Secrets, leaks & scandals

In: Defining documents in American history

Abstract

Offers in-depth analysis of seventy-five documents. Readers will find speeches, memos, letters, reports, transcripts, minutes, and testimony related to some of the nation's most notorious scandals including Benedict Arnold's letters to Major John André, the House that Tweed Built, impeachment proceedings against two presidents, the Teapot Dome Scandal, The Zimmerman Telegram, the Vietnam War, Watergate and Whitewater, reports from commissions that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and 9-11, transcripts of trials, e-mails that document the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, the unmasking of Valerie Plame, minutes from a meeting just before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Manning-Lamo chat logs that detail how Manning leaked classified materials to Wikileaks, and e-mails hacked from John Podesta's Gmail account demonstrating that Hillary Clinton was the beneficiary of a political favor during the 2016 primaries