CD ROM $79.95

160,000+ pages of American History and Literature

The Largest and Most Comprehensive Collection of Classic and Contemporary American Historical and Political Literature Ever Assembled!

A monumental electronic library featuring powerful easy-to-use text retrieval software.

Dear Friend:

We are excited to welcome you to the American Freedom Library, the largest collection of materials ever assembled of the founding principles and events of America's inspired experiment in freedom. This library contains a vast database of the political, economic, historical, cultural, and religious values of what made and what makes America great. It also furnishes you some of the best writings that speak to today's issues from a traditional values point-of-view. Compiled and organized for your instant access, this collection can benefit Americans of all walks of life .

What Is the American Freedom Library?

1. The American Freedom Library is a tool designed to help you access and research a massive amount of information about the history of and current thought about American freedom.
   
   
2. It contains a vast storehouse of information on any number of important topics.
   
   
3. Thousands of pages by scholars, historical figures, activists, and concerned citizens have been collected in an infobase.
   
   
4. Within the infobase you can:
   • read text,
   • perform word searches,
   • instantly jump from one topic to related topics,
   • tag useful pieces of information,
   • personalize text with highlighters and notes,
   • and perform many other helpful tasks.
   
   
5. Combining a treasury of thought with powerful, easy-to-use software tools , the American Freedom Library is the perfect tool to help you learn what has made America great, how to preserve that greatness, and what we need to do to forge an even brighter future for this nation.

If this is the first time you have used a library like the American Freedom Library, you may not know all of the ways it can help you. The American Freedom Library contains thousands of pages of writings collected in a single infobase. And just what is an infobase? Well, the best way to understand what an infobase is, is to compare it to something with which you're already familiar - a library .

A library contains books, periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, and other kinds of information for researchers to use. Librarians carefully select new content to add to the collection, then help patrons use the resources in the library.

Imagine going to a regular library to compile information about an important topic like welfare reform. You would begin your search for information by checking the card catalog for the subject heading "welfare reform" and finding several books on the subject. Then, you would go to each book on the shelves and look up the term "welfare reform" in the book's index. Finally, you would turn to each page where the word "welfare reform" is mentioned and begin taking notes on what you find. To find everything that has been written about welfare reform, you might spend hundreds of hours searching in indexes, bookshelves, and periodicals - if you were using a regular library .

Now, imagine a library with a librarian who is devoted solely to helping you; a librarian who works as fast and efficiently as a computer; a librarian who knows exactly where to find every reference to any subject you want. Suppose that this librarian could instantly retrieve all of the books from the shelves for you that contain information about welfare reform. That would save you a lot of time. Furthermore, suppose this librarian could instantly find every place where the words "welfare reform" occur in any paragraph in any of the books. That would save you even more time.

This compact disc is a vast library with just such a "librarian." This computerized "librarian" has indexed every single word in over 160,000 pages of writings . You can ask the librarian to find every paragraph in every work that contains any word or phrase you want. You just have to know how to ask for what you want and the librarian will find it.

You can use any of the materials in the library whenever you need to - for writing essays, giving speeches, preparing for a debate, or just reading and learning . Just like in a library, you can "wander the shelves" and browse as much as you like. You can select a book and just start reading, read books on a particular subject which interests you, or read books by a particular author that interests you.

But that is where this analogy ends, because with this resource you can do much more than you can in a traditional library. Unlike a library book, which you can check out and have on loan for a couple of weeks before you have to return it, these books are yours to keep forever.

Not only can you instantly find any word in any of the books included, you can also:

• add your own comments
• create cross references between topics of interests
• and highlight important passages.

In short, anything that you can do to a book you can do to an infobase - and much more!

Whether you use it for personal study, preparing speeches and debates, or writing essays , the American Freedom Library will help you quickly research all the writings of individuals, both ancient and modern, who are fundamental to modern American freedom. America's future is in your hands. With the American Freedom Library, so is the information you need to make that future great!

Who can benefit from this Library?

• Students have quick and easy access to a text-rich collection of American history, political science, American government, and current political commentary. It is perfect for homework assignments and report writing. Thousands of source documents on America's history, particularly documents relating to our nation's founding, are furnished unabridged.
• Teachers training America's youth will find abundant materials from which to draw to make their lessons more vivid and compelling. An unprecedented knowledge-base of books, reference works, articles, and other resources for teaching history, government, and political science is at a teacher's fingertips.
• Teachers and students alike can first consult the classic, comprehensive Library of Congress annotated bibliography entitled A Guide to the Study of the United States of America for help in selecting and researching any aspect of American life. The full text of this reference guide is now available for the first time.
• Authors, Journalists, Politicians, Analysts, Speech Writers, Political Consultants, Talk Show Hosts , and in fact, any watching the American political scene-want instant access to classic and current American discussions of today's issues. Instantly available for consultation is the full text of over 100 books and hundreds of articles on current political topics. Extensive links to articles on key topics are provided. There is no fluff .
• College Students , including Graduate Students in American history, American Studies, Political Science, and Law, will find the reference works contained in the collections of the American Freedom Library essential. For example, those studying the origins of the Constitution, how the Supreme Court has interpreted it, or the Presidents of the United States, will find this disc indispensable.
• Citizens of America who wish to stay current and conversant with the responsible reasoning of good people throughout America. Our convictions to the proven principles of the past must be coupled with an increased capacity to clearly communicate them to our children and our fellow-citizens if we wish to participate effectively in the processes which will protect our freedoms and prosperity into the future. We have worked for a year to insure the accuracy of such data.

What does the American Freedom Library Contain?

1. The Presidential Papers - 95 volumes of the public papers of the presidents: Every word of all the speeches, letters, memos, press conferences, and other vital documents.
   
   
2. Today's Issues, Traditional Values - 44 books such as The American Family and the State, Darwin on Trial, and Angry Classrooms, Vacant Minds, along with hundreds of articles from major public policy organizations on contemporary issues such as the family, abortion, gay rights, health care, taxes, education, and 14 other of todays' hottest issues.
   
   
3. Documents and Histories - 16,000 pages of fristhand accounts and source documents such as Columbus' Journal, Framing The Constitution by James Madison, and the Assassination of Lincoln. Four classic multi-volume U. S. histories.
   
   
4. The Founding Fathers Collection - 14 volumes including The Writings of James Madison, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
   
   
5. Classics of Western Civilization - 21 of the greatest political, religious, and literary writings including the Holy Bible, Plato's Republic, and the complete works of Shakespeare.
   
   
6. The Constitution Reference Collection - The Constitution, as well as six commentaries such as Story's Familiar Exposition of the Constitution, The Federalist papers, and Elliot's record of the debates on the ratification of the Constitution in the state conventions.
   
   
7. The U.S. Congress Collection - 16 works including How Our Laws Are Made, Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate by the U.S. Supreme Court.
   
   
8. The Supreme Court Collection - Thousands of decisions, analyses, and interpretations on the Constitution released by the U.S. Supreme Court.
   
   
9. National Party Platforms (1840 - 1996) - All of the official party platforms of every major political party for each presidential election since 1840.
   
   
10. How to Win An Election Collection - An extensive collection of inside information into the complex world of modern campaign strategy.
    
    
11. And Much Much More!

Review by Frank Beeman and Mary Pride
Reprinted from Practical Homeschooling Magazine

The creators of the American Freedom Library have compiled a virtual encyclopedia of American history and government into one CD-ROM. You get over 160,000 pages of material, from original source documents to essays and books on American political culture. In all, the disc includes the complete text of 260 books and over 800 research papers , all on the subjects of classic and contemporary history and politics.

All this makes the American Freedom Library a gold mine of resources on U.S. History . With this tool on your shelf, you will be able to confidently teach and study our hsitory, from printing out source documents to read to your preschooler, to getting a teen ready to take the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam . In fact, two of our teens are using it for just that purpose!

It's very easy to use. Organized in a searchable database format, you can easily search and find information throughout the disc. Just type the keyword or phrase you want, and up pops a list of selections that include the word or phrase. It's the easiest way possible to find out what hundereds of great Americans (and foreign visitors) have had to say on a topic. Eye-opening! Or, if you prefer, use this as a super-inexpensive library , and read through one book or article a time at your leisure.

This CD-ROM collection is almost over-whelming. As a reference program that gives you access to original material , it is excellent. The interface is simple, the data is easy to find, and it's well researched. If you're looking for a U.S. history and civics tool you can use throughout your child's entire education, this is the program for you.