This site from Ross Nordeen provides an essay highlighting Friedrich List's three premises for protectionism and government intervention: the ideas of infant industry, forced capital investment, and the national interest. The essay is a...

If you don't know what the economy is or how it works, this site is for you. It is broken into subsections that make it easy to understand the economy.

Basic facts and travel information about Scotland. Information is available about business, community, travel, culture, news, sports, and shopping.

This page, provided by a law firm, gives Federal Trade Commission warnings on advertised low-interest rates and questions to consider before signing for a low-interest rate.

This article provides a thorough examination of comparative advantage, absolute advantage, and opportunity cost, and how these three terms are related.

This site is provided for by Vassar College. 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons provides a look at the controversial topic of Tariffs in the election of 1896 and the cartoons it generated at the time.

Wikipedia offers a great biography on the life of William Gladstone. Discusses his time in Parliament, his work to rehabilitate prostitutes, his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, his accomplishments as Liberal prime minister, and more.

This site on the The OAS and the Inter-American System provides history, key dates, original and current member states, past and present secretaries general, and more.

The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School here provides the text of all 112 articles of the OAS charter, adopted at the Bogota Conference of American States, March 30-May 2, 1948.

Read about the problems President George Washington had with foreign affairs. Both France and Great Britain ignored American sovereignty and claims of neutrality. Read about Great Britain's disregard of the Treaty of Paris which ended...

Discusses the history of tariffs in the United States from the time of Alexander Hamilton to the modern day. (July/August 1998 | Vol. 49, No. 4)

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is the third in a series from Oxfam, and broadens the issues out from bananas to other food crops that are subject to Fair Trade agreements. It encourages the pupils to debate the issues...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The aims of this flipchart are to use a case study to explore the issues that face banana growers. It follows the experiences of two farmers growing bananas, and encourages debate about Fair Trade as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The aims of this flipchart are to introduce the banana as a 'product' and 'crop' - not just as food. It can support a single lesson, or be part of a series of lessons about fair trade and food production.

This site from Dieoff.com provides an essay about the issue of immigration. The author challenges position that immigration is good for America.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary associated with their study of development in different groups of countries and of different industries.

A quick look at America in the 20th century and a peek at the challenges of the 21st century.

A lesson plan that examines the trade in ivory tusks from African elephants. Students research the problem, learn about legislation that surrounds the issue, and find out about the economics of the ivory trade as well as the impact on...

A digital storybook called Children's Lives at Colonial London Town: The Stories of Three Families. London Town is located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and was a trading port in 18th century colonial America. There is an...

A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

A map of Africa as it was known in 1882 before the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...

This site from Score provides information on the global marketplace. This is a unit where students are grouped to find out the best Latin American country to introduce a new fast food business. Site is very well outlined and includes...

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides an elaborate overview of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Content includes detailed background information behind the document, photos of the original...

This four-page review of the campaign and election of 1892 includes a review of Benjamin Harrison's term in office from 1888-1892, the controversy in determining a presidential candidate, and the presence of a possibly viable third-party...