Key Documents

This is part of a second-level Open University course presented for the first time in 1994. The course examines the experience of American society this century, using the insights and analytic tools of politics, geography, sociology, history, economics and literature to develop both a complex portrait and an understanding of the most powerful nation in the world. This volume contains some of the key documents of American history, presenting a comprehensive portrait of the US political, economic and cultural experience. The collection concentrates on 20th-century documents, but also includes important earlier material. Documents featured include inaugural addresses, foreign policy papers and speeches, civil rights documents and economic statistics and census data.