Documents by Era
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1492-1650Discovery and Settlement
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1650 - 1763Colonial America
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1763 - 1783The Revolution & Confederation
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Military
Report to General Gage on the Retreat of the American Colonists from Lexington and ConcordApril 20, 1775See Document
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Government
Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America1764See Document
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Slavery
Strictures upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia in a Letter to a Noble Lord, &c.October 15, 1776See DocumentAnti-slavery Petition: To The Honorable Counsel & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts Bay in General Court assembledJanuary 13, 1777See Document
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Commercial Republic
Strictures upon the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia in a Letter to a Noble Lord, &c.October 15, 1776See DocumentAn Enquiry Into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors upon the Human Body, and their Influence upon the Happiness of Society1784See Document
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Women's Voices
Correspondence between John Adams, Abigail Adams and James Sullivan on RepresentationMarch 31, 1776See Document
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Foreign Policy
Celebrations of American Independence in Boston and Watertown, MassachusettsJuly 18, 1776See DocumentMemorandum on Meeting Between Lord Howe and the American CommissionersSeptember 11, 1776See Document
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Religion
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers1750See DocumentPrinciples of Law and Polity, Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America1764See Document
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Military
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1783 - 1789The Founding
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1789 - 1825Early Republic
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Nullification
Letter to Jonathan Fisk: New England “approaches the confines of treason”December 8, 1814See Document
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Nullification
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1825-1860Expansion and Sectionalism
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Gender and Equality
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The Sure Foundation on Which We Must BuildOctober 1831See Document
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Gender and Equality
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1860 - 1877Civil War and Reconstruction
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Federalism/Union
The Address of the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States1860See Document
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Parties/Elections
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal UnionJanuary 9, 1861See Document
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Federalism/Union
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1870 - 1900Industrialization and Urbanization
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1890 - 1929Progressivism and World War 1
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Presidency
Constitutional Government in the United States: Chpt. 3, The President of the United States1908See Document
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Presidency
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1929 - 1941The Great Depression and the New Deal
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1941 - 1945World War II
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Civil Rights
Executive Order No. 9346: Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment PracticeMay 27, 1943See Document
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Presidency
Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender (Potsdam Proclamation)July 26, 1945See Document
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Commercial Republic
Executive Order No. 9346: Establishing a Committee on Fair Employment PracticeMay 27, 1943See Document
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Civil Rights
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1945 - 1992Cold War America
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Civil Rights
“To Secure These Rights”, The Report of President Truman’s Committee on Civil RightsDecember 5, 1946See Document
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Internal Security
Statement by the President on the Government’s Employee Loyalty ProgramNovember 14, 1947See Document
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Domestic Anticommunism/McCarthyism
Statement by the President on the Government’s Employee Loyalty ProgramNovember 14, 1947See Document
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Vietnam
Joint Resolution of Congress, H.J. RES 1145 (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution)August 10, 1964See Document
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Civil Rights
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1992 - presentContemporary America
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Foreign Policy
Memorandum on the President’s Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them2001See Document
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Congress
“This is the People’s House”: John Boehner’s First Remarks as House SpeakerJanuary 5, 2011See Document
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Foreign Policy