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American Revolution

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The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates

Alexander Hamilton & James Madison

1793

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France, the XYZ Affair

John Adams

1797

Annual Message to Congress (1801): The Barbary States

Thomas Jefferson

1801

The Embargo Act

Thomas Jefferson

1808

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Anonymous

1860

Surrender of Lee to Grant, Appomattox Court House

Louis-Mathieu Didier Guillaume

Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons

The Scientific Panel of the Interim Committee

1945

Press Release Alerting the Nation About the Atomic Bomb

Harry S. Truman

1945

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