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1880s-1960s: Samples of Jim Crow Laws
1940-62: National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart
1940-90: Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart
1940-95: US military (national defense) outlays, 1940-95
1945-90: Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart
1950-70: Unemployment, 1950-1970 - chart
1950-85: Women in the Workforce, 1950-1985 - chart
1960-65: Federal Spending on Social Programs, Excluding Social Security - chart
1960-71: Various Documents on the Ideology of the "New Left" (additional documents)
1960-72: U.S. Troop Levels in Vietnam, 1960-1972 - chart
1960-85: American Birthrate, 1960-1985 - chart
1960-90: Consumer Price Index, 1960-1990 - chart
early 1960s: "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" - song lyrics about the Native-American issue by Peter LaFarge
early 1960s: "My Country 'Tis of Thy People are Dying" - song lyrics about the Native-American issue by Buffy Sainte-Marie
1960: Can 52,600,000 TV Set Owners Be Wrong - Look Magazine Assesses American Television in 1960
1960: First Televised Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy
1960: "Kennedy Is Apparent Victor; Lead Cut in Two Key States; Democrats Retain Congress" - The New York Times - front page with full text
1960: Kennedy proposes the Peace Corps (10/14)
1960: "Leo Szilard Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand" - U.S. News & World Report, 8/15, pages 68-71
1960: Memorandum of Conference with President Kennedy from General Maxwell Taylor (9/20)
1960: “Men Without Women” - Eleanor Harris in Look (11/22)
1960: “Mr. Local Custom Must Die” - An Analysis of the Racial Situation in the South in 1960 as Civil Rights Activism Increased
1960: "The New Mood in Politics" - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. from his book, The Politics of Hope
1960: Secret U.S. Embassy Cable on U-2 Incident (5/7)
1960: Senator John F. Kennedy Announcing His Candidacy for the Presidency of the United States
1960: Soviet Statement to U.S. on U-2 Incident (5/10)
1960: U-2 Spy Incident documents
1960: You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) - Dr. Fred Schwartz - published by the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade
1960s: "'60s Rave" - photo of hippies
1960-61: Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
1961: "Dedication" - poem by Robert Frost composed for and read at President Kennedy's Inauguration
1961: Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
1961: First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961 - New Documents from The Kennedy Administration
1961: Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
1961: Kennedy Memo on Apollo Program (4/20)
1961: Kennedy Speech on Berlin Crisis (7/25)
1961: Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy
1961: Letter From President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev (April 18, 1961)
1961: Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem of South Vietnam (December 14, 1961 (scroll down)
1961: Mapp v. Ohio
1961: McGowan v. Maryland - work on Sunday
1961: Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Thomas Mann) to Secretary of State Rusk, February 15, 1961. (Arguing against an invasion of Cuba)
1961: Memorandum from Lt. General John K. Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans & Programs, U.S. Air Force, to Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas White, "Long-Range Threat of Communist China" (2/8)
1961: Memorandum Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, January 19, 1961. (Planning an invasion of Cuba)
1961: Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis - JFK (7/25)
1961: Rusk-McNamara Report to President Kennedy - excerpts from the "White Paper" advocating an increase in military, technical, and economic aid to South Viet Nam (11/11)
1961: State of the Union Address - JFK (1/61)
1961: Statement Upon Signing Order Establishing the Peace Corps (Executive Order 10924) - JFK
1961: The Suburbs - Lewis Mumford
1961: TIME Magazine's 'Men of the Year' for 1960 - "U. S. Scientists" (1/2 issue)
1961: USA and USSR- Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall (8/17-18)
1961-1963: All pertinent documents on U. S.-Cuban relations, including the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962: Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort - JFK
1962: Baker v. Carr
1962: Collective memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis audio files (10/18-29)
1962: Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy
1962: Letter to Fidel Castro from Nikita Khrushchev Advising Him to Remain Firm against US Aggression (10/28)
1962: "The Long View of Our World" - speech by President Kennedy (3/23)
1962: "Marilyn Monroe" - poem
1962: Memorandum From Attorney General Robert Kennedy to President Kennedy about his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin
1962: Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy (the Second Letter) 10/27-
1962: Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy (10/28)
1962: Nation's Space Effort - speech by President Kennedy
1962: President Kennedy's Speech Announcing the "Quarantine" Against Cuba (10/22)
1962: Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (S. D. S.) - 6/11-15
1962: Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba - quarantine - JFK (10/22)
1962: Robert McNamara and Counterforce, "No Cities" Doctrine
1962: "The Roots of Social Security" - speech by Francis Perkins delivered at the Social Security Administration HQs in Baltimore, MD (10/23)
1962: Satellite Photos of Reconnaissance Planes over Cuba
1962: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (10/24)
1962: State of the Union Address - JFK (1/62)
1962: Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 26, 1962 (Khrushchev Asks for a U.S. No-Invasion Pledge)
1962: TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1961 - "John F. Kennedy: A Way with the People" (1/5 issue)
1963: Address by President Kennedy at The American University, Washington, D.C., "Towards a Strategy of Peace"
1963: Abington Township v. Schempp
1963: Address Before the Irish Parliament - President Kennedy, Dublin (6/28)
1963: American University Speech - President Kennedy
1963: Announcement of the Civil Rights Bill - President Kennedy (6/11)
1963: “A condition we can ill afford” - Debating the Equal Pay Act of 1963
1963: The Cuban Problem (4/21)
1963: Daily Diary of President Johnson - Nov. 22 (3 pages) and Nov. 23 (4 pages)
1963: "The Death of Emmett Till" - song lyrics by Bob Dylan
1963: Desegregation in the Schools of Alabama - Report
1963: Equal Pay Act
1963: “Federal legislation is not needed” - Debating the Equal Pay Act of 1963
1963: Gideon v. Wainwright (3/18)
1963: “I Can’t Fight Alone” - James H. Meredith in Look (4/19)
1963: "I Have a Dream" Speech - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (8/28)
1963: "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (4/16)
1963: Letter from Malcolm X to Whitney Young
1963: LBJ Being Sworn in as President On Air Force One on the Way Back to Washington from Dallas - photo
1963: Memorandum of Understanding Between the U. S. & the U. S. S. R. Regarding the Establishment of Direct Communications Links (6/20)
1963: "Mr. Donovan's Trip to Cuba" - Mr. Bundy (3/4)
1963: "The Negro as American" - Robert C. Weaver
1963: Phone Conversation between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge - Lodge's implied withdrawal of support for Diem's regime (11/1)
1963: President Kennedy's Television Interviews on Vietnam (9/2 & 9/9)
1963: Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights - JFK (6/11)
1963: Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - JFK (7/26)
1963: Photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. 1956-1968
1963: School District of Abington Township, PA v. Schempp
1963: "Sitting-In In Mississippi" - Ann Moody
1963: "Some Arguments Against Accommodation [in Cuba] - -A Rebuttal" (11/12)
1963: Southern Baptist Convention- Faith & Message- Statement on Religious Liberty (5/9)
1963: State of the Union Address - JFK (1/63)
1963: "The Strategy of Peace" - speech by President Kennedy (6/10)
1963: “Unequal pay is immoral” - Debating the Equal Pay Act of 1963
1963: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, "Civil Rights and Legal Wrongs" -pamphlet in response to civil rights legislation
1963-64: "Medgar Evars Lullaby" - song lyrics by Richard Weissman
1964: 23rd. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
1964: 24th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
1964: "A Time for Choosing" Speech - Ronald Reagan
1964: Acceptance Speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964: Address on Behalf of Sen. Barry Goldwater - Ronald Reagan
1964: Bell v. Maryland
1964: "Birmingham Sunday" - song lyrics by Richard Farina
1964: Charles de Gaulle- France's Attitude Toward US Policy in Vietnam
1964: The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax" - speech by Gov. George Wallace (AL)
1964: Documents Related to the Tonkin Gulf Incident
1964: Economic Opportunity Act
1964: "Fidel Castro for Lyndon Johnson" - verbal message given to ABC News reporter (Feb.)
1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964: "Johnson Swamps Goldwater and Kennedy Beats Keating; Democrats Win Legislature" - The New York Times - front page with full text
1964: Letter to Elijah Muhammad from Malcolm X
1964: Malcolm X warns of "the Ballot or the Bullet" - Washington Heights, NY (3/29)
1964: New York Times v. Sullivan
1964: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oslo, Norway (12/10)
1964: "On the Civil Rights Movement" - Governor George Wallace (7/4)
1964: President Johnson's Message to Congress August 5 Regarding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964: Radio and Television Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill - LBJ (7/2)
1964: Reynolds V. Sims
1964: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement (Nov.)
1964: Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health
1964: TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1963 - "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Never Again Where He Was" (1/3 issue)
1964: The War on Poverty - speech by Lyndon B. Johnson
1964-70: Federal Aid to Education, 1964-1970 - chart
1965: Address to Congress on Voting Rights - LBJ
1965: "Aggression From the North," State Department White Paper on Vietnam
1965: "American Foreign Policy and International Law: South Vietnam's Right of Self Defense" - Dean Rusk
1965: "Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis" - William Fulbright
1965: "The Bracero Program and its Aftermath: An Historical Summary" - report prepared for the use of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture (4/1)
1965: Call for a March Against the Vietnam War by the S. D. S.
1965: Commencement Address at Howard University ("To Fulfill These Rights" speech) - LBJ (6/4)
1965: "Cutting Our Losses in South Viet-Nam" - Paper by the Under Secretary of State George Ball
1965: Elementary and Secondary Education Act
1965: Excerpts from McGeorge Bundy's Memo to President Johnson (2/7) - on policies in South Vietnam
1965: Executive Order 11246 - Equal Employment Opportunity
1965: "The Great Blackout" - articles from Life Magazine (11/19)
1965: Griswold v. Connecticut
1965: Immigration Act of 1965
1965: Inaugural Address of Lyndon B. Johnson
1965: Note from Jack Ruby to attorney Elmer Gertz revealing the assassin's despair and paranoia (9/9)
1965: Older Americans Act
1965: "Our God is Marching On" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (3/25)
1965: "Peace Without Conquest" speech - LBJ address at John Hopkins University (4/7)
1965: Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act - LBJ (8/6)
1965: Remarks with President Truman at the Signing in Independence, MO of the Medicare Bill - LBJ (7/30)
1965: Speech Given by President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University
1965: State Department White Paper on Vietnam
1965: Summary of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson (7/20) on Increasing U. S. Presence in Vietnam
1965: Thu Vao Nam [Letters to the South] - the Hanoi Politburo's letter to the Communist Party in the South, outlining the Party's commitment to a protracted war strategy
1965: TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1964 - "Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Prudent Progressive" (1/1 issue)
1965: U. S. State Department White Paper on Vietnam
1965: Voting Literacy Test
1965: Voting Rights Act
1965: Watts Riots- California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots (Compilation of L.A. police records)
1965: "We Shall Overcome" speech - Lyndon B. Johnson
1966: Black Panther Party Platform and Program
1966: Divorce and the Family in America" by Christopher Lasch in The Atlantic Monthly (Nov.)
1966: Escobedo v. Illinois
1966: Freedom of Information Act
1966: Miranda v. Arizona
1966: The Miranda Warning
1966: National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose
1966: Request for Special Training of Guatemalan Security Forces (12/3)
1966: Robert F. Kennedy, Speech at the University of Capetown, South Africa, Day of Affirmation (6/6)
1966: Senator J. William Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power
1966: South Carolina v. Katzenbach
1966: Special Purpose Telegram Blank No. 74/AG - killed-in-action notification, Vietnam War (photo)
1966: TIME Magazine 'Man of the Year' - "William C. Westmoreland: Guardians at the Gate" (1/7 issue)
1966: United States v. Guest
1966: “Women’s Annual Earnings Are Substantially Lower than Those of Men” - Statistical Studies on Women Workers
1967: 25th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
1967: Age Discrimination in Employment Act
1967: Air Quality Act
1967: "Beyond Vietnam" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (4/4)
1967: "Black Power" - Stokely Carmichael
1967: Charter of the Organization of American States [OAS]
1967: “The Communications Media, Ironically, Have Failed to Communicate” - The Kerner Report Assesses Media Coverage of Riots and Race Relations
1967: "The Great Society" - political poster
1967: Guatemala- A Counter-Insurgency Running Wild (10/23)
1967: Ho Chi Minh Letter to President Lyndon Johnson (2/15)
1967: in re Gault
1967: Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Johnson
1967: Loving v. Virginia -- issue of the constitutionality of Virginia's Miscegenation Law
1967: "Make Love Not War" - political poster
1967: McNamara's "Mutual Deterrence" Speech
1967: Rally Against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon - Washington Post
1967: The Situation in Watts Today - Donald Wheeldin
1967: TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1966 - "Young Generation: The Inheritor" (1/7 issue)
1967: “To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community” - The Black Panther Party’s 10-Point Platform and Program
1968: "Abraham, Martin, and John" - song lyrics by Dick Holler
1968: Amalgamated Food Employees Union v Logan Valley Plaza -- issue of free speech
1968: Civil Rights Act of 1968
1968: “A Complex Pattern of Past and Present Discrimination” - Academics React to the Kerner Report
1968: Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
1968: Epperson vs. Arkansas - issue of the teaching of evolution
1968: Fair Housing Act
1968: George Wallace at Madison Square Garden - NY Times (Oct. 25)
1968: Guatemala and Counter-terror (3/29)
1968: "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag" - Country Joe and the Fish (sound file)
1968: "I See the Promised Land" speech - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, TN - the day before his assassination (4/3)
1968: “Integration Without Preparation Is Frustration” - Community Reactions to the Kerner Report
1968: "Kennedy is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence Surgery in Vain President Calls Death Tragedy, Proclaims a Day of Mourning" - The New York Times (6/6)
1968: "Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation" - The New York Times - front page with text (11/5)
1968: “Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate and Unequal” - Excerpts from the Kerner Report
1968: "Peace/Love" - poster
1968: President Johnson's Address to the Nation on his decision not to run for another term of office (3/31)
1968: “The Primary Goal Must Be a Single Society” - The Kerner Report’s “Recommendations for National Action”
1968: The "Road Hog" bus, El Rito, NM, Fourth of July parade - color photo by Lisa Law
1968: Robert F. Kennedy's Speech Announcing his Candidacy for the Presidency (3/16)
1968: TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1967 - "Lyndon B. Johnson: The Paradox of Power" (1/5 issue)
1968: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1968: Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy by Senator Edward M. Kennedy at St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
1968: U. S. vs O'Brien -- issue of burning draft cards
1968: "Vietnam--An Eastern Theater Production" - political poster
1968: “We Are Living in a State of Anarchy” - Radical Assessments and Agendas in theYear 1968
1968: "You Can't Jail the Revolution" - political poster
1969: “The Act Has Not Failed” - A Call to Extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965
1969: Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam - President Nixon (scroll down)
1969: Black Panther National Anthem Lyrics
1969: Brandenburg v. Ohio -- issue of the "incitement test"
1969: "Equal Rights For Women " - speech by Shirley Chisholm
1969: First Inaugural Address of Richard M. Nixon
1969: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." These words ushered in a new era of human exploration at 4:18 pm EDT on 7/20, as the first manned flight to the Moon touched down
1969: "The Ideology of the Black Panther Party" - speech by David Hilliard on the occasion of the trial of Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panthers (Document B)
1969: "LadyBear...Child of Mother Earth" - participant at Woodstock (color photo)
1969: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
1969: Neil Armstrong packing lunar samples on the moon - color photo, Apollo 11 landing (7/21)
1969: President Nixon explains his "Vietnamization" plans and speaks to the "silent majority" of Americans (11/3)
1969: Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student Unions
1969: TIME Magazine's 'Men of the Year' for 1968 - "Apollo Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell" (1/3 issue)
1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School District - issue of free speech rights of students
1969: "Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?" - political poster
1975: Executive Session Testimony on Kennedy-Castro Dialogue (7/10)

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