Contemporary America

  

Contemporary America

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Digital History textbook:

1970-2000, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=19&smtid=2

In preparation for the final exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

Watergate; the War Powers Act; OPEC; stagflation; Détente; Camp David accords; Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini; Reaganomics; contras; Mikhail S. Gorbachev; General Manuel Antonio Noriega; the Persian Gulf War; North American Free Trade Agreement

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

American Indian Movement (AIM), "Trail of Broken Treaties Twenty Point Position Paper" (1972), http://www.aimovement.org/archives/index.html

Ernesto Galarza, The Burning Light: Action and Organizing in the Mexican Community in California (1982), pp. 1-26, https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/essays/essays/Ernesto%20Galarza.pdf

Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (1987), "Executive Summary," pp. 3-22, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89T00142R000500610001-7.pdf

Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), Yale Law School, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/disabilities_act.asp

The United States Army in Somalia 1992-1994 [1995], https://history.army.mil/brochures/Somalia/Somalia.htm

Obergefell vs. Hodges (2015), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations