Milestone Documents In The National Archives
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Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : Salem Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780979775819 |
A new series combining full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : National Archives & Records Administration |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kelli McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2500 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781935306511 |
The new edition of our landmark reference set deepens the original edition's coverage of major themes in American history with nearly 40 new entries (175 total), with a special focus on documents from African American history, women's history, immigration history, as well as 21st-century issues ranging from terrorism to campaign finance to LGBTQ rights. First published in 2008, Milestone Documents in American History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped America launched an acclaimed series of reference sets focusing on primary sources. Pairing critical documents from America's past with in-depth scholarly analysis and commentary to help students better understand each document, Milestone Documents in American History received widespread critical praise as well as awards including Outstanding Academic Title from Choice magazine, a Booklist Editor's Choice citation, and Best Reference Source from the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. The entries in Milestone Documents in American History, 2nd edition, are designed to help students engage with and analyze primary sources through a consistent, structured approach. To this end, each entry is divided into 3 sections: fact box, analysis, and document text.
Author | : The National Archives |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198042272 |
Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Author | : Erik A. Bruun |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781579120672 |
Encompassing more than one thousand primary sources and documents, a history of the United States presents an array of articles, speeches, letters, and court cases, ranging from the Declaration of Independence to the Starr Report.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195309596 |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Liquor laws |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Documents on microfilm |
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Author | : John Prados |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
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Inside the Pentagon Papers addresses legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens. In the process, it also shows how a closer study of this signal event can illuminate questions of government responsibility in any era. When Daniel Ellsberg leaked a secret government study about the Vietnam War to the press in 1971, he set off a chain of events that culminated in one of the most important First Amendment decisions in American legal history. That affair is now part of history, but the story behind the case has much to tell us about government secrecy and the public's right to know. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the Pentagon Papers were assembled by a team of analysts who investigated every aspect of the war. Ellsberg, a member of the team, was horrified by the government's public lies about the war - discrepancies with reality that were revealed by the report's secret findings. His leak of the report to the New York Times and Washington Post triggered the Nixon administration's heavy-handed attempt to halt publication of their stories, which in turn le
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : United States |
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