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Historical Documents

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)

Class Photo at a Mexican-American School Featuring Future President Lyndon B. Johnson

Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Trenton State Sentinel and Capital, Editorial

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Good Neighbor Policy

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

In this isolated mountainous Spanish American community in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, a one-room school serves students across eight grades with just two teachers. These teachers work with minimal equipment, relying on the blackboard to teach the alphabet, penmanship, and grammar.

Serna v. Portales

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

“Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

Supports of the Dream Act holding a Banner

Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM)

ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Stamp Act of 1765

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

Sylvia Mendez, one of the children at the center of this case.

Mendez v. Westminster

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

El Plan de Santa Barbara (Plan of Santa Barbara)

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Judiciary Act of 1789- Excerpts

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

S.123 - A Bill To abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States.

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress Congress, Wednesday, February 01, 1865

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Luisa Moreno, one of the main organizers of the Congress

Spanish Speaking People's Congress

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Sierra Maestra Manifesto

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Decision delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren

Hernandez v. Texas

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

On the Treatment of the Little Rock Nine

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Original document of the enrolled acts and resolutions of Congress pertaining to the Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Act 1964

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Ahead of Oscars, Courtney asks Spielberg, DreamWorks to correct Lincoln inaccuracy that places Connecticut on wrong side of slavery debate

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

The Royal Academy of Farting

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

Mexican female laborers engaged in pecan shelling

Pecan Shellers Strike

ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)

Marbury v. Madison – Opinion of the Court

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

President Reagan signing the Immigration Reform and Control Act

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Plea for Captain John Brown

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Rochester Evening Express, Editorial

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Annual Address by Joseph Jackson

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, The Movie and Man- Excerpt

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Cesar Chaves with Robert Kennedy at the end of his fast

1968 Fasting Statement

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

S.J.RES.150 -- To designate June 15, 1991, as "Magna Carta Day".

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Fidel Castro signing the first agrarian law in 1959

Law #3 of the Sierra Maestra on Agrarian Reform

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Joint Resolution Proposing a 13th Amendment to the Constitution

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Historical Images

Truman Wipes out Segregation in Armed Forces

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Virginia Memory: The Rights of the People– Women are People. Suffrage Victory Map, 1920

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

March On Washington

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Magna Britannia

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

A new declaration of independence in the year 1885

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Emancipation by Thomas Nast

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Collections

The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Growing Up Colored, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London, by Joan Paterson Kerr

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

The Magna Carta Comes to America, by A.E. Dick Howard

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind

Hollywood History, by Mark C. Carnes

ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Emigrants crossing the plains, by F.O.C. Darley

How the Wilderness Was Won, by Stewart L. Udall

ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras

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)