20th Century America


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Major Sources
(Pages with a ** denote my other web sites)
Hotlist: American History & Government
The American Presidents**
NM's Creative Impulse..Modern 1900 -1945
NM's Creative Impulse..Recent 1945 - present
American History 1960-1969
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
The Holocaust **
FAQ's of the Holocaust**
The "Forgotten" Korean War**
Vietnam: Conflict or War?**
20th Century American Culture**
Voice of the Shuttle Home Page
From Revolution to Reconstruction
USA:(11) Postwar America
USA:(12) Decades of Change
USA:(13) Toward the 21st Century
The Concord Review
Making of America
Chronicon: an electronic history journal
The American Experience:Guts and Glory
US History - World War Cycle
US History - Present Cycle
History of American Agriculture/Economic Cycles
Outline of American History - Contents
DOUGLASS | Archives of American Public Address
Political Dictionary

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Time Lines
US Chronology
Avalon Project : Chronology of American History
Wm. Murray's Time Page
People's Century | Timeline
People's Century

Price Comparison Indexes
The Inflation Calculator
NewsEngin's Cost-of-Living Calculator
TIME 100: 1900 vs. Now: World Stats
TIME 100: 1900 vs. Now: US Stats

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Culture of 20th Century America
20th Century American Culture
**From 1900 to Present: The Music, Events, Disasters, Trials, People, Movie Stars and more by each decade**
HISTORY in Song (Table of Contents)
History in Song

Global Atrocities
The Holocaust**
Holocaust FAQs**
Twentieth Century Atlas - Ranking Atrocities
Genocide Resources
United Nations Human Rights Website
Recognizing the Armenian Genocide

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States Information
50states.com - States and Capitals
Stately Knowledge
Stately Knowledge: Chart of Knowledge
50 U.S. States Songs
The 50 States
Extreme Points of the 50 - United States
The 50 States and Drawings that apply to them
Governors of the 50 States share Favorite Recipes - 1st Traveler's Choice Internet Cookbook

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Statisitcs
Statistical Abstract of the United States
STAT-USA - Bus, Trade & Economic
STAT-USA/Internet Home Page
Polling Report - table of contents
U.S. States - Global Computing
PollingReport.com - search

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The Art of Diplomacy
Tables constructed from:1952-1992 National Election Studies
1969-1989: Diplomacy of Detente and the Wanin
1946-1968: Diplomacy and the Cold War
1937-1945: Diplomacy of the Second World War
1990-Present: Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
Foreign Policy: Under Kennedy
The U.S. Recognition of Israel
NEW DOCUMENTS ON OKINAWA REVERSION
ADDRESS BY GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL
US-Japan Project: Relations since 1960

Relations: Embassies
US State Department - U. S. Missions Online: diplomatic/consular posts
Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts
Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S.
State History FAQ
Foreign Relations Series: under Kennedy, Nixon & Johnson
State Department: Geographic Learning Site

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Cold War Diplomacy
1946-1968: Diplomacy and the Cold War
Foreign Affairs Agencies Reorganization
Documents Related to the Cold War
CNN: Interactive Guide to the Cold War
THE THEME OF CHINA LOST
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Review of Politics
Rejected Architect and Master Builder: George Kennan, Dean Acheson...
Devotion to the Chief :Truman & Acheson

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Current Relations
Korea-United States Cooperation
United States-China Policy
United States & China Into the 21st Cent.
Israel - North America
East Asia's Potential for Instability & Crisis
Analysis of American and Serbian Foreign Policy on Bosnia
Yugoslavia : 1989-1996
Foreign Policy Studies
The Electronic Embassy
Embassies Worldwide
Korean Embassy Web Site
In Today's News -National Center for Policy

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Democracy: Land of the Free
Celebrating Democracy
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
A Mencken Sample - On Democracy
The H. L. Mencken Page
Republics and Democracies by Robert Welch
Evidence of Democratic Principles and Multicultural groups in Schools
Liberty Online
Growth of Gov in 20's... McNary-Haugen Bill/Farmers

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Documents that stand the test of Time
The Magna Carta
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
Amendments 11-27
The Federalist Papers
The Star Spangled Banner
The Monroe Doctrine
The Gettysburg Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have A Dream" Speech
The Civil Rights Act of 1991
Quotations on the United States

Anti-Trust in Government
Anti Trust Flame Helps the Democracy
Anti-Trust Cartoons

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Turn of the Century
New York City at the Turn of the Century
America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Hitorical Content
America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Prohibition Politics, Chicago Style, 1911 to 1919
San Francisco-Before & After the Great Earthquake and Fire

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The Orphan Trains
A History of the Orphan Trains
Iowa Orphan Train Project
Orphan Trains to Missouri
Orphan Trains of Kansas
Orphan Trains of Kansas: Timeline
Orphan Trains of Kansas:explanation of how the placements are made
Orphan Trains of Kansas: "Want-Ads"
Orphan Trains: Indenture/Adoption Forms
They rode the Orphan Trains
We Are A Part Of History: The Story
Links to Other Orphan Train Pages
Orphan Trains: Children's Literature
The Orphan Trains - book
The Orphan Trains: Books about

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Panama Canal, Dams & Imperialism
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal
Welcome to the Panama Canal's web site
The Unkindest Cut - The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal - history of
The Trans-Isthmian Canal History: Panama Canal
PBS: TR's Legacy - The Panama Canal
Panama Canal - Concrete History
Atevo Travel: Our Pick -- Cruise Panama Canal for a Lesson in Human Ingenuity
Threading the Panama Canal
Panama Canal Commission Organization - Treaty
The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden
The Age of Imperialism

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Bread and Roses Strike 1912
Collective Voices: The Textile Strike of 1912
Bread & Roses Strike of 1912
Bread and Roses
Why "Rice & Roses"
Books on the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
Radicals of the Worst Sort
Living My Life: Ch. 38
The Town Of Bay Roberts - Attractions

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World War I
Net's World War I**
WW I FAQs

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American Eugenics Programs
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
Glass Guide: American Eugenics Society
American Eugenics Society Scrapbook
American Eugenics Database
Eugenics: CGEP Resource Center
Raymond Pearl was the first biologist to criticize American eugenics
Lilliths Realm - ISAR: Brief History of European and American Eugenics Movements
Eugenics Archive
ISAR - Inventory of the American Eugenics Society Papers
Shrouded Legacy: The History of the American Eugenics Movement
American Eugenics Society Founders
American Eugenics Society Directors M-Z

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The Great Depression
The Great Depression
Great Depression The '30s: down but not out
Riding The Rails
Reminiscences of the Great Depression
Stories & Recipes of : Great Depression
Out of Many: A History
We Made Do - Recalling The Great Depression
The Great Depression - Economics
The Great Depression and the 1990's: Unit Overview

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Time Line & Images
Timeline of the Great Depression
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photos

Causes
The Main Causes of the Great Depression
Causes and Effects of the "Great Depression"
Sliding into the Great Depression: The Great Crash and the Great Slump
Causes of the Great Depression
Summary: The causes of the Great Depression
Depression Causes
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929 - Introduction

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The New Deal
FDR*
Roosevelt and the New Deal
New Deal Acts
The New Deal:CCC
A New Deal for Art, Park and Markowitz
The Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery
Roosevelt's Hollow Triumph
Theodore Roosevelt: On the Stump
Hoover Europe Collectivism
The New Deal and World War
The New Deal and World War - The Second New Deal
Building America: FDR's New Deal
War, Prosperity and Depression
Exhibit: A New Deal for the Arts
New Deal Network
New Deal Timeline: 1933 & Links
New Deal Cultural Programs
New Deal Network - Depression and the New Deal

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The New Deal Scandal
A Short History of TVA
TVA & The Race Problem

Images of the New Deal
Documenting America

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Women's Rights
Equal Rights Amendment 1923 - time line
Chronology: Equal Rights Amendment
American Women's History
Photo Exhibitions and Archives
Women's Suffrage Movement
The Modern Women's Movement
Rise of Women's Movement
The Quest for Equality
Women and Education
The Emancipation of Women
Single Sex Institutions: A Historical View
Women In American History
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Division for the Advancement of Women
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women and Social Movements in US
WWWomen: History
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
Dealings with the Future and Past: HERSTORY: Rethinking HIStory

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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl
The Day of the Black Blizzard
Dust Storms and their Damage
Voices from the Dust Bowl Home Page
The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl more sites
The Dust Bowl : causes; drought
Dust Bowl
War, Prosperity and Depression

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The 30, 40 and 50's Scandals

The Secret Human Gunea Pigs of our Government

Human Radiation Experiments: Building Public Trust
DOE Protecting Human Subjects
Roadmap to the Project: Experiments List
Plutonium Injection
America's Dirty Little Secret
Tracking the Real Genocide

Tuskegee Study
Tuskeegee Syphilis Study
The Self-Defense Tuskegee
Tuskegee Study - Medical Travesty by Government
Tuskegee leaves shame, anger
Sour legacy of Tuskegee syphilis study
Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Selecting Human Research Subjects
Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi
Bad Blood: Medical Racism Didn't End With Tuskegee

The Apology and Reparation
1997-05-16-Presidential Apology
Online NewsHour: Tuskegee Experiment and Apology

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Philedelphia Experimet & Montauk Project
The Montauk Project & Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment : a quest for truth
Philadelphia Experiment
Philadelphia Experiment from A-Z
The Philadelphia Experiment and The Montauk Projects
The Philadelphia Experiment (Project Rainbow)

Government Secrets
America's Secret War
The Battle of Matewan
History House: Stories: LSD and the CIA
Friends of E-Conflict
VideoArchive of Speeches, Sound Clips & Scandals

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World War II
World War II**
WW II FAQs**

Cold War
Coming Soon!

Civil Rights
Early Civil Rights Struggles: Introduction
The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965
School Integration: Introduction
Civil Rights: The Invention that brings Life
THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
Brown vs. Board of Education
Crisis in Little Rock: The Little Rock Nine
Echoes of 40-year-old jeers drown...
Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary
Reich and Little Rock
Little Rock Nine
CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL: Remembering
Questions and Answers: Harlem Renaissance

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The  Civil Rights Leaders
Tribute to Medgar Evers
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford
Malcom_X
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Documentation Project

Segregation
Segregated Parks in Lexington from 1916-1956
Memorandum, "Saving the Race," Thurgood Marshall to the NAACP legal staff

Korean War
The "Forgotten" Korean War**

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Vietnam Conflict
Vietnam: Conflict or War?**

Media & it's Use in the Wars
Necessary Illusions
Necessary Illusions: Overview
The Noam Chomsky Archive
Table of Contents - Chomsky
Media Control
WARTIME PROPAGANDA Anaylsis

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Bay of Pigs
1961 The Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation - declassified
Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report
Blight/Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs
Key Events in CIA's History
Declassified: The Secret CIA Report
Hawkins Report: "Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government
Apr. 15-17 - Bay of Pigs - Popularity Table
Press Release:After-Action Report Recommended Covert Operations
Bay Of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion - has everything!
OPeration: Bay of Pigs

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Cuban Missile Crisis
14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Archival Documents
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
The Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962: Chronology
Cuban Missle Crisis
Collective Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay Of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
RESEARCH: Cuban Missile Crisis

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The New Frontier: Space
History of Space Exploration
NASA Historical Subject Reference Guide
History of the Space Shuttle
The Apollo Program (1963 - 1972)
NASA Office of Space Flight
Project Apollo
NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-11
Kennedy Space Center Home Page
Encyclopedia Astronautica
National Air & Space Museum
Challenger: 10 Years
Challenger Accident
NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
Voice of the Shuttle: Academe Page
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future
The Moon Race US vs. USSR
Lunar Exploration
New Galileo Images of Ganymede
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
National Space Society
The First Dog Crews
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Hubble Space Telescope's Greatest Hits 1990-1995
The Race To Space
NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions

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Space Images
National Air and Space Museum
Satellite Image of Western United States - Real Time!
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)

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Loss of Innocence: Political Assasination's
Political Assassinations of the 1960's

Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak (but, it was almost FDR) 1933
Mayor Cermak
Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak
ZANGARA: The Man Who Would Assassinate FDR

Gandhi - 1948
Mahatma Gandhi - Life And Times

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President Kennedy - 1963
1963: JFK Research Area

Malcom X - 1965
UGA African American Studies

Martin Luther King - 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Biographical Sketch
RFK Indianapolis Speech on MLK Assasination, April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
Martin Luther King's' Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Robert F. Kennedy - 1968
RFK Biography
Robert F. Kennedy
RFK Assassination Archives
Robert Kennedy: His Role in the Civil Rights
RFK Memorial

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Current US Documents in the News
Government Documents in the News
USIA: Daily Washington File - current news
Travel Advisories
UN Resolution 986, - IRAQ
Secretary-General's Mission To Iraq--UN

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Nukes, Missiles & Treaties
Abolition 2000 Home Page
Nuclear History at the National Security Archive
Briefing Book: ACDA -The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Imaging Space Reconnaissance Operations
Leo Szilard Online
Nagasaki Journey: 1 of 25
Becoming Death: FilmNotes
A New Nuclear Infrastructure
50 Years from Trinity
Radiation Effects Research
Executive Summary: Costs
Atomic Audit: What the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Costs Missile Defense
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty News
Defending America: The Ballistic Missile
Ending US Vulnerability to Ballistic Missiles

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Persian Gulf War
Coming Soon!

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Terrorism, Racism and Human Rights

Terrorism
Terrorism:  Between Myth and Fact
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Patterns of Global Terrorism
Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans
Political Violence in America
Oklahoma Bombing
World Trade Center Bombing, OKC Bombing and more
The World Trade Center Bombing and Building stats.
World Trade Center Bombing

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Racism
Racist Laws written for AFRICAN-americans
African American racism photos
Liberal Racism
History of the Skinheads
Extremist Groups: KKK Aka
Skeleton Closet: All of the Scandals
Murder of the Wind of Peace(Wounded Knee)
Race; Multiculturalism; Racism; Ethnicity

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Human Rights
USA - Human Rights Issues

Current Acts
Oklahoma City Bombing

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Alphabetically by Topic

Airport Rankings
NPC Library: 50 Largest Airports
World Airport Rankings
ACI-Rank 3/98

American Agriculture
History of American Agriculture
Documenting America: 1935-1945, Agriculture and Rural History
A History of American Agriculture:1776 - 1980
History of American Agriculture: Chart, 1990-1997
FAQ:Agriculture

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American Economics
American Economic History
History of American Agriculture/Economic Cycles
Economics and Trade
WebEc - Economic History
Professor of Politics and Political Economy
The Twentieth Century as the Age of Machine: Rostow

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American Labor
A Short History of American Labor
United Mine Workers of America(UMWA)
Brief History of UMWA
Labour and Business History
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - Rebel Girl
The Illinois Labor History Society
Union Ring
Bureau of Labor Statistics (US) Selective Access Data

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Child Labor
A Short History of American Labor
Alert: Global March Against Child Labor
Child Labor in the Global Economy
Minnesota Statutes 1997
Federal Guide for Employing Teenagers

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English as Official Language
USA PAGE
American Civil Liberties Union Briefing Paper...
Policy - Policy Statement
LatinoLink: Official English States
U.S.ENGLISH--FAQs
U.S.English Facts & Issues
U.S.English--The Founding Fathers and Official Language

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Environmentalism
Evolution of the Conservation Movement
American Society for Environmental History
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
PARKNET:The National Park Service
The Goddard DAAC: Global Change Research and Education
Climate Change Fact Sheets-INDEX

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The Fads
(More are listed on 20th Century American Culture by their decade)
Ty - Official Home of the Beanie Babies
Encyclobeaniea - Collect and Learn
Welcome to the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
Pez Online

Federal Land Sale Era: Forests
History of United States Public Land Law
The Sale of Federal Land
The Disposal Era
The Acquisition Era
The Acquisition Era - table
The National Forests
Forest History Society Homepage

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Graves
The Political Graveyard
Dead Presidents
Find-A-Grave Pictures
Couch Brother's Tributes - Biographies and Graves
Mr. Showbiz
Christ Church Burial Ground - A Who's Who of Early America

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Immigration
Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty Links
Ellis Island
Immigration and Naturalization Exam Sample

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The Music
20th Century Music: Guide
Roots Music Gathering's web site
Wall of Sound Top 100 Albums
Lyrics
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Operabase Welcome!
History of Swing Music
Irving Berlin

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Personal Favorites
1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert
Ladies and Gentleman... THE ROLLING STONES!!
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
International Lyrics Server - searchable
Music News:(by category or rock, urban and dance)
Welcome to www.rockNroll.to!
Pink Floyd Interactions Database
Welcome to the Jukebox Planet!

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American Slang
American Slanguages (Foreign Slanguages Too)
Common American Slang
Dictionary of American Regional English
AmeriSpeak: expressions of our American ancestors
House on Linguistic Rights -1986 natl constit:contain provisions on lingo

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Laws
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
"The Other Countries of American Law" Puerto Rico
Supreme Court decisions, 1989-94
My Law Page coming soon!

Important People
The Nobel Prizes - searchable by year/discipline
Heroines of Peace
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Mother Terasa -- Mother 1910-1997
RFK Biography
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Mahatma Gandhi - A Retrospective
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die"
A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
A Timeline of Western Philosophers

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Scariest People
Senator Joseph McCarthy
OJ's Statement to the LAPD
Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan's Speech to the Republican Nation
SCARY WOMEN: Female Monsters & Fiends

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Population Studies
Population Index
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
United States Resources
Center for Demography and Ecology
Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb
Office of Population Research, Princeton
Demography & Population Studies

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Roads, Cities and Urban Development
History of Community & Comm. Based development
Housing Density, Urban Sprawl & Growth
Odyssey: The City 1996-97
Preservation, Mixed Use & Urban Vitality
18th Century: Building A Town
Infastructure Net
Glossary of Construction Terms
PUBLIC ROADS On-Line Milestones
Planning Commissioners Journal Articles
Virtual Antebellum Richmond

Historic Philadelphia
Fighting Traffic U.S. - Transportation Policy and Urban Congestion, 1955-1970
NYC History and Facts
PCJ Article: How to Mess Up a Town
Historical Information About Chicago
Chicago Historical Society

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Miscellaneous
100 YEARS OF RADIO
Living History Farms
Carnegie Hall: Then & Now
LIFE Magazine Homepage
Shhh. You've reached Probe Magazine

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Election Scandal 2000 - Presidential
Election 2000
13 Myths About The Results Of The 2000 Election
Campaignwatch.org - a citizen's eye on political corruption
TrustthePeople.com
Brief on the Challenge to Florida's Electors
A blacklist burning for Bush
Inside Republican America: A blacklist burning for Bush - Mirror of site above
Rent-a-Mobs
Mob Rule Wins for W
Bush Watch
George W. Bush 2000
The Bush Watch
Supreme Court Decision: Bush v. Gore - Easy Q & A Format
The "GORE EXCEPTION": A Layman's Guide to the United States Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore
Below: read the opinions for yourself:  (these will open in Acrobat reader)
December 9 stay stopping the recount
December 12 final opinion

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