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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Cold War<\/em> covers American aid to Europe in the early years of\u00a0the Cold War and American intervention in subsequent years in conflicts\u00a0around the world to contain the spread of Soviet power. Documents include:<\/p>\n\n- Irving Kaufman, Sentencing of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, 1951<\/li>\n
- U.S. State Department, The Negro in American Life<\/em>, \u00a01952<\/li>\n
- Rusk and McNamara, Report to President\u00a0Kennedy on South Vietnam, 1961<\/li>\n
- Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron\u00a0Statement, 1962<\/li>\n
- National Security Council, National Security Directive 23, 1989<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787<\/h2>\n
Madison wanted to leave his notes on the Constitutional Convention to posterity, and left the final decision of what should appear in print to his wife, Dolley\u00a0Madison. The several editions published since his death, however, have\u00a0moved further away from what the Madisons wanted published.\u00a0 This volume is a faithful attempt to recreate Madison\u2019s vision for his \u201cReport on the Debate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Great Depression\/New Deal<\/h2>\n
This collection of documents on the Depression and New Deal makes clear the reasons why and the degree to which Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0intended the New Deal to be a re-founding of the American republic. The collection also presents the arguments of those who opposed the New Deal \u2014 Democrats as well\u00a0as Republicans \u2014 and those who thought it did not go far enough.\u00a0 Documents include:<\/p>\n
\n- Representative Jacob Milligan, Speech on the Smoot-Hawley\u00a0Tariff (1930)<\/li>\n
- E.E. Lewis, \u201cBlack Cotton Farmers and the AAA\u201d (1935)<\/li>\n
- Senator Huey P. Long, Statement on the Share Our Wealth\u00a0Society (1935)<\/li>\n
- Al Smith, \u201cBetrayal of the Democratic Party\u201d (1936)<\/li>\n
- Roosevelt, \u201cFireside Chat\u201d on \u201cPurging\u201d the Democratic Party (1938)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Populists and Progressives<\/h2>\n
Populists and Progressives<\/em> highlights thinkers who translated the late 19th century American\u00a0experience with industrialization and urbanization into political ideas and\u00a0reforms that influenced 20th century American politics.\u00a0 Documents include:<\/p>\n\n- Henry George,\u00a0Progress and Poverty<\/em>, 1879<\/li>\n
- William A. Peffer, \u201cThe Mission of the Populist Party,\u201d\u00a0December 1893<\/li>\n
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Niagara Movement\u2019s \u201cAddress to the\u00a0Country,\u201d 1906<\/li>\n
- Theodore Roosevelt, \u201cThe Right of the People to Rule,\u201d 1912<\/li>\n
- John Dewey, \u201cThe Crisis in Liberalism,\u201d 1935<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Religion in American History and Politics<\/h2>\n
This volume draws together twenty-five primary documents through which readers may trace central themes in the long, complex story of religion and politics in American history.\u00a0 Documents include:<\/p>\n
\n- Laws, Rights, and Liberties Related to Religion in Early\u00a0America (1610-1682)<\/li>\n
- Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of\u00a0Newport, Rhode Island (1790)<\/li>\n
- Abraham Lincoln, The Temperance Address (1842)<\/li>\n
- Martin Luther King, \u201cCan a Christian Be a Communist?\u201d\u00a0(1962)<\/li>\n
- Barack Obama, Address at Cairo University (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Slavery & Its Consequences<\/h2>\n
Slavery & Its Consequences<\/em> addresses the codification of race-based chattel slavery and the related grievous problem of racial prejudice, as well as the development of a principled resistance to both slavery and its social, cultural, and political effects over the course of four centuries.\u00a0 Documents include:<\/p>\n\n- John Laurens, Envisioning an African American Regiment, February 2, 1778<\/li>\n
- Alexander Crummell,\u00a0The Race Problem in America<\/em>, 1889<\/li>\n
- W. E. B. Du Bois, \u201cReturning Soldiers,\u201d May 1919<\/li>\n
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan,\u00a0The Negro Family<\/em>, March, 1965<\/li>\n
- Ta-Nehisi Coates and Stephan Thernstrom, Reparations for Slavery, 2007, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Supreme Court<\/h2>\n
This collection highlights the landmark cases in American jurisprudence. Documents include:<\/p>\n
\n- Dred Scott v. Sandford<\/em>, 1857<\/li>\n
- Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em>, 1896<\/li>\n
- Gideon v. Wainwright<\/em>, 1963<\/li>\n
- Roe v. Wade<\/em>, 1973<\/li>\n
- District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em>, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Westward Expansion<\/h2>\n
The documents in this collection present the reasons Americans gave for and against westward expansion and their thoughts on the political, moral, and economic issues it raised.\u00a0 Documents include:<\/p>\n
\n- Narcissa Whitman, Letters and Journals from the Oregon Trail, 1836<\/li>\n
- John O\u2019Sullivan, \u201cAnnexation,\u201d July 1845<\/li>\n
- The Farmers\u2019 Movement, 1873\u20131874<\/li>\n
- The Ghost Dance Religion among the Sioux, 1889\u201390<\/li>\n
- Senator Albert J. Beveridge, \u201cThe March of the Flag,\u201d 1898<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
History Library<\/h2>\n\n- American Revolution<\/li>\n
- Slavery & Its Consequences<\/li>\n
- Westward Expansion<\/li>\n
- Great Depression and the New Deal<\/li>\n
- Cold War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Government Library<\/h2>\n
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