Memorandum on Covert Action in the Congo

National Security Council, Intelligence Files, Congo, 1960–1965. Secret. The memorandum was prepared for the Special Group meeting on October 27, 1960.  U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations […]

Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement, Aug. 29, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3052013829132756857467.pdf. August 29, 2013Memorandum for All United States Attorneys From: James M. […]

Notes on Debates in Congress

“Notes on Debates, 28 January 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/kuho. On the motion of Mr. Madison the whole proposition was new-modeled as follows;That it is the opinion of Congress that […]

Notes on Debates in Congress

“Notes on Debates, 21 February 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/qh13. Speech in the Continental Congress on Revenue Mr. Mercer made some remarks tending to a reconsideration of the act declaring […]

Documents on Plans for Postwar Germany

Memorandum Prepared in the Treasury Department (Sept. 4, 1944) | Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Central European Affairs (Sept. 4, 1944) | Letter from the President’s Special […]

Telegram Regarding American Postwar Behavior

The foreign policy of the United States, which reflects the imperialist tendencies of American monopolistic capital, is characterized in the postwar period by a striving for world supremacy. This is […]