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Cases and Materials on American Federalism (Amber/Purdue)

Extensive course materials provide primary documents on political theory and American history with sections on the founding fathers, three branches of government and civil rights issues
Texts include Magna Carta, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu
Various drafts of the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist, numerous court cases
Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election

Century of American Lawmaking (Library of Congress)

TIFF images of the
- Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-93)
- Annals of Congress (1789-1824)
- Register of Debates (1824-1837)

Chronology of the History of Slavery

CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968

Award-winning book by Harold P. Ford
Analyzes intelligence provided to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson during the Vietnam War based on declassified documents
Focuses on distortions of intelligence, judgments on President Johnson's escalation of the war, and the Tet Offensive
Excerpts of primary documents and full footnotes

CIA Electronic Documents

Full text of electronic documents released under the Freedom of Information Act since November 1996
Use Search engine and type "Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operations" in the title field
- Results include two reports with over 400 pages which must be accessed page-by-page
Search "Cuba" or "Bay of Pigs" as a full text term for additional material

Civil Rights Commission Documents (Thurgood Marshall Law School)

Full text of U.S. Civil Rights Commission documents since 1957
Browsable by title, date, SUDOCS number and subjectd
Many publications beginning 1999 are also on the Civil Rights Commission web site

Civil War (Yahoo)