Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, had received Paul Revere’s warning. Great Britain’s…
Source: The Declaration as Adopted by Congress, [6 July 1775], Founders Online, National Archives). https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0113-0005 IF IT…
Source: Moncure Daniel Conway, ed., The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. (New York: G.…
Source: Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, &c., [February 23,] 1775, Founders Online, National Archives (first…
Source: Patrick Henry, Speech on a Resolution to Put Virginia into a State of Defense,…
Source: “An Impartial Observer,” Boston Gazette, December 20, 1773. Having accidentally arrived at Boston upon…
Source: [Thomas Jefferson,] A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Set Forth in…
Source: Worthington Chauncey Ford, et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 34 vols.…
Source: Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser (Philadelphia), September 19, 1774. On Friday last[1]…
Source: Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, in The Collected Political Writings of…
Source: Hezekiah Niles, ed., Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America… (Baltimore: William Ogden…
Source: Peter Force, ed., American Archives: A Documentary History of the English Colonies, 4th ser.,…
Source: Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania,…
Source: Samuel Adams, “The Rights of the Colonists,” in Harry Alonzo Cushing, ed., The Writings…
Source: Charles McLean Andrews, “Boston Merchants and the Non-Importation Agreement,” Publications of the Colonial Society…
Source: Richard Peters, et al., eds., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States…
Source: “Petition of the Philadelphia Synagogue to the Council of Censors of Pennsylvania,” The Freeman’s…
Source: John Adams’s Reconstruction of Otis’s Speech in the Writs of Assistance Case, in The…
Source: New-England Chronicle (Boston), May 30, 1776. The following odd affair happened at Stratford on…
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Source: Francis Newton Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic…
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Source: “To the Honorable Counsel & House of [Representa]tives of the State of Massachusetts Bay…
Source: Charles Tansill, ed., Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the United…
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Source: A. W. Farmer, A View of the Controversy between Great-Britain and her Colonies (New…
A. United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Strike, June-July 1894, December 10, 1894…
Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
Source: 319 U.S. 586 (1943), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624. All footnotes added by the editors. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered…
Susan B. Anthony, “Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?” in Rochester…
This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Source: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina…
Source: Republican Party Platform of 1860, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, Volume II, Marion Mills Miller, ed.,…
Source: Frank Crosby, LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS EARLY HISTORY AND POLITICAL CAREER; TOGETHER WITH…
Source: Daniel Webster, The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Constitution: Selected Documents, ed. Herman Belz…
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Source: William Lloyd Garrison, “The Great Crisis,” The Liberator, 52, 2 (December 29, 1832), 206–207.…
Source: John C. Calhoun, Speeches of John C. Calhoun: delivered in the Congress of the…
Source: Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the…
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Source: Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 244–47, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331. Clay presented his resolutions in a…
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