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U. S. Historical Documents
FIFTEENTH CENTURY SIXTEENTH CENTURY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- The Iroquois Constitution
- Discussion of the Iroquois Constitution
- Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604
- Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
- The First Virginia Charter, 1606
- The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
- The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
- Mayflower Compact, 1620
- An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virgina Company in England, 24 July 1621
- Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
- Petition of Right, 1628
- The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
- The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
- Proclamation of First Thanksgiving
- Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
- Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
- Memoir... Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
- Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- King William Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
- Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
- The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715
- Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
- Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governor's Salary, 17 September 1728
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1733)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1734)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1735)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1736)
- Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1737)
- Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1738)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1739)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1740)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1741)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1742)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1743)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1744)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1745)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1746)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1747)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1748)
- Jonathan Mayhew A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers, 1750
- Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
- Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations
- Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750
- Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1752)
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1753)
- Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
- Samuel Davies The Curse of Cowardice, 1758
- Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1759)
- Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
- Treaty of Paris, 1763
- Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
- Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
- The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
- William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
- John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
- John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
- Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants
- Benjamin Franklin, How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia
- Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre, 5 March, 1770
- Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, 13 March 1770
- James Wilson, Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament,1774
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774
- Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774
- Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
- John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
- Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
- Patrick Henry, The War Inevitable, March 23, 1775
- The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
- Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, 1775
- Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775
- Yankee Doodle
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
- Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel against Governors, 1776
- Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776
- Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
- Jefferson's notes on Slavery
- Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776
- Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
- US Articles of Confederation
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 - 1783
- Samuel Cooper, A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution, 1776
- Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
- United States Articles of Confederation, 1781
- From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781, describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1783)
- James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
- Memorial and Remonstrance (Virginia, 1785)
- The Annapolis Convention, 1786
- The Barbary Treaties (1786)
- The Federalist Papers 1787
- US Constitution, 1787
- The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Letter of Transmittal of US Constitution
- James Madison, speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
- Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
- Northwest Ordinance
- George Washington, First Inaugural Adress (1789)
- George Washington, Second Inaugural Adress (1789)
- Alexander Hamilton, Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)
- Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
- Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
- George Washington, The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
- Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
- Farmer's Almanack (1795)
- Washington's Farewell Address
- John Adams Inaugural Address (1797)
- The Sedition Act of (1798)
- The Kentucky Resolutions (1799)
- Paul Jennings' Reminiscences of James Madison (1865)
NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address (1801)
- U.S. Supreme Court, Marbury v Madison (1803)
- Letter from President Thomas Jefferson to Meriweather Lewis 1803
- Thomas Jefferson's 2nd Inaugural Address (1805)
- New England Primer (1805)
- New England Primer (1807)
- James Madison, First Inaugural (1809)
- Brackenridge, Henry Marie, Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, 1811
- Luttig, John C., Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813
- Treaty of Ghent 1814 to end the War Of 1812
- James Madison, Second Inaugural (1813)
- Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
- James Monroe, First Inaugural (1817)
- Opening of New York to Liverpool Packet Line (1817)
- U. S. Spreme Court, Culloch v The State of Maryland (1819)
- U.S. Supreme Court, Dartmouth College v Woodward (1819)
- James Monroe, Second Inaugural (1821)
- Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
- The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
- Dr. Richard Furman, Expostion on Slavery, reflecting the Views of Baptists (1823)
- U.S. Supreme Court, Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
- Ross, Alexeander, Journal - Snake Country Expedition, 1824
- John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)
- Ogden, Peter Skene, Accounts of an 1825 Expedition into Utah
- Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural (1829)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
- U.S. Supreme Court, The Cherokee Nation v The State of Georgia (1831)
- Ball, John, Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
- Wyeth, Nathaniel J.: The Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1832 - 1834 and Selected Letters.
- Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto (1832)
- Henry Clay, Speech on the Bank Veto (1832)
- Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural (1833)
- William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
- Martin VanBuren, Inaugural Address (1837)
- Excerpts from the Diaries of John Quincy Adams regarding the Amistad Affair 1840-41
- William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address (1841)
- Letter from Kale (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
- Letter from Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The Transcendentalist (1842)
- Catlin, George, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, 1844.
- The Whalers' Song (ca. 1845)
- James Polk, Inaugural Address (1845)
- Donner Party logs 1846-1847
- The Leg I Left Behind Me (1848)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848
- Elizabeth M. Stanton, The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
- Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address (1849)
- Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, 1849
- Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address (1853)
- Excerpts from : Henry Carey, The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
- Burning of the Steamship City of Newark (1855)
- Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard States, 1856
- Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
- Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
- Abraham Lincoln Speaks on the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
- Charles Sumner, On the Crime Against Kansas, 1856
- Scott vs. Sandford, The Dred Scott Case (1856)
- Republican Platform 1856
- James Buchanan, Inaugural Address (1857)
- Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
- Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, Autobiography
- Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided, June 16, 1858
- Steven A. Douglas, The Dividing Line Between Fderal and Local Authority, 1859
- John Brown's Raid [in a Contemporary Newspaper]
- John Brown's Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859
- Democratic Platform 1860 (Douglas Faction)
- Democratic Platform 1860 (Breckenridge Faction)
- Republican Platform 1860
CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESSIVE PERIOD
- Seward's Alaska Treaty with Russia, March 30, 1867
- The Little Sod Shanty On My Claim
- Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868 [Treaty with "Sioux Nation"]
- Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address (1869)
- John Wesley Powell,Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872
- Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address (1873)
- Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address (1877)
- James Garfield, First Inaugural (1881)
- Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural (1885)
- Conwell, Russell Herman: Acres of Diamonds
- Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)
- Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address (1889)
- Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural (1893)
- Geneva Conventions
- Hague Conventions
- Statute of the International Court of Justice
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- The People's Party Platform
- William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold," 9 July 1896
- William McKinley, First Inaugural (1897)
- Strivings of the Negro People , by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois [from The Atlantic, August 1897 ]
- Hubbard, Elbert, A message to Garcia (1899)
- First Open Door Note, September 1899
- The Wabash Cannonball
TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD WAR I INTERWAR PERIOD WORLD WAR II AND AFTERMATH
- Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time
- Neutrality Between USSR and Japan, April 13, 1941
- France's Reaction to Invasion of Poland 1939
- Britain's Reaction to Invasion of Poland 1939
- Germany's Statements Regarding Poland 1939
- Neutrality Act of 1939
- Roerich Pact: Institutions and Monuments in the Americas
- Lend-Lease Act
- Hemispheric Defense, 1940
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural (1941)
- FDR's Four Freedoms Speech, 6 January 1941
- Atlantic Charter, August 1941
- Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941
- Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941
- Day of Infamy Speech, 8 December 1941
- Declaration of War on Germany, 11 December 1941
- FDR's Statement on North Africa, 17 November 1942
- Lili Marlene (German)
- Lili Marlene (English)
- Casablanca Conference, February 1943
- Moscow Conference, October 1943
- Cairo Conference, November 1943
- Yalta Conference, February 1945
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Speech (1945)
- Materials Relating to the Holocaust
- WWII Surrender of Germany to Allies
- Accounts by Hiroshima Survivors
- Japanese WWII Surrender Documents
- A Veteran of the Wrong War
- Truman Doctrine
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
- UN Covenant on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights
- Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address (1949)
- North Atlantic Treaty 1949
THE COLD WAR
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural (1953)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1954"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1955"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1956"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural (1957)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1957"
- International Relations. 1958-60, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1958"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1959"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1960
- U2 Shootdown Incident of 1960
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech (1961)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
- Foreign Relations Documents of the John F. Kennedy Administration
- Foreign Relations: Volume I, Vietnam, 1961
- Foreign Relations: Volume II, Vietnam, 1962
- Foreign Relations: Volume V, 1961-1963. Soviet Union
- Foreign Relations: Soviet Union Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
- Foreign Relations: Volume IX, Foreign Economic Policy
- Foreign Relations: Volume X, Cuba 1961-1962
- Foreign Relations: Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
- Foreign Relations: Volume XXII, Northeast Asia
- Marilyn Monroe (1962)
- Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
- Robert C. Weaver, "The Negro as American" (1963)
- George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement" (1964)
- Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society Speech (1964)
- Foreign Relations Documents Of the Johnson Administration
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume I, Vietnam, 1964
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume II, Vietnam, January through June 1965
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume VIII, International Monetary and Trade Policy
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume IX, International Development and Economic Defense Policy; Commodities
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XI, Arms Control and Disarmament
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XIII, Western Europe Region
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XV, Germany and Berlin
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XVII, Eastern Europe
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XVIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1964-67
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XXI, Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula
- Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XXII, Iran
- Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Speech (1965)
- Lyndon B Johnson: We Shall Overcome, 15 March 1965
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
VIETNAM WAR
- Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem, December 14, 1961
- The Tonkin Gulf Incident: President Johnson's Message to Congress, August 5, 1964
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Richard M. Nixon, First Inaugural Speech (1969)
- Vietnam Vets Against the War Statement (Kerry)
- Richard M. Nixon, Second Inaugural Speech (1973)
- Richard M. Nixon, Peace With Honor, 23 Jan. 1973
- War Powers Act, November 7, 1973
- Senate Select POW-MIA Affairs Report
THE MID - LATE 1970'S
- Richard M. Nixon, Resignation Speech, August 8, 1974
- Gerald R. Ford's Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office as President, August 9, 1974
- President Gerald R. Ford's Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon, September 8, 1974
- President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4311, Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon, September 8, 1974
- Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address (1977)
THE 1980'S AND 1990'S THE 2000s
- Magna Carta - 1215
- Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses - 1517
- Augsburg Confession- 1530
- Colony At Roanoke - 1586
- Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588
- Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607
- Mayflower Compact - 1620
- How The Pilgrims Lived - 1621
- George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
- Braddock's Defeat, by George Washington - 1755
- In Opposition to Writs of Assistance - 1761
- Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky, by Daniel Boone
- Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky, by Theodore Roosevelt
- Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death - 1775
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms - July 6, 1775
- Virginia Declaration of Rights - 1776
- Declaration of Independence - 1776
- Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence - 1776
- Articles of Confederation - 1777
- George III's Letter on the Loss of America - 1780s
- Constitution of the United States, Signers, and Amendments
- George Washington First Inaugural Address - 1789
- Federalist #10
- Federalist #41
- Alexander Hamilton On the Adoption of the Constitution - 1788
- Tecumseh to Governor Benjamin Harrison at Vincennes - 1810
- Dolley Madison on the Burning of Washington - 1814
- A British Account of the Burning of Washington - 1814
- How a Log Cabin Was Built - 1822
- Monroe Doctrine - 1823
- Democracy in America, Volume I, Part A
- Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B
- Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A
- Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
- Fall Of The Alamo - 1836
- Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address - 1837
- Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
- The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841
- Peter Wilson (Waowawanaonk) on The Empire State - 1847
- John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act - 1850
- Underground Railroad - 1850
- Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand - 1858
- John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial - 185 9
- Death of John Brown - 1859
- Lincoln's Farewell Address in Springfield - 1861
- Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address - 1861
- Paul Revere's Ride - 1863
- Gettysburg Address - 1863
- Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln - 1865
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Chicago Fire - 1871
- Susan B. Anthony on a Woman's Right to Vote - 1873
- Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican - 1880
- Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address - 1905
- Theodore Roosevelt On Motherhood - 1905
- New York Sun on the San Francisco Earthquake - 1906
- Regarding a Possible Declaration of War Against Germany - 1917
- Declaration Of War - 1917
- Balfour Declaration - 1917
- Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address - 1933
- Social Security Act - 1935
- Lend-Lease - 1941
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Fourth Inaugural Address - 1945
- Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech - 1946
- Dwight D. Eisenhower First Inaugural - 1953
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Second Inaugural - 1957
- John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - 1961
- President John F. Kennedy Appeals to the Congress for a Tax Cut - 1961
- General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech to West Point - 1962
- Barry Goldwater's Republican Convention Speech - 1964
- Ronald Reagan's A Time for Choosing - 1964
- Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address - 1981
- Ronald Reagan's First State of the Union - 1982
- Ronald Reagan Second Inaugural Address - 1985
- George H.W. Bush Inaugural Address - 1989
- Contract with America - 1994
Important Documents from American History Biographies Note: An indicates that a linked biography is not part of America at War .
- Adams, John
- Adams, Samuel *
- Burr, Aaron *
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Harrison, William Henry
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jay, John *
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Madison, James
- McKinley, William
- Pershing, John J.
- Polk, James K.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Taylor, Zachary
- Truman, Harry S
- Washington, George
- Wilson, Woodrow
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