Historic Documents of 2003 highlights and explains the important events of the year for the United States and worldwide, making primary source research easy for students, researchers, historians, and others. Beginning with an insightful essay that sets the year’s events in context, Historic Documents includes more than 80 documents, ranging from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and other opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and more. Each document or set of documents is preceded by an essay discussing background, history, and context of the event itself and of the document chosen.
Whether patrons are interested in environmental, health, or other public policies or findings; democracy and elections throughout the world; wars and other crises; or other social, political, economic, or humanitarian issues, Historic Documents of 2003 is the perfect resource.
Historic Documents of 2003 covers:
- Iraq, including pre-war diplomatic debates, the war, the reconstruction effort, and the Bush administration's struggles to get international and domestic Iraqi support for its campaign to rebuild Iraq
- Census Bureau report on the Hispanic population
- NASA on the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia
- World Health Organization on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- The U.S. economy
- Clean air regulations and other environmental issues.
Documents are tightly edited, arranged chronologically and include Web addresses in most cases for readers who need the full text. Readers will find easy access to material through a detailed table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs a person to related material in earlier volumes.