Colonial Era

• Columbus's Journal
• Columbus's Letter to the King and Queen of Spain
• Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza
• The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
• Discourse of Western Planting
• Return to Roanoke
• Instructions for the Virginia Colony
• Mayflower Compact
• City Upon a Hill
• Maryland Toleration Act
• Navigation Acts
• Account of the Pueblo Revolt
• Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay regarding the Dangers that Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them

American Revolution

• Currency Act of 1764
• Quartering Act
• A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law
• Stamp Act
• The Continental Congress’ Declaration of Rights and Grievances
• Resolutions on the Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin in the House of Commons
• Townshend Act
• A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston
• Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre
• Tea Act
• A Summary View of the Rights of British America
• An Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec
• Administration of Justice Act
• Boston Port Act
• Quartering Act of 1774
• Quebec Act
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
• The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
• Olive Branch Petition
• Royal Proclamation of Rebellion
• Common Sense
• Original Rough Draught of the Declaration of Independence
• The Resolutions and Recommendations of Congress
• Virginia Declaration of Rights
• The Declaration of Independence
• Town Meeting Resolution
• The American Crisis
• Treaty of Paris

Early National Period

• Thoughts on Government
• A Bill Concerning Slaves
• Articles of Confederation
• The Whiskey Rebellion
• The Annapolis Convention
• Northwest Ordinance
• U.S. Constitution
• Report of the Committee of Style
• Address of the Senate to President George Washington
• Judiciary Act of 1789
• Memorandum on a Colony in Africa for Manumitted Slaves
• Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport
• Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
• Proclamation of Neutrality
• Opinion on Renouncing the Treaties with France
• The Jay Treaty of 1794
• Treaty of Greenville
• Washington's Farewell Address
• Sedition Act
• Kentucky Resolution
• Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty
• Jefferson's letter to Meriwether Lewis
• Declaration of the War of 1812
• The New England Threat of Secession
• Peace with Britain
• The Treaty of Ghent

Pre-Civil War Era

• McCullough v. Maryland
• Monroe Doctrine
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• The Removal Act of 1830
• Cherokee v. Georgia
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Declaration of the People of Texas
• Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress
• Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin
• Manifest Destiny
• Letter from Kale to John Quincy Adams
• Letter from Kinna to John Quincy Adams
• John Quincy Adams Defends the Amistad Captives before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• Polk's Message on War with Mexico
• Oregon Treaty
• Seneca Falls Declaration
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Testimony of Canadian Fugitives
• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Republican Party Platform, 1856
• The Crime Against Kansas
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Fragment of Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech
• John Brown's Final Address to the Court
• Proclamation to the Mexicans of Texas

Slavery

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

Civil War

• Republican Platform, 1860
• Democratic Platform, 1860 (Breckinridge faction)
• Democratic Platform, 1860 (Douglas faction)
• Crittenden Compromise
• Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States.
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Constitution of the Confederate States
• Morrill Land Grant Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address
• The Lawrence Massacre
• Second Inaugural Address
• Ex parte Milligan

Reconstruction

• Alaska Treaty

Gilded Age

• Homestead Act
• Pacific Railway Act
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Fort Laramie Treaty
• The Little Horn Massacre
• Report on the Battle of the Little Big Horn
• The Custer Massacre
• Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
• An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs.
• The Chinese Exclusion Treaty of 1880 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Testimony of Benjamin Singleton
• The Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Indian Policy Reform
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Pendleton Act (1883)
• The Exclusion of the Chinese
• Dawes Act
• Wealth
• The Ghost Dance
• Wovoka's Message
• An Account of Sitting Bull's Death
• Chinese Exclusion Bill
• Chinese Exclusion
• Should the Chinese Be Excluded?
• Populist Party Platform
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• The Farce of the Chinese Exclusion Laws
• The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph

America Becomes a World Power

• Sea Power
• A Plea for Annexation
• The Hawaiian Situation: Our Present Duty
• The Hawaiian Situation: The Invasion of Hawaii
• First Open Door Note
• Platt Amendment

Progressive Era

• Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress
• Declaration of the Conservation Conference of Governors
• Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address
• Equal Rights Amendment

World War I

• Declaration of Neutrality
• Strict Accountability
• The First Lusitania Note
• Zimmermann Note
• Peace Without Victory
• War Message
• The Espionage Act of 1917
• The Archangel Invasion
• Fourteen Points
• The Sedition Act of 1918
• U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition
• Schenck v. United States
• Senate Debate on the League of Nations
• League of Nations Treaty

1920s

• The Case Against the Reds
• The Washington Treaty
• Gitlow v. New York
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Near v. Minnesota

The Great Depression

• United States v. Miller

World War II

• Pearl Harbor Speech: Day of Infamy
• The Neutrality Act of 1935
• Neutrality Act of 1936
• The Neutrality Act of 1937
• Peace in Our Time
• Neutrality Act of 1939
• Atlantic Charter
• Four Freedoms speech
• Lend Lease Act

Post-War Era

• Marshall Plan
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• North Atlantic Treaty
• Dennis v. United States
• Youngstown v. Sawyer

1960s

• Inaugural Address
• Engel v. Vitale
• Baker v. Carr
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Abington v. Schempp
• I Have a Dream
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Miranda v. Arizona

Vietnam War

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Pentagon Papers: Background to the Crisis
• New York Times v. United States

1970-2000

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg
• Lemon v. Kurtzman
• War Powers Act
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• Richmond v. Croson
• Texas v. Johnson
• California Proposition 209
• Welfare Reform Act of 1996