Pre-Colonial
The Magna Carta (1215)
Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain (1490's)
The Iroquois Constitution
17th Century
1601-1649
The First Virginia Charter
The Second Virginia Charter
The Third Virginia Charter
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
1650-1700
The Connecticut Colony Charter (1662)
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
18th Century
1701-1774
The Albany Plan of 1754
The Resolutions of the Stamp Act (Oct. 19, 1765)
1775-1800
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (1775)
The Declaration of Arms (July 6, 1775)
Yankee Doodle
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Federalist Papers
The Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
Letter of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution (1787)
The Constitution of the United States. (1787)
The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
First Inaugural Address of President George Washington
The First State of the Union Address (Jan. 8, 1790)
Second Inaugural Address of President George Washington
The Proclamation of Neutrality (April 22, 1793)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
The Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Farewell Address of President George Washington (1796)
Inaugural Address of President John Adams (1797)
The Sedition Act (July 14, 1798)
19th Century
1801-1824
First Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Second Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson
The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at Virginia
Information on Monticello
First Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1809)
Second Inaugural Address of President James Madison
The text of the Star Spangled Banner (Sept. 20, 1814)
First Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1817)
Second Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1821)
The Monroe Doctrine (Dec. 2, 1823)
1825-1849
Inaugural Address of President John Quincy Adams (1825)
First Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1829)
Second Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson
Inaugural Address of President Martin Van Buren (1837)
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (July 4, 1837)
Inaugural Address of President William Henry Harrison
Inaugural Address of President James K. Polk (1845)
Inaugural Address of President Zachary Taylor (1849)
1850-1874
Inaugural Address of President Franklin Pierce (1853)
Inaugural Address of President James Buchanan (1857)
The Declaration of Causes of seceding states (Winter 1861)
First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1861)
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln
Photographic Time Line of the Civil War
Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War
The American Civil War
Civil War Generals
Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
First Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869)
Second Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant
1875-1900
Inaugural Address of President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877)
Inaugural Address of President James Garfield (1881)
First Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (1885)
Inaugural Address of President Benjamin Harrison (1889)
Second Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland
First Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (1897)
20th Century
1901-1924
Second Inaugural Address of President William McKinley
Inaugural Address of President Theodore Roosevelt (1905)
Inaugural Address of President William H. Taft (1909)
First Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson (1913)
Second Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson
The Espionage Act of 1918
Inaugural Address of President Warren G. Harding (1921)
1925-1949
Inaugural Address of President Calvin Coolidge (1925)
Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover (1929)
First Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Second Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Neutrality Act 1939
Third Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (Dec. 8, 1941)
The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941)
The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941)
Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The German Surrender Documents of World War II (1945)
Selected Manhattan Project documents (1945)
The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (1945)
The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947)
Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949)
The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949)
1950-1974
First Inaugural Address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Second Inaugural Address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition Map
Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy (1961)
Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech (1963)
Inaugural Address of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1965)
State Department White Paper on Vietnam (Feb. 27, 1965)
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
First Inaugural Address of President Richard M. Nixon (1969)
Second Inaugural Address of President Richard M. Nixon
The War Powers Resolution (Nov. 7, 1973)
1975-2000
Inaugural Address of President Jimmy Carter (1977)
First Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan (1981)
Second Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan (1985)
Inaugural Address of President George H. W. Bush (1989)
The Civil Rights Act of 1991
First Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton (1993)
President Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address
Second Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton
President Clinton's 1997 State of the Union Addresses
President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Addresses
21st Century
2001-Present
First Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush (2001)
Address of President Bush to Nation (11 September, 2001)
President Bush's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance (14 September, 2001)
Address of President Bush to a Joint Session of Congress and the Nation regarding the events of September 11, 2001
Address of President Bush on the start of strikes against Al Qaeda and the Taliban (7 October, 2001)
President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address
President George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address
President George W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address
Second Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush (2001)
President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address
Great American Documents
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