Historical Documents

Year Title Sort descending Author
1941 "Day of Infamy" Speech
1874 "Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
1775 A French Account of Braddock's Defeat in 1755, Captain de Contrecoeur
1898 A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
1964 A Time for Choosing Speech
A True Declaration of the Estate in Virginia, 1610
1831 Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
1872 American Progress, John Gast
1777 Articles of Confederation
1610 Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia, 1610-1611.
1961 Eisenhower's Farewell Address
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
1773 Eyewitness Account of George Hewes
1788 Federalist No. 78
1606 First Charter of Virginia, 1606
1790 George Washington Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
1791 Hamilton's Opinion on the National Bank
1951 Harlem, a poem by Langston Hughes
1962 Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
In His Own Words: Samuel de Champlain
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
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
1783 Letter to George Washington from Alexander Hamilton
1782 Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
1941 President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
2003 President George Bush's Address Announcing End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq
1986 President Ronald Reagan's Speech on Space Shuttle Challenger
Quotations of Alexander Hamilton
1989 Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
1980 Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address
1604 Samuel De Champlain Voyages, 1604
1774 The Boston Port Act, 1774
1770 The Coffin of Patrick Carr
1920 The Covenant of the League of Nations
1863 The Gettysburg Address
1215 The Magna Carta
1774 The Massachusetts Government Act, 1774
1662 The Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
1904-05 The War Prayer
Timeline: Alexander Hamilton's Chronology, 1788-1854
1917 Zimmermann Telegram
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