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The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Books:

Bezanson, Randall P. How Free Can the Press Be? Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Cook, Timothy E., ed. Freeing the Presses: The First Amendment in Action.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Martin, Richard W. T. The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Web sites:

First Amendment Center: Press
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Press/index.aspx

World Press Freedom Committee
http://www.wpfc.org/

The Constitutional Convention of 1787

Books:

Collier, Christopher. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Random House, 1987.

Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.

Web sites:

Exploring Constitutional Law
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/convention1787.html

National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/

George Washington

Books:

Beeman, Richard R. "The Founding Fathers and Executive Power," Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 52, no. 28 (March 17, 2006): page B12.

Beschloss, Michael R. Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Kinkopf, Neil. "Inherent Presidential Power and the Constitutional Structure," Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2007): pp. 37-48.

Web sites:

National Endowment for the Humanities
Heroes of History Lecture
http://www.neh.gov/wtp/heroes/reminilecture.html

U.S. Dept. of State
Democracy Papers: The Power of the Presidency
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/democracy/dmpaper7.htm

Victory of the Common School Movement

Books:

Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From The Common School to "No Child Left Behind." Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Web sites:

Center for Public Education
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org

Center on Education Policy
http://www.cep-dc.org

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

Books:

High, Jack C., and Wayne E. Gable. A Century of The Sherman Act: American Economic Opinion, 1890-1990. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1992.

Hovenkamp, Herbert. The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Letwin, William. Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Web sites:

Cornell Law School: Antitrust
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Antitrust

Department of Justice: Antitrust Division
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/

The Interstate Highway System

Books:

Altshuler, Alan, and David Luberoff. Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2003.

Davies, Pete. American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002.

McNichol, Dan. The Roads That Built America. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2005.

Web sites:

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
The Interstate Is 50
http://www.interstate50th.org/

U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/interstate.cfm

The GI Bill of Rights

Books:

Bennett, Michael J. When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America. London: Brassey's, 1996.

Humes, Edward. Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

Mettler, Suzanne. Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Web sites:

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Our Documents: The G.I. Bill
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odgibill.html

Dept. of Veterans Affairs
G.I. Bill Web site
http://www.gibill.va.gov

The Marshall Plan

Books:

Agnew, John, and J. Nicholas Entrikin, eds. The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Machado, Barry. In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today. Lexington, VA: George C. Marshall Foundation, 2007.

Schain, Martin A., ed. The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Web sites:

George C. Marshall Foundation
http://www.marshallfoundation.org/

Truman Presidential Library and Museum
Establishing the Marshall Plan
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/marshall/large/

Brown v. Board of Education

Books:

Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Court: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement. Anniversary Edition. New York: Twelve Tables Press, 2004.

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. rev. ed. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Web sites:

Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
National Park Service
Brown v. Board of Education Historical Site
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/

The Right to Legal Counsel

Books:

Epps, Garrett. Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.

"Gideon at 40: Facing the Crisis, Fulfilling the Promise," The American Criminal Law Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (Winter 2004): p.135.

Lewis, Anthony. Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Knopf, 1989.

Web sites:

American Bar Association
Indigent Defense/Public Defender Systems
http://www. abanet.org/legalservices/sclaid/defender/home.html

Landmark Cases: Supreme Court
Gideon v. Wainwright
http://www.landmarkcases.org/gideon/home.html

The Immigration Act of 1965

Books:

Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

Hing, Bill Ong. Defining America Through Immigration Policy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004.

Zolberg, Aristide R. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the
Fashioning of America.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Web sites:

Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/

Department of Homeland Security: Immigration
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/

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