Historical Documents
Magna Carta - 1215
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses - 1517
Augsburg Confession- 1530
Colony At Roanoke - 1586
Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - 1588
Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607
Mayflower Compact - 1620
How The Pilgrims Lived - 1621
George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
Braddock's Defeat, by George Washington - 1755
In Opposition to Writs of Assistance - 1761
Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky, by Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky, by Theodore Roosevelt
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death - 1775
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms - July 6, 1775
Virginia Declaration of Rights - 1776
Declaration of Independence - 1776
Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence - 1776
Articles of Confederation - 1777
George III's Letter on the Loss of America - 1780s
Constitution of the United States, Signers, and Amendments
George Washington First Inaugural Address - 1789
Federalist #10
Federalist #41
Alexander Hamilton On the Adoption of the Constitution - 1788
Battle of Trafalgar - 1805
Tecumseh to Governor Benjamin Harrison at Vincennes - 1810
Dolley Madison on the Burning of Washington - 1814
A British Account of the Burning of Washington - 1814
How a Log Cabin Was Built - 1822
Monroe Doctrine - 1823
Democracy in America, Volume I, Part A
Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B
Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A
Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
Fall Of The Alamo - 1836
Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address - 1837
Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1837
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841
Peter Wilson (Waowawanaonk) on The Empire State - 1847
John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
Fugitive Slave Act - 1850
Underground Railroad - 1850
Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand - 1858
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial - 1859
Death of John Brown - 1859
Lincoln's Farewell Address in Springfield - 1861
Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address - 1861
Paul Revere's Ride - 1863
Gettysburg Address - 1863
Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln - 1865
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Chicago Fire - 1871
Susan B. Anthony on a Woman's Right to Vote - 1873
Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican - 1880
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address - 1905
Theodore Roosevelt On Motherhood - 1905
New York Sun on the San Francisco Earthquake - 1906
Regarding a Possible Declaration of War Against Germany - 1917
Declaration Of War - 1917
Balfour Declaration - 1917
Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address - 1933
Social Security Act - 1935
Lend-Lease - 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Nation in Light of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor - 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt Fourth Inaugural Address - 1945
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech - 1946
Dwight D. Eisenhower First Inaugural - 1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower Second Inaugural - 1957
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address - 1961
President John F. Kennedy Appeals to the Congress for a Tax Cut - 1961
General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech to West Point - 1962
Barry Goldwater's Republican Convention Speech - 1964
Ronald Reagan's A Time for Choosing - 1964
Ronald Reagan Speech at 1976 Republican National Convention - 1976
Ronald Reagan's Acceptance of Republican Presidential Nomination - 1980
Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address - 1981
Ronald Reagan's First State of the Union - 1982
Ronal Reagan's "Evil Empire" Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals - 1983
Ronald Reagan's Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (Pointe du Hoc) - 1984
Ronald Reagan's Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (Omaha Beach) - 1984
Ronald Reagan Second Inaugural Address - 1985
Ronald Reagan's Berlin "Tear Down This Wall!: Speech - 1987
George H.W. Bush Inaugural Address - 1989
Contract with America - 1994
George W. Bush Inaugural Address - 2001
George Bush's Address to the Nation in Light of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 - 2001
George W. Bush Address to A Joint Session of Congress Regarding the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 - 2001