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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

    Before 1400

  1. (32k) Magna Charta

    1400 - 1500

  2. (12k) Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494

    1500 - 1600

  3. (10k) Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western planting, 1584

    1601-1650

  4. (10k) From: Samuel de Champlain, Voyages , 1604
  5. (13k) Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
  6. (32k) The First Virginia Charter, 1606
  7. (66k) The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
  8. (48k) The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
  9. (7k) Mayflower Compact, 1620
  10. (10k) An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
  11. (17k) Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
  12. (13k) The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
  13. (14k) Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants
  14. (12k) Petition of Right, 1628
  15. (16k) The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)

    1651-1700

  16. (10k) Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
  17. (11k) Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
  18. (7k) Edward Randolph condemns the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683
  19. (14k) Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
  20. (118k) John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689
  21. (5k) John Locke, An Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government
  22. (7k) Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697

    1701 - 1725

  23. (9k) King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
  24. (18k) Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
  25. (12k) The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715

    1726 - 1750

  26. (13k) Benjamin Franklin: A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency
  27. (61k) Benjamin Franklin: Journal of a voyage from England to Philadelphia, 1726
  28. (12k) Benjamin Franklin, How I became a printer in Philadelphia
    from his autobiography
  29. (5k) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  30. (7k) Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736
  31. (6k) Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
  32. (15k) Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
  33. (24k) Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the governor's salary, 17 September 1728
  34. (7k) French Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750 (translated)
  35. (12k) Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
  36. (8k) Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750
  37. (7k) Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations

    1751 - 1775

  38. (11k) Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
  39. (14k) Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
  40. (50k) Peace Treaty of Paris, 1763
  41. (10k) Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
  42. (12k) Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
  43. (9k) The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
  44. (13k) William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
  45. (15k) Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  46. (22k) Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
  47. (10k) John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  48. (7k) John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
  49. (15k) First Continental Congress - October 1774
  50. (15k) Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress October 1774
  51. (12k) The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
  52. (14k) Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
  53. (9k) John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
  54. (10k) Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
  55. (21k) Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775

    1776 - 1800

  56. (4k) Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
  57. (22k) Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
  58. (17k) Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776
  59. (10k) The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
  60. (16k) Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
  61. (16k) The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
  62. (22k) Jefferson's notes on Slavery
  63. Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
  64. (14k) Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
  65. (8k) Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
  66. (6k) Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
  67. (28k) The Articles of Confederation, 1781
  68. (24k) From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
  69. (7k) Letter of Samuell Searls - May 12, 1782
  70. (18k) Paris Peace Treaty, 1783
  71. (19k) James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
  72. (11k) The Annapolis Convention, 1786
  73. (16k) The Complete Federalist Papers
  74. (11k) The Constitutional Convention debates and the Anti-Federalist Papers
  75. (44k) The USA Constitution
  76. (8k) The letter presenting the Constitution
  77. (38k) Madison speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
  78. (26k) Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
  79. (4k) Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man (1791-1792)
  80. (7k) Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
  81. (71k) The Jay Treaty, 1794
  82. (29k) The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
  83. (41k) Washington's Farewell address, 1796
  84. (18k) John Adams inaugural address, 1797
  85. (22k) The Northwest Ordinance, july 13, 1787
  86. (10k) Virginia Resolution - 1798
  87. (10k) Kentucky Resolution - 1799

    1801 - 1825

  88. (14k) Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address
  89. Cases of John Marshall
  90. (10k) The Monroe Doctrine, 1823

    1826 - 1850

  91. (4k) The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
  92. (6k) William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836
  93. (4k) selections come from Benjamin Drew (ed.), The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves
  94. (9k) Excerpts from "The Fugitive Slave Act" 1850
  95. (4k) From the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
  96. (5k) The opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

    1851 - 1875

  97. (5k) Excerpts from : Henry Carey - The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial (1851)
  98. (10k) Excerpts from : Henrey Carey - The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)
  99. (5k) Excerpt from : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856
  100. (46k) The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
  101. (10k) McClellan Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Penninsula Campaign, 1862
  102. (5k) The Gettysburg Address
  103. (8k) The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
  104. (6k) Abraham Lincoln's proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864
  105. (8k) The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
  106. (8k) Abraham Lincoln's last speech, April 11, 1865
  107. (10k) Thaddeus Stevens speech of December 18, 1865
  108. (8k) Address of a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865
  109. (11k) Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866

    1876 - 1900

  110. (9k) John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door Note , September 6 1899
  111. (6k) The Autobiography of Geronimo

    1901 - 1925

    1926 - 1950

    1951 - 1975

  112. (13k) Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963

    1976 - 2000

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1726-1750 1751-1775 1776-1800 1801-1825 1826-1850 1851-1875
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1726-1750 1751-1775 1776-1800 1801-1825 1826-1850 1851-1875
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