The reference shelf

Presents the history of voting and the election process in the United States and discusses the electoral college, the two-party system, nominations, caucuses, and conventions, campaign funding, and endorsements.

Collects twenty speeches from 2006 and 2007 by political figures, including George W. Bush, Al Gore, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama, on topics such as education, the United States in the global marketplace, health care reform, immigration, and global climate change.

Presents the texts of twenty-four speeches made by American leaders in 2000-2001, addressing the topics of the justice system, election reform, education, diversity, and energy.

Collects twenty-three speeches from 2004 and 2005 by American speakers such as George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, Ronald B. Flowers, R. Drew Smith, and Peter Sprigg on church and state, the media, gay marriage, the "culture wars, " seniors and Social Security, and America and the new Europe.

Presents the texts of twenty-six speeches made by American leaders in 2003-2004, addressing the topics of the U.S. Intelligence, foreign policy, the American veteran, intellectual property, and environmental challenges.

Presents the texts of twenty-three speeches made by American leaders in 1999-2000, addressing the topics of the past and future, domestic politics, health care, technology and ethics, child-rearing, and international issues.