Historical Documents



What is a document? Exploration, 1492-1607 The Colonial Era, 1607-1774 \| The American Revolution, 1775-1787 The Early Republic, 1787-1824 \| The Age of Jackson, 1824-1844 Coming of the Civil War, 1844-1860 \| Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 The West, 1865-1890 \| The Gilded Age, 1877-1914 \| The Progressive Era, 1890- 1917 World War I and the Jazz Age, 1914-1929 The Great Depression and World War II Era, 1929-1945 The Cold War, 1945-1989 \| A Social Revolution, 1954-1974 Decade of Disillusionment, 1970-1979 \| Waiting for the Dust to Settle, 1980-2002 Disclaimer

What is a Document? A document is more than the traditional piece of paper. Typically, students tend to think of documents and sources as words written on parchment by people who have been dead for a long time. While a document is this, it is also more. Photographs, architecture, song lyrics, music, advertisements, clothing, and even movies all qualify as documents and sources. In addition to providing some of the traditional sources for classroom use, this page also hopes to expose you to "less traditional" sources as well. All documents on this page are primary sources. In other words, they came from the particular period they are listed under. They were produced by people in that time and thus reflect something of how those people thought and what they thought of as important. Looking over these documents should beg an interesting question: when you die, what will your sources and documents say about you? Back to Top

The Era of Exploration, 1492-1607 Christopher Columbus - Journal, 1492

The Colonial Era, 1607-1774 Instructions to the Virginia Company First Virginia Charter Second Virginia Charter John Smith - The Starving Time in Virginia Third Virginia Charter Mayflower Compact - 1620 Salem Covenant of 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter John Winthrop - A Model of Christian Charity The Examination of Anne Hutchinson The Maryland Toleration Act Virginia Fornication Laws - 1661 & 1691 Nathaniel Bacon - Declaration in the Name of the People William Berkely - On Bacon's Rebellion Robert Beverley - On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704 William Byrd - Diary, 1709-1711 Jonathan Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Runaway Slave Notices from South Carolina Gazette, 1730s Charter of Georgia, 1732 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1733 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1734 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1735 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1736 George Whitefield - The Folly and Danger of Being Not Righteous Enough George Whitefield - The Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent Poor Richard's Almanack - 1737 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1739 William Bull - Report on Stono Rebellion Poor Richard's Almanack - 1740 Poor Richard's Almanack - 1741 George Washington - School Exercises: Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation, 1744 Gottlieb Mittelberger - On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants, 1754 The Albany Plan of Union Reverend Peter Fontaine - Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1757 King George III - A Royal Proclamation, 1763 The Currency Act - 1764 The Sugar Act - 1764 The Quartering Act - 1765 The Stamp Act - 1765 Stamp Act Congress - Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress William Pitt - Speech on the Stamp Act Dr. Benjamin Church - Liberty and Property Vindicated, 1765 The Declaratory Act - 1766 The Townshend Act - 1767 The World Turned Upside Down, or, The Old Woman Taught Wisdom, 1767 Negroes For Sale Broadside - 1769 The Boston Massacre - Boston Gazette and Country Journal The Boston Massacre - Anonymous Account Captain Thomas Preston - Account of the Boston Massacre Henry Pelham - The Boston Massacre Paul Revere - The Bloody Massacre... Daniel Dulany - Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies... Soame Jenyns - The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies... John Dickinson - Letters from a Farmer II John Dickinson - Letters from a Farmer IV Tea Act - 1773 Felix's Petition - 1773 James Wilson - Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, 1774 The Quebec Act - 1774 The Administration of Justice Act - 1774 The Boston Port Act Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress - 1774 Back to Top

The American Revolution, 1775-1787 John Adams - Novanglus, 1775 Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, 1775 Edmund Burke - Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775 The Olive Branch Petition - 1775 The Continental Congress - The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775 King George III - A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, 1775 Jonathan Mayhew - A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers Lord Dunmore - Proclamation, 1775 Thomas Paine - Common Sense George Washington - Recruiting and Maintaining an Army, 1776 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis I, December 1776 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis II, January 1777 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis III, April 1777 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis IV, September 1777 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis V, March 1778 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis VI, October 1778 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis VII, November 1778 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis VIII, March 1780 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis IX, June and October 1780 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis X, March 1782 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis XI, May 1782 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis XII, October 1782 Thomas Paine - The American Crisis XIII, April and December 1783 Virginia Legislature - Declaration of Rights The Declaration of Independence Charles Inglis - The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776 The Pausing American Loyalist - 1776 Albigence Waldo - From the Diary of Albigence Waldo, Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777 Prince Hall - Petition, 1777 Leutze - Washington Crossing the Delaware The Rebels - 1778 Jonathan Odell - The American Times, 1780 Ebenezer Denny - Excerpts from his diary, 1781 The Articles of Confederation George Washington - The Newburgh Address, 1783 James Madison - Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785 Thomas Jefferson - On Slavery Cato - Letter and Petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly Proceedings of the Annapolis Convention, 1786 The Northwest Ordinance - 1787 Letter of Transmittal from the Constitutional Convention to the Continental Congress, 1787 Brutus - IV (excerpts), 1787 Federalist No. 6 Federalist No. 9 Federalist No. 10 Federalist No. 33 Federalist No. 38 Federalist No. 39 Federalist No. 67 Edmund Randolph - Objections to the Constitution Patrick Henry - The Problem of Concurrent Taxation Philanthropos - Adoption of the Constitution Will Lead to Civil War Philadelphiensis - The President as Military King Back to Top

The Early Republic, 1787-1824 The United States Constitution of 1787 Thomas Jefferson - Letter to James Madison on Religious Freedom James Madison - Letter to Thomas Jefferson on the Bill of Rights Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom Olaudah Equiano - The Middle Passage, 1788 Alexander Falconbridge - The African Slave Trade, 1788 George Washington - First Inaugural Address, 1789 James Madison - Proposed Amendments to the Constitution Alexander Hamilton - Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States Alexander Hamilton - Report of the Secrectary of the Treasury on the Subject of a Mint Alexander Hamilton - Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 The Bill of Rights The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 George Washington - Second Inaugural Address, 1793 Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin George Washington - Neutrality Proclamation George Washington - Farewell Address John Adams - Inaugural Address, 1797 The Eleventh Amendment Kentucky Resolution Virginia Resolution Solomon - Confession of Solomon, 1800 Thomas Jefferson - First Inaugural Address, 1801 Louisiana Purchase Treaty The Twelfth Amendment Rebel's statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy - 1804 Thomas Jefferson - Second Inaugural Address, 1805 Scenes from the Middle Passage James Madison - First Inaugural Address, 1809 James Madison - Second Inaugural Address, 1813 Francis Scott Key - The Star Spangled Banner, 1814 James Monroe - First Inaugural Address, 1817 Darmouth College v. Woodward Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia - 1817 The American Colonization Society - A Memorial to the United States Congress, 1820 James Monroe - Second Inaugural Address, 1821 Cohens v. Virginia Rev. Dr. Richard Furman - Exposition of The View of the Baptists Relative to the Colored Population of the United States to the Governor of South Carolina James Monroe - Monroe Doctrine, 1825 John Quincy Adams - Inaugural Address, 1825 Back to Top

The Age of Jackson, 1824-1844 Andrew Jackson - First Inaugural, 1829 David Walker - David Walker's Appeal, 1829 William Lloyd Garrison - Editorial from The Liberator, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator Nat Turner - Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 The Richmond Enquirer - Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831 Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia Andrew Jackson - Bank Veto Message Henry Clay - Speech on Jackson's Veto Message Andrew Jackson - Proclamation Regarding Nullification Andrew Jackson - Second Inaugural, 1833 Young Lady's Own Book - 1833 John C. Calhoun - Slavery as a Positive Good, 1837 American Anti-Slavery Society - Declaration of Sentiments Andrew Jackson - Indian Removal Policy Texas Declaration of Independence Angelina Grimké Weld - 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Transcendalist Henry Highland Garnet - An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, 1843 Liberty Party - 1844 Platform Back to Top

Coming of the Civil War, 1844-1860 Texas Annexation James K. Polk - Inaugural Address, 1845 James K. Polk - Message on War with Mexico Henry David Thoreau - On Civil Disobedience Abraham Lincoln - A House Divided Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Free Soil Party - 1848 Platform Horace Mann - Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board Seneca Falls Convention - Declaration of Sentiments Godey's Lady's Book - January 1850 John C. Calhoun - Southern Address Julia Ward Howe - Battle Hymn of the Republic Dr. Cartwright - "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race", 1851 Henry Carey - The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foriegn George Fitzhugh - The Universal Law of Slavery Frederick Douglass - "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July", 1852 The Kansas-Nebraska Act Abraham Lincoln - Speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act Charles Sumner - The Crime Against Kansas Anthony Burns - On Being Apprehended Dred Scott v. Sanford Southern Defense of Slavery The Selling of Joseph Benjamin Drew - "My Bed Consisted of a Board Wide Enough to Sleep On", 1856 James Henry Hammond - Cotton Is King Frederick Law Olmstead - A Journey Through the Seaboard States Abraham Lincoln - A House Divided, 1858 John Brown - Final Address to the Court Mark R. Weston - John Brown's Body The 1860 Republican Platform The 1860 Southern Democrat Platform The 1860 Northern Democrat Platform Robert Barnwell Rhett - The Address of South Carolina to the Slaveholding States of the United States Back to Top

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 Secession Ordinances of the Southern Confederacy Declaration of Causes of Seceding States Isham G. Harris - Message to the Tennessee Assembly E. S. Dargan - Speech to the Alabama Secession Convention The Crittenden Compromise Isham G. Harris - Second Message to the Tennessee Assembly The Constitution of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis - Inaugural Address as Provisional President of CSA Abraham Lincoln - First Inaugural Address Harriet A. Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861 George B. McClellan - Letter to Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln - Letter to Horace Greeley Abraham Lincoln - Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln - Amnesty and Reconstruction Proclamation Robert E. Lee - Letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln - Proclamation on Wade-Davis Bill The Wade-Davis Manifesto Mary Chesnut Boykin - Diary from Dixie Abraham Lincoln - Second Inaugural Address Robert E. Lee - "Farewell to the Army" Thaddeus Stevens - Speech on Reconstruction, 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment State of Louisiana - Black Codes, 1865 State of Mississippi - Black Codes, 1865 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Frederick Douglass - Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage Thomas Nast - The Modern Samson The Fourteenth Amendment Ulysses S. Grant - First Inaugural Address The Fifteenth Amendment Thomas Nast - Halt! This is not the way... Ulysses S. Grant - Second Inaugural Address The Slaughterhouse Cases The United States v. Cruikshank Rutherford B. Hayes - Inaugural Address Josiah Henson - The Overseer...Sent My Mother Away... To A Retired Spot, 1877 Back to Top

The West, 1865-1890 The Homestead Act of 1862 Cowboy Folk Songs Old Lady Horse - The Buffalo Go Fort Laramie Treaty Crazy Horse - I Have Spoken Chief Joseph's Lament Sitting Bull - Life on a Sioux Reservation John Gast - American Progress, 1872 Emmeline Wells - Is It Ignorance? Treaty Regulating Immigration from China The Chinese Exclusion Act The Dawes Act - 1887 Frank H. Mayer with Charles B. Roth - The Buffalo Harvest Helen Hunt Jackson - A Century of Dishonor (excerpts) Frederick Jackson Turner - The Frontier Thesis Back to Top

The Gilded Age, 1877-1914 The Wabash Cannonball Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor Silver Purchase Act of 1878 The Civil Service Act of 1883 Emma Lazarus - The New Colossus Grover Cleveland - First Inaugural Address, 1885 Statement of the Eight Hour Association - 1886 The Pendleton Act Lewis Hine - Child Labor photographs Benjamin Harrison - Inaugural Address, 1889 Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth Jacob Stroyer - My Life in the South, 1890 Grover Cleveland - Second Inaugural Address, 1893 The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires The Reverend John McDowell - The Life of a Coal Miner Manifesto of the Communist Party Booker T. Washington - The Atlanta Compromise The People's Party Platform William Jennings Bryan - The Cross of Gold Plessy v. Ferguson - Majority Opinion Plessy v. Ferguson - Dissenting Opinion William McKinley - First Inaugural Address, 1897 The Teller Amendment Minnie Whitney - Still Livin’ Under the Bonds of Slavery W. E. B. DuBois - Of Booker T. Washington and Others Back to Top

The Progressive Era, 1890- 1917 Booker T. Washington - The Awakening of the Negro, 1896 Jim Crow - Making a Segregated America (photos) W. E. B DuBois - The Freedmen's Bureau, 1901 W. E. B. DuBois - The Talented Tenth, 1903 W. E. B. DuBois - Response to Booker T. Washington, 1903 Jacob Riis - Touring New York City’s Fourth Ward Jacob Riis - Photos from How the Other Half Lives Henry George Jr. - The Single Tax What It Is and Why We Urge It Henry George Jr. - What the Single Tax Is Doing Washington Gladden - Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions Theodore Roosevelt - Inaugural Address, 1905 The Pure Food and Drug Act - 1906 Theodore Roosevelt - 8th Annual Message to Congress, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt - The New Nationalism, 1910 Woodrow Wilson - Monopoly, or Opportunity? Woodrow Wilson - First Inaugural Address, 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment - 1913 The Seventeenth Amendment - 1913 H. L. Mencken - "A Neglected Anniversary": the Introduction of the Bathtub into the United States, 1917 The Eighteenth Amendment - 1919 The Volstead Act - 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment -1920 Back to Top

World War I and the Jazz Age, 1914-1929 Woodrow Wilson - Declaration of Neutrality, 1914 H. L. Mencken - Mark Twain's Americanism Woodrow Wilson - Second Inaugural Address, 1917 William Tyler Page - The American's Creed, 1917 Woodrow Wilson - War Message to Congress George William Norris - Opposing Entry into WWI Howard Chandler Christy - World War I Posters Woodrow Wilson - The Fourteen Points, 1918 The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918 Woodrow Wilson - Appeal for Support of the League of Nations Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. - Against the League of Nations, 1919 Henry Cabot Lodge - Reservations with Regard to the Treaty and the League of Nations Schenk v. United States - 1919 Warren G. Harding - A "Return to Normalcy", 1920 Warren G. Harding - Inaugural Address, 1921 Testimony about the Work of the Ku Klux Klan The Covenant of the League of Nations - 1924 Calvin Coolidge - Inaugural Address, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Hills of Zion H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Mencken Finds Daytonians Full of Sickening Doubts About Value of Publicity, July 9, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub, Sun, July 11, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Yearning Mountaineers' Souls Need Reconversion Nightly, Mencken Finds, Sun, July 13, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Darrow's Eloquent Appeal Wasted on Ears That Heed Only Bryan, July 14, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Law and Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place to Holy Writ in Rhea County, Sun, July 15, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists, Sun, July 16, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Malone the Victor, Even Though Court Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken, Sun, July 17, 1925 H. L. Mencken - The Scopes Trial: Tennessee in the Frying Pan, Sun, July 20, 1925 H.L. Mencken - "THE MONKEY TRIAL": A Reporter's Account H. L. Mencken - Last Words, 1926 Herbert Hoover - "Philosophy of Rugged Individualism" Speech, 1928 Back to Top

The Great Depression and World War II Era, 1929-1945 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Herbert Hoover - Perceptions of a President Herbert Hoover - Inaugural Address, 1929 Hungerford - A Clear Track! Bruce Sharks - A New Chauffuer A New Captain at the Wheel Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address, 1933 The Twentieth Amendment - 1933 The Twenty-First Amendment - 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt - The "Quarantine" Speech Dorthea Lange - The Migrant Mother Franklin D. Roosevelt - Acceptance Speech for Nomination for Presidency, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt - Second Inaugural Address, 1937 The Neutrality Act of 1937 The Slaves Are Put in Stalls Like... Cattle - from the WPA Narratives, 1937 Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt - My Mail The Neutrality Act of 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt - Address at Charolette The Lend-Lease Act Franklin D. Roosevelt - The Four Freedoms The Atlantic Charter Franklin D. Roosevelt - Third Inaugural Address, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt - A Day That Will Live in Infamy Declaration of War on Germany Declaration of War on Japan McClelland Barclay - Man the Guns! Join the Navy Thomas Hart Benton - The Sowers Japanese Internment Camp - Tuke Lake, CA Norman Rockwell - The Four Freedoms: Freedom from Fear, 1943 Norman Rockwell - The Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech, 1943 Norman Rockwell - The Four Freedoms: Freedom of Worship, 1943 Norman Rockwell - The Four Freedoms: Freedom from Want, 1943 The Tehran Conference Lawrence Wilbur - Longing Won't Bring Him Back: Get A War Job! Royal Typewriter Company - Victory Waits on Your Fingers - Keep 'Em Flying, Miss U.S.A., 1944 J. Howard Miller - We Can Do It Franklin D. Roosevelt - Fourth Inaugural Address, 1945 The Yalta Conference Hiroshima Survivor The United States Strategic Bombing Survey - The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1946 Back to Top

The Cold War, 1945-1989 The Marshall Plan Harry S. Truman - The Truman Doctrine United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights Harry S. Truman - Inaugural Address North Atlantic Treaty Organization Harry S. Truman - Executive Order 9981 The Twenty-Second Amendment - 1951 The Recall of General Douglas MacArthur Dwight D. Eisenhower - First Inaugural Address, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1954 The Cenure of Senator Joseph McCarthy Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower - State of the Union Address, 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower - Farewell Address The Twenty-Third Amendment - 1961 John F. Kennedy - Letter to Ngo Dien Diem John F. Kennedy - Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs (Moon Challenge Message) John F. Kennedy - "Ich bin ein Berliner!" Ronald Reagan - "The Evil Empire" Back to Top

A Social Revolution, 1954-1974 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Pilgrimage to Nonviolence, 1958 John F. Kennedy - Address to the Southern Baptists John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address Students for a Democratic Society - Port Huron Statement Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. - March on Washington Speech (I Have a Dream) Robert C. Weaver - The Negro as American Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique The Twenty-Fourth Amendment - 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson - Inaugural Address Lyndon B. Johnson - American Promise Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' Lyndon B. Johnson - The Great Society The Economic Opportunity Act Lyndon B. Johnson - The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet Martin Luther King, Jr. - Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize George Wallace - The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham and Hoax Lyndon B. Johnson - "We Shall Overcome" Voting Rights Act of 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. - On Courage Miranda v. Arizona, 1966 National Organization of Women - Statement of Purpose The Twenty-Fifth Amendment - 1967 Credence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son The Twenty-Sixth Amendment - 1971 Back to Top

Decade of Disillusionment, 1970-1979 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi The Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972 Richard M. Nixon - Second Inaugural Address Roe v. Wade, 1973 War Powers Act, 1973 Richard M. Nixon - Peace With Honor Richard M. Nixon - Resignation Address Gerald Ford - Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office Gerald Ford - Remarks on Signing the Nixon Pardon Gerald Ford - State of the Union Address, 1976 Gerald Ford - State of the Union Address, 1977 James Carter - Inaugural Address James Carter - Foriegn Aid and Human Rights James Carter - The "Malaise Speech" Back to Top

Waiting for the Dust to Settle, 1980-2002 Ronald Reagan - First Inaugural Address Ronald Reagan - Second Inaugural Address The Challenger Explosion (video) Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 (dissenting opinion) George H. W. Bush - Inaugural Address George H. W. Bush - State of the Union Address, 1992 Mary Fisher - The Whisper of AIDS The Twenty-Seventh Amendment - 1992 William Jefferson Clinton - First Inaugural Address Republican Party - The Contract with America, 1994 George W. Bush - Post September 11, 2001 Address to Congress Succession of the Office of President Back to Top

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