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America as a World Leader: Internal Change

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Contents

• America as World Leader: Internal Change
• US Domestic Politics: The State
  • American Conservatism
    • McCarthyism
    • Republicans
    • Democrats
  • American Radicalism
• American Society: Immigration
• The 20th Century Expansion of Legal Rights
  • Balance of Power
  • Rights in Court
  • Racial Equality
  • Free Speech

America as World Leader: Internal Change

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US Domestic Politics: The State

• WEB Historical Statistics
• WEB The Reagan Years: Statistics
  From an openly liberal perspective. The stats are real.
• Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents, 1789-1997, Index [At this Site]
• The Aging of the US: 1950-2050, animation [At WWU]
• Online Quiz to Determine Your Political Position [At theadvocates.org]
• Recall of General Douglas McArthur 1951 [At USInfo]
  Truman repressed perhaps the greatest challenge made by a military leader to the Civilian government.
• American Conservatism
  • Russell Kirk, The Conservative Movement: Then and Now [At LSU]
  • Harvey Cox: The Warring Visions of the Religious Right, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1995 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  • McCarthyism
    • Walt Disney: Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 24 October, 1947 [At Eserver]
    • Senator Josephy McCarthy: The History of George Catlett Marshall, 1951 [At this Site]
    • Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954 [At USInfo]
  • Republicans
    • Barry Goldwater: Conscience of a Conservative, 1964
      Goldwater's 1964 compaign is often cited as the onset of the modern conservative movement. What was different was his refusal to mix theology and politics. See for instance his speech Ban on Gays is Senseless Attempt to Stall the Inevitable [At CMU].
    • Ronald Reagan (1911- ): A Time for Choosing Speech, 1964 [At this Site]
    • Ronald Reagan (1911- ): Evil Empire Speech, June 8, 1982 [At this Site]
    • Ronald Reagan (1911- ): Speech on The Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986 [At this Site]
    • Margaret Thatcher: Salute to President Reagan, 1994 [At this Site]
    • Patrick J. Buchanan: The City and the Crusade, 1995 [At Buchanan.org]
  • Democrats
    • John F Kennedy: Address to Southern Baptist Leaders, 1960 [At USInfo]
      On his Catholicism and politics.
    • The 1964 Election, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1964, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
      Endorsement of Johnson.
    • President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty, March 1964 [At this Site]
    • Jimmy Carter: Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1977 [At Bartleby]
    • Excerpts from Presidential Debates, 1992 [At USInfo]
    • Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning", 1993, introduction (text omitted) [At USInfo]. See text [At Virginia]
• American Radicalism
  • WEB Liberalism Resurgent
    A "committed" site.
  • 2ND Maurice Isserman: A Brief History of the American Left [At DSUSA]
  • Katherine Anne Porter: The Never-Ending Wrong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1977, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
    On Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • 12 Myths About Democratic Socialism [At Internet Archive, from DSUSA]
  • American Left Songs [At Internet Archive, from DSUSA]. See also a guide to Left-Wing Films
  • DSA FBI Records [At Internet Archive, from DSUSA]
  • President Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell to the Nation, January 17, 1961  [At this Site]
    The remarkable speech in which the Republican president slammed the "military-industrial" complex.
  • Students for a Democratic Society: Port Huron Statement, June 15, 1962 [At Hanover]
  • Obituary: Mario Savio, 1960s student radical leader [At this Site]

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American Society: Immigration

• Map: US: Origin of Immigrants 1970-1990, [At this Site]
• The Atlantic: Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1996 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• James Fallows: Immigration: How It's Affecting Us, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1983 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  "Immigration tends to select for those who are especially resilient, adaptable, and hardworking".
• Lowell Weiss: Timing is Everything, The Atlantic Monthly, January1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  The fate of two groups of Vietnamese immigrants in America.
• Roy Beck: The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [At The Atlantic]
  Effects of  Southeast Asian refugees in Wausau.
• Jack Miles: A Bold Proposal on Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  "The United States can and should clamp down on points of illegal entry into this country"
• Benjamin Schwarz: The Diversity Myth, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1995 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy: Must It Be the Rest Against the West?, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Immigration issue as a problem of global inequalities. See critique by Virginia Abernethy: Optimism and Overpopulation [At The Atlantic, subscription required]

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The 20th Century Expansion of Legal Rights

• William O. Douglas (1898-1980): A Living Bill of Rights, excerpts, 1961 [At Internet Archive, from Civnet]
• Balance of Power
  • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952 [At USInfo]
    Steel owners sought to defend their rights against the executive by addressing the issue of the balance of power.
  • War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973  [At USInfo]
  • United States v. Nixon, 1974 [At USInfo]
    On Nixon's claims to executive privilege.
• Rights in Court
  • Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963 [At USInfo]
    Extended 6th Amendment right to counsel to defendants in state court cases.
• Racial Equality
  • Harlan Fiske Stone: Carolene Products Footnote, 1938 [At USInfo]
  • Korematsu v. United States, 1944 [At USInfo]
    The Court allowed the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.   Only three members dissented.
  • Harry S. Truman: Excutive Order 9981 1948  [At USInfo]
    Established equal treatment of Blacks in the hitherto segregated armed forces.
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 [At USInfo]
    The finale of the NAACP's legislative campaign to overturn the "separate but equal" doctrine in education.
  • Cooper v. Aaron, 1958 [At USInfo]
    Forced the South to put Brown into effect.
  • Civil Rights Act, 1964 [At USInfo]
  • Reynolds v. Sims, 1964  [At USInfo]
    Required equitable dstribution of electoral districts.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Promise, 1965 [At USInfo]
    Johnson's use of the "bully pulpit" on behalf of the Civil Rights movement.
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978 [At USInfo]
    The Supreme Court wavered over "affirmative action", allowing for its later dismantling.
• Free Speech
  • Abrams v. United States, 1919 [At USInfo]
    The dissent by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes which is seen as the start of modern judicial approaches to free speech.
  • Whitney v. California, 1927 [At USInfo]
    Justice Louis D. Brandeis's concurrence is counted as one of the greatest defences of free speech.
  • Near v. Minnesota, 1931 [At USInfo]
    Extended the First Amendment to cover state courts.
  • West Virginia Board of Education v.Barnette, 1943 [At USInfo]
    In  Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), the Supreme Court sustained local school board requirements that all students salute the flag. Jehovah's Witnesses refused to compromise, and in this case the Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision.
  • Engel v. Vitale, 1962 [At USInfo]
    The Supreme court effectively bans school prayer.
  • New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971 [At USInfo]
    The Supreme Court rules against "prior restraint" in publication.

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