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This area is an index on the primary sources and transcripts this project contains and provides.

*** Before 1400 * 1400-1500 * 1501-1600 * 1601-1650 * 1651-1700 * 1701-1725 ***
*** 1726-1750 * 1751-1775 * 1776-1800 * 1801-1825 * 1826-1850 * 1851-1875 ***
*** 1876-1900 * 1901-1925 * 1926-1950 * 1951-1975 * 1976-2000 * 2001- ***

  1. Before 1400

  2. Magna Charta

    1400 - 1500

  3. Privileges and Prerogatives granted to Columbus April 30, 1492 by king Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth
  4. Extracts from the journal of Columbus
  5. The Papal bull Inter Caetera - Alexander VI, May 4, 1493
  6. The treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494
  7. Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
  8. Letters of Patent to John Cabbot, March 5, 1496
  9. Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, 1497
  10. Three letters concerning John Cabbots voyages
  11. King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians

    1500 - 1600

  12. The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations, around 1500
  13. Plakkaat van Verlatinghe, 1581 july 26

  14. The (Dutch) Act of Abjuration.
  15. Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western planting, 1584
  16. Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, March 25, 1584

    1601-1650

  17. From: Samuel de Champlain, Voyages , 1604
  18. Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
  19. The First Virginia Charter, 1606
  20. The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
  21. The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
  22. Mayflower Compact, 1620
  23. The Charter of New England : 1620
  24. An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
  25. Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
  26. The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
  27. Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants
  28. Petition of Right, 1628
  29. Extract from Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions to Patroons, June 7, 1629
  30. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  31. Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640
  32. New England Articles of Confederation, 1643

    1651-1700

  33. Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
  34. Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
  35. The First Thanksgiving Proclamation ,June 20, 1676
  36. Edward Randolph condemns the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683
  37. Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
  38. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689
  39. John Locke, An Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government
  40. Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697

    1701 - 1725

  41. Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 28 October 1701
  42. King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
  43. Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
  44. The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715

    1726 - 1750

  45. Benjamin Franklin: A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency
  46. Benjamin Franklin: Journal of a voyage from England to Philadelphia, 1726
  47. Benjamin Franklin, How I became a printer in Philadelphia, from his autobiography
  48. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  49. Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
  50. Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
  51. Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
  52. Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the governor's salary, 17 September 1728
  53. French Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750 (translated)
  54. Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
  55. Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
  56. Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations

    1751 - 1775

  57. Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
  58. Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
  59. Peace Treaty of Paris, 1763
  60. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
  61. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
  62. The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
  63. William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
  64. Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  65. Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  66. John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  67. John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  68. First Continental Congress - October 1774
  69. Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress October 1774
  70. The Articles of Association, October 20 1774
  71. The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
  72. Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
  73. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
  74. Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
  75. Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775

    1776 - 1800

  76. Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
  77. Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
  78. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
  79. Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
  80. The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
  81. Jefferson's notes on Slavery
  82. Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
  83. Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
  84. Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
  85. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
  86. The Articles of Confederation, 1781
  87. From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
  88. Letter of Samuell Searls - May 12, 1782
  89. Paris Peace Treaty, 1783
  90. Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Stanwix, October 22, 1784
  91. James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
  92. The Annapolis Convention, 1786
  93. The Complete Federalist Papers
  94. The Constitutional Convention debates and the Anti-Federalist Papers
  95. The USA Constitution
  96. The letter presenting the Constitution
  97. Treaty with the Six Nations, Fort Hamar, January 9, 1789
  98. Madison speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
  99. Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
  100. Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man (1791-1792)
  101. Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
  102. The Jay Treaty, 1794
  103. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason - 1794
  104. The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
  105. The Northwest Ordinance, july 13, 1787
  106. The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
  107. Treaty between the United States and the Oneida, Tuscorora and Stockbridge Indians living in the country of the Oneidas 1794
  108. Virginia Resolution - 1798
  109. Kentucky Resolution - 1799
  110. George Washington
  111. The Sedition Act of 1798
  112. John Adams

    1801 - 1825

  113. Thomas Jefferson
  114. James Madison
  115. James Monroe
  116. Cases of John Marshall

    1826 - 1850

  117. Treaty made at Buffalo Creek in the State of New York, January 15, 1838 with the representatives of the Nations of New York Indians
  118. John Q. Adams
  119. Andrew Jackson
  120. The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
  121. William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
  122. Martin van Buren's Inaugural address, 1837
  123. William H. Harrison's Inaugural address, 1841
  124. James K. Polk's Inaugural address, 1845
  125. The Seneca Falls Declaration 1848
  126. Zachary Taylor's Inaugural address, 1849
  127. Benjamin Drew, The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves
  128. Excerpts from "The Fugitive Slave Act" 1850
  129. From the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
  130. The opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

    1851 - 1875

  131. Excerpts from : Henry Carey - The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial (1851)
  132. Excerpts from : Henrey Carey - The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
  133. Franklin Pierce's Inaugural address, 1853
  134. Excerpt from : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856
  135. James Buchanan's Inaugural address, March 4, 1857
  136. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
  137. McClellan Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Penninsula Campaign, 1862
  138. Abraham Lincoln
  139. The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
  140. Thaddeus Stevens speech of December 18, 1865
  141. Address of a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865
  142. Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866
  143. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866
  144. Andrew Johnson, Cleveland speech, September 3, 1866
  145. Andrew Johnson, Veto fo the first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867
  146. Charles Sumner, Opinion on the trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
  147. Exerpt from: James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
  148. Navajo Treaty of 1868
  149. Ulysses S. Grant
  150. Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association, April 1873
  151. The Slaughter-House cases 1873

    1876 - 1900

  152. Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876
  153. Rutherford B. Hayes' Inaugural address, 1877
  154. Supreme Court Case: Munn v. Illinois, 1877
  155. Excerpt from: Henry George, Progress and Poverty 1879
  156. James A. Garfield's Inaugural address , 1881
  157. Excerpt from: Edward Belamy, Looking Backward, 1884
  158. Andrew Carnegie "Wealth", June 1889
  159. The Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890
  160. Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892
  161. Grover Clevelandfirst term 1885-1889
  162. Benjamin Harrison
  163. Grover Cleveland second term 1893-1897
  165. Excerpt from: William Graham Sumner, "The absurd effort to make the world over", March 1894
  166. Excerpt from:"Coin" Harvey, Coin's Financial School, 1894
  167. Samuel Gompers, Letter on labor in industrial society to Judge Peter Grosscup. September 1894
  168. Excerpt from: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
  169. James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to "Coin" Harvey, 1895
  170. Supreme Court Case Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Co., 1895
  171. Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895
  172. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
  173. William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896
  174. William Allen White, "What's the matter with Kansas?", August 16, 1896
  175. William McKinley
  176. John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door Note , September 6 1899
  177. The Autobiography of Geronimo

    1901 - 1925

  178. Theodore Roosevelt
  179. William H. Taft
  180. Woodrow Wilson
  181. Warren G. Harding
  182. Calvin Coolidge's

    1926 - 1950

  183. Herbert C. Hoover's
  184. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  185. Harry S. Truman

    1951 - 1975

  186. Brown v. Board of Education 1954
  187. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  188. John F. Kennedy
  189. Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  190. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963
  191. Speech by George C. Wallace, The Civil Rights Movement: fraud, sham and hoax, 1964
  192. Lyndon B. Johnson
  193. Richard M. Nixon
  194. Gerald Ford

    1976 - 2000

  195. Jimmy Carter
  196. Ronald Reagan
  197. George Bush
  198. Bill Clinton

    2001-

  199. George W. Bush's

*** Before 1400 * 1400-1500 * 1501-1600 * 1601-1650 * 1651-1700 * 1701-1725 ***
*** 1726-1750 * 1751-1775 * 1776-1800 * 1801-1825 * 1826-1850 * 1851-1875 ***
*** 1876-1900 * 1901-1925 * 1926-1950 * 1951-1975 * 1976-2000 * 2001- ***