HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES

Pre-Colonial to 1600

• The Magna Carta (1215)
• A Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain(1490's)
• The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations

17th Century

• The First Virginia Charter (1606)
• The Second Virginia Charter (1609)
• The Third Virginia Charter (1612))
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• The 1629 Charter Of Massachusetts Bay
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
• Connecticut Colony Charter of 1662)
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)

18th century

• The 1754 Albany Plan of Union
• Resolutions of the Stamp Act (1765)
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms(1775)
• Yankee Doodle
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• The Articles of Confederation (1777)
• The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
• Memorial and Remonstrance(1785)
• The Annapolis Convention (1786)
• Letter from the Federal Convention President to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution(1787)
• The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• First Inaugural Address of President George Washington(1789)
• The First State of the Union Address of President George Washington (1790)
• Second Inaugural Address of President George Washington(1793)
• The Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
• Farewell Address of President George Washington (Sept. 17, 1796)
• The Papers of George Washington
• Inaugural Address of President John Adams (1797)
• The Sedition Act (July 14, 1798)

19th Century

• First Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1801)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1805)
• The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
• Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
• Information on Monticello
• First Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1809)
• Second Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1813)
• The text of the Star Spangled Banner (1814)
• First Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1817)
• Second Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1821)
• The Monroe Doctrine(1823)
• Inaugural Address of President John Quincy Adams (1825)
• First Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1829)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1833)
• Inaugural Address of President Martin Van Buren (1837)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (1837)
• Inaugural Address of President William Henry Harrison (1841)
• Inaugural Address of President James K. Polk (1845)
• Inaugural Address of President Zachary Taylor (1849)
• Inaugural Address of President Franklin Pierce (1853)
• Inaugural Address of President James Buchanan (1857)
• First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1861)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
• The Battle Hymn of the Republic
• McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (1862)
• The Gettysburg Address (1863)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)
• Photographic Time Line of the Civil War
• Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass (Jan. 1867)
• First Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant (1873)
• Inaugural Address of President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877)
• First Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1885)
• Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland (1893)
• First Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1897)

20th Century

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: 20th Century Documents
• Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley (1901)
• Inaugural Address of President *Theodore Roosevelt(1905)
• Inaugural Address of President William H. Taft (1909)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson (1917)
• Inaugural Address of President Warren G. Harding (1921)
• Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover (1929)
• First Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
• Second Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
• Third Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
• Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (Dec. 8, 1941)
• The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941)
• The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941)
• Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945)
• The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945)
• Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949)
• First Inaugural Address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957)
• Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition Map
• Inaugural Address of President *John F. Kennedy (1961)
• Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech (Aug. 28, 1963)
• Inaugural Address of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1965)
• First Inaugural Address of President Richard M. Nixon (1969)
• Second Inaugural Address of President *Richard M. Nixon (1973)
• Inaugural Address of President Jimmy Carter (1977)
• First Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan (1981)
• Second Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan (1985)
• Inaugural Address of President George H. W. Bush (1989)
• First Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton (1993)
• President William J. Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address
• Second Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton (1997)
• President William J. Clinton's 1997 State of the Union Address
• President William J. Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address
• Farewell Address of President George W. Bush
• Inaugural Address of President Barack H. Obama (2009)
• State of the Union Address of President Barack H. Obama, 2010
• State of the Union Address of President Barack H. Obama, 2011
• Remarks By The President On Osama Bin Laden (2011)

GENERAL SITES

• Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
• American Memory: Library of Congress
• Avalon Project: Yale University
• Avalon Project - Ancient Documents: 4000 BCE - 399
• Avalon project - Medieval Documents: 400 - 1399
• Avalon Project - 15th Century Documents: 1400 - 1499
• Avalon Project - 16th Century Documents: 1500 - 1599
• Avalon Project - 17th Century Documents: 1600 - 1699
• Avalon Project - 18th Century Documents: 1700 - 1799
• Avalon Project - 19th Century Documents: 1800 - 1899
• Avalon Project - 20th Century Documents: 1900 - 1999
• Avalon Project - 21st Century Documents: 2000 -
• Eyewitness-History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents (From before 1400 to the present)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents
• History Matters
• Hypertext on American History
• Making of America
• National Archives
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• U.S. Classic Texts
• U.S. Historical Documents
• University of Virginia Electronic Texts: English Language Resources
• Words and Deeds in American History

TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS

• 1754-1820s:The Revolution and the New Nation
• 1801-1868: Expansion and Reform
• 1850-1877: The Civil War and Reconstruction
• 1870-1900: The Development of the Industrial United States
• 1890-1930: The Emergence of Modern America
• 1929-1945: The Great Depression and World War II
• 1945 to early 1970s: Postwar United States
• 1968 to the present: Contemporary United States

ARCHIVING EARLY AMERICA

• A Chronology of US Historical Documents
• A Guide to American Flags
• America’s Freedom Documents
• Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
• Explore the World of Early America Through The Media Of The Day
  (Newspapers, Maps, Magazines And Writings)
• Lives of Famous Early Americans
• Maps of Early America from 1562 – 1812
• Milestone Historic Events in Early American History
• Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press
• Portraits of Famous Early Americans

AMERICAN FREEDOM PROJECT

• Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
• Alphabet of Economic Freedom
• Alphabet of Political Freedom
• Declaration of Independence: Historical Context
• Founding Principles
• Full Text of the Declaration of Independence
• Philosophic Sources of the American Founding
• The Constitution
• Timeline

FROM REVOLUTION TO RECONSTRUCTION: WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS: A HYPERTEXT ON AMERICAN HISTORY FROM COLONIAL TIMES UNTIL MODERN TIMES

• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: A Hypertext History on American History from the Colonial Times until Modern Times
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: A Hypertext History on American History from the Colonial Times until Modern Times – Documents
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: A Hypertext History on American History from the Colonial Times until Modern Times – Essays
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: A Hypertext History on American History from the Colonial Times until Modern Times – Biographies
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: A Hypertext History on American History from the Colonial Times until Modern Times – Presidents

SITES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AMERICAN MEMORIES

• "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations
• Abraham Lincoln Papers
• African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
• African-American History and Culture
• Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress 1862-1939
• American Memory Life Histories – Manuscripts From the Federal Writer’s Project, 1936-1940
• American Women: A Gate to the Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s and History and Culture in the United States
• Arts and Literature
• Congress, Law, and Politics
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• Frederick Douglass Papers
• Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
• Gettysburg Address
• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlight: 1860s –1960s
• James Madison Papers, 1723 – 1836
• Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 (twenty-six volumes)
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
• Poet at Work: Walt Whitman’s Notebooks – 1850s-1860s
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
• Samuel F. B. Morse Papers
• Science, Medicine, Exploration, and Invention
• The Thomas Jefferson Papers
• Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
• Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
• Women’s History
• Words and Deeds in American History
• Words and Deeds: The Presidency
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

SITES FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

• A New Deal for the Arts -- photographs highlighting Depression era Federal arts projects
• American Originals—Treasures from the National Archives
• America's Historical Documents
• Bill of Rights
• Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman
• Constitution of the United States
• Declaration of Independence
• Designs for Democracy – 200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives:
• Herbert Hoover Galleries
• Influenza Epidemic of 1918
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Panoramic Photography Archives
• Powers of Persuasion – Posters from World War II
• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
• The Constitution: Amendments 11-27
• The Way We Worked – Documents and Images from mid 19th and late 20th centuries
• Watergate Files
• When Elvis Met Nixon
• World War II Photos

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Updated February 7, 2013