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A

From Abington School District v. Schempp
Account of the Cotton Industry
An Account of the Haymarket Strike
Act of Union Between Scotland and England, 1707
Adams Defends British Soldiers
From Adarand Constructors v. Peña
Address by Angelina Grimke
Address by the Anti-Slavery Society
Admission of Prince Edward Island, 1873
Admitting British Columbia into the Union, 1871
Admitting Rupert's Land into the Union, 1870
The Albany Plan of Union
The American Scholar
Andrew Hamilton on Freedom of Speech
Apology of William I
Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson
Articles of the Capitulation of Montreal, 1760
Articles of the Capitulation of Quebec, 1759

B

From Baker v. Carr
The Battle of Hastings
Battle of Lexington
Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address
Bill Clinton's Second Inaugural Address
Black Codes of Mississippi
Blackfoot Letter to Roosevelt
Bolívar: "Ignorance, Tyranny and Corruption"
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Speech
From Bowers v. Hardwick
Brandeis on Competition
From Brandenburg v. Ohio
Buchanan's Inaugural Address
From The Buddha
Bush at Earth Summit
Bush on Foreign Direct Investment Policy
Bush on the Commonwealth of Independent States
Bush Responds to Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait
Bush's Inaugural Address

C

From "The Calgary Convention"
California Mines and Mining
A Call to Rebellion
Camp David Accords (text of agreement, resolutions)
From "Canada First"
Canada's 1996 Census Form
Canada's Constitution Act of 1982
Canning on British Foreign Affairs
The Capture of Napoleon III
Carter Doctrine
Casement Speaks for Ireland
CDA Opinion
Chamberlain's Broadcast on the Outbreak of War
Charles I: Speech Before Execution
Charter of the United Nations
Chartist Petition of 1848
Chief Joseph: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
Chief Seattle: "My People Are Ebbing Away"
Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat"
Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace"
Churchill: "This Was Their Finest Hour"
CIA Report on Bay of Pigs Invasion
Clay's Resolutions
“A Clear and Present Danger”
Cleveland's First Inaugural Address
Cleveland's Second Inaugural Address
Clinton in China
Code of Law for a Frontier Settlement
Massachusetts Bay Company Charter
From Concerning Human Understanding
Constitutional Debate over Impeachment Process
The Conversion of Clovis
Coolidge's Inaugural Address
Coronation Oath of Edward II, 1308
Coronation of Charlemagne
From The Country Wife
Cromwell: “In the Name of God, Go”
Cross of Gold Speech
Curran on Emancipation for Catholics in Ireland

E

Earl Grey's Views on Nova Scotia, 1847
From the Earl of Durham's Report
Edict of the Diet of Worms
"Edict on Land Reform"
Edward VIII's Abdication Speech
Effects of the Atomic Bombs
Einstein's Letter to FDR
Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower on Little Rock High School
Eisenhower on “Open Skies”
Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address
Eisenhower’s Letter to President Diem
Elizabeth I: "To Be a King"
Elizabeth I to the Troops at Tilbury
Elvis Fans' Letter to Eisenhower
The Emancipation Proclamation
Emmet: "I Am Going to My Cold and Silent Grave"
From Employment Division v. Smith
Employment of Children in Factories
The Ems Dispatch
Energy and National Goals
The Enthronement Proclamation
The Equal Rights Amendment
From Erasmus
Erskine Defends Rights of Man
Espejo Explores New Mexico, 1582
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Ethelbert's Greeting to Saint Augustine
Eulogy for Diana
Everett's Oration at Gettysburg
From Everson v. Board of Education
Executive Order 9066
Executive Summary of The 9/11 Commission Report
Experiments in Government

F

Failure and Rebellion in a Frontier Town
The First Inaugural Address of George Washington
Ford’s Address on the Helsinki Accords
Fox on "Abominable Despotism" of East India Co.
Frances Wright: "Let Us Rejoice As Human Beings"
Franklin Argues in Favor of the Constitution
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on Drought Conditions
Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Franklin Roosevelt's Fourth Inaugural Address
Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech
Franklin Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address
Franklin Roosevelt's Third Inaugural Address
Frederick Douglass: "The Mournful Wail of Millions"
The Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1865
From Brown v. Board of Education
From Bush v. Gore
From Lawrence v Texas
From Fuente Ovejuna
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

G

From Galileo
From Gandhi
Gandhi: "Non-Violence Is the First Article of My Faith"
Garfield's Inaugural Address
Garrison: "Man Above All Institutions!"
General Eisenhower's D-Day Proclamation
Geology in The Field by J.D. Dana
George Berkeley on Human Knowledge
George Kennan: "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
George W. Bush: "Freedom Is Under Attack"
George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address
George W. Bush's First Inaugural Address
George Washington's Second Inaugural Address
German Surrender at Reims
German Surrender Signed at Berlin
From Gibbons v. Ogden
From Gideon v. Wainwright
“Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
Goldman: Progress Is Never Within the Law
Gouverneur Morris on National Greatness
From Government
Grady: "The New South"
Grattan on Irish Rights
From Gregg v. Georgia
From Griswold v. Connecticut
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (text of resolution)

H

Hamilton Champions the Constitution
Harper's "Woman's Political Future"
Benjamin Harrison's Inaugural Address
From Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
Henry Clay Speaks for Compromise
Henry IV's Letter to Gregory VII
Hillary Clinton in China
From History of Woman Suffrage
“History Will Absolve Me”
Hitler: "My Patience Is Now at an End"
From Hobbes
From Homer
Hoover's Inaugural Address
From The Hound of the Baskervilles
Hudson's Bay Company Charter

I

The Inaugural Address of John Adams
Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes
Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding
Ingalls Homestead Proof
Instrument of Surrender
From Insurgent Mexico
Inter-Imperial Relations
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
Internment of Japanese Americans
IRA Cease-Fire
Irish Declaration of Independence

J

J. William Fulbright Testifies on China and Vietnam
Jackson's 1829 Inaugural Address
Jackson's Second Inaugural Address
Jackson's Nullification Proclamation
James I: "Kings Are Justly Called Gods"
James K. Polk's Inaugural Address
James Monroe's First Inaugural Address
James Monroe's Second Inaugural Address
James Otis: "A Man's House Is His Castle"
Japan's Introduction to Firearms
Jean Froissart's Account
Jefferson Davis: "A Final Adieu"
Jefferson on Missouri Compromise
Jefferson's Letter to Livingston
Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address
John Ball's Sermon
John Brown's Last Statement
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John Hancock: "The Tremendous Bar of God!"
John Hay's Circular Letter
John Pym: "The Cry of All England"
John Quincy Adams's Inaugural Address
John Wesley Powell's Historic Whitewater Journey
John Wesley Powell Visits the Pueblo Indians in 1870
John Winthrop: "A City Upon a Hill"
From Johnson
Johnson on U.S. Aims in Vietnam
Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin Message
Joint Inquiry Report on September 11 Attacks
From Jung

K

Kennedy Explains Bay of Pigs to Khrushchev
Kennedy on Meredith v. Fair
Kennedy on Nuclear Safeguards
Kennedy's Cuban Missile Broadcast
Kennedy's Memorandum to Johnson
Kennedy's Telegram to Khrushchev After First Manned Space Mission
From Khrushchev Visit Memorandum
Introduction of the Korean Alphabet
From Korematsu v. United States

L

Lady Jane Grey's Letter to Her Father
From The Last of the Mohicans
Letter Authorizing Massacre at Glencoe
Letter from a Woman Convict in Australia
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Collingwood on Trafalgar
Letter from Pepys on the Plague
Letter from Premier Haultain to Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Letter from Thomas More Before His Execution
Letter on Marston Moor
Letter on Press Gangs
Letters from Brahms
Letters from Mozart to his Father
Letters of Sir Isaac Brock
Letters on the Irish Potato Famine
Lewis on His 31st Birthday
Liberal-Conservative Platform of 1921
Liberal Platform of 1921
Lincoln: "A House Divided"
Lincoln: Address at Cooper Union
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln: "The Monstrous Injustice of Slavery"
From Lives of the Artists: Andrea del Sarto
From Lives of the Artists: Botticelli
From Lives of the Artists: Brunelleschi
From Lives of the Artists: Castagno and Veneziano
From Lives of the Artists: Cimabue
From Lives of the Artists: Correggio
From Lives of the Artists: Donatello
From Lives of the Artists: Duccio di Buoninsegna
From Lives of the Artists: Fra Angelico
From Lives of the Artists: Fra Bartolommeo
From Lives of the Artists: Fra Filippo Lippi
From Lives of the Artists: Giorgione
From Lives of the Artists: Giotto
From Lives of the Artists: Giulio Romano
From Lives of the Artists: Jacopo, Giovanni, and Gentile Bellini
From Lives of the Artists: Jacopo Pontormo
From Lives of the Artists: Jacopo Sansovino
From Lives of the Artists: Leonardo da Vinci
From Lives of the Artists: Lorenzo Lotto
From Lives of the Artists: Masaccio
From Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo
From Lives of the Artists: Michelozzo Michelozzi
From Lives of the Artists: Piero di Cosimo
From Lives of the Artists: Pietro Perugino
From Lives of the Artists: Pisano
From Lives of the Artists: Raphael
From Lives of the Artists: The Pollaiuolo Brothers
From Lives of the Artists: Titian
From Lives of the Artists: Uccello
From Locke
Agreement of London and Hansa Towns
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Lower Canada's Grievances, 1836
Lucy Stone: "Disappointment Is the Lot of Woman"
Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address

N

Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address
From New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
From New York Times Co. v. United States
Newfoundland Confederation
From the Nicomachean Ethics
Nixon's Checkers Speech
Nixon's Inaugural Address
From Nixon's Last Tapes
Nixon's Resignation Speech
Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
Nixon's “Silent Majority” Speech
From the Northern Ireland Power-Sharing Agreement
Northwest Ordinance
From Novum Organum

O	Observations on Conditions in the South Olmsted's "The Unplanned Growth of Cities" On Printing "On Taking Up Arms" Oregon Boundary Treaty Organization and Principles

P

Palmerston: "The Strong Arm of England"
Panama Canal Treaties of 1977
Passages from a Journal
From Paul
Pearse: "Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace"
The Peasant Movement in Hunan
Petition of an Accused Witch
Pierce's Inaugural Address
Pitt on Liberty and Free Speech
Pitt the Younger: "A Barbarous Traffic in Slaves"
From Plato
From Plessy v. Ferguson
From Plutarch's Lives: Agesilaus
From Plutarch's Lives: Alexander
From Plutarch's Lives: Antony, Cleopatra, and War
From Plutarch's Lives: Antony
From Plutarch's Lives: Aratus
From Plutarch's Lives: Aristides
From Plutarch's Lives: Caesar
From Plutarch's Lives: Caesar in Gaul
From Plutarch's Lives: Caius Gracchus
From Plutarch's Lives: Caius Marius
From Plutarch's Lives: Cato the Younger
From Plutarch's Lives: Cicero
From Plutarch's Lives: Coriolanus
From Plutarch's Lives: Crassus
From Plutarch's Lives: Demosthenes
From Plutarch's Lives: Lucullus
From Plutarch's Lives: Lycurgus
From Plutarch's Lives: Lysander
From Plutarch's Lives: Marcus Cato
From Plutarch's Lives: Numa Pompilius
From Plutarch's Lives: Pericles
From Plutarch's Lives: Pompey
From Plutarch's Lives: Sertorius
From Plutarch's Lives: Solon
From Plutarch's Lives: Themistocles
From Plutarch's Lives: Tiberius Gracchus
From Plutarch's Lives: Timoleon
Polk's Mexican War Message
Pope Urban's Clermont Address
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor
Presidential Briefing on Al-Qaeda
Principal Provisions of Edict of Nantes
Principal Provisions of the Magna Carta
From Principles of Morals and Legislation
Proclamation of the Upper Canadian Rebels
Public Law 100-383

Q	Letter to Queen Victoria Queen Victoria on the Great Exhibition

R

Rainborowe Speaks for the Levellers
From Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Reagan Doctrine
Reagan on Strategic Defense Initiative
Rebellion of Ch'en She
Reciprocity Treaty, 1865
Records of the Grand Historian
Records of the Legitimate Succession
From Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Rent Owed the Lord of the Manor
Report of Commissioner Wemyss M. Simpson
Report on Reconciling French and British laws
Republican Party’s Foreign Policy Stance in 1952
The Republicans' First 100 Days
Request for UN Membership
Resolutions of the First Continental Congress
From The Riddle of the Sands
The Rights of Man Declaration
Riot Outside 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
Robespierre: "Louis Must Perish"
From Roe v. Wade
From Romer v. Evans
Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address
Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Address
The Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt's Inaugural Address
From Rousseau

S

Sacrosancta
Salmon P. Chase on Free Soil
From Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
From Schenck v. United States
From Scott v. Sandford
Scripture of Amoghapasa
Selections from the UN Panel’s Report on the Genocide in Rwanda
Senator Beveridge on Imperialism
The Seventeen-Article Constitution
Sexual Harassment Guidelines
Shanghai Communiqué
Sheil: "The Nation Is Divided into Two Castes"
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Sir John Eliot Protests Excess Taxation
Socrates in His Own Defense
Sojourn to Mars: The Pathfinder Mission
Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
Selections from the South African Constitution
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession, 1860
Speech Against Marshall
Speech Against the War
Speeches of Sir Robert Laird Borden
From Spinoza
From Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States
Stanton's Keynote Speech at Seneca Falls
START Treaty
Support for the Contras
Susan B. Anthony on Women's Rights

T

Taft on Dollar Diplomacy
Taft's Inaugural Address
Tamworth Manifesto
Taylor's Inaugural Address
Tecumseh: "Once a Happy Race"
From Ten Days That Shook the World
From Terry v. Ohio
Texas and Manifest Destiny
The Texas Declaration of Independence
From Texas v. Johnson
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
The Alberta Act
The Atlantic Charter
The Bush Doctrine
From "The Coming Struggle"
The Downing Street Memo
The Federalist and the House of Representatives
The Federalist on Impeachment
The Federalist on the Judiciary
The Four Freedoms
The Indian Act, 1876
From The Journal of Captain John Knox
The Manitoba Act
The Marshall Plan
The Monroe Doctrine
The Need for a Bill of Rights
The Neutrality Act of 1937
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Platt Amendment
“The Policy of the Big Stick”
The Québec Act
The Royal Proclamation, 7 October, 1763
The Saskatchewan Act, 1905
The September 11 Hijacking of United Flight 93
The Seventh Report on Grievances, 1835
The Teachings of Muhammad
The Union Act, 1840
The United Farmers' Platform of Canada
Theodore Roosevelt On Trusts
Thomas Cranmer's Final Speech
Letter from Thomas Jefferson on Government Debt
Letter from Thomas Jefferson on Shays' Rebellion
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address
Thoreau's Plea for Captain John Brown
The Three Stages of Revolution
From Tinker v. Des Moines
Tocqueville and Democracy
A Treaty between Canada and the Ojibwa People
Treaty for the Annexation of Hawaii
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Paris
The Truce of God
The Truman Doctrine
Truman's First Inaugural Address
Truman's Korean War Statement
The Tsetse Fly
The Twelve Articles

U

U.S. Policy During the Cold War
U.S.-Soviet Relations: Cold War Diplomacy
Ulysses S. Grant's First Inaugural Address
Ulysses S. Grant's Second Inaugural Address
Unam Sanctam
United States Census 2000
United States Recognition of Vietnam
From United States v. Nixon
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

V	Vandenberg Resolution Vergniaud: "Your Blood Shall Redden the Earth" Letter to the Viceroy of the Indies Vietnam Peace Accords Vietnam Veterans Against the War View on Conservation Virginia Constitution of 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights The Volstead Act

W

War Against the Saxons
From the Way of the Samurai
Wendell Phillips Champions Freedom of the Press
From West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
"What Is Enlightenment?"
William Henry Harrison's Inaugural Address
William Pitt the Elder: "The Kingdom Is Undone"
William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings
Wilson Appeals for Neutrality
Wilson: “Peace Without Victory”
Wilson's First Inaugural Address
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Wilson's Second Inaugural Address
Wolfe Tone's Court-Martial Speech
World War I German Propaganda Leaflet

Y	Yalta Agreements Yitzhak Rabin's Funeral

Z	The Zimmerman Telegram

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