Milestone documents in American history: exploring the primary sources that shaped America

V. 1. 1763-1823 --

Proclamation of 1763 --

Quartering Act --

Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress --

Boston non-importation agreement --

Intolerable acts --

Declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress --

Patrick Henry's "Liberty or death" speech --

Proclamation by the King for suppressing rebellion and sedition --

Common Sense --

Virginia Declaration of Rights --

Declaration of independence --

Articles of Confederation --

Treaty of Fort Pitt --

Pennsylvania : an act for the gradual abolition of slavery --

James Madison's memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments --

Northwest Ordinance --

Constitution of the United States --

Federalist Papers 10, 14, and 51 --

George Washington's first inaugural address --

George Washington's first annual message to Congress --

Jefferson's and Hamilton's opinions on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States --

Bill of Rights --

George Washington's farewell address --

Alien and sedition acts --

Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address --

Thomas Jefferson's message to Congress about the Lewis and Clark Expedition --

Marbury v. Madison --

An act to prohibit the importation of slaves --

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee --

McCulloch v. Maryland --

Missouri Compromise --

Monroe Doctrine.

V. 2. 1824-1887 --

Gibson v. Ogden --

Andrew Jackson : on Indian removal --

William Lloyd Garrison's first Liberator editorial --

Andrew Jackson's veto message regarding the Second Bank of the United States --

South Carolina ordinance of nullification and Andrew Jackson's proclamation regarding nullification --

Joint resolution of Congress for the annexation of Texas --

Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments --

Compromise of 1850 --

Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July" speech --

Kansas-Nebraska Act --

Dred Scott v. Sandford --

Abraham Lincoln's "House divided" speech --

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession --

Jefferson Davis's inaugural address to the Confederacy --

Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address --

Homestead Act --

Morrill Act --

Emancipation Proclamation --

War Department General Order 143 --

Gettysburg Address --

Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address --

Articles of agreement relating to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia --

Black Code of Mississippi --

Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution --

Civil Rights Act of 1866 --

Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson --

Treaty of Fort Laramie --

Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution --

Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution --

Act establishing Yellowstone National Park --

Rutherford B. Hayes's inaugural address --

Thomas Edison's patent application for the incandescent light bulb --

Chinese Exclusion Act --

Pendleton Civil Service Act --

Interstate Commerce Act --

Dawes Severalty Act.

V. 3. 1888-1955 --

Sherman Antitrust Act --

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address --

Plessy v. Ferguson --

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of gold" speech --

William McKinley's message to Congress about Cuban intervention --

The insular cases : Downes v. Bidwell --

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles --

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine --

Muller v. Oregon --

Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution --

Zimmermann Telegram --

Woodrow Wilson : joint address to Congress leading to a declaration of War against Germany --

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points --

Hammer v. Dagenhart --

Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution --

Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address --

Tennessee Valley Authority Act --

National Industrial Recovery Act --

National Labor Relations Act --

Social Security Act --

Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address at Madison Square Garden --

United States v. Curtiss-Wright --

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms message to Congress --

Lend-Lease Act --

Executive Order 8802 --

Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Pearl Harbor" speech --

Executive Order 9066 --

Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day --

Servicemen's Readjustment Act --

Truman Doctrine --

Marshall Plan --

Taft-Hartley Act --

Press release announcing U.S. recognition of Israel --

Executive Order 9981 --

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer --

Brown v. Board of Education --

Senate Resolution 301 : censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

V. 4. 1956-2003 --

Southern Manifesto --

Federal-Aid Highway Act --

Executive Order 10730 --

Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address --

John F. Kennedy's inaugural address --

Executive Order 10924 --

John Glenn's official communication with the Command Center --

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" --

John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address --

Martin Luther King Jr.s "I have a dream" speech --

Civil Rights Act of 1964 --

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution --

Voting Rights Act of 1965 --

Miranda v. Arizona --

Kerner Commission Report summary --

Equal Rights Amendment --

Richard Nixon's smoking gun tape --

Roe v. Wade --

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke --

Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech --

César Chávez's Commonwealth address --

George H.W. Bush's address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis --

Bill Clinton's radio address on the Welfare Reform Act --

Articles of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton --

Bush v. Gore --

George W. Bush's address to the nation on September 11, 2001 --

Bybee torture memo --

Lawrence v. Texas --

List of documents by category --

Subject index.

v. 1. 1763-1823

v. 2. 1824-1887

v. 3. 1888-1955

v. 4. 1956-2003.