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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
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
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
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 [...]
1Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
Michael J. O'Neal on the legacies of Harry Truman and George W. Bush
At last, we’ve put behind us years of a divisive presidency in the person of a man with thin qualifications for high office who admitted he had no foreign policy experience. For reasons entirely of ideology, he launched a war in a faraway country that posed no direct threat to the United States. The war [...]
18Mar2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Jonathan Rees on the Brandeis Brief from Muller v. Oregon
On February 24, 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case of Muller v. Oregon. That case had begun three years earlier when a supervisor at the Grand Laundry in Portland, Oregon, forced a laundress and labor activist named Emma Gotcher to work overtime. That requirement violated Oregon’s ten-hour [...]
22Feb2009 | mdblogger | 2 comments | Continued
In the News: Barack Obama's speech at Lincoln dinner
[Editor's note: Below is a transcript of President Barack Obama's speech at a dinner in Springfield, Illinois, on February 12, 2009, honoring Abraham Lincoln.]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Well, it is wonderful to be back in Springfield, and I see so many familiar faces — to Mr. Hart, to Marilyn, to my Secretary of [...]
Spotlight: Abraham Lincoln
By almost every standard, Abraham Lincoln is rated as America’s greatest president. This recognition stems from five factors. First, Lincoln presided, with ultimate success, over the direst crisis in American history. Had he been less skilled or less determined, the Civil War might very well have ended in the permanent division of the nation. Second, [...]
12Feb2009 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued
Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., on Washington's birthday
George Washington Son to Augustine & Mary his Wife was born the 11th Day of February 1731/2 about 10 in the Morning & was baptised the 5th of April following Mr Beverley Whiting & Capt. Christopher Brooks Godfathers and Mrs Mildred Gregory Godmother.—Record of George Washington’s birth in Family Bible
When is George Washington’s birthday?
Eleven and [...]
