Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1606 First Charter of Virginia, 1606
1861 First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
1869 First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant
1728 Franklin’s Epitaph
1918 Frederick Jackson Turner- Short Biography
1793 Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
1786 George Washington Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
1790 George Washington Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
1863 Gettysburg Address
2012 Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg
1963 Gideon v. Wainwright
1861 Glory hally, hallelujah! or The John Brown song. H. De Marsan, 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.
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
1863 H.R.14 — 38th Congress (1863-1865)
1791 Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
1951 Harlem, a poem by Langston Hughes
2017 Harriet Beecher Stowe- Short Biography
2025 Hewitt v. United States
2012 Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, The Movie and Man- Excerpt
1862 Homestead Act (1862)
1962 Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
In His Own Words: Samuel de Champlain
1924 Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
2023 Insanity Defense Overview
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
1861 Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address
1776 Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson
Thomas
2010 Jewish Pioneers- Article
1797 John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
1801 John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams: February 16, 1801
2023 John Adams- Brief Biography
1881 John Brown: An Address
1863 John Brown's Entrance Into Hell.
1859 John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial
1839 John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
1861 Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution
1865 Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865
2010 Josephine and Wyatt Earp- Article
1789 Judiciary Act of 1789- Excerpts
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Douglass
Senator Stephen
1619 Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia, 1619
1860 Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln
1907 Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Helen Keller, March 23, 1907
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