Historical Documents

Year Title Author
1782 Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
2007 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington Testifies on the Library's Digital Evolution
1859 Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown
Brown
John
1860 Lincoln as They Saw Him by Herbert Mitgang- Excerpt
2012 Lincoln, Hollywood, and an Opportunity for Historians- Excerpt
2024 Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Monroe
James
1967 Loving v. Virginia 1967
1862 Lyons Seward Treaty of 1862
1978 Madrigal v. Quilligan
1215 Magna Carta
Making Sense of Films: Film as Social and Cultural History
1961 Mapp v. Ohio
1803 Marbury v. Madison – Opinion of the Court
1860 Maryland state ticket. Election, Tuesday November 6th, 1860...For President of the United States John Bell of Tennessee. For Vice President of the United States, Edward Everett of Massachusetts
1774 Massachusetts Government Act, 1774
Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution
1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty
1911 Meeting of the Mexicanist Congress
1946 Mendez v. Westminster
2006 Michigan Civil Rights Initiative 2006
Connerly
Ward
1966 Miranda v. Arizona
1966 Miranda v. Arizona
1937 Miss Earhart Forced Down at Sea, Howland Isle Fears; Coast Guard Begins Search
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1823 Monroe Doctrine
Monroe
James
1748 Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Book XI- Excerpts
1855 My Bondage and Freedom
Douglass
Fredrick
1992 My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos
Demos
John
1884 Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune
1970 National Chicano Moratorium
1962 National Farm Workers Association
1860 National Republican platform adopted by National Republican Convention, held in Chicago. May 17, 1860.
1870 Naturalization Convention Between the United States and Austria Hungry
1787 New Jersey Plan
1846 New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico
1865 New York Daily Tribune, “Freedom Triumphant”
1931 News Article: “Fierce Blizzard: 11 Deaths in U.S.A."
1931 News Article: “Many Deaths”
2012 No Increase in Mass Shootings
2009 No Jobs Without College as Employers Treat Degree as a Minimum
1870 Oberlin Women’s Suffrage Debate
2010 OK Corral Inquest Transcript Found in Arizona Jailhouse Store Room
1995 Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Prayer Service Address
1922 Old Style Parents and New Style Sons
1957 On the Treatment of the Little Rock Nine
1775 Orders To Lieut. Colonel Smith, 10th Regiment ’Foot
1948 Organization of American States (OAS) Charter
1854 Ostend Manifesto
1937 P.V.H. Weems' Letter to Amelia Earhart