American Politics and Society is a wide-ranging category, focused on American Politics in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections in this category range span records of Temperance organizations, 1830-1933; immigration records during the massive immigration wave from 1880-1930; legal collections from the Harvard Law School Library, including papers of three Supreme Court Justices; numerous collections on Progressive Era politics; and records from the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House through Gerald R. Ford presidencies. Notable events documented in this category include 20th century presidential elections; important legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, Fair Labor Standard Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; international events such as the Yalta Conference, the Berlin Airlift in 1948, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and the 1965 crisis in the Dominican Republic; and political events such as the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, the New Deal, McCarthyism, and the Great Society.
