Documents by Era

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

De Indis

A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies

Charter of Carolina, 1665

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

De Indis

Richard Frethorne to His Parents

A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies

Richard Frethorne to His Parents

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

De Indis

A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Raphael Sanchez

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres

Requerimiento

De Indis

A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies

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

Selected Poems

Testimonies

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

The Treaty of Paris

Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation

Pennsylvania: An Act for Freedom of Conscience

Mayflower Compact

Of Property (from Plymouth Plantation)

A Model of Christian Charity

Colonial Virginia Laws Related to Slavery

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

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

Report on the Battles of Lexington and Concord in an Excerpt of a Letter to the Earl of Dartmouth

Report on the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Message of the Pennsylvania Assembly

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

Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress

Petition from Regulators of North Carolina

Sermon 1

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

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

Letter to Henry Laurens

Letter to Cornelia Barclay De Lancey

Letter to Henry Laurens

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

“An American Monarchy or a Republic?”

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

Redcoats in South Carolina

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

Journal of Arthur Lee

Coercive Acts

Continental Association (Articles of Association)

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

The Farmer Refuted

Speech on Conciliation with America

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

Petition from Regulators of North Carolina

Sermons

Federalist No. 84

The Problem of Judicial Review

Dates of Ratification of the Constitution

Address to the People of the United States

A Citizen of Philadelphia

A Republican I: To James Wilson, Esquire

Federalist No. 1

Federalist No. 2

Federalist No. 3

Federalist No. 4

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

Letter to Benjamin Banneker

Last Will and Testament

State of the Union Address (1806)

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

Letter to Henri Gregoire

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)

Letter to the Mayor, Corporation, and Citizens of Alexandria

Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham

Letter to David Stuart

“Property”

A Candid State of Parties

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Sketch of a Plan of American Finance

State of the Union Address 1790

Letter to David Stuart

Letter to David Stuart

Arguments for Constitutional Amendments

The House Version

The Senate Version

First Congress Approves Twelve Amendments

Amendments I–X: The Bill of Rights

On Opening a School for Poor Children

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

Of the Natural Rights of Individuals

Letter to David Stuart

Letter to Marquis de LaFayette

“The Disagreeable Crisis in the Western Counties”: Report on the Whiskey Rebellion

Speech on Amendments to the Constitution

Arguments for Constitutional Amendments

Remarks on the Removal Power

The House Version

The Senate 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

State of the Union 1795

First Inaugural Address (1797)

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

Purchase of Louisiana

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

Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790 to 1850

Mr. Tallmadge in the Congressional Globe

Speech to Congress

Missouri Compromise

Letter to John Holmes

A Modest Proposal

State of the Union Address (1828)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

State of the Union Address (1831)

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

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott and Disunion

State of the Union Address (1828)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

State of the Union Address (1831)

State of the Union Address (1832)

Emigration of the Colored People of the United States

First Inaugural Address (1857)

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

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

Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

Disquisition on Government

“Song of the Spinners” from the Lowell Offering

Temperance Address

Number of Slaves in the Territory Enumerated, 1790 to 1850

Letter to John Holmes

Inaugural Address (1825)

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

The Webster-Hayne Debates

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)

First Inaugural Address (1829)

State of the Union Address (1833)

Message to the Senate Protesting the Censure Resolution

State of the Union Address (1834)

Farewell Address (1837)

Inaugural Address (1825)

State of the Union Address (1828)

State of the Union (1829)

State of the Union (1830)

State of the Union Address (1831)

First Inaugural Address (1837)

First Inaugural Address (1845)

Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations

Spot Resolutions

Speech on the Mexican War

On the Constitution and the Union

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Freedom Songs from North and South

The War—Its Cause and Cure

Battle Hymn of the Republic

On the Constitution and the Union

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

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

The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Freedom Songs from North and South

The War—Its Cause and Cure

Letter to William L. Dayton, Ambassador to France

First Confiscation Act

Surrender of Lee to Grant, Appomattox Court House

“Damages to Loyal Men”

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

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Crittenden Compromise

Congressional Debate on the 14th Amendment

Address Before the General Assembly of the State of Georgia

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

Ex Parte Milligan

The Slaughterhouse Cases

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

The Heavenly Vision

“The Home Life of the Indian”

Letter to Hannibal Hamlin

Harper’s Weekly Editorial on Emancipation

The President’s Proclamation

Letter to John McClernand

Condition of the Country

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”

State of the Union Address (1869)

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

State of the Union Address (1871)

Speech to Red Cloud and Red Dog

Second Inaugural Address (1873)

Speech on the Presidential Veto of the Bank Bill

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

First Inaugural Address (1861)

First Inaugural Address (1861)

Ex Parte Merryman

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

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

Manifest Destiny

On Being Born Again

Philosophy in the United States

State of the Union Address (1879)

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)

State of the Union Address Part II (1885)

State of the Union Address (1886)

State of the Union Address (1891)

The Study of Administration

Leaders of Men

Inaugural Address (1905)

“The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive”

State of the Union Address (1878)

“Political Independence of the Negro”

State of the Union Address (1884)

First Inaugural Address (1889)

Leaders of Men

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

Manifest Destiny

On Being Born Again

The Study of Administration

State of the Union Address (1886)

The Moral Theory of Civil Liberty

Science and Theology

Herbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

On Being Born Again

The ‘Do Everything’ Policy

Stimulants and Narcotics

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

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

Herbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

On Being Born Again

The Tariff History of the United States (Part I)

The Tariff History of the United States (Part II)

State of the Union Address (1901)

State of the Union Address Part I (1907)

State of the Union Address Part I (1908)

The Philadelphia Negro

An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia

The Problem of the South

“The Sorrow Songs,” from The Souls of Black Folk

“The Afterthought,” from The Souls of Black Folk

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

First Inaugural Address (1905)

Congressional Government, Chapter II: The House of Representatives

Letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Opposition to Wilson’s War Message

Myers v. US

State of the Union Address Part I (1908)

State of the Union Address Part I (1911)

Buck v. Bell

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)

Veto of Pennsylvania Eugenics Law

Eugenics as a New Creed

New York Times: “Pastors for Eugenics”

Judgment on Eugenics Law

Buck v. Bell

Lansing’s Memorandum of the Cabinet Meeting

The Russian Ambassador (Bakhmeteff) to the Secretary of State

First Inaugural Address (1921)

The Warfare of Science with Theology

The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage

The Problem of the South

“The Sorrow Songs,” from The Souls of Black Folk

“The Afterthought,” from The Souls of Black Folk

Holiness Camp Meetings

Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions

Progressive Party Platform of 1912

What About Those Manifestations?

First Inaugural Address (1921)

A Naval View of the Washington Treaties, April 1922

State of the Union Address (1889)

The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage

State of the Union Address Part II (1901)

The Command of the Pacific

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

Myers v. US

Mother Jones Writes Plea to Roosevelt

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

New Nationalism Speech

State of the Union Address (1891)

“The Fruits of Industrial Training”

Niagara Movement Speech

State of the Union Address Part I (1905)

State of the Union Address Part I (1906)

State of the Union Address (1922)

First Inaugural Address (1929)

The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements

An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia

The Problem of the South

State of the Union Address (1901)

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

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

State of the Union Address (1937)

“Neutrality Act”of May 1, 1937

Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Speech on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

The Norris-La Guardia Act

Radio Address of the President

Humphrey’s Executor v. US

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Co.

United States v. Butler

State of the Union Address (1937)

Fireside Chat on the Plan for Reorganization of the Judiciary

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Excerpts from the President’s Committee on Administrative Management

“The Right to Strike”

Mass Effects in Modern Life

Speech on Social Security

Excerpts from the President’s Committee on Administrative Management

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

“The Right to Strike”

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

“Black Labor and the Codes”

“Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA”

Keepers of Democracy

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

“The Forgotten Man”

Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention (1932)

Statement on the Share Our Wealth Society

Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention (1932)

Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention (1932)

Statement on the Dispersal of the Bonus Army

Campaign Speech

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”

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

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

“Why Should We March?”

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

An American Dilemma: A Review

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)

Potsdam Declaration

Speech Explaining the Firing of MacArthur

Speech Objecting to the Firing of MacArthur

Questions and Answers About the WAAC

Fifty Years Hence

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

Eleanor Roosevelt with “Chief” Charles Alfred Johnson

The First Lady Visits Tuskegee

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*

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

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

Address in Harlem

ERA Defeated in Florida

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

The Need for the Equal Rights Amendment

Anti-ERA Demonstration

Acceptance Speech at 1980 Republican Convention

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

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

The Long Telegram

Letter to James Byrnes

The Long Telegram

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

Declaration of Conscience

Limited Test Ban Treaty

Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals

Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing

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

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Zorach v. Clauson

The Justices’ View on Brown v. Board of Education

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

Speech on the Marshall Plan

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)

Radio and Television Address on the Situation in Korea

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

Executive Order 9835

Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program

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

First Inaugural Address (1949)

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

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)

The War Powers Resolution and President Richard Nixon’s Veto

Letter to James Byrnes

House Debate on the 22nd Amendment

The Truman Doctrine

Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey (The Truman Doctrine)

Debate on the Civil Rights Act

Speech on Truman’s Loyalty Program

Whistlestop Speech

Campaign Speech in St. Louis, Missouri

The President’s News Conference of June 29, 1950

Report to President Kennedy on South Vietnam

President’s Message to Congress

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

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

Men, Women, and Biblical Equality

Civil Rights Act of 1991

The Tyranny of Petty Coercion

President Bush Discusses Freedom In Iraq and Middle East

Containment and Radical Islam

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

Address to a Joint Session of Congress

Contract with America

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)

Address to the Nation on the Economy

Civil Rights Act of 1991

State of the Union Address (1993)

Contract with America

State of the Union Address (1994)

Civil Rights Act of 1991

Adarand v. Pena Concurrence

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)

Articles Of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

Contract with America

Defence of Conservatism

First Inaugural Address (2001)

Adarand v. Pena Concurrence

Speech to the National Bar Association

Boumediene v. Bush