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This area is an index on the primary sources and transcripts this project contains and provides.

*** 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- ***

    Before 1400

  1. Magna Charta

    1400 - 1500

  2. Privileges and Prerogatives granted to Columbus April 30, 1492 by king Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth
  3. Extracts from the journal of Columbus
  4. The Papal bull Inter Caetera - Alexander VI, May 4, 1493
  5. The treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494
  6. Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
  7. Letters of Patent to John Cabbot, March 5, 1496
  8. Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, 1497
  9. Three letters concerning John Cabbots voyages
  10. King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians

    1500 - 1600

  11. The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations, around 1500
  12. Plakkaat van Verlatinghe, 1581 july 26

    13. The (Dutch) Act of Abjuration.
  13. Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western planting, 1584
  14. Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584

    1601-1650

  15. From: Samuel de Champlain, Voyages , 1604
  16. Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
  17. The First Virginia Charter, 1606
  18. The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
  19. The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
  20. Mayflower Compact, 1620
  21. The Charter of New England : 1620
  22. An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
  23. Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
  24. The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
  25. Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants
  26. Petition of Right, 1628
  27. Extract from Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons, June 7, 1629
  28. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  29. Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640
  30. New England Articles of Confederation, 1643

    1651-1700

  31. Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
  32. Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
  33. The First Thanksgiving Proclamation ,June 20, 1676
  34. Edward Randolph condemns the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683
  35. Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
  36. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689
  37. John Locke, An Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government
  38. Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697

    1701 - 1725

  39. Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 28 October 1701
  40. King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
  41. Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
  42. The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715

    1726 - 1750

  43. Benjamin Franklin: A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency
  44. Benjamin Franklin: Journal of a voyage from England to Philadelphia, 1726
  45. Benjamin Franklin, How I became a printer in Philadelphia, from his autobiography
  46. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  47. Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
  48. Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
  49. Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
  50. Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the governor's salary, 17 September 1728
  51. French Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750 (translated)
  52. Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
  53. Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
  54. Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations

    1751 - 1775

  55. Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
  56. Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
  57. Peace Treaty of Paris, 1763
  58. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
  59. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
  60. The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
  61. William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
  62. Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  63. Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  64. John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  65. John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  66. First Continental Congress - October 1774
  67. Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress October 1774
  68. The Articles of Association, October 20 1774
  69. The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
  70. Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
  71. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
  72. Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
  73. Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775

    1776 - 1800

  74. Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
  75. Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
  76. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
  77. Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
  78. The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
  79. Jefferson's notes on Slavery
  80. Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
  81. Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
  82. Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
  83. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
  84. The Articles of Confederation, 1781
  85. From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
  86. Letter of Samuell Searls - May 12, 1782
  87. Paris Peace Treaty, 1783
  88. Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Stanwix, October 22, 1784
  89. James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
  90. The Annapolis Convention, 1786
  91. The Complete Federalist Papers
  92. The Constitutional Convention debates and the Anti-Federalist Papers
  93. The USA Constitution
  94. The letter presenting the Constitution
  95. Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Hamar, January 9, 1789
  96. Madison speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
  97. Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
  98. Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man (1791-1792)
  99. Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
  100. The Jay Treaty, 1794
  101. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason - 1794
  102. The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
  103. The Northwest Ordinance, july 13, 1787
  104. The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
  105. Treaty between the United States and the Oneida, Tuscorora and Stockbridge Indians living in the country of the Oneidas 1794
  106. Virginia Resolution - 1798
  107. Kentucky Resolution - 1799
  108. George Washington
  109. The Sedition Act of 1798
  110. John Adams

    1801 - 1825

  111. Thomas Jefferson
  112. James Madison
  113. James Monroe
  114. Cases of John Marshall

    1826 - 1850

  115. Treaty made at Buffalo Creek in the State of New York, January 15, 1838 with the representatives of the Nations of New York Indians
  116. John Q. Adams
  117. Andrew Jackson
  118. The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
  119. William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
  120. Martin van Buren's Inaugural address, 1837
  121. William H. Harrison's Inaugural address, 1841
  122. James K. Polk's Inaugural address, 1845
  123. The Seneca Falls Declaration 1848
  124. Zachary Taylor's Inaugural address, 1849
  125. Benjamin Drew, The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves
  126. Excerpts from "The Fugitive Slave Act" 1850
  127. From the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
  128. The opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

    1851 - 1875

  129. Excerpts from : Henry Carey - The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial (1851)
  130. Excerpts from : Henrey Carey - The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
  131. Franklin Pierce's Inaugural address, 1853
  132. Excerpt from : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856
  133. James Buchanan's Inaugural address, March 4, 1857
  134. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
  135. McClellan Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Penninsula Campaign, 1862
  136. Abraham Lincoln
  137. The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
  138. Thaddeus Stevens speech of December 18, 1865
  139. Address of a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865
  140. Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866
  141. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866 Andrew Johnson, Cleveland speech, September 3, 1866
  142. Andrew Johnson, Veto fo the first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
  143. Charles Sumner, Opinion on the trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
  144. Exerpt from: James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
  145. Navajo Treaty of 1868
  146. Ulysses S. Grant
  147. Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association, April 1873
  148. The Slaughter-House cases 1873

    1876 - 1900

  149. Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876
  150. Rutherford B. Hayes' Inaugural address, 1877
  151. Supreme Court Case: Munn v. Illinois, 1877
  152. Excerpt from: Henry George, Progress and Poverty 1879
  153. James A. Garfield's Inaugural address , 1881
  154. Excerpt from: Edward Belamy, Looking Backward, 1884
  155. Andrew Carnegie "Wealth", June 1889
  156. The Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
  157. Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892
  158. Grover Cleveland
  159. Benjamin Harrison's Inaugural address, 1889
  160. Excerpt from: William Graham Sumner, "The absurd effort to make the world over", March 1894
  161. Excerpt from:"Coin" Harvey, Coin's Financial School, 1894
  162. Samuel Gompers, Letter on labor in industrial society to Judge Peter Grosscup. September 1894
  163. Excerpt from: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
  164. James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to "Coin" Harvey, 1895
  165. Supreme Court Case Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Co., 1895
  166. Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895
  167. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
  168. William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896
  169. William Allen White, "What's the matter with Kansas?", August 16, 1896
  170. William McKinley
  171. John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door Note , September 6 1899
  172. The Autobiography of Geronimo

    1901 - 1925

  173. Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural address, 1905
  174. William H. Taft's Inaugural address, 1909
  175. Woodrow Wilson
  176. Warren G. Harding's Inaugural address, 1921
  177. Calvin Coolidge's Inaugural address, 1925

    1926 - 1950

  178. Herbert C. Hoover's Inaugural address, 1929
  179. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  180. The Atlantic Charter 1941, August 14
  181. Harry S. Truman

    1951 - 1975

  182. Brown v. Board of Education 1954
  183. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  184. John F. Kennedy
  185. Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  186. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963
  187. Lyndon B. Johnson
  188. Speech by George C. Wallace, The Civil Rights Movement: fraud, sham and hoax, 1964
  189. Richard M. Nixon
  190. Gerald Ford

    1976 - 2000

  191. Jimmy Carter
  192. Ronald Reagan
  193. George Bush
  194. Bill Clinton

    2001-

  195. 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- ***