Historical Documents
Historical Documents
- Lee Resolution (1776)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Articles of Confederation (1777)
- Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
- Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Virginia Plan (1787)
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Constitution of the United States (1787)
- Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
- President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
- Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
- Bill of Rights (1791)
- Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
- President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
- Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
- Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Treaty of Ghent (1814)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Monroe Doctrine (1823)
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Compromise of 1850 (1850)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
- Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
- Homestead Act (1862)
- Pacific Railway Act (1862)
- Morrill Act (1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
- Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
- President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
- 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
- Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
- 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
- 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
- Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
- Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
- Pendleton Act (1883)
- Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
- Dawes Act (1887)
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- De Lôme Letter (1898)
- Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
- Platt Amendment (1903)
- Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
- 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
- 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
- Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
- Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
- Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
- President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
- 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
- Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
- Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
- National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
- National Labor Relations Act (1935)
- Social Security Act (1935)
- President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
- President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
- Lend-Lease Act (1941)
- Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
- Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
- Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
- Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
- Manhattan Project Notebook (1942)
- Surrender of Germany (1945)
- United Nations Charter (1945)
- Surrender of Japan (1945)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Marshall Plan (1948)
- Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
- Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
- Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
- Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
- Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
- President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
- Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
- Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
- Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
- Test Ban Treaty (1963)
- Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
- Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
- Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
- Voting Rights Act (1965)