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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
President Obama Delivers Second Inaugural Address: January 21, 2013
President Obama Delivers Second Inaugural Address: January 21, 2013
Although he had officially been sworn into office one day earlier, President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of approximately one million to deliver his inaugural address on January 21, 2013. The address was themed “Faith in America's Future,” and Obama described his ambitions for a second term. The eighteen-minute speech contained few specific proposals but laid out a broad liberal agenda, which drew ire from the right. In a clear message to a Congress that had been gridlocked on many issues the previous year, the president called on Democrats and Republicans to work together at this key moment in history to move the nation forward. “Being true to ...
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