Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1788 Brutus No. 15- Excerpt
1690 Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature
1881 Charles Guiteau Letter to William T. Sherman
1866 Civil Rights Act 1866
Bingham
Congressman John A.
1964 Civil Rights Act 1964
Marshall
Thurgood
2012 Civil War Battle Statistics
1917 Cloture Rule
1770 Coffin of Patrick Carr
1493 Columbus’s Account of 1492 Voyage- Excerpt
1870 Consular Convention Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
1860 Cooper Union Address
Copley Medal
1794 Cotton Gin Patent
1822 Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion
1920 Covenant of the League of Nations
1938 Custer's Last Charge (Song)
Data on the Framers of the Constitution
1787 David Hoyt Jr. to his Father, Regarding Shays' Rebellion- Letter
1887 Dawes Act of 1887
1692 Death Warrant for Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, and Sarah Wilds
1776 Declaration of Independence
Livingston
Robert
1920 Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
Garvey
Marcus
1790 Decree of French National Assembly on the Death of Franklin
1860 Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860.
1860 Democratic ticket. Our principals the Constitution. For President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky For Vice President Joseph Lane of Oregon
1775 Diary of John Barker- Excerpt
2012 Did The Federal Ban On Assault Weapons Matter?
1862 District of Columbia Emancipation Act 1862
1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford
1961 Eisenhower's Farewell Address
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln
Abraham
1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863
Lincoln
Abraham
1931 Emma Goldman's Deportation
2021 Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act 2021
Rush
Representative Bobby
1962 Engel v. Vitale
1689 English Bill of Rights
1920 Excerpt from Palmer's speech: "The Case Against the Reds"
1961 Executive Order 10925
Kennedy
John F
1941 Executive Order 8802
1943 Executive Order 9346
1948 Executive Order 9981
1948 Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
1997 Explanation of Cover Photograph of Book "A Hundred Miles of Bad Road" by Philip Randazzo
1856 Extradition Convention Between the United States and Austria-Hungary
1773 Eyewitness Account of George Hewes
1861 Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1787 Federalist No. 1
1787 Federalist No. 10
1788 Federalist No. 46
1788 Federalist No. 47