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Doc of the Day: Marshall Plan
On June 5, 1947, in a commencement address at Harvard University, General George C. Marshall announced the Marshall Plan, or the European Recovery Program, designed to aid in the economic rehabilitation of Europe after World War II. Marshall was a career army officer who served as chief of staff during World War II and later [...]
5Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer
On June 2, 1952, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, famously known as the Steel Seizure Case. This landmark case generated high political drama, sharp legal conflict, and tides of public opinion, with the U.S. Supreme Court facing issues of surpassing importance for a nation committed to [...]
2Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | 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
Doc of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Written after his arrest on April 12, 1963, and published six weeks later on May 28, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” is widely regarded as the most important written document of the modern civil rights movement and a classic text on civil disobedience.
Birmingham, Alabama, was reputed to be the most segregated [...]
Doc of the Day: Homestead Act
On May 20, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. president from the prairie state of Illinois, signed the Homestead Act into law. He enacted one of the most liberal land laws in history, a policy that theoretically gave free land to actual settlers. The act granted adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land, [...]
20May2009 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued
Doc of the Day: Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, argued on April 13, 1896, and decided on May 18, 1896, is probably best known for giving the United States the separate but equal doctrine. The case probably ranks close to Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) as one of the most influential and thoroughly repudiated cases the Supreme Court has ever decided. [...]
18May2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared that legally mandated segregation in public schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Issued on May 17, 1954, the landmark case was actually a combination of five cases that challenged school segregation in Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia, [...]
17May2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Chinese Exclusion Act
On May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed into law by President Chester Arthur. The act suspended the entry of Chinese laborers into the United States for ten years and put conditions on the reentry of Chinese laborers who left the United States.
The Chinese had come to the United States to work. Disembarking [...]
Doc of the Day: George Washington's first inaugural address
Believing that he would be elected the first president under the Constitution of 1787, George Washington asked his close friend David Humphreys to draft an inaugural address. Washington discarded Humphreys’s seventy-three-page draft, however, and asked James Madison to write a more appropriate address. Washington delivered his address on April 30, 1789, to a joint session [...]
30Apr2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Treaty of Fort Laramie
On April 29, 1868, twenty-five chiefs and headmen (including Spotted Tail) of the Brulé Lakota become the first Indians to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The treaty was an agreement between the United States and various bands of Lakota Sioux, Yanktonai Sioux, Santee Sioux, and Arapaho. It ended Red Cloud’s War (1866-1867), established the [...]
29Apr2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued