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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES

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Historical Documents and Speeches General 1000 – 14000 15th Century	Historical Documents and Speeches 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century	Historical Documents and Speeches 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century	Return to table of contents

REFERENCES

General Sites

• American Library Association’s Great Sites for Kids
• APA Manual
• APA Manual
• AT&T Knowledge Network: Blue Web’n Homepage
• Awesome Library
• Boy Scouts of America
• Child Stats
• CLN Theme Pages
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Electronic Reference Shelf
• Encyclopedia Britannica (See Librarian for Password)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Girl Scouts
• History Happens – Stories of American History on Music Video
• How Stuff Works
• Hyper Dictionary
• Information Please
• LANL Research Library
• Library of Congress
• National Archives and Records Administration
• MapQuest
• Martindale's: The Reference Desk
• Merriam Webster Dictionary
• MLA Style Manual
• MLA Style Manual
• Native Web
• Poster Art of World War II: Powers of Persuasion
• Posters American Style
• Posters as Propaganda
• Posters for Pleasure: American Events
• Posters for Profit: Designed to sell
• Posters that Preach: Advice for Americans
• The Art of Persuasion
• Puzzlemaker
• Rand McNally Maps/Driving Directions
• Roget’s Thesaurus
• SAT* Test Preparation Practice Exercises – (Online Free)
• Spartacus Educational
• Study Skills - Research - Writing - AP/Sat/Regents - College INFO
• United States Postal Service Look-Up
• Verizon Thinkfinity – Literacy, Education, and Technology
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Yahoo Maps

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PBS Sites

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Journey to the Planet Earth
• Liberty: The American Revolution
• Newspaper Chronicles of the American Revolution
• PBS Sites – Ancient World
• PBS Sites – Archeology and Anthropology
• PBS Sites – Architecture
• PBS Sites – Biographies
• PBS Sites – Business and Finance
• PBS Sites – Cooking
• PBS Sites – Creatures
• PBS Sites – Dance
• PBS Sites – Drama and Theater
• PBS Sites – Earth and Habitats
• PBS Sites – Film
• PBS Sites – Fine Art
• PBS Sites – Government and Politics
• PBS Sites – Health and Medicine
• PBS Sites – Law and Order
• PBS Sites – Literature
• PBS Sites – Military
• PBS Sites – Music
• PBS Sites – Newsmakers
• PBS Sites – Opinion and Analysis
• PBS Sites – People and Identity
• PBS Sites – Photography
• PBS Sites – Physics
• PBS Sites – Pop and Folk Art
• PBS Sites – Science and Nature
• PBS Sites – Social Issues
• PBS Sites – Space
• PBS Sites – Spirituality and Religion
• PBS Sites – Technology and Invention
• PBS Sites – The World
• PBS Sites – United States
• PBS Sites – War and Espionage
• PBS Sites – Work and Career
• PBS Sites – World
• PBS websites A-Z
• World War II

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PRIMARY SOURCES

General Sites

• Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
• American Memory: Library of Congress
• Avalon Project: Yale University
• Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: (from pre 18th Century to the Present)
• 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

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Teaching With Primary Source Documents Lesson Plans

• 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

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Archiving Early America

• A Chronology of US Historical Documents
• A Guide to American Flags
• America’s Freedom Documents
• Archiving Early America —primary source material from 18th Century America
• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Historical Documents and Speeches

General

• Original Text of The United States Constitution
• Founding Fathers of the United States of America
• United States History Documents and Speeches
• Historical Document Timeline

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1000 – 14000

• Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 BCE
• The Voyages to Vinland c. 1000
• The Magna Carta – 1215
• St. Francis of Assisi Sermon to the Birds (1220)

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15^th Century

• A Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain (1490's)
• Christopher Columbus: Extracts from the Journal of Columbus in his voyage of 1492
• King Ferdinand's Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians (1492)
• Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Christopher Columbus April 30, 1492
• Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery
• Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage (1497)
• John Cabot's Discovery of North America, 1497

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16^th Century

• Book of Privileges of Christopher Columbus (1502)
• Franco de los Cobos, Instructions to Conquistadors (1528)
• The Augsburg Confession (1517)
• A Spanish Friar Indicts the Conquistadors for the Massacre of Indians (1542)
• Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542)
• Richard Hakluyt Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
• Arthur Barlowe, First Voyage to Virginia (1584)
• Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (1584)
• The Colony at Roanoke (1586)
• Queen Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
• Thomas Hariot, a Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)

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17^th Century

• The Iroquois Constitution (1600s)
• Witchcraft Trial Documents (1600s)
• Samuel de Champlain, Voyages (1604)
• Instructions for the Virginia Colony (1606)
• The First Virginia Charter (1606)
• The Settlement of Jamestown by Captain John Smith (1607)
• The Second Virginia Charter (1609)
• The Third Virginia Charter (1612)
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (1620-1647)
• How the Pilgrims Lived by Governor Edward Winslow (1621)
• An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England (1621)
• Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (1624)
• The Petition of Right (1628)
• The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
• Father Andrew White's First Impressions of Maryland & Its Native Inhabitants (1634)
• Thomas Morton, Description of the Indians in New England (1637)
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
• The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
• Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)
• Maryland Toleration Act of 1649
• The Instrument of Government (1653)
• A Healing Question by Sir Henry Vane (1656)
• Virginia Slave Laws (1660s)
• Connecticut Colony Charter of 1662
• John Elliot's Brief Narrative (1670)
• New Jersey Concessions (1676)
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
• Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York (1676)
• William Penn, Some Account of the Province of Pennsylvania (1681)
• English Bill of Rights (1689)
• John Locke’s, Second Treatise of Government (1690)
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Pre 18th Century Documents

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18^th Century

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:18th Century documents
• An Act Declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (1705)
• The North Carolina Biennial Act (1712)
• Poor Richard’s Almanack (1747)
• The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation by George Washington (1748)
• The Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Gottlieb Mittelberger on the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754)
• Gen. Braddock's Defeat by George Washington (1755)
• In Opposition to Writs of Assistance (1761)
• Governor Glen, the Role of the Indians in the Rivalry between France, Spain, and England (1761)
• Treaty of Paris 1763
• The Royal Proclamation - October 7, 1763 a model for the establishment of Treaties
• Resolutions of the Stamp Act, October 19, 1765
• Answer of the Massachusetts Assembly to Governor Bernard October 25, 1765
• On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor – Benjamin Franklin, November (1766)
• An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1776)
• Samuel Adams – Circular Letter from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the Speakers of other Houses of Representatives Pro of Massachusetts Bay, Feb 11 1768
• Samuel Adams - Mysteries of Government, February 27th, 1769
• Samuel Adams, the Rights of the Colonists – the Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772
• An Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec Continental Congress Philadelphia (1774)
• The Articles of Association - October 20, 1774
• The Charlotte Town Resolves (1775)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
• Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry (1775)
• The War Inevitable by Patrick Henry March (1775)
• The Olive Branch Petition (1775)
• The Resolutions and Recommendations of the Continental Congress (1776)
• Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776)
• Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel against Governors (1776)
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
• The Constitution of Virginia – (1776)
• Lee Resolution (1776)
• John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams on the Occasion of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Thomas Jefferson’s "Rough Draft" of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Declaration of Independence
• Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence, 1776
• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777)
• The New York Constitution (1777)
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
• Articles of Confederation (1778)
• The Essex Result (1778)
• Thomas Jefferson, a Bill Concerning Slaves (1779)
• An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1780)
• Rev. Samuel Cooper, A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution (1780)
• King George III’s Letter on the Loss of America (1780)
• Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781)
• From the Diary of Ebenezer Denny (1781)
• Letter from an American Farmer – Letter III - What Is an American (1782)
• Preliminary Articles of Peace (1782)
• Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
• Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America, signed at Versailles July 16, 1782
• The Treaty of Paris (1783)
• George Washington's Newburgh Address (1783)
• A Memorial and Remonstrance (1785)
• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
• The Annapolis Convention (1786)
• Northwest Ordinance – (1787)
• The Federalist Papers (1787)
• Federalist Papers #10 & #51 (1787-1788)
• William Davie in the Constitutional Convention, July 12, 1787
• The Agrippa Letters by James Winthrop (1787-1788)
• Speeches of Charles Pinckney, Abraham Baldwin, and Hugh Williamson in the Constitutional Convention (1787)
• Speech of Benjamin Franklin at Constitutional Convention (1787)
• Letter of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution (1787)
• Original Text of The United States Constitution (1787)
• James Madison: Amendments to the Constitution (1789)
• Alexander Hamilton on the Adoption of the Constitution (1788)
• Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
• Address of the Senate to President George Washington (1789)
• Succession to the Office of the President of the United States of America (1789)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
• The Decree Abolishing the Feudal System (1789)
• An Address to the Public Concerning Slavery Benjamin Franklin (1789)
• James Madison's Introduction of the Bill of Rights (1789)
• Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington (1789)
• Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Residence Bill Thomas Jefferson (1790)
• An Act Providing for Holding a Treaty or Treaties to Establish Peace with Certain Indian Tribes (1789)
• Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky c. (1790's)
• President George Washington, The First State of the Union Address (1790)
• United States Immigration Act of 1790
• The Bill of Rights (1791)
• Thomas Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791)
• Opinion on Renouncing the Treaties with France Thomas Jefferson (1793)
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
• The Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
• Benjamin Franklin, Information To Those Who Would Remove To America (1794)
• Treaty with the Six Nations (1794)
• The Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
• Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
• The Treaty of Greenville (1795)
• The Treaty of San Lorenzo As it appears in The Laws of the United States,(Pinckneys Treaty) Folwell's, Philadelphia (1796)
• The Naturalization Act of 1795
• The Farewell Address of President George Washington (1796)
• An Act Respecting Alien Enemies, July 6, 1798
• The Sedition Act of 1798
• Venture Smith, Narrative of a Slave's Capture (1798)
• Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
• John Adams, Message to the Senate on the Death of George Washington, December 23, 1799

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19^th Century

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:19th Century Documents
• The Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1800)
• State v. Boon (1801)
• Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter (1802)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
• Black Laws of Ohio (1804)
• An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)
• Chief Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes (1810)
• An Act Declaring War Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Francis Scott Key, The Star Spangled Banner (1814)
• The Burning of Washington by Dolly Madison (1814)
• A British Account of the Burning of Washington (1814)
• Treaty of Ghent 1814
• The Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
• Constitution of the State of Indiana (1816)
• Treaty with Spain for the Acquisition of Florida (1819)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• The Missouri Compromise 1820
• The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
• Indian Removal Act of 1830
• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
• William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831)
• Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
• The Texas Declaration of Independence (1836)
• The Fall of the Alamo (1836)
• Letter XII: Legal Disabilities of Women (1837)
• President Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address (1837)
• Lincoln's Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838)
• John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny (1839)
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain (1842)
• Mexican War Message of President Polk, May 11, 1846
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
• Treaty with Mexico (1848)
• Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
• Signers of The Declaration Of Sentiments – Seneca Falls, New York (July 19-20, 1848)
• Henry David Thoreau, On The Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
• The Clay Compromise Measures (1850)
• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Frederick Douglass, ‘The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro’ (1852)
• Henry Carey Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
• Manifest Destiny 1845 map and the Gadsden Purchase
• The Treaty of Kanagawa: Setting the Stage for Japanese-American Relations (1854)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• The Dread Scott Decision (1857)
• Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
• Lincoln's House Divided Speech (1858)
• Freeport Doctrine - Stephen A. Douglas (1858)
• John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial (1859)
• The Death of John Brown by Frank Lloyd Garrison (1859)
• Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address (1860)
• The Crittenden Compromise (1860)
• South Carolina Declaration of Succession, December 24, 1860
• Alexander H. Stephens "Cornerstone" Speech
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
• Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis (1861)
• Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
• Time Line of The Civil War in photographs
• McClellan's Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Peninsula Campaign Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Camp near Harrison's Landing, Va. (1862)
• The Homestead Act (1862)
• Pacific Railway Act (1862)
• War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1863)
• Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill [by Abraham Lincoln] (1864)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
• "40 Acres and a Mule" (1865)
• Louisiana Black Codes, an Act (1865)
• Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox (1865)
• Adjt. & Insp. General's Office, General Orders No. 14. (1865)
• Lee's Farewell to His Army (1865)
• Abraham Lincoln's Last speech of April 11, 1865
• Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End (1865)
• Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage [By Frederick Douglass] (1867)
• Alaska Purchase Treaty with Russia (1867)
• Fort Laramie Treaty (1868)
• Woman's Rights to the Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony (1873)
• Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican (1880)
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Pace V. State Of Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883)
• Theodore Roosevelt: The Duties of American Citizenship (1883)
• The Dawes Act or General Allotment Act (1887)
• The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• Davis v. Beason (1890)
• The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (1892)
• The Atlanta Compromise (1895)
• Cross of Gold by William Jennings Bryan (1896)
• Plessy V. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
• Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898)
• Recognition of the Independence of Cuba (1898)
• Treaty with Spain [Cession of Puerto Rico and The Philippines] (1898)
• Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Life (1899)
• Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt (1899)

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20^th Century

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:20th Century Documents
• On American Motherhood, President Theodore Roosevelt (1905)
• Theodore Roosevelt: The Man with the Muck Rake (1906)
• Woodrow Wilson Addresses Native Americans (1912)
• The American's Creed by William Tyler Page (1917)
• Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
• The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918
• The Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
• Calvin Coolidge, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
• The Immigration Act of 1924
• The Covenant of the League of Nations (1924)
• Calvin Coolidge’s The Inspiration of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
• Rugged Individualism Speech, Herbert Hoover (1928)
• Amendment XXI - Repeal of Prohibition (1933)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Fireside Chat (1933)
• Constitution of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (1934)
• Grovey V. Townsend, 295 U.S. 45 No. 563. (1935)
• The Social Security Act of 1935
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech (1937)
• U.S. Congress, The Neutrality Act (1939)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Arsenal of Democracy (1940)
• Atlantic Charter August 14, 1941
• Lend Lease Act, March 11, 1941
• The Four Freedoms delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Day of Infamy Speech December 8, 1941
• Congressional Declaration of War on Japan (1941)
• Congressional Declaration of War on Germany (1941)
• Executive Order No. 9066 Japanese Relocation Order (1942)
• U S Constitution - Documents Relating to African Americans in the Armed Services (1942)
• Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
• The German Surrender Documents of World War II (1945)
• The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (1945)
• The United Nations Charter (1945)
• Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, (1946)
• The Truman Doctrine (1947)
• The Marshall Plan (1947)
• Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
• Harry S. Truman Executive Order 9981 July 26th 1948
• United Nations – Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (1948)
• North Atlantic Treaty (1949)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: The Chance for Peace (1953)
• Mutual Defense Treaty between the Republic of Korea (1953)
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
• Executive Order 10730 By President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld (1957)
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• American Foreign Policy and International Law
• Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961)
• John F. Kennedy's: The Berlin Crisis (1961)
• Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem of Vietnam (1961)
• President John F. Kennedy's Speech Urgent Needs May 1961
• General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech (1962)
• President John F. Kennedy's Speech at Rice University (1962)
• Address Before the Irish Parliament President John F. Kennedy Dublin, Ireland (1963)
• Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963)
• John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Message (1963)
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter From Birmingham Jail (1963)
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech August 28, 1963
• The Negro as an American [Robert C. Weaver] (1963)
• Lyndon B. Johnson: Let Us Continue, November 27th 1963
• President Lyndon Johnson: The Great Society Speech (1964)
• The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax (1964)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Vietnam War Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
• The Tonkin Gulf Incident Address (1964)
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Address delivered in Acceptance of Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Our God Is Marching On!" (1965)
• Lyndon Baines Johnson - We Shall Overcome (1965)
• "Aggression From The North": State Department White Paper on Vietnam (1965)
• The Miranda Warning, 1966
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Beyond Vietnam," Address delivered to the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church (1967)
• Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967)
• Fair Housing Act (1968)
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
• President Lyndon Johnson: Vietnam Renunciation Speech (1968)
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
• Robert Kennedy's Speech on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death (1968)
• Edward Kennedy's Eulogy to Robert Kennedy (1968)
• President Richard Nixon's Vietnamization Speech (1969)
• President Nixon: Cambodian Invasion (1970)
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations (1971)
• President Nixon's Report On Vietnam, (1969)
• Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam (1973)
• "Peace With Honor": Radio-television broadcast, President Nixon re: initialing of the Vietnam Agreement (1973)
• War Powers Resolution (1973)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Richard Nixon's Resignation (1974)
• Age Discrimination Act of 1975
• President Ronald Reagan's First State of the Union Address (1982)
• President Reagan's Speech to the British House of Commons (1982)
• Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address (1989)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1991
• United States Congress' Contract with America (1994)
• President Clinton's Oklahoma City Bombing Speech (1995)

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21st Century

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:21 Century Documents
• Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation on September 11th 2001
• President's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance (2001)
• President Bush's Address to a Joint Session of Congress September 20, 2001
• Presidential Address to the Nation, October 7th 2001
• State of the Union Address of George W. Bush - 2002
• United States Presidents Inaugural Addresses

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