Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.

This source was first published by the state of Rhode Island between 1856 and 1865. It contains basic records for colonial Rhode Island and includes journals of legislative proceedings, digests of public laws, volumes of land evidences, the acts and orders by the governor and council and Indian deeds.