Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1961 "City Upon a Hill" Speech
1874 "Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
1926 "The American Senate" Published
1780 "The British Prison Ship"
2005 "The Evolving Federal Role in Education: An Introductory Essay" (Excerpt)
1791 “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1861 “The Last Race of the Rail-Splitter,” Broadside, ca. 1861
1853 1853 Treaty on Free Navigation of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers
1919 18th Amendment
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
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
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
1872 American Progress by John Gast
2013 Americans Call for Term Limits, End to Electoral College: Gallup.com
1865 Amnesty Oath of Robert E. Lee
2001 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692.
1890 An appeal to the Congress of the United States from the Society of Old Brooklynites : for the erection of a monument over the remains of 11,500 prisoners who died on board the British prison ships during the Revolutionary War- Excerpt
1913 An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States: Selections
1865 Announcement to the Army of the Death of President Lincoln
1777 Articles of Confederation
1610 Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia, 1610-1611.
1863 Battlefield Dispatches Gettysburg- July 3, 1863
1831 Black Code
North Carolina General Assembly
2005 Book Review by Chandra Miller Manning
1936 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
1774 Boston Port Act, 1774
1878 Brazil-U.S. Trade-Mark Agreement
1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1954
Earl Warren
Chief Justice