Feature Article #1
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]









