Historical Documents

New Jersey Plan
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Hamilton is Mortally Wounded by Burr
Timeline: Alexander Hamilton's Chronology, 1788-1854
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and Algieria 1816
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Image of the first page of Declaration of Independance
Declaration of Independence
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Corwin Amendment
H.J. Res. 80, proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Map of North America before the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Limits
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Students Praying in School
Engel v. Vitale
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Treaty of Peace with Algieria 1815
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
James Warren
Letter from John Adams to James Warren, 7 October 1775
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Constitution
3rd Amendment to the Constitution
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Dick Heller
Syllabus For The Decision District of Columbia et al v. Heller (2008)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Collections

Signing the Constitution
Was the Constitution An Economic Document? by Henry Steele Commager
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
U.S. Constitution
Taking Another Look at the Constitutional Blueprint, by Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, et al
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Articles

A Crisis of Peace (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Save the Glover House! (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Joseph Ellis Explains Just How Revolutionary the Revolution Was (Winter 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Yellow Fever Stalks the Founders (Spring 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Private Flohr’s America (December 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 8)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The World Turned Upside Down (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
How Benedict Arnold's Treason Was Discovered (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold (Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Volume: 64, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Children of Monticello (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
What Does the Second Amendment Really Mean? (September/October 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Jefferson’s Paris (April 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Madison’s Radical Agenda (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The High Art of George Hadfield (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
March on Quebec (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Heart of the Constitution: The Bill of Rights (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Power of Objects in 18th-Century America (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Founding Wizard (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Student Who Exasperated George Washington (September 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
George Washington's Journey (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
A French Count Who Aided the Revolution Was Not Keen on Americans (February/March 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
George Washington Invents the Presidency (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
“Times That Try Men’s Souls” (Spring 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Grave Matters (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Rediscovering Hand-Drawn Maps from the American Revolution and the Duke Who Collected Them (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
“The Die is Now Cast” (November/December 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 5)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Story of El Camino Real (April/May 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 2)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Finest Books on the Young Republic: 1787 To 1860 (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
George Washington Struggles with Slavery (June 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Great Crash of 1792 (May/June 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 3)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Adams Appoints Marshall (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
In Defense of the Articles of Confederation (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Magnificent Fraud (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Conway Cabal (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

Historical Images

Court of France
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of France
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Seal of Bald Eagle, includes the motto E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many, One."
Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Join, Or Die Cartoon
Join, or Die
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