US History: Living History Project (2024)
Reference, primary sources, news coverage, and web resources to help you contextualize the period of U.S. history you are researching.
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Newspaper & Magazine Databases
Use the date limiters in the GBS Databases to locate articles written at the time of the Reagan Administration for primary source research.
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- ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Dates Vary) This link opens in a new window
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Includes historical coverage of New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and more.
- New York Times
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Includes all ProQuest databases. Thousands of resources.
Reagan Era
Overviews/Background
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- Ronald Reagan, The Great Communicator (National Public Radio)
"NPR's Liane Hansen has this retrospective of some of the most effective speeches delivered by President Ronald Reagan. The powerful and convincing orator would become known as 'The Great Communicator'."
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Deeper Dive:A New World: 1980-1989 (44:00) |
Here's Why Reaganomics is so Controversial (3:29) |
Primary Sources
- Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis (7:44)
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- President Ronald Reagan "Tear Down This Wall" Speech at Berlin Wall (4:00)
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- Excerpts from the "Tear down this Wall" Speech
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More on the Reagan Era
- Nuclear Freeze Movement--Issues & Controversies in American History
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- "Iran-Contra Scandal"-- Issues & Controversies in American History
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Was the Iran-Contra affair morally justified? - "Supply-side Economics Alters Tax Policy in the 1980s"--Issues & Controversies in American History.
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A good overview of supply-side economics. - How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years
Health officials first became aware of AIDS in the summer of 1981, but U.S. leaders remained largely silent for four years - How Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech Marked a Cold War Turning PointReagan's words reflected a shift that was underway as Soviet reforms and protests were pressuring the East German government to open barriers to the West.
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