequality - Syllabi for courses relating to class and inequality.
11. Civic Engagement - The Civic Engagement Section of the American Political Science Association was founded in 2020 to promote civic engagement teaching, research, and praxis.

1. Educating For American Democracy - A k-12 American politics digital teaching resource library featuring curated civics toolkits and teaching guides from leading political science faculty.
2. American Historical Society, Remote Teaching Resources - A central location for resources that have been professionally vetted by historians.
3. H-Urban - These syllabi offer a view of current and past themes, theories, literature, and approaches in urban studies and history.
4. University of Virginia, Miller Center Syllabi Bank - This resource compilation of college-level syllabi address a variety of topics in American politics, governance, and history.
5. American Political Economy Consortium Teaching Resources - A network of scholars engaged in comparatively informed analysis of the interaction of markets and governance in the United States feature related teaching materials.
6. Arab Political Science Network Syllabi Bank - APSN features tools that assist in teaching political science in the region including courses taught in Arabic, English, and French. The syllabi bank will feature resources for undergraduate and graduate political science courses, as well as relevant interdisciplinary courses.
7. Democratic Erosions Syllabi Bank and Assignments - Public syllabus and associated active learning assignments investigating the causes, symptoms, and consequences of democratic erosion.
8. Active Learning in Political Science - A space to share, discuss, and innovate methods and ideas for teaching in political science and international relations.

1. Open Political Science - Repository of political science OER textbooks.
2. Open Textbook Library - The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota offers a catalog of open, peer-reviewed textbooks that can be downloaded for free.
   1. Open Education Network's Community Manifold - The Open Education Network is a multi-institutional professional development cohort organized via The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. The Manifold platform hosts recent OERs created by this cohort.
3. OpenStax - OpenStax from Rice University offers free, online educational materials and textbooks, some of which can be printed at an affordable price.
4. Milne Open Textbooks - A pilot open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York that engages faculty as authors and peer-reviewers and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.
5. BCcampus Open Ed - BCcampus has curated a collection of open textbooks that align with the top 40 highest enrolled first and second year post-secondary subject areas in British Columbia. Many books have been reviewed by faculty and include ancillary resources.
6. Saylor Academy - In addition to other open educational content, Saylor Academy offers over 100 open textbooks under a variety of Creative Commons licenses.
7. MIT OpenCourseWare: Online Textbooks - An index of online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare, including open-licensed electronic versions of print books, self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.
8. FLOSS Manuals - A free, collaboratively-built collection of manuals about free and open source software.
9. Manifold - A digital open education textbook publishing tool.

Political Science Public Scholarship and Digital Archives:

1. Good Authority - Good Authority’s mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. Here, political scientists draw on their expertise and the discipline’s research to provide in-depth analysis, illuminate the news, and inform the political conversation. Good Authority is the successor to The Monkey Cage, a site that was founded in 2007 and published at the Washington Post from 2013-2022.
   1. Good Authority Teaching Resources - Good Authority publishes several resources geared towards educators and their students.
2. The Monkey Cage Topics Guides -  Curated archive featuring The Monkey Cage's work from 2007-2022.
3. Center for Politics, University of Virginia - Sabato’s Crystal Ball is a comprehensive, nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
4. Journal of Democracy - The Journal of Democracy is the world’s leading publication on the theory and practice of democracy. Since its first appearance in 1990, it has engaged both activists and intellectuals in critical discussions of the problems of and prospects for democracy around the world. Many of its articles and issues are available without cost.

1. Qualitative Data Repository - The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines.
   1. Teaching & Pedagogy - QDR provides two types of teaching resources for instructors of methods and substantive courses: materials to assist you in teaching data management, and ideas for how you can use data to enhance your teaching.  All resources are appropriate for use at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.
2. American Presidency Project - The University of California, Santa Barbara presents over 160k digitized presidential and presidential campaign materials.
3. Recasting Presidential Libraries in the Undergraduate Classroom, University of Virginia - A variety of resources on the American Presidency that provide research activities for students and encourage classroom discussion.
4. American Politics Primary Resources, University of Virginia - A selection of primary resources on significant moments in U.S. history and politics, curated by distinguished scholars.

1. US Elections Assistance Commission - Each state and territory administers elections differently. Use this tool to find key dates and voting information about federal elections in all states and territories.
2. Street Law - For five decades, Street Law has developed innovative programs and provided training and educational materials that enable individuals, organizations, and communities worldwide to gain an understanding of law and government, foster rule of law, and empower marginalized communities.
3. Student Learns Student Votes Resource Library - This library is a collection of resources submitted by SLSV Coalition partners.
4. The Citizens Campaign - The Citizens Campaign's mission is to expand the leadership and problem solving capacity of America by offering colleges, high schools and citizens proven tools for direct participation in government problem solving and citizen leadership.
5. The National Center for Learning, Voting, and Engagement - The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political learning and engagement and correlations between specific student learning experiences and voting.
6. Campus Vote Project - Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting.
7. Civic Learning Week - Resource library of American politics civic teaching tools appropriate for both general and higher education.

1. Project on Middle East Political Science - a podcast covering political science research on the Middle East.
2. Insecure: a security podcast - a podcast providing a new platform to for The Centre for Global Security Challenges' to critically engage with the implications of their work for both policy and future research agendas. ​
3. Politics Considered - A podcast in which we consider some things political. I share my insights as a Political Science instructor about the issues of the day.
4. Democracy Matters - Our mission is to educate and inspire people to address public issues and cultivate the common good in our democracy.
5. Understanding Congress Podcast - Congress is the least liked and perhaps least understood part of government. But it’s vital to our constitutional government. Congress is the only branch equipped to work through our diverse nation’s disagreements and decide on the law. To better understand the First Branch, join host Kevin Kosar and guests as they explain its infrastructure, culture, procedures, history, and more.
6. Democracy Paradox- The Democracy Paradox podcast brings scholars from political science, sociology, economics, and other disciplines to discuss social and political ideas. The aim is not to debate policy or politics, but to introduce new concepts to listeners so they can understand politics and society better.