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*** 1726-1750 * 1751-1775 * 1776-1800 * 1801-1825 * 1826-1850 * 1851-1875 ***
*** 1876-1900 * 1901-1925 * 1926-1950 * 1951-1975 * 1976-2000 * 2001- ***
- Magna Charta
- Privileges and Prerogatives granted to Columbus April 30, 1492 by king Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth
- Extracts from the journal of Columbus
- The Papal bull Inter Caetera - Alexander VI, May 4, 1493
- The treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494
- Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of
Spain, 1494
- Letters of Patent to John Cabbot, March 5, 1496
- Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, 1497
- Three letters concerning John Cabbots voyages
- King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians
- The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations, around 1500
- Plakkaat van Verlatinghe, 1581 july 26
The (Dutch) Act of Abjuration.
- Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western
planting, 1584
- Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584
- From: 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
- The Charter of New England : 1620
- An Ordinance and Constitution of the
Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July
1621
- Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
- The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
- Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune
indentured Servants
- Petition of Right, 1628
- Extract from Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons, June 7, 1629
- The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
- Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640
- New England Articles of Confederation, 1643
- Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the
People, 30 July 1676
- Governor William Berkely on Bacon's
Rebellion, 19 May 1676
- The First Thanksgiving Proclamation ,June 20, 1676
- Edward Randolph condemns the
Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683
- Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay
Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January
1687
- John Locke, A Letter Concerning
Toleration, 1689
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil
Government
- Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
- Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 28 October 1701
- King William of England Addresses
Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
- Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
- The North Carolina Biennal Act,
1715
- Benjamin Franklin: A Modest Enquiry
into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency
- Benjamin Franklin: Journal of a voyage
from England to Philadelphia, 1726
- Benjamin Franklin, How I became a
printer in Philadelphia, from his autobiography
- The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin
- Governor Gabriel Johnston's
request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
- Disposition of the North
Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
- Massachusetts House of
Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
- Governor Burnet of Massachusetts
on the governor's salary, 17 September 1728
- French Memoir on the English
Aggression, October 1750 (translated)
- Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the
French Colonies in North America, December 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
- Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
- Governor Glen, The Role of the
Indians in the Rivalry Between
France, Spain, and England, 1761
- Peace 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
- Captain Preston's account of the Boston
Massacre, March 5 1770
- Anonymous account of the Boston
Massacre, March 5 1770
- John Dickenson's Letter 2, from
Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
- John Dickenson's Letter 4, from
Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
- First Continental Congress - October
1774
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress October 1774
- The Articles of Association, October 20 1774
- The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
- Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
- John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
- Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America,
March 22, 1775
- Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the
Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
- Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America
Impartially Stated,
1776
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
- Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of
Independence
- The Final Text of the Declaration of
Independence, July 4 1776
- Jefferson's notes on
Slavery
- Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
- Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at
Valley Forge, 1777
- Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious
Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis,
1780-1783
- The Articles of Confederation, 1781
- From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781
describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
- Letter of Samuell Searls - May 12, 1782
- Paris Peace Treaty, 1783
- Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Stanwix, October 22, 1784
- James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance
-1785
- The Annapolis Convention, 1786
- The Complete Federalist Papers
- The Constitutional Convention debates and the Anti-Federalist Papers
- The USA Constitution
- The letter presenting the Constitution
- Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Hamar, January 9, 1789
- Madison speech proposing the Bill of
Rights, June 8, 1789
- Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
- Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man
(1791-1792)
- Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
- The Jay Treaty, 1794
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason - 1794
- The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes,
1795
- The Northwest Ordinance, july 13, 1787
- The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
- Treaty between the United States and the Oneida, Tuscorora and Stockbridge Indians living in the country of the Oneidas 1794
- Virginia Resolution - 1798
- Kentucky Resolution - 1799
- George Washington
- On recruiting and maintaining an army, 1776 (Letter to John Hancock)
- First inaugural address, 1789
- Second inaugural address, 1793
- Farewell Address : 1796
- Annual Message,1790-01-08
- Annual Message, 1790-12-08
- Annual Message,1791-10-25
- Annual Message,1792-11-06
- Annual Message, 1793-12-03
- Annual Message, 1794-11-19
- Annual Message, 1795-12-08
- Annual Message, 1796-12-07
- The Sedition Act of 1798
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Cases of John Marshall
- Treaty made at Buffalo Creek in the State of New York, January 15, 1838 with the representatives of the Nations of New York Indians
- John Q. Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
- William Barret Travis: Letter from the
commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
- Martin van Buren's Inaugural address, 1837
- William H. Harrison's Inaugural address, 1841
- James K. Polk's Inaugural address, 1845
- The Seneca Falls Declaration 1848
- Zachary Taylor's Inaugural address, 1849
- Benjamin Drew, The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Related by Themselves
- Excerpts from "The Fugitive Slave Act" 1850
- From the Autobiography of
Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
- The opinions of the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
- Excerpts from : Henry Carey - The Harmony
of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial (1851)
- Excerpts from : Henrey Carey - The Slave Trade,
Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
- Franklin Pierce's Inaugural address, 1853
- Excerpt from : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey
in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856
- James Buchanan's Inaugural address, March 4, 1857
- The Constitution of the Confederate States of
America (1861)
- McClellan Letter to Lincoln on His
Evacuation from the Penninsula Campaign, 1862
- Abraham Lincoln
- The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5,
1864
- Thaddeus Stevens speech of December 18,
1865
- Address of a convention of Negroes held in
Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865
- Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866
- Report of the Joint Committee on
Reconstruction, June 20, 1866
Andrew Johnson, Cleveland speech, September 3, 1866
- Andrew Johnson, Veto fo the first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
- Charles Sumner, Opinion on the trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
- Exerpt from: James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
- Navajo Treaty of 1868
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association, April 1873
- The Slaughter-House cases 1873
- Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876
- Rutherford B. Hayes' Inaugural address, 1877
- Supreme Court Case: Munn v. Illinois, 1877
- Excerpt from: Henry George, Progress and Poverty 1879
- James A. Garfield's Inaugural address , 1881
- Excerpt from: Edward Belamy, Looking Backward, 1884
- Andrew Carnegie "Wealth", June 1889
- The Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
- Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison's Inaugural address, 1889
- Excerpt from: William Graham Sumner, "The absurd effort to make the world over", March 1894
- Excerpt from:"Coin" Harvey, Coin's Financial School, 1894
- Samuel Gompers, Letter on labor in industrial society to Judge Peter Grosscup. September 1894
- Excerpt from: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
- James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to "Coin" Harvey, 1895
- Supreme Court Case Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Co., 1895
- Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895
- Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
- William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896
- William Allen White, "What's the matter with Kansas?", August 16, 1896
- William McKinley
- John Hay to Andrew D. White,
First Open Door Note , September 6 1899
- The Autobiography of Geronimo
- Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural address, 1905
- William H. Taft's Inaugural address, 1909
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding's Inaugural address, 1921
- Calvin Coolidge's Inaugural address, 1925
- Herbert C. Hoover's Inaugural address, 1929
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- First Inaugural address, 1933
- Second Inaugural address, 1937
- Third Inaugural address, 1941
- Fourth Inaugural address, 1945
- State of the Union, 1934
- State of the Union, 1935
- State of the Union, 1937
- State of the Union, 1938
- State of the Union, 1945
- Pearl Harbor Speech, December 8, 1941
- The Atlantic Charter 1941, August 14
- Harry S. Truman
- Brown v. Board of Education 1954
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Address by President Kennedy, October 22, 1962
- White House Statement on Continuation of Missile Build-up in Cuba, October 26, 1962
- Second Letter from Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962
- President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, October 27, 1962
- White House Statement, October 27, 1962
- Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 28, 1962
- Statement by President Kennedy on Receipt of Chairman Khrushchev's Letter, October 28, 1962
- President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, October 28, 1962
- Address by President Kennedy on Cuba, November 2, 1962
- President Kennedy's Statement on Cuba, November 20, 1962
- Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech -
August 28, 1963
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Speech by George C. Wallace, The Civil Rights Movement: fraud, sham and hoax, 1964
- Richard M. Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- First Inaugural address, 1981
- Second Inaugural address, 1985
- The 1964 speech
- The Challenger Disaster Speech
- The Evil Empire speech
- Ronald Reagan -- Pointe de Hoc,
Normandy, June 6, 1984
- Speech at Omaha Beach, June 6, 1984
- Speech of the Former President at the
1992 Republican Convention
- Tenth Anniversary of the Announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative
- President Reagan's Speech
at the 1994 Gala
- State of the Union, 1982
- State of the Union, 1983
- State of the Union, 1984
- State of the Union, 1985
- State of the Union, 1986
- State of the Union, 1987
- State of the Union, 1988
- George Bush
- Bill Clinton
- First inaugural address, 1993
- Second inaugural address, 1997
- Farewell address, 2001
- State of the Union, 1994 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1994 (prepared version)
- State of the Union, 1995 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1995 (prepared version)
- State of the Union, 1996 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1996 (prepared version)
- State of the Union, 1997 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1998 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1999 (delivered version)
- State of the Union, 1999 (prepared version)
- State of the Union, 2000 (delivered version)
- George W. Bush's Inaugural address, 2001
*** Before 1400 * 1400-1500 * 1501-1600 * 1601-1650 * 1651-1700 * 1701-1725 ***
*** 1726-1750 * 1751-1775 * 1776-1800 * 1801-1825 * 1826-1850 * 1851-1875 ***
*** 1876-1900 * 1901-1925 * 1926-1950 * 1951-1975 * 1976-2000 * 2001- ***