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At Cold War's End: U.S. Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 (CIA)

Avalon Project (Yale)

Full text of historic legal and political documents for the U.S., Western Europe, and the Middle East
Mixture includes Laws of William the Conquerer, Paris peace treaties, European Parliament, and World War II documents
Includes Code of Hammurabi, Hamas, Israeli Declaration of Independence

Background

Formed during the Depression to promote employment
States had a Federal Writers' Project to collection oral histories
MIRLYN Cataloging at the University of Michigan
- United States Works Progress Administration (author)

Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy (USIA)

Declarations, court cases, literature, and speeches illustrating democratic ideals
Northwest Ordinance, Gettysburg Address, Seneca Falls Declaration
Martin Luther King, censure of Joe McCarthy

Been Here So Long - American Slave Narratives

Transcripts of interviews with 17 former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project

Berlin Airlift - 1948 (Truman Library)

Declassified documents, including cabinet and National Security Council minutes, State Department materials, Presidential papers
Book excerpts and photos

Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War (CIA)