Historical Documents

Year Sort descending Title Author
Timeline of Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922 (Excerpts)
Timeline: Alexander Hamilton's Chronology, 1788-1854
Quotations of Alexander Hamilton
Data on the Framers of the Constitution
In His Own Words: Samuel de Champlain
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Copley Medal
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution
1215 Magna Carta
1492 Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: 1492
1493 Translation of letter from Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
1493 Columbus’s Account of 1492 Voyage- Excerpt
1604 Samuel De Champlain Voyages, 1604
1606 First Charter of Virginia, 1606
1610 Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia, 1610-1611.
1610 A True Declaration of the Estate in Virginia, 1610
1619 Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia, 1619
1623 Letter from an Indentured Servant to His Parents, 1623
1629 Salem Covenant of 1629
1634 Salem Oath for Residents
1636 The Enlarged Salem Covenant
1662 Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
1689 English Bill of Rights
1690 Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature
1692 Petition of Ten Prisoners at Ipswich
1692 Death Warrant for Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, and Sarah Wilds
1692 Trial of Rebecca Nurse- Excerpt
1711 Act to Reverse the Attainders of George Burroughs and Others for Witchcraft
1728 Franklin’s Epitaph
1748 Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Book XI- Excerpts
1765 Stamp Act of 1765
1770 Coffin of Patrick Carr
1773 Eyewitness Account of George Hewes
1774 Administration of Justice Act, 1774
1774 Boston Port Act, 1774
1774 Massachusetts Government Act, 1774
1775 Orders To Lieut. Colonel Smith, 10th Regiment ’Foot
1775 Letter from John Adams to James Warren, 7 October 1775
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...
1775 Diary of John Barker- Excerpt
1775 A French Account of Braddock's Defeat in 1755, Captain de Contrecoeur
1776 Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson
Thomas
1776 Declaration of Independence
Livingston
Robert
1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights
1777 Letter from Benjamin Franklin to the Committee of Secret Correspondence
1777 Articles of Confederation
1778 Treaty of Alliance with France
1779 Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
1780 "The British Prison Ship"