Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1911 "A Winter Walk" Essay
1961 "City Upon a Hill" Speech
1953 "History Will Absolve Me" Speech
1874 "Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
1823 "Ripe Fruit" Theory
1926 "The American Senate" Published
1780 "The British Prison Ship"
2005 "The Evolving Federal Role in Education: An Introductory Essay" (Excerpt)
1910 “Friends” Poem
1998 “I Have Sinned” Speech
1912 “Mystery” Poem
1791 “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1906 “The Land of Romance” Poem
1861 “The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861
2013 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg
1853 1853 Treaty on Free Navigation of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers
1919 18th Amendment
1934 1934 Treaty of Relations
1968 1968 Fasting Statement
1984 1984 Commonwealth Club Address
1920 19th Amendment
1791 2nd Amendment to the Constitution
1791 3rd Amendment to the Constitution
1791 4th Amendment to the Constitution
1775 A French Account of Braddock's Defeat in 1755, Captain de Contrecoeur
1898 A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
1775 A Narrative, of the Excursion and Ravages of the King ’s Troops Under the Command of General Gage, on the nineteenth of April, 1775: Together with the Depositions...
1859 A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
1610 A True Declaration of the Estate in Virginia, 1610
1828 Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
2015 Abigail Adams- Brief Biography
2013 Abolition/Slavery Timeline
1917 About Filibusters and Cloture
1860 Abraham Lincoln on he day of his speech at the Cooper Union The New York Daily Tribune, Tuesday, February 28, 1860
2004 Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, as read by Sam Waterston May 23, 2004
1711 Act to Reverse the Attainders of George Burroughs and Others for Witchcraft
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty
1913 Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile, Alabama
1848 Address Delivered at Seneca Falls
1774 Administration of Justice Act, 1774
1971 Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
1954 Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam
2013 Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate
1831 Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
1939 Alfred Hitchcock at Radio City Music Hall
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
2007 All People Are Living Histories—Which Is Why History Matters
1961 Alliance for Progress
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
1991 American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh