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Primary Sources:
1946 - Present

1946 - Winston Churchill - Iron Curtain Speech    Text

1946 - Army Corps of Engineers report on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki    Text

1946 - George Keenan Long Telegram from Moscow Text

1946 - Immigration into Palestine Truman Text

1946 - The Novikov Telegram Text

1947 - The Marshall Plan Text

1947 - Harry S Truman - Truman Doctrine    Text

1948 - Bogota Charter of American States (OAS) Text

1949 - Truman Inaugural Text

1948 - Harry S Truman - Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces    Text

1949 - Harry S Truman - Statement announcing detection of Soviet atomic test    Text

1949 - General Advisory Committee's report on building the H-Bomb   Text

1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty    Text

1951 - Anzus Security Treaty Text

1951 - US and Portugal Military Facilities Agreement Text

1951 - US and Yugoslavia Military Agreement Text

1951 - Us Japan Security Treaty Text

1951 - Defense of Greenland Agreement between US and Denmark Text

1951 - Defense of Iceland Agreement Text

1951 - Mutual Defense Treaty between US and the Philippines Text

1951 - General Douglas MacArthur - Farewell address to Congress    Text

1952 - Nixon Checkers Speech Text

1953 - US and Spain Military Agreement Text

1953 - Defense Treaty with Korea Text

1953 - Eisenhower First Inaugural Text

1954 - Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy    Text

1954 - Brown v. Board of Education    Text

1954 - Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam Text

1954 - Eisenhower State of the Union Text

1954 - Documents Regarding the Security Clearance of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
             Findings of Personnel Security Board
             Response from Dr. Oppenheimers Attorneys
             Atomic Energy Commission - Statement of the decision regarding Dr. Oppenheimer

1955 - Letters regarding the murder of Emmett Till    Text

1955 - Eisenhower State of the Union Text

1956 - Eisenhower State of the Union Text

1957 - Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas    Text

1957 - Eisenhower Second Inaugural Text

1958 - George Wallace - Transcript of Alabama Gubernatorial campaign commercial    Text

1959 - Eisenhower State of the Union Text

1961 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Military-Industrial Complex speech    Text

1961 - John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address    Text

1961 - John F. Kennedy - Berlin Crisis Address    Text

1962 - John F. Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis Address    Text

1962 - General Douglas Macarthur - Farewell speech at West Point    Text

1962 - Transcript of John Glenn's official communication with Command Center    Text

1962 - Students for a Democratic Society - "The Port Huron Statement"    Text

1963 - Letters to Betty Friedan    Text

1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. - "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"    Text

1963 - Equal Pay Act    Text

1963 - John F. Kennedy - Civil Rights message    Text

1963 - Official program for the March on Washington    Text

1963 - Martin Luther King Jr.- "I Have a Dream" Speech    Text

1963 - Lyndon Johnson - Address to Congress November 27, 1963    Text

1963 - Robert C. Weaver the Negro as American Text

1964 - Civil Rights Act Text

1964 - Reagan's Rendezvous with Destiny Address Text

1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution    Text

1964 - Lyndon Johnson - State of the Union Address: War on Poverty    Text

1964 - George Wallace - Speech against the civil rights movement    Text

1965 - Lyndon Johnson We Shall Overcome Speech Text

1966 - U.S. News and World Report, July 11, 1966
            "The Pill: How it is Affecting U.S. Morals, Family Life" Text

1968 - Lyndon Johnson - Renunciation speech    Text

1968 - Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts Text

1968 - Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Text

1969 - Letters from nurses in Vietnam    Text

1969 - Nixon First Inaugural Address Text

1970 - Women's Liberation press release on the Pill    Text

1971 - Vietnam Veterans against the war Statement by John Kerry Text

1971 - New York Times vs United States Text

1972 - Nixon and Haldeman - Smoking Gun transcript Text

1973 - Roe vs. Wade Text

1973 - Nixon First Watergate Speech - Saturday Night Massacre Text

1973 - Nixon Second Watergate Speech Text

1973 - Johanna Von Gottfried - Diary from the California Farm Workers' Movement    Text

1973 - War Powers Act    Text

1974 - Richard Nixon - Resignation speech    Text

1974 - Nixon's Farewell to Staff Text

1977 - Tori Derricotte - Black in a White Neighborhood    Text

1977 - Jimmy Carter Inaugural Address Text

1977 - Jimmy Carter - Energy Policy speech    Text

1978 - Camp David Accords    Text

1978 - Jimmy Carter - Inflation speech    Text

1979 - Jimmy Carter - "Crisis of Confidence" speech    Text

1980 - Jimmy Carter - Announcement of failure of the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran    Text

1981 - Reagan First Inaugural Address Text

1983 - Ronald Reagan - "Evil Empire" speech    Text

1983 - Ronald Reagan - "Star Wars" speech    Text

1985 - Reagan Second Inaugural Address Text

1986 - Ronald Reagan - Address after the space shuttle Challenger explosion    Text

1987 - Elaine Marcus Starkman - "The Elderly and the Sandwich Generation"    Text

1989 - Reagan Farewell Address Text

1989 - Bush Inaugural Address Text

1990 - Marsha Crow Markman - "Breast Cancer Diary,"    Text

1991 - George Bush - Gulf War Address    Text

1993 - Clinton Inaugural Address Text

1994 - "Contract With America"    Text

1996 - Oakland Unified School District: Ebonics Resolution    Text

1997 - Oakland Unified School District: Amended Ebonics Resolution    Text

1997 - Clinton Inaugural Address Text

1998 - Bill Clinton - Remarks on the After-School Child Care Initiative ("That Woman" Speech)    Text

1998 - Approved Articles of Impeachment Text

1999 - Clinton State of the Union Address Text

1999 - Impeachment Final Votes Text

1999 - White House Trial Memorandum Text

2000 - Clinton State of the Union Text

2001 - Bush Inaugural Speech Text

2001 - George W. Bush - Initial response to terrorist attack on 9/11/01    Text

2001 - Bush Speech Sept. 20 Text

2001 - USA-PATRIOT Act    Text

2002 - Bush State of the Union Address Text

2003 - Bush State of the Union Address Text





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