Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1773 Eyewitness Account of George Hewes
1787 Federalist No. 1
1787 Federalist No. 10
1788 Federalist No. 46
1788 Federalist No. 68
1788 Federalist No. 78
1606 First Charter of Virginia, 1606
1793 Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
1790 George Washington Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
1863 Gettysburg Address
1963 Gideon v. Wainwright
2011 Gun Violence
2011 Guns in Public Places: Legal Community Against Violence
1861 H.J. Res. 80, proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States
1791 Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
1951 Harlem, a poem by Langston Hughes
2025 Hewitt v. United States
1862 Homestead Act (1862)
1962 Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
In His Own Words: Samuel de Champlain
1924 Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
1776 Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson
Thomas
1839 John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
1619 Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia, 1619
1623 Letter from an Indentured Servant to His Parents, 1623
1777 Letter from Benjamin Franklin to the Committee of Secret Correspondence
1907 Letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell, February 19, 1907
1775 Letter from John Adams to James Warren, 7 October 1775
1783 Letter to George Washington from Alexander Hamilton
1782 Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
2024 Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Monroe
James
1967 Loving v. Virginia 1967
1215 Magna Carta
1961 Mapp v. Ohio
1774 Massachusetts Government Act, 1774
Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution
1966 Miranda v. Arizona
1787 New Jersey Plan
2012 No Increase in Mass Shootings
1775 Orders To Lieut. Colonel Smith, 10th Regiment ’Foot
1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Brown
Justice Henry
2003 President George Bush's Address Announcing End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq
1832 President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
2025 President Joe Biden’s Farewell Address
1986 President Ronald Reagan's Speech on Space Shuttle Challenger