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What events were important in the American experience, at home and abroad, during the Vietnam conflict.?
- Who were the leaders of the anti-war movement?
- What events shaped the consciousness of the American public during the Vietnam era?
- What other events at the time stirred reactions of strong disagreement, controversy, and protest throughout the country?
- What role was played by singers and protest songs in those movements?
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You will be asked to process and transform the information you find, and, by playing roles, you will be asked to use your imagination and be creative! |
| The Task |
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Your task is to create a multimedia exhibit that will inform present and future generations about the people and events of importance in the anti-war movement, and its opposition.
Working in a team and playing roles, you will research several websites to collect information on those people and events and you will select and analyze some of the most significant protest songs of the time.
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| The Process |
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- Divide into groups of five.
- Choose one of these roles
- Student
- Pacifist
- Singer
- Journalist
- Military
- Follow the links under each role to get information about the characteristics and responsibilities of each one.
- Read the contents that refer to your role. Follow the instructions and steps indicated.
- Assign group tasks.
- Conduct an internet search for your role using the Resources provided.
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Supporting Documents and Resources |
| The Sixites |
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- The Sixties Project
The Sixties Project is a very comprehensive site on the 1960's. It features a excellent exhibits on the 60's as well as a discussion board, reviews, resources, and poetry.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Sixties.html"
- Jay's Radical History Links
This is comprehensive site of links to movements throughout the world. They have specific links to the Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Women's Rights and Women's Liberation, U.S. Anti-War Movement, U.S. Black Power Movement, U.S. Native American Movement and Student and Countercultural Movements
http://www.jaysleftist.info/directory/subjects/history.htm
- Social Movements of the 1960's
This site gives a very nice college-level explanation of what gave rise to the dissent in the 1960's as well as some of the motivating factors of various Sixties student groups.
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jklumpp/spch469a/move.htm
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The Sixties from the History Chanel |
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| The Riots--1967 and 1968 in Video |
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Watts Riots News footage from 1967 |
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Chicago MLK Riots 1968 from the Chicago Fire Department |
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Chicago Riots during the Democratic National Convention 1968 |
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Democratic National Convention Chaos |
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News Reporter Dan Rather Punched |
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Paris Riots 1968 |
| Radio Podcasts From NPR |
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The Columbia University Protests in 1968 |
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Ex-Student Recalls the Columbia University Protests of 1968 |
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1968 Chicago Riots Left a Mark on Political Protests |
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The Return of teh Students for a Democratic Society 2008 |
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Kent State 35 Years Later |
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Former 60s Radical Recalls Days of Rage |
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| Tim
O’Brien: “How to Tell a True War Story” pdf |
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Writing
Vietnam: A Seminar on Tim O'Brien at Brown |
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Tim
O’Brien’s Keynote Address at the Seminar |
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Library of Congress—Experiencing
War: Veterans tell their stories |
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The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects,
preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American
war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans
and better understand the realities of war. |
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Sparknotes:
How to Tell a True War Story |
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ENotes: How to Tell a
True War Story |
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| Vietnam War |
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The American
Experience: Vietnam Online |
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Why
Was America in Vietnam? |
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Vietnam War Protests from History.com |
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Vietnam
Primary Sources |
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Vietnam—The American Experience (Nice general overview of the war) |
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Bill Moyers Journals on Vietnam |
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Vietnam Online Resources: Nice collection of documents chronicling the war, from Eisenhower’s letters to Nixon. |
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Vietnam
Timetables |
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The
Language of War: A partial list of terms |
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PBS
Maps: Vietnam from 1945 to Postwar years |
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Who’s
Who in Vietnam |
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History Channel—Multimedia Overview |
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The Draft’s Impact |
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The Fall of Saigon |
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Operation Rolling Thunder |
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Audio File—Nixon on the Vietnam War |
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Reagan on Vietnam (1964) |
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Nixon’s Secret Plan to End the War |
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Johnson Outlines America’s Policy in Vietnam (1965) |
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Vietnam War Leaders—Photo Gallery |
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Pentagon Papers Reveal a Secret War |
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, by John Kerry (1971) |
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My Lai—The American Experiece (Watch Online.) |
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The
My Lai Massacre |
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Remembering
My Lai |
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Murder
in the Name of War: the BBC on My Lai |
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Vietnam
Execution |
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BBC:
Vietnam Napalm Attack |
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Recalling
the Vietnam War Experience: Famous Americans Interviewed |
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Vietnam
Archives and Resources: Asian Studies |
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| Vietnam Artifacts |
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Propaganda
Leaflets Dropped on North Vietnam 1966 |
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Vietnam:
A Decade of Posters 1965-1975 |
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The Draft Lottery |
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Troop
Levels in Vietnam |
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| Walter
Cronkite on Vietnam: CBS |
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Walter Cronkite’s Report—the text |
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"To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe,
in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in
the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable
pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic,
yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and
political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test
the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before
negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the
only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but
as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy,
and did the best they could." |
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Walter
Cronkite: American Masters on PBS |
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Cronkite
on Iraq and his Vietnam comment |
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Walter Cronkite
Remembers his editorial on Vietnam |
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Morley Safer
Interview Excerpt- on Cam Ne |
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| Spiro
Agnew’s Speech on the Credibility Gap |
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“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap
is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios
of the networks in New York! Television may have destroyed the old
stereotypes, but has it not created new ones in their places? What
has this "passionate" pursuit of controversy done to the
politics of progress through logical compromise essential to the functioning
of a democratic society?” |
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| Students |
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March on Washington including protest singers |
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The Sixties--An Overview from the History.com |
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Protests at Berkley 1960s (Video Clip) Free Speech Rally |
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Mario Savio 1964 |
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Agnew Denounces the Student Movements Audio |
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Students for a Democratic Society Links and Resources |
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SDS on FactMonster |
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SDS--Port Huron Statement, 1962 |
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Students for a Democratic Socity Timeline |
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Campus Rallies—Historic Moments from Northwestern University |
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Vietnam War: College Protests |
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Vietnam Legacy—Days of Rage |
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Student Free Speech Movement Organization--Archives |
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The Draft Lottery
The Draft Today: Change from Vietnam |
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Digital History: Why was America in Vietnam?
The Wall: Reflections, poems and letters
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| Soldiers |
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The Vietnam War--A Story in Pictures from the National Archives |
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The Vietnam Experience |
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The Vietnam War a Timeline from the History Place |
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The Draft Lotteries |
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Dodging the Draft |
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Digital History: Why was America in Vietnam? |
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Letters from Vietnam a Selection |
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The Vietnam War and the Green Berets |
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The Green Beret Affair (1969) an article explaining the affair |
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Green Beret Training and Memoirs 1969 Youtube Video |
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Inside the Green Berets--from National Geographic |
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The Wall: Reflections, poems and letters |
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Vietnam Soldiers Storis--a list of sites |
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Soldier's Stories from WILL TV |
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State List of Soldiers Killed in Vietnam from the National Archives |
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Guerrilla Warfare and the Green Berets |
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My Lai Massacre on PBS |
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The My Lai Cases--those prosecuted for this event |
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Seymour Hersh--newspaper accounts of the My Lai Massacre |
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from BBC News--"Murder in the Name of War" |
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The Fall of Saigon |
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Vietnam War Timeline: Good hyperlinked discussion of major events and people, including both American and Vietnamese perspectives of events
Special Forces in Vietnam
Kennedy Creates the Green Beret
Special Forces Search Engines
Cu-Chi Tunnels
Vietnam Multimedia Archive
Vietnam War: Virtual Tour
Statistics About Vietnam
Tactic Used by Green Berets in Vietnam
Weapons for each side
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| Pacifists |
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Student Movements and the Struggle for Democracy in the 1960s |
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Student Protest Movements of the 1960s, from a class at Yale |
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Student Protest Movements--University of North Carolina |
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The Good War--and those who refuse to fight it: Pacifism in America from PBS |
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The Anti-War Movement in the United States
May, 4, 1970
Kent State Archives
The Sixties Project: Posters from 1965-1975
Vietnam War Protests
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Homepage
John Kerry’s Statement on Vietnam, 1971
Winter Soldier Investigation: VVAW Protest in Washington |
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| Singers |
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Songs About Vietnam—from Phil Nel at Kent State |
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Vietnam: the Music of Protest--featuring Joan Baez from the BBC |
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Joan Baez Arrested over Vietnam--from the BBC |
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Buffalo Springfield (3)
Lyrics: "The times they are a-changin'"
Lyrics: "With God on our side"
Vietnam Songbook
Protest Songs: Index |
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| Journalism and War |
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The
Legacy of the Vietnam War: Newshour—April 5, 2000 |
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Journalists
Covering the Vietnam War |
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KENNETH BACON, Pentagon Spokesman: If you go back to the term that
Spiro Agnew used "credibility gap," it comes from that period,
Vietnam, and it made the media deeply distrustful. I think that distrust
has mellowed somewhat to healthy skepticism. But it's right below
the surface - the distrust - and we have to realize that. I think
it's made us basically more forthcoming than we were during Vietnam
in explaining why we're doing things. |
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The
Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century |
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Morley
Safer: PBS |
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Doonesbury
on Vietnam |
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"I have a dream"
Vietnam War and Reporters: The News Hour
The Resemblance to Vietnam War Can’t Be Overlooked
From Harper’s Magazine: Bush lands on aircraft
Conservative Views: The National Review
Television Reporting and Vietnam: Or did Walter Kronkite Really Lose the War?
Vietnam Photographs
Gallary 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
1967 Mohammad Ali Rejects the Draft
1970 Kent State |
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| Photojournalism |
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WWII
–Dead on the Beach |
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Buddhist Mond on Fire
1963 |
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Vietnam--South
of the DMZ 1966 |
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Napalm
Attack 1972 Pulizer Prize |
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Vietnam
Released POW 1973 Pulizer Prize |
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Television Reporting and Vietnam: Or did Walter Kronkite Really Lose the War?
Vietnam Photographs
Gallary 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
1963 Budhist Monk on Fire
1967 Mohammad Ali Rejects the Draft
1970 Kent State |
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| American Rhetoric--Great American Speeches |
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American Rhetoric Homepage |
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| Vietnam War Movies |
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We Were Soldiers
Apocalypse Now:
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
Full Metal Jacket |
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Important American Documents |
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Our
Documents: 100 Important Milestone Documents |
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The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by
the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily
from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States
history from 1776 to 1965. |
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Archives
of Important Documents 1800-1899 |
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Other U.S.
Documents—Mayflower Compact, I Have a Dream Speech, etc… |
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National Archives
Exhibits |
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