All Posts Tagged With: "legislation"
Doc of the Day: June 29
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created a forty-thousand-mile system of highways. Eisenhower signed the bill from his hospital bed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, changing the American landscape forever. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was the largest public works project to date in American [...]
29Jun2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
James Rohrer on the Northwest Ordinance
In my many years of teaching college history I have learned that beginning students often resist reading primary sources, and especially pieces of legislation. Diaries, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporary novels all seem to be more accessible. Many students complain that reading the more technical language of old laws is BORING!
But beneath the technical language of many laws [...]
