100 Documents That Shaped America
USNews.com hosts an interesting (if somewhat subjective) list of
100 Documents That Shaped America (by which they mean, I supposed, the United States). Ranging from obvious choices like the Declaration of Independence and the Marshall Plan to less commonly read texts such as National Interstate and Defense Highways Act and the Japanese Relocation Order. Each document listed includes an overview of why the document was selected, the plain text of the document, and digital images of the document itself.
Oddly, the chronology stops in 1965, with the Voting Rights Act.
Posted by johndan at September 30, 2003 07:48 AM
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