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Speeches

• Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March, 1946
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Speech calling for a stand against Soviet influence
• Labor Party leader Dr H.V. Evatt speaks in the House of Representatives debate on ratification of the ANZUS Treaty, 28 February, 4 March 1952.
  The Cold War > ANZUS > Reservations about ANZUS
• Representative Richmond P Hobson of Alabama puts the case for Prohibition to the House of Representatives (1914)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Arguments for Prohibition
• Speech of Soviet Foreign Secretary V. Molotov in Paris May, 1946
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Speech depicting British actions as imperialism
• Joseph Stalin replies to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, March, 1946
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Speech defending communism
• President Harry S. Truman's address before a Joint Session of Congress, 12 March, 1947
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Speech invoking a contest between two ways of life
• Harry S. Truman's statements after the dropping of the first atomic bomb
  The Cold War > Dropping th Atomic Bomb > Statements on why the bomb was dropped, 1945-1963

Legal Documents

• The Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Prohibition in Law: the constitutional amendment and the law enforcing it
• Legal basis of the Eighteenth Amendment
  The US 1919-1941 > interwar Conservatism: From Anti-Prohibition to Anti-New Deal > U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Prohibition
• National prohibition and civil liberties 
  The US 1919-1941 > interwar Conservatism: From Anti-Prohibition to Anti-New Deal > U.S. Supreme Court limits civil liberties in enforcement of Prohibition
• The Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America (the ANZUS Treaty) (the Treaty entered into force on 29 April 1952)
  The Cold War > ANZUS > The Treaty

Pamphlets

• Ernest Cherrington, Why We Must Engage in a World Conflict Against Alcoholism (19??)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Arguments for Prohibition
• Jouett Stouse, "Why? The American Liberty League (1934)
  The US 1919-1941 > interwar Conservatism: From Anti-Prohibition to Anti-New Deal > Opposition to the New Deal as a threat to personal liberty

Illustrations

• Flapper Fashions [Women's Fashion], 1920s
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Fashion
• "Keep Within Compass," illustration published between 1785 and 1805
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > What happens to women who step outside their roles
• Woodcut from "A New Touch on the Times," 1779
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > Women’s participation as armed combatants
• Phillis Wheatley: frontispiece to Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > A black poet stakes her claim to freedom

Cartoons

• Cartoons from the American Issue (1919)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Cartoons for and against Prohibition
• "The Edenton Ladies' Tea Party"  
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > A British cartoon lampooning women's revolutionary commitment
• Cartoons from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1933)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Arguments for the Repeal of Prohibition

Photographs

• Flapper Fashions [Women's Fashion], 1920s
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Fashion
• Photographs of the Ohio Dry Campaign (1917-18)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Photographs showing the campaign for Prohibition as a political movement

Government Documents

• US special envoy John Foster Dulles to the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers, General Douglas MacArthur, 2 March 1951
  The Cold War > ANZUS > American view of ANZUS treaty
• Memorandum by Robert A. Fearey of the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, US Department of State: Notes on conversation among Ambassador Dulles, Australian and New Zealand Ministers for External Affairs, and staffs, Canberra, 14-18 February 1951
  The Cold War > ANZUS > American support for a defence arrangement
• Extracts from Memorandum from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to Harry S. Truman 16th May 1945
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Strategies for ending the Pacific war
• National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement [Wickersham Commission], "Bad Features of the Present Situation and Difficulties in the Way of Enforcement" (1931)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Prohibition in action: the official view of the problems of enforcement and changing drinking practices
• Protocol of Proceedings of Crimea Conference (Yalta) February, 1945
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Agreement of Allies on Postwar Conditions
• Minister for External Affairs Percy Spender's message to Patrick Gordon-Walker, United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth affairs, 4 April 1951
  The Cold War > ANZUS > Motives for signing ANZUS
• Telegram from George Kennan to the US Secretary of State 22 February, 1946
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Telegram analyzing Soviet outlook
• Testimony of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement (1926)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Prohibition in action: defending prohibition

Statistics

• Alcoholic Beverage Consumption in the United States
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Statistics on the impact of Prohibition

Non-fiction Books & Articles

• Percy Andrae, "A Glimpse Behind the Mask of Prohibition" (1915)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Arguments against Prohibition
• Frederick Lewis Allen, "Alcohol and Al Capone" (1931)
  The US 1919-1941 > Prohibition > Prohibition in action - chapter from a popular history
• Bruce Bliven, “Flapper Jane,” The New Republic (1925)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > An accepting view of flapper fashion
• John F. Carter, “These Wild Young People, By One of Them,” Atlantic Monthly (1920)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > An Introduction to youth culture
• Anne Shaw Faulkner, “Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?” Ladies Home Journal (1921)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > The dangers of jazz for white youth
• Elizabeth Goldbeck, “The Real Clara Bow: She Is a Girl You Have Never Seen Before,” Motion Picture [magazine] (1930)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Clara Bow, the movie flapper
• Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents,” The Outlook [magazine] (1922)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Degrees of 'flapperdom'
• Dorothy Parker, “The Flapper” (1922)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Flappers as harmless
• Eleanor Roosevelt, “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do,” Red Book [magazine] (1928)
  The US 1919-1941 > Flappers > Women and political power after women's suffrage

Fiction & Poetry

• The poetry of Grace Growden Galloway, 1760s
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > Married women's lack of rights
• Poem published in the 1797 Newark Centinel of Freedom
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > Women's right to vote

Political Party Platforms

• Democratic Party Platform, 1932
  The US 1919-1941 > interwar Conservatism: From Anti-Prohibition to Anti-New Deal > Proposing outright repeal of Prohibition

• Republican Party Platform, 1932
  The US 1919-1941 > interwar Conservatism: From Anti-Prohibition to Anti-New Deal > Proposing compromise on repeal of Prohibition

Letters

• Abigail Adams, letter to her husband John Adams, 1776
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > Women's legal standing
• Harry S Truman to Secretary of States James Byrnes, 5 January 1946
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Letter revealing rising tensions between the US and the USSR over Iran
• Harry S. Truman's statements after the dropping of the first atomic bomb
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Statements on why the bomb was dropped, 1945-1963
• Phillis Wheatley: letters to Rev. Samson Occom and George Washington
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > A black poet stakes her claim to freedom
• Eliza Wilkinson, letter to a female friend, 1782
  American Revolution > Women in the Revolutionary Era > Disputing refusal to grant women liberty

Diary Entries

• Diary Entry of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 22 July 1945
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Impact of the bomb on relations with USSR
• Diary Entry of Harry S. Truman, 18th July 1945
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Links between the bomb and the Russians
• Diary Entry of Harry S. Truman 25th July 1945
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > How to use the bomb against Japan

Recollections and Memoirs

• Memories of Kimiko Takai of the Hiroshima explosion
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Child's reaction to bomb being dropped
• Minister for External Affairs Percy Spender's account of his meeting with President Harry S. Truman, 13 September 1950
  The Cold War > ANZUS > Making the case for a defence arranagement
• Minister for External Affairs Percy Spender's account of negotiating the ANZUS Treaty with United States special envoy John Foster Dulles and New Zealand Minster for External Affairs Frederick Doidge in Canberra, 14-18 February 1951 
  The Cold War > ANZUS > Americans perceived as reluctant
• Recollections of Colonel  Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay
  The Cold War > Dropping the Atomic Bomb > Reaction to dropping the bomb
• President Harry S Truman on White House Meeting with Soviet Foreign Secretary V. Molotov, April, 1945
  The Cold War > Origins of the Cold War > Memoirs revealing rising tensions between the US and the USSR over Poland

Opinion Polls

• Australians support ANZUS but “are glad to be British”
  The Cold War > ANZUS > The impact of ANZUS on national identity

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