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Historical Documents
U. S. Historical Documents
FIFTEENTH CENTURY SIXTEENTH CENTURY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -
The Iroquois Constitution
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Discussion of the Iroquois Constitution
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Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604
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Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
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The First Virginia Charter, 1606
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The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
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The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
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Mayflower Compact, 1620
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An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virgina Company in England, 24 July 1621
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Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
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Petition of Right, 1628
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
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The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
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Proclamation of First Thanksgiving
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Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
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Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
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Memoir... Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
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Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -
King William Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
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Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
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The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715
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Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
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Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governor's Salary, 17 September 1728
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1733)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1734)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1735)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1736)
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Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1737)
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Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1738)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1739)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1740)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1741)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1742)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1743)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1744)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1745)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1746)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard (1747)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1748)
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Jonathan Mayhew A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers, 1750
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Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
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Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations
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Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750
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Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1752)
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1753)
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Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
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Samuel Davies The Curse of Cowardice, 1758
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Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1759)
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Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
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Treaty of Paris, 1763
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Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
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Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
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The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
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William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
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John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
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John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
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Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants
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Benjamin Franklin, How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia
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Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre, 5 March, 1770
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Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, 13 March 1770
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James Wilson, Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament,1774
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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774
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Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774
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Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
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John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
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Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
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Patrick Henry, The War Inevitable, March 23, 1775
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The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
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Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, 1775
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Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775
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Yankee Doodle
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
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Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel against Governors, 1776
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Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776
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Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
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Jefferson's notes on Slavery
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Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776
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Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
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US Articles of Confederation
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Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 - 1783
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Samuel Cooper, A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution, 1776
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Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
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United States Articles of Confederation, 1781
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From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781, describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris, 1783
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Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1783)
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James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
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Memorial and Remonstrance (Virginia, 1785)
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The Annapolis Convention, 1786
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The Barbary Treaties (1786)
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The Federalist Papers 1787
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US Constitution, 1787
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The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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Letter of Transmittal of US Constitution
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James Madison, speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
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Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
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Northwest Ordinance
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George Washington, First Inaugural Adress (1789)
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George Washington, Second Inaugural Adress (1789)
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Alexander Hamilton, Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)
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Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
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Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
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George Washington, The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
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Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
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Farmer's Almanack (1795)
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Washington's Farewell Address
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John Adams Inaugural Address (1797)
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The Sedition Act of (1798)
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The Kentucky Resolutions (1799)
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Paul Jennings' Reminiscences of James Madison (1865)
NINETEENTH CENTURY -
Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address (1801)
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U.S. Supreme Court, Marbury v Madison (1803)
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Letter from President Thomas Jefferson to Meriweather Lewis 1803
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Thomas Jefferson's 2nd Inaugural Address (1805)
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New England Primer (1805)
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New England Primer (1807)
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James Madison, First Inaugural (1809)
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Brackenridge, Henry Marie, Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, 1811
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Luttig, John C., Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813
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Treaty of Ghent 1814 to end the War Of 1812
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James Madison, Second Inaugural (1813)
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Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
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James Monroe, First Inaugural (1817)
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Opening of New York to Liverpool Packet Line (1817)
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U. S. Spreme Court, Culloch v The State of Maryland (1819)
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U.S. Supreme Court, Dartmouth College v Woodward (1819)
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James Monroe, Second Inaugural (1821)
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Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
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Dr. Richard Furman, Expostion on Slavery, reflecting the Views of Baptists (1823)
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U.S. Supreme Court, Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
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Ross, Alexeander, Journal - Snake Country Expedition, 1824
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John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)
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Ogden, Peter Skene, Accounts of an 1825 Expedition into Utah
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Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural (1829)
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
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U.S. Supreme Court, The Cherokee Nation v The State of Georgia (1831)
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Ball, John, Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
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Wyeth, Nathaniel J.: The Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1832 - 1834 and Selected Letters.
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Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto (1832)
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Henry Clay, Speech on the Bank Veto (1832)
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Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural (1833)
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William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
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Martin VanBuren, Inaugural Address (1837)
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Excerpts from the Diaries of John Quincy Adams regarding the Amistad Affair 1840-41
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William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address (1841)
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Letter from Kale (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
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Letter from Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The Transcendentalist (1842)
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Catlin, George, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, 1844.
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The Whalers' Song (ca. 1845)
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James Polk, Inaugural Address (1845)
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Donner Party logs 1846-1847
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The Leg I Left Behind Me (1848)
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848
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Elizabeth M. Stanton, The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
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Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address (1849)
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Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, 1849
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Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address (1853)
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Excerpts from : Henry Carey, The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
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Burning of the Steamship City of Newark (1855)
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Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard States, 1856
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Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
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Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
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Abraham Lincoln Speaks on the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
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Charles Sumner, On the Crime Against Kansas, 1856
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Scott vs. Sandford, The Dred Scott Case (1856)
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Republican Platform 1856
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James Buchanan, Inaugural Address (1857)
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Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
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Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, Autobiography
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Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided, June 16, 1858
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Steven A. Douglas, The Dividing Line Between Fderal and Local Authority, 1859
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John Brown's Raid [in a Contemporary Newspaper]
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John Brown's Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859
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Democratic Platform 1860 (Douglas Faction)
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Democratic Platform 1860 (Breckenridge Faction)
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Republican Platform 1860
CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESSIVE PERIOD -
Seward's Alaska Treaty with Russia, March 30, 1867
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The Little Sod Shanty On My Claim
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Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868 [Treaty with "Sioux Nation"]
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Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address (1869)
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John Wesley Powell, Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872
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Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address (1873)
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Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address (1877)
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James Garfield, First Inaugural (1881)
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Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural (1885)
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Conwell, Russell Herman: Acres of Diamonds
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Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)
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Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address (1889)
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Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural (1893)
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Geneva Conventions
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Hague Conventions
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Statute of the International Court of Justice
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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The People's Party Platform
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William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold," 9 July 1896
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William McKinley, First Inaugural (1897)
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Strivings of the Negro People , by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois [from The Atlantic, August 1897]
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Hubbard, Elbert, A message to Garcia (1899)
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First Open Door Note, September 1899
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The Wabash Cannonball
TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD WAR I INTERWAR PERIOD WORLD WAR II AND AFTERMATH -
Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time
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Neutrality Between USSR and Japan, April 13, 1941
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France's Reaction to Invasion of Poland 1939
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Britain's Reaction to Invasion of Poland 1939
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Germany's Statements Regarding Poland 1939
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Neutrality Act of 1939
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Roerich Pact: Institutions and Monuments in the Americas
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Lend-Lease Act
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Hemispheric Defense, 1940
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural (1941)
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FDR's Four Freedoms Speech, 6 January 1941
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Atlantic Charter, August 1941
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Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941
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Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941
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Day of Infamy Speech, 8 December 1941
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Declaration of War on Germany, 11 December 1941
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FDR's Statement on North Africa, 17 November 1942
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Lili Marlene (German)
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Lili Marlene (English)
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Casablanca Conference, February 1943
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Moscow Conference, October 1943
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Cairo Conference, November 1943
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Yalta Conference, February 1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Speech (1945)
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Materials Relating to the Holocaust
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WWII Surrender of Germany to Allies
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Accounts by Hiroshima Survivors
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Japanese WWII Surrender Documents
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A Veteran of the Wrong War
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Truman Doctrine
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
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UN Covenant on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights
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Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address (1949)
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North Atlantic Treaty 1949
THE COLD WAR -
Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural (1953)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1954"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1955"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1956"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural (1957)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1957"
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International Relations. 1958-60, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1958"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1959"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1960
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U2 Shootdown Incident of 1960
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech (1961)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
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Foreign Relations Documents of the John F. Kennedy Administration
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Foreign Relations: Volume I, Vietnam, 1961
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Foreign Relations: Volume II, Vietnam, 1962
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Foreign Relations: Volume V, 1961-1963. Soviet Union
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Foreign Relations: Soviet Union Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
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Foreign Relations: Volume IX, Foreign Economic Policy
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Foreign Relations: Volume X, Cuba 1961-1962
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Foreign Relations: Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
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Foreign Relations: Volume XXII, Northeast Asia
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Marilyn Monroe (1962)
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Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Robert C. Weaver, "The Negro as American" (1963)
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George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement" (1964)
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Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society Speech (1964)
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Foreign Relations Documents Of the Johnson Administration
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume I, Vietnam, 1964
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume II, Vietnam, January through June 1965
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume VIII, International Monetary and Trade Policy
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume IX, International Development and Economic Defense Policy; Commodities
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XI, Arms Control and Disarmament
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XIII, Western Europe Region
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XV, Germany and Berlin
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XVII, Eastern Europe
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XVIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1964-67
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XXI, Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula
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Foreign Relations Documents: Volume XXII, Iran
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Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Speech (1965)
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Lyndon B Johnson: We Shall Overcome, 15 March 1965
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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
VIETNAM WAR -
Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem, December 14, 1961
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The Tonkin Gulf Incident: President Johnson's Message to Congress, August 5, 1964
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Richard M. Nixon, First Inaugural Speech (1969)
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Vietnam Vets Against the War Statement (Kerry)
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Richard M. Nixon, Second Inaugural Speech (1973)
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Richard M. Nixon, Peace With Honor, 23 Jan. 1973
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War Powers Act, November 7, 1973
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Senate Select POW-MIA Affairs Report
THE MID - LATE 1970'S -
Richard M. Nixon, Resignation Speech, August 8, 1974
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Gerald R. Ford's Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office as President, August 9, 1974
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President Gerald R. Ford's Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon, September 8, 1974
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President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4311, Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon, September 8, 1974
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Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address (1977)
THE 1980'S AND 1990'S THE 2000s
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Magna Carta - 1215
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Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses - 1517
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Augsburg Confession- 1530
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Colony At Roanoke - 1586
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Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588
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Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607
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Mayflower Compact - 1620
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How The Pilgrims Lived - 1621
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George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
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Braddock's Defeat, by George Washington - 1755
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In Opposition to Writs of Assistance - 1761
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Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky, by Daniel Boone
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Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky, by Theodore Roosevelt
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death - 1775
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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms - July 6, 1775
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Virginia Declaration of Rights - 1776
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Declaration of Independence - 1776
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Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence - 1776
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Articles of Confederation - 1777
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George III's Letter on the Loss of America - 1780s
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Constitution of the United States, Signers, and Amendments
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George Washington First Inaugural Address - 1789
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Federalist #10
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Federalist #41
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Alexander Hamilton On the Adoption of the Constitution - 1788
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Tecumseh to Governor Benjamin Harrison at Vincennes - 1810
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Dolley Madison on the Burning of Washington - 1814
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A British Account of the Burning of Washington - 1814
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How a Log Cabin Was Built - 1822
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Monroe Doctrine - 1823
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Democracy in America, Volume I, Part A
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Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B
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Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A
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Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
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Fall Of The Alamo - 1836
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Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address - 1837
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Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
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The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841
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Peter Wilson (Waowawanaonk) on The Empire State - 1847
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John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act - 1850
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Underground Railroad - 1850
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Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand - 1858
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John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial - 185 9
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Death of John Brown - 1859
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Lincoln's Farewell Address in Springfield - 1861
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Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address - 1861
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Paul Revere's Ride - 1863
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Gettysburg Address - 1863
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Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln - 1865
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Battle Hymn of the Republic
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Chicago Fire - 1871
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Susan B. Anthony on a Woman's Right to Vote - 1873
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Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican - 1880
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address - 1905
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Theodore Roosevelt On Motherhood - 1905
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New York Sun on the San Francisco Earthquake - 1906
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Regarding a Possible Declaration of War Against Germany - 1917
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Declaration Of War - 1917
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Balfour Declaration - 1917
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Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address - 1933
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Social Security Act - 1935
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Lend-Lease - 1941
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Fourth Inaugural Address - 1945
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Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech - 1946
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Dwight D. Eisenhower First Inaugural - 1953
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Second Inaugural - 1957
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John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - 1961
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President John F. Kennedy Appeals to the Congress for a Tax Cut - 1961
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General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech to West Point - 1962
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Barry Goldwater's Republican Convention Speech - 1964
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Ronald Reagan's A Time for Choosing - 1964
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Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address - 1981
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Ronald Reagan's First State of the Union - 1982
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Ronald Reagan Second Inaugural Address - 1985
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George H.W. Bush Inaugural Address - 1989
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Contract with America - 1994
Important Documents from American History Biographies Note: An indicates that a linked biography is not part of America at War .
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Adams, John
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Adams, Samuel *
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Burr, Aaron *
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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Grant, Ulysses S.
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Harrison, William Henry
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Jackson, Andrew
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Jay, John *
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Jefferson, Thomas
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Lincoln, Abraham
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Madison, James
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McKinley, William
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Pershing, John J.
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Polk, James K.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
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Taylor, Zachary
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Truman, Harry S
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Washington, George
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Wilson, Woodrow
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