The 1990s

  American Cultural History - Decade 1991-1999  

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  Film History of the 1990s 

  Food of the 90s 

  1990's Hit Songs - Popular Songs, 1990s Music 

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  1990's Fashion 

• 1990, Clean Air Act as amended

• 1990 February 11, Nelson Mandela's speech upon release

• 1990 April, Milton Friedman: Letter to William Bennett Against the "War On Drugs"

• 1990 July 26, Americans with Disabilities Act

• 1990 August 1, Map of the First Gulf War

• 1990, Democracy and Foreign Policy

  • [The spread of Democracy is to be an essential element of U.S. foreign policy]

• 1991, Civil Rights Act of 1991

• 1991, George Bush: State of the Union Speech

• 1991, George Bush: State of the Union Speech

• 1992, George Bush: State of the Union

• 1992 August – 1994 March, The Effort to Save Somalia

• 1992-1993 October, Map of Operations in Somalia

  • 1992 October 11, George W. Bush v. Bill Clinton v. Ross Perot [Video and transcript]

Administration of Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

• 1993 January, William J. Clinton II: Inaugural Speech

  • 1994, March 21, US Vice President Al Gore, Information Superhighways Speech, International Telecommunications Union Meeting [commonly mis-referrenced as "Al Gore Invents the Internet"]

  • 1993, Constitution of the State of Maine [Codification of 1883]

  • 1994, The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda [documentary collection of The National Security Archive

• 1995 Apr 17, Executive Order 12958

• 1995, Operation Just Cause - Panama

• 1995 September 21, The Unabomber's Manifesto

• 1996, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act

• 1996, Food Quality Protection Act

  • 1996 October 02, Bob Dole v. Bill Clinton [Video and transcript]

  • The National Debt was $ 5, 413, 146, 011, 397.34

• 1997 January, William J. Clinton II: Inaugural Speech

• 1997, Cesar Chavez discusses the origins of the National Farm Workers Union

• 1997, Operation Urgent Fury - Grenada

• 1997 December 10, Jody Williams, The Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Lecture

  • 1998, The National Debt was $5, 526, 193, 008, 897.62

• 1998 February 26, Sidney Blumenthal, Assistant to President Bill Clinton, complains about Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr

  • [Audio. Time: 1.8 min. the Vincent Voice Library]

• 1998, Independent Counsel's Report to the United States House of Representatives

• 1998, Baz Luhrmann, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"

  • [A comic monologue]

    • Windows Media Video of Address

    • Audio mp3 of Track

• 1998-1999 Impeachment and Trial of President William J. 1998, Clinton II

  • 1998, Documents on the Investigation of Charges

    • 1999, The National Debt was $5, 656, 270, 901, 615.43

  • 1999 January 7 to February 12, Senate Trial Transcripts

  • 1998 January 13, White House Trial Memorandum

• 1999 January 19, William J. Clinton II, State of the Union Speech

• 1999 April 25, Al Gore: Columbine Memorial Speech

• 1998 December 19, Approved Articles of Impeachment

  • 1999 February 12, Clinton Impeachment Articles Final Votes

  • Senators' Final Statements by State

  • 1999, Excerpts from Presidential Debates between Al Gore (Dem) and Gerge W. Bush (Rep)

    • 1999 April 12, Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference" 

    • [image and text; .pdf and audio files]

  • 1999, Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning"