The American Political Development website's purpose is to facilitate the study of United States political history and development by bringing together a wide variety of resources for scholars in one easily accessible source.

The two major sections of this site are the Town Square and Electronic Classroom. The Electronic Classroom contains teaching resources and mutlimedia resources to facilitate instruction at the college lever. Resources include primary source links, syllabi, exam and assignment questions from other scholars engaged in teaching APD related courses, all categorized by topic.

The Town Square section gathers information and links relevant from a variety of journals and presses; conference and professional notices; links to relevant journals and journal articles. The APD Town Square will also host electronic discussion Forums on timely topics relevant to the APD field.