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The Historic Documents online edition makes primary source research easy by presenting key excerpts from important documents of each year for the United States and the world. Online users can search for documents from a particular year, official or other influential reports and surveys, speeches from leaders and other opinion makers, court cases, legislation, and testimony, and much more. Full source citations are provided, and links to Web addresses containing complete documents are given, if available. Readers have easy access to material througha detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-yearindex that directs them to related material in earlier editions.