Additions 2003

August 11

We have removed the biography of Grenville, since one of our contributors - Linda Peuscher - plagiarized an article of Dr. Rory T. Cornish in this biography. We are very sorry that this has happened.

June 5

Antifederalist Papers 31 - 40 added by Fokke v.d. Molen

May 13

New documents:

• The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations, around 1500
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation ,June 20, 1676
• Antifederalist Papers 27 - 30 added by Fokke v.d. Molen

May 12

New documents:

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Speech by George C. Wallace, The Civil Rights Movement: fraud, sham and hoax, 1964

May 11

New documents:

• Navajo Treaty of 1868
• The Sedition Act of 1798
• The Seneca Falls Declaration 1848
• The Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
• President Cleveland's message about Hawaii, December 18, 189

May 9

1. Started with inserting the original illustrations and captions in the Outline of American History 1963 (Chapter 1)
2. New document: The Atlantic Charter 1941

May 5

1. New images added to various biographies
2. New biography of William Blackstone by Greg Bailey

May 3

1. Lots of new images added to many files
2. Replaced some of the missing files on the mirror-site

May 2

1. Anti-federalist Papers 23-26 added
2. Corrected OCR-errors and added new links to Supreme Court cases of John Marshall
3. Corrected wrong javascript reference in the Monroe-doctrine

April 30

1. New Documents added
   • Supreme Court Case: Munn v. Illinois, 1877
   • Excerpt from: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
   • Excerpt from:"Coin" Harvey, Coin's Financial School, 1894
   • James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to "Coin" Harvey, 1895
   • Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895
   • Supreme Court Case Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Co., 1895
   • William Allen White, "What's the matter with Kansas?", August 16, 1896

April 29

1. New documents added:
   • Grover Cleveland, Message on the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, August 8, 1893
   • Samuel Gompers, Letter on labor in industrial society to Judge Peter Grosscup. September 1894
   • William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896
   • Andrew Carnegie "Wealth", June 1889
   • Excerpt from: William Graham Sumner, "The absurd effort to make the world over", March 1894
   • Excerpt from: Edward Belamy, Looking Backward, 1884
2. Biography of Edward Bellamy
3. Biography of Samuel Gompers

April 25

1. New documents added:
   • Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892
   • Excerpt from: Henry George, Progress and Poverty 1879
   • Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876
   • Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association, April 1873
2. Images added to the documents of yesterday

April 24

New documents added:

• Exerpt from: James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
• Charles Sumner, Opinion on the trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
• Andrew Johnson, Veto fo the first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
• Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866
• Andrew Johnson, Cleveland speech, September 3, 1866
• Anti-federalist papers 20-22

April 20

New documents added:

• Extract from Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons, June 7, 1629
• Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Stanwix, October 22, 1784
• Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Hamar, January 9, 1789
• 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
• Treaty made at Buffalo Creek in the State of New York, January 15, 1838 with the representatives of the Nations of New York Indians

April 18

Cleaned up the guestbook
Changed header-script.
Corrections made to a number of documents, concerning wrong reference to javascript
New documents added:

• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
• The Slaughter-House cases 1873

April 17

New documents added:

• King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians
• Extracts from the journal of Columbus
• Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, 1497
• Three letters concerning John Cabbots voyages
  • Letter from Lorenzo Pasqualigo to His Brothers Alvise and Francesco 1497
  • First Despatch of Raimondo di Soncino to the Duke of Milan 1497
  • Second Despatch of Raimondo di Soncino to the Duke of Milan 1497

April 16

New documents added for the period 1400-1500:

• Privileges and Prerogatives granted to Columbus April 30, 1492 by king Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
• The Papal bull Inter Caetera - Alexander VI, May 4, 1493
• The treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494
• Letters of Patent to John Cabbot, March 5, 1496
• Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584

April 14

Corrected errors in Outline of Economy

February

Added George Bush State of the Union 2002

January - February

Improved used Javascript and converted all files