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Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

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Chapter 35 - A Conservative Insurgency

Images and Maps

CNN Cold War Interactive

Map: The Cold War, 1960-1991

Images from the Reagan Library Archives

CNN Video Almanac
(Video clips from the 1980s and 1990s)

Elections U.S.A.: 1980
(With links to other elections)

The Living Room Candidate, 1980: Reagan vs. Carter vs. Anderson
(With links to other elections; video clips of campaign commercials)

Reagan Family Photo Album
(PBS)

The Ronald Reagan Home Page: Soundbites and More

Ronald Reagan, Excerpt from His First State of the Union Address on January 26, 1982
(Audio file)

The Iran-Contra Affair: Photo Archive

Iran-Iraq War: Photos, Songs & Memories

The Gulf War: Maps

Index of Gulf War Photos
(In ftp format)

The Berlin Wall
(With links to images)

The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum: Photos

George Bush, Excerpt from His First State of the Union Address in January of 1990
(Audio file)

Images from Tiananmen Square, 1989

Map: Collapse of the Soviet Union

Current Maps of Europe
(Reflecting the end of the cold war)

Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps

With God on Our Side
(Images from the emergence of the Christian Right)

The Questions of Equality
(Images from the Gay Liberation movement)

History, Pictures, and Origins of AIDS and HIV

So Little Time: An AIDS History

 

Primary Sources

CNN Cold War Interactive

Cold War International History Project

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Reagan Administration

Reagan Administration Documents
(Includes one famous audio clip; emphasis is on the Strategic Defense Initiative)

The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan

Index to Speeches by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing" Speech, 1964
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address

Reagan, Economic Recovery Program, April 28, 1981

Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" Speech, June 8, 1982
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

Ronald Reagan, National Security,March 23, 1983

Ronald Reagan, Speech at Pointe de Hoc, June 6, 1984
("Evil Empire" speech)

Ronald Reagan, Speech on the Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986

Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Volume I

President Reagan's Speech, Moscow State University, USSR, May 31, 1988

Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Friday, January 20, 1989

 

Secondary Sources

Lawrence Kudlow, "Reaganomics: What Worked? What Didn't?"

Grant Wacker, "The Christian Right"

Washington Post: Superpower Summits, 1959-1995

Tatyana Tolstaya, "Mikhail Gorbachev"
(From Time 100)

Peggy Noonan, "Ronald Reagan"
(From Time 100)

Chester Pach, "Ronald Reagan: Brilliant, Ordinary, and Enigmatic"

 

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