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Coming soon: The new MilestoneDocuments.com

Readers will note that postings to this blog have ceased as we prepare to roll out version 2.0 of MilestoneDocuments.com later this fall. This blog will be folded into the new main site, so readers will be able to see posts from our team of experts, reports about documents in the news, articles about primary [...]

mdblogger | August 26th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Ron Briley on the Weather Manifesto

Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to be employed in a factional dispute with the Maoist Progressive Labor (PL) wing of the organization. At the June 1969 Chicago convention of SDS, the RYM group, now known as the Weathermen, expelled the [...]

mdblogger | June 23rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Doc of the Day: John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address

President John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address, delivered to the nation by radio and television on June 11, 1963, marked the first time that a president called on Americans to recognize civil rights as a lofty moral cause to which all persons should contribute, so that the nation might fully end discrimination against and provide [...]

mdblogger | June 11th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Our exclusive analysis of Obama's inaugural address

Today on MilestoneDocuments.com we are pleased to offer original analysis of Barack Obama’s inaugural address. This is a landmark for us in the sense that it’s the first time we’ve offered one of our e-docs for sale (and immediate download) that didn’t previously appear in one of our print encyclopedias. Although the Obama article follows [...]

mdblogger | June 1st, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Ron Briley on the Sixteenth Amendment

As we approach another deadline for filing federal income taxes, and as some Americans organize tea parties to protest what they perceive as excessive spending on the Obama stimulus package, it is worth taking a few minutes to recall the origins of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The amendment simply reads that the Congress [...]

mdblogger | April 13th, 2009 | Continued

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Coming soon: The new MilestoneDocuments.com

Readers will note that postings to this blog have ceased as we prepare to roll out version 2.0 of MilestoneDocuments.com later this fall. This blog will be folded into the new main site, so readers will be able to see posts from our team of experts, reports about documents in the news, articles about primary [...]

26Aug2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Executive Order 8802

On June 25, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802. The order banned discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities in the government and defense industries. The order resulted in part from pressure placed on Roosevelt by the African American labor leader A. Philip Randolph. Earlier in 1941 Randolph had announced plans for a [...]

25Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Ron Briley on the Weather Manifesto

Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to be employed in a factional dispute with the Maoist Progressive Labor (PL) wing of the organization. At the June 1969 Chicago convention of SDS, the RYM group, now known as the Weathermen, expelled the [...]

23Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Richard Nixon's Smoking Gun Tape

On June 23, 1972, the “Smoking Gun Tape” of President Richard Nixon was recorded in the Oval Office at the White House. A few days earlier, on June 17, 1972, five men employed by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) had been arrested at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in [...]

23Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech

On June 16, 1858, the Republican Party of Illinois convened at Springfield to nominate its candidate for the U.S. Senate. Taking a first step toward the popular election of U.S. senators, the convention bypassed the state legislature and unanimously nominated Abraham Lincoln as its candidate. Anticipating his nomination, Lincoln had been preparing his acceptance speech [...]

16Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: National Industrial Recovery Act

On June 16, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in response to the Great Depression, signed a bill that he saw as the linchpin of the New Deal program, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). This legislation was the boldest effort ever to coordinate the economy of the world’s greatest industrial power. The NIRA was an [...]

16Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Miranda v. Arizona

Miranda v. Arizona, with a majority opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, was announced on June 13, 1966. Miranda is a major landmark in the Supreme Court’s expansion of rights of the accused. The decision reversed criminal convictions and threw out statements made by the defendant while in police custody. The accused, the Court [...]

13Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Virginia Declaration of Rights

On June 12, 1776, the Virginia Convention formally adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights. In May 1776, the convention had formed a committee to draft a declaration of rights. George Mason was put in charge of composing the document, which outlined the rights of Virginians. Drawing on the 1689 English Bill of Rights (which, in [...]

12Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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Doc of the Day: John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address

President John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address, delivered to the nation by radio and television on June 11, 1963, marked the first time that a president called on Americans to recognize civil rights as a lofty moral cause to which all persons should contribute, so that the nation might fully end discrimination against and provide [...]

11Jun2009 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued
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Doc of the Day: Dwight Eisenhower’s D-day order

On June 6, 1944, at a critical stage of World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower oversaw the launching of the world’s largest armada. An extraordinary flotilla of 176,000 men, 20,000 vehicles, and thousands of tons of stores and munitions left the shores of England and headed toward Normandy in France as part of the [...]

6Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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