A. President Ulysses S. Grant, First Annual Message, December 6, 1869 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+2/Chapter+17/vol2ch17+Grant+First+Annual+Message.mp3 . . .…
Seeing that for these reasons the third Mission could not be begun, our Venerable Father,…
Source: John F. Kennedy, Address at Rice University, Houston, Texas, 12 September 1962, NARA, JFKPOF-040-001. We meet at…
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Source: Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying Documents to the Two…
“The Indians at the White House,” The Evening Star, May 28, 1872. Available at https://goo.gl/x5d18q.…
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (New York: Charles Webster and Company, 1894), 37-40. There was…
Speech of Hon. A[ndrew] Kennedy, of Indiana, on The Mexican War. Delivered in the House…
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Printed Resolution and Preamble on Mexican War: “Spot Resolutions,” Abraham Lincoln Papers: Series 1, General…
Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, D.C.: United…
Source: We have used a modernized version of an early English translation of the work…
Source: Francisci de Victoria, De Indis et De ivre belli, relectiones. . . , ed. Ernest…
Source: Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450–1524) was a Spanish jurist. The text may be…
Letter of Columbus to the Nurse of Prince John, American Journeys Collection, Document No. AJ-067,…
Source: Writings of Christopher Columbus: Descriptive of the Discovery and Occupation of the New World, Paul…
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: Since I last had the privilege of addressing you on the…
The report of the commission recommends provisions for the imposition of a graduated tax on…
Return to Part I The first conference of nations held at The Hague in 1899,…
Return to Part I I have repeatedly called attention to the confusion which exists in…
To the Senate and House of Representatives: We still continue in a period of unbounded…
Return to Part I In Cuba such progress has been made toward putting the independent…
Return to Part I It is gratifying also to note that during the year a…
To the Senate and House of Representatives: Notwithstanding the added burdens rendered necessary by the…
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: Under the benignant providence of…
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The annual meeting of Congress…
Return to Part I The consul of the United States at the City of Mexico…
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In resuming your labors in…
My Fellow—Citizens: ANYONE who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a…
My Fellow-Citizens: WHEN we assembled here on the 4th of March, 1897, there was great…
WITHOUT solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages…
TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, LIMITS, AND SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE…
Henry Van Dyke, The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage, a Sermon Preached on Thanksgiving…
The day is dark and gloomy, unsettled and uncertain, like the condition of our country,…
"RESOLVED, That to conquer Mexico and to hold it, either as a province or to incorporate…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state…
1. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union in Convention assembled, hereby declare our…
August 22, 1789 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION The House resumed the consideration of the amendments…
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August 20, 1789 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION The House resumed the consideration of the report…
August 21, 1789 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION The House proceeded in the consideration of the…
August 18, 1789 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION Mr. GERRY moved, "That such of the amendments…
August 19, 1789 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION The House then took into consideration the amendments…
