Documents by Era

Chapter 1: Early Contact

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

De Indis

Charter of Carolina, 1665

Chapter 1: Early Contact

Chapter 2: Merchants and Morality in Colonial Massachusetts

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

De Indis

Richard Frethorne to His Parents

Chapter 1: Early Contact

A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies

Richard Frethorne to His Parents

Chapter 1: Early Contact

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

De Indis

Chapter 1: Early Contact

Chapter 2: Merchants and Morality in Colonial Massachusetts

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Chapter 2: Merchants and Morality in Colonial Massachusetts

Chapter 4: Experiments with Freedom of Conscience

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

Chapter 2: Merchants and Morality in Colonial Massachusetts

Chapter 1: Early Contact

Pennsylvania: An Act for Freedom of Conscience

Mayflower Compact

Of Property (from Plymouth Plantation)

A Model of Christian Charity

A Model of Christian Charity

The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina

Thoughts

“On Virtue”

Selected Poems

Colonial Virginia Laws Related to Slavery

The Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junípero Serra

Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation

The English Bill of Rights

The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants

Albany Plan of Union

Speech Against Writs of Assistance

Chapter 4: Experiments with Freedom of Conscience

Pennsylvania: An Act for Freedom of Conscience

Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation

Mayflower Compact

Of Property (from Plymouth Plantation)

Colonial Virginia Laws Related to Slavery

Protest of The Germantown Mennonites Against Slavery

An act concerning Servants and Slaves

Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia

Selected Poems

Of Property (from Plymouth Plantation)

A Model of Christian Charity

A Model of Christian Charity

Admonishment and Reconciliation of Robert Keayne with the Church, 1639 – 1640

Apologia

The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: 2

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: 4

Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec

Coercive Acts

Chapter 5: Between Resistance and Revolution

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

Orders to Lieut. Colonel Smith, 10th Regiment ’Foot

Report to General Gage on the Retreat of the American Colonists from Lexington and Concord

Account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Chapter 7: The Debate over Ratification

Chapter 6: Revolutionary Considerations of Citizenship and Self-Government

Chapter 5: Between Resistance and Revolution

Message of the Pennsylvania Assembly

Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America

Chapter 3: Labor, Servitude and Slavery

Draft of The Declaration of Independence

Strictures upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia in a Letter to a Noble Lord, &c.

Massachusetts Antislavery Petition

Anti-slavery Petition: To The Honorable Counsel & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts Bay in General Court assembled

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: 2

Strictures upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia in a Letter to a Noble Lord, &c.

Notes on the State of Virginia: Queries 18 & 19

An Enquiry Into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors upon the Human Body, and their Influence upon the Happiness of Society

Letter to Thomas Jefferson

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

Edenton Ladies’ Agreement

“An American Monarchy or a Republic?”

Correspondence between John Adams, Abigail Adams and James Sullivan on Representation

“Remember the Ladies”

Chapter 5: Between Resistance and Revolution

Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada

Olive Branch Petition

Celebrations of American Independence in Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts

Memorandum on Meeting Between Lord Howe and the American Commissioners

Coercive Acts

Continental Association (Articles of Association)

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

Edenton Ladies’ Agreement

The Farmer Refuted

Chapter 6: Revolutionary Considerations of Citizenship and Self-Government

Chapter 3: Labor, Servitude and Slavery

A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers

Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America

Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress

Federalist No. 84

Chapter 7: The Debate over Ratification

The Problem of Judicial Review

Dates of Ratification of the Constitution

Address to the People of the United States

Chapter 7: The Debate over Ratification

A Republican I: To James Wilson, Esquire

Federalist No. 1

Federalist No. 2

Federalist No. 3

Draft Constitution for Virginia

New Jersey Constitution

Massachusetts Declaration of Rights & Constitution

A Sermon on the Commencement of the Constitution

Letter to Reverend Francis Adrian Vanderkemp

The Signing of the Constitution

The Slave Trade Clause

Notes on Debates in Congress

Notes on Debates in Congress

John Jay to Thomas Jefferson

Objections at the Constitutional Convention

State House Speech

Federal Farmer IV

A Federalist Essay

John DeWitt II

The Problem of Judicial Review

Z: the Continental Convention

Constitutional Convention

Luther Martin’s Objections

Objections of Edmund Randolph

Letter to the Reformed German Congregation of New York

Letter to Hebrew Congregations of the City of Savannah, Georgia

Letter to General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches

Letter to United Baptist Churches in Virginia

Arguments for Constitutional Amendments

Chapter 10: The Market Revolution and (The Myth of?) Free Labor

Letter to Benjamin Banneker

Last Will and Testament

State of the Union Address (1806)

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

State of the Union Address 1790

State of the Union Dec. 1790

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Letter to Gouverneur Morris

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Letter to James Madison

Fragments of the Discarded First Inaugural Address

Letter to the Mayor, Corporation, and Citizens of Alexandria

First Inaugural Address (1789)

Chapter 9: The Hartford Convention

Letter to the Mayor, Corporation, and Citizens of Alexandria

Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham

Letter to David Stuart

“Property”

Chapter 3: Labor, Servitude and Slavery

Chapter 10: The Market Revolution and (The Myth of?) Free Labor

Chapter 8: The Whiskey Rebellion

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Sketch of a Plan of American Finance

Chapter 9: The Hartford Convention

Arguments for Constitutional Amendments

The House Version

The Senate Version

First Congress Approves Twelve Amendments

“On the Equality of the Sexes”

On Opening a School for Poor Children

Chapter 10: The Market Revolution and (The Myth of?) Free Labor

Chapter 8: The Whiskey Rebellion

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Of the Natural Rights of Individuals

Letter to David Stuart

Chapter 9: The Hartford Convention

Speech on Amendments to the Constitution

Arguments for Constitutional Amendments

Remarks on the Removal Power

The House Version

Marbury v. Madison

McCulloch v. Maryland

State of the Union Address (1824)

State of the Union Address 1790

Letter to Chiefs and Counselors of the Seneca Nation

State of the Union 1792

Report on Indian Affairs

State of the Union 1795

Leap or No Leap

Letter to William Plumer

Letter to Jonathan Fisk: New England “approaches the confines of treason”

Report of the Hartford Convention

The Origin of the Hartford Convention

Report on Indian Affairs

Purchase of Louisiana

Letter to John Breckinridge

Speech on the Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase

Letters Protesting the Louisiana Purchase

An Address…Celebrating the Declaration of Independence

Inaugural Address (1825)

To The Public

Truisms

Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Chapter 13: War with Mexico

Chapter 3: Labor, Servitude and Slavery

Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790 to 1850

Mr. Tallmadge in the Congressional Globe

Speech to Congress

Chapter 13: War with Mexico

A Modest Proposal

State of the Union Address (1828)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

Speech to Congress

Missouri Compromise Act

Remarks in Congress on the “Tariff of Abominations”

State of the Union (1830)

Veto Message of the Bill on the Bank of the United States

Worcester v. Georgia

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

State of the Union Address (1828)

CIRCULAR: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the United States

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

Second Annual Message to Congress (1830)

Emigration of the Colored People of the United States

First Inaugural Address (1857)

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

Voter Qualification Law

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build

Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall

Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

Letters and Journals from the Oregon Trail

Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790 to 1850

Chapter 11: The Nullification Crisis

Letter to John Holmes

Inaugural Address (1825)

Southern Runaway Slave Notices and “Our Peculiar Domestic Institutions” Print

Excerpts from Ratification Documents of Virginia and New York

Missouri Compromise

Letter to John Holmes

An Address…Celebrating the Declaration of Independence

Inaugural Address (1825)

State of the Union Address (1817)

State of the Union Address (1816)

First Inaugural Address (1829)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

Chapter 11: The Nullification Crisis

Chapter 13: War with Mexico

Voter Qualification Law

First Inaugural Address (1829)

State of the Union Address (1833)

Chapter 11: The Nullification Crisis

Inaugural Address (1825)

State of the Union Address (1828)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

Chapter 13: War with Mexico

First Inaugural Address (1837)

Letter to the Editors of the National Intelligencer Opposing the Annexation of Texas

First Inaugural Address (1845)

Debate on the Constitutionality of the Mexican War

Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

On the Constitution and the Union

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Chapter 15: War for Union or Abolition?

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

On the Constitution and the Union

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace Policy

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Freedom Songs from North and South

The War—Its Cause and Cure

Surrender of Lee to Grant, Appomattox Court House

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace Policy

The Address of the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace Policy

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Crittenden Compromise

Congressional Debate on the 14th Amendment

Address Before the General Assembly of the State of Georgia

Ex Parte Milligan

The Slaughterhouse Cases

Minor v. Happersett

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

Marital Power Exemplified

“IS IT A CRIME FOR A U.S. CITIZEN TO VOTE?”

Minor v. Happersett

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Letter to Hannibal Hamlin

Harper’s Weekly Editorial on Emancipation

The President’s Proclamation

Letter to John McClernand

Letter to William L. Dayton, Ambassador to France

Letter to William L. Dayton, Ambassador to France

Annual Message to Congress (1863)

Reply to Elisha H. Allen

“Grasp of War”

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace Policy

State of the Union Address (1869)

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

The Visit of Red Cloud to Washington, D.C.

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace Policy

Speech on the Presidential Veto of the Bank Bill

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

First Inaugural Address (1861)

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union

First Inaugural Address (1861)

First Inaugural Address (1861)

“Damages to Loyal Men”

“Cornerstone” Speech

Letter to William L. Dayton, Ambassador to France

First Confiscation Act

Resolution on Compensated Emancipation

Chapter 18: Urban Growth: The Pullman Strike

The Truth about The Trusts: A Description and Analysis of the American Trust Movement

Manifest Destiny

The Farmer’s Movement

On Being Born Again

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

State of the Union Address (1877)

State of the Union Address (1878)

State of the Union Address (1880)

First Inaugural Address (1881)

State of the Union Address (1878)

State of the Union Address (1879)

The Great Valleys and Prairies of Nebraska and the Northwest

First Annual Message to Congress (1881)

State of the Union Address Part II (1885)

The Study of Administration

Leaders of Men

A Call to Action

The “Cross of Gold” Address

Keynote Address at the Populist National Convention

State of the Union Address (1878)

“Political Independence of the Negro”

State of the Union Address (1884)

Congressional Government

“Wanted— A Party”

Chapter 18: Urban Growth: The Pullman Strike

The Truth about The Trusts: A Description and Analysis of the American Trust Movement

Manifest Destiny

On Being Born Again

The Study of Administration

The Moral Theory of Civil Liberty

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

Science and Theology

Herbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

“Memorial” and “Constitutional Equality”

“The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”

The ‘Do Everything’ Policy

My Story

State of the Union Address (1877)

State of the Union Address (1878)

State of the Union Address (1879)

State of the Union Address (1881)

State of the Union Address (1882)

Congressional Government: Conclusion

“Rules of the House of Representatives”

“Obstructions in the National House” and “A Deliberative Body”

“Leaders of Men”

Politics and Administration

Chapter 18: Urban Growth: The Pullman Strike

Reynolds v. United States

In re Debs

Manifest Destiny

State of the Union Address (1884)

State of the Union Address Part I (1885)

State of the Union Address (1888)

First Inaugural Address (1889)

The Truth about The Trusts: A Description and Analysis of the American Trust Movement

Manifest Destiny

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

“Memorial” and “Constitutional Equality”

Herbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution

Chapter 20: Progressive Foreign Policy: The Philippines

The Tariff History of the United States (Part I)

The Tariff History of the United States (Part II)

State of the Union Address (1901)

Seventh Annual Message to Congress (1907)

The Philadelphia Negro

An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia

Lynch Law in America

“Lynch Law in America”

“Lynch Law in America”

Chapter 20: Progressive Foreign Policy: The Philippines

A Naval View of the Washington Treaties, April 1922

State of the Union Address (1889)

State of the Union Address Part II (1901)

The Command of the Pacific

Congressional Government, Chapter II: The House of Representatives

“Recent Tendencies”

The “Revolt of 1910” Against Speaker Joseph Cannon

Speech on Party Leadership in Congress

Progressive Democracy, chapters 12–13 (excerpts)

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics

Downes v. Bidwell

Myers v. US

Muller v. Oregon

State of the Union Address Part I (1908)

State of the Union Address Part I (1901)

State of the Union Address (1903)

State of the Union Address Part II (1904)

State of the Union Address Part II (1905)

State of the Union Address Part II (1906)

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics

Veto of Pennsylvania Eugenics Law

Eugenics as a New Creed

New York Times: “Pastors for Eugenics”

Judgment on Eugenics Law

Lansing’s Memorandum of the Cabinet Meeting

The Russian Ambassador (Bakhmeteff) to the Secretary of State

First Inaugural Address (1921)

Gitlow v. New York

Whitney v. California

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics

Chapter 20: Progressive Foreign Policy: The Philippines

The Warfare of Science with Theology

The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage

The Problem of the South

Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women

“Should Women Be Executed?”

Lynch Law in America

“Filial Relations”

Holiness Camp Meetings

Chapter 20: Progressive Foreign Policy: The Philippines

A Naval View of the Washington Treaties, April 1922

State of the Union Address (1889)

The Annexation of Hawaii

“The March of the Flag” Campaign Speech

State of the Union Address (1889)

State of the Union Address Part II (1901)

State of the Union Address Part II (1904)

State of the Union Address Part II (1905)

State of the Union Address Part II (1908)

The State

“Recent Tendencies”

Myers v. US

Mother Jones Writes Plea to Roosevelt

Constitutional Government in the United States: Chpt. 3, The President of the United States

State of the Union Address (1891)

Address Accepting Democratic Presidential Nomination (1900)

“Recent Tendencies”

“The Fruits of Industrial Training”

Niagara Movement Speech

State of the Union Address (1922)

First Inaugural Address (1929)

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era: Eugenics

The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements

Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women

“Should Women Be Executed?”

An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia

Letter to Robert Bacon

“Of the Sons of Master and Man,” from The Souls of Black Folk

Mother Jones Writes Plea to Roosevelt

Industrial Education for the Negro

State of the Union Address Part I (1904)

First Inaugural Address (1933)

Address to the National Conference of Catholic Charities

“Again the Covered Wagon”

Annual Message to Congress (1936)

“A Third Party”

Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Speech to Congress on Foreign Trade

“Neutrality Act” of February 29, 1936

US v. Belmont

State of the Union Address (1937)

Chapter 22: The New Deal: Social Security

Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

The Norris-La Guardia Act

US v. Belmont

Chapter 22: The New Deal: Social Security

Near v. Minnesota

Humphrey’s Executor v. US

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Co.

United States v. Butler

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Excerpts from the President’s Committee on Administrative Management

Chapter 22: The New Deal: Social Security

“The Right to Strike”

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

“The Right to Strike”

Chapter 21: What Caused the Great Depression?

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Chapter 22: The New Deal: Social Security

Along This Way

“Black Labor and the Codes”

“Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA”

“Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA”

Keepers of Democracy

Chapter 21: What Caused the Great Depression?

Chapter 22: The New Deal: Social Security

Press Statement on the Use of Federal Funds for Relief

Veto of the Muscle Shoals Resolution

Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery Program

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Acceptance Speech

Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention (1932)

Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention (1932)

Statement on the Dispersal of the Bonus Army

State of the Union Address (1941): The Four Freedoms

Executive Order 8802

“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”: Pearl Harbor Speech

We Continue Our Christian Pacifist Stand

“The Death of Captain Waskow”

“The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century”

State of the Union Address (1941): The Four Freedoms

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

“Why Should We March?”

“Why Should We March?”

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

The First Lady Visits Tuskegee

Executive Order 8802

Japanese American Evacuation

“Why Should We March?”

Press Conference on Lend-Lease Policy

Fireside Chat on the Arsenal of Democracy

Atlantic Charter

State of the Union Address (1944)

Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender (Potsdam Proclamation)

Speech Explaining the Firing of MacArthur

Speech Objecting to the Firing of MacArthur

Questions and Answers About the WAAC

“The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century”

Fifty Years Hence

State of the Union Address (1941): The Four Freedoms

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

Press Conference on Lend-Lease Policy

Atlantic Charter

“Repeal of Neutrality Act Means War”

“Why Should We March?”

Executive Order No. 9346: Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment Practice

Questions and Answers About the WAAC

“Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War?”

Neutrality Act

Bennett Champ Clark’s Defense of the First Neutrality Act

“Neutrality Act” of 1937

Observations on American Foreign Policy

Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels*

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

Korematsu v. US

Questions and Answers About the WAAC

Fireside Chat on the Arsenal of Democracy

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

The First Lady Visits Tuskegee

“America First”

Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing

Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing Et Al.

Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District

Executive Order 9981

Address in Spokane at Gonzaga University

Chapter 26: The Civil Rights Act, 1964

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

“To Secure These Rights”, The Report of President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights

Executive Order 9981

Letter to Ernest W. Roberts

ERA Defeated in Florida

Address to the League of Women Voters, Wheeling, West Virginia

The Feminine Mystique

Press Release and Open Letter Inviting Women to Attend the Miss America Protest

“For the Equal Rights Amendment”

Chapter 23: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

“Crisis in Asia – An Examination of U.S. Policy”

Chapter 24: Containment and the Truman Doctrine

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

The Long Telegram

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

Chapter 25: Internal Security and Civil Liberties

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

Debate on repeal of the “21-day rule”

Declaration of Conscience

Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing

Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District

Dennis v. United States

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Zorach v. Clauson

Chapter 25: Internal Security and Civil Liberties

Executive Order 9835

“European Initiative Essential to Economic Recovery” (The Marshall Plan)

Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program

Statement by the President on the Government’s Employee Loyalty Program

Chapter 24: Containment and the Truman Doctrine

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

Executive Order 9981

Address on the Occasion of the Signing of the North Atlantic Treaty

United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68)

ERA Defeated in Florida

“Great Society” Speech

Executive Order No. 11246

Fullilove v. Klutznick

First Inaugural Address (1981)

United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68)

The President’s News Conference of June 29, 1950

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

“Checkers” Speech in Los Angeles, CA

The Kitchen Debate

Chapter 25: Internal Security and Civil Liberties

Executive Order 9835

Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program

Statement by the President on the Government’s Employee Loyalty Program

First Inaugural Address (1949)

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

Executive Order 9981

Letter to Ernest W. Roberts

Address in Harlem

“The Negro in American Life” (Guidance for the Voice of America)

Chapter 24: Containment and the Truman Doctrine

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

Chapter 25: Internal Security and Civil Liberties

Letter to James Byrnes

House Debate on the 22nd Amendment

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program

Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party

Whistlestop Speech

Campaign Speech in St. Louis, Missouri

Report to President Kennedy on South Vietnam

Special Message to the Congress on U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia

President’s Message to Congress

Joint Resolution of Congress, H.J. RES 1145 (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution)

Cutting Our Losses in South Viet-nam

Containment and Radical Islam

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Widmar v. Vincent

Lynch v. Donnelly

Chapter 27: The Equal Rights Amendment

Men, Women, and Biblical Equality

Civil Rights Act of 1991

The Tyranny of Petty Coercion

Green Party Platform 2000

Containment and Radical Islam

Chapter 29: America and the World

State of the Union Address (1994)

State of the Union Address (1995)

Memorandum on the President’s Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them

Contract with America

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union

“Reflections on the Republican Revolution”

“This is the People’s House”: John Boehner’s First Remarks as House Speaker

Special Address to the Nation on Syria

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Widmar v. Vincent

Lynch v. Donnelly

Wallace v. Jaffree

State of the Union Address (1995)

Chapter 28: Political Economy at the End of the 20th Century

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Civil Rights Act of 1991

State of the Union Address (1993)

Contract with America

Civil Rights Act of 1991

Adarand v. Pena Concurrence

Green Party Platform 2000

Virginia v. Black

Reparations for Slavery

Chapter 29: America and the World

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Address to Congress on Program for Economic Recovery

Address to the Nation on Iran Arms and Contra Aid

State of the Union Address (1993)

Contract with America

Republican Contract with America

Defence of Conservatism

Green Party Platform 2000

First Inaugural Address (2001)

US v. Lopez

Adarand v. Pena Concurrence

Speech to the National Bar Association

Green Party Platform 2000

“A Latina Judge’s Voice”