J. Kelly Robison
Homages Paid by the Counts of Champagne, 1143
The Manner of Doing Homage & Fealty, c. 1275
Founding a Republic, Excerpt from Discourses I, 9 Niccolo Machiavelli
Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Martin Luther, (1520)
Letter to the King and Queen of Spain - Christopher Columbus, (Undated, probably 1494)
King Ferdinand's letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians
Royal Instructions for the Viceroy Mendoza, 1535
Discourse of Western Planting - Richard Hakluyt, 1584
Voyages - Samuel de Champlain, 1604 (excerpt)
Thomas Hariot, "Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Arthur Barlowe on the first voyage to Roanoke
Jacque Cartier on the Micmac meeting the French
John Smith and the Founding of Jamestown, 1607
The Mayflower Compact, November 1620
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Company, 1629
A Modell of Christian Charity, John Winthrop
William Bradford on Sickness Among the Natives, 1633
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639
Jesuit Observations on the "Enslavement" of Native American Women
Jesuit Comparison of Native and European Life, 1657-1658
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7, 1688
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
William Penn's Plan of Union, 1697
A Puritan Prescription for Marital Concord
Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the North Carolina Biennal Act
Jonathon Swift - A Modest Proposal
Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
"Lines on Childbirth" - Jane Colman Tyrell, 1741
REASONS FOR MAKING BAR, AS WELL AS PIG OR SOW-IRON IN HIS MAJESTY'S PLANTATION ca. 1750
Reasons Offered Against Encouraging Making Iron In America
REASON AGAINST A GENERAL PROHIBITION OF THE IRON MANUFACTURE IN HIS MAJESTY'S PLANTATIONS, Ca. 1750
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Jonathon Edwards
Peter Kalm Indicts Wastefulness in American Land Use, 1750
Pennsylvania: the Poor Man's Paradise - Thomas
On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger, 1754
Servants and Slaves in Virginia
Olaudah Equiano Recalls the Horrors of the Middle Passage, 1756
Franklin's Advice on Choosing a Mistress
The Albany Plan of Union, 1754
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
Letters from a Farmer, letters 2 & 4- John Dickinson
Account of the Boston Massacre - Preston
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
Novanglus - John Adams, February 6, 1775
Liberty or Death Speech - Patrick Henry, 1775
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Speech on conciliation with America - Edmund Burke, March 22, 1775
The Charlotte Town Resolves, May 31, 1775
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776 - Charles Inglis
Commonsense - Thomas Paine, 1776
The Rights Of Man - Thomas Paine
Yankee Doodle - American Traditional Song
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1775
The Annapolis Convention, September 14, 1786
Variant Texts of the Virginia Plan - Text A
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
The Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
Whiskey Rebellion Proclamation
The Sedition Act of July 14, 1798
Authority Given to the President to Take Possession of the Territory of Louisiana, 1803
Proposed Amendments made at the Hartford Convention
A Challenge to European Stereotypes of Native American Gender Relations, 1819
The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial - Henry Carey
Andrew Jackson on Nullification
Address to the Free Persons of Colour in the United States - Richard Allen, 20 September 1830
The Transcendentalist - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833
Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848), Horace Mann
Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848
The Leg I Left Behind Me - Parody from the Mexican-American War
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
A Plea for Captain John Brown - Henry David Thoreau - 1858
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
Chief Seattle's Treaty Oration, 1854
First Open Door Note - [John Hay to Andrew D. White], 1899
The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
To the Person Sitting in Darkness, Mark Twain - North American Review 172 (Feb. 1901)
Life in the Tenements of New York City (1890) - Jacob Riis
The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
Statement of the Immigration Restriction League
Atlantic Exposition Speech - Booker T. Washington
"The Wabash Cannonball" - American Traditional Song
In Support of Prohibiton - Hobson
"A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition" - Percy Andreae, 1915
Absurdities of the Bible - Clarence Darrow
"Brother Can You Spare A Dime" - song from the Great Depression
Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
Peace in Our Time (excerpt) - Neville Chamberlain, 1939
"Four Freedoms Speech" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941
Atlantic Charter, 1941
Casablanca Conference, Feb 12, 1943
Lilli Marlene (in English) - song from World War II
Lilli Marlene (in German) - song from World War II
The Japanese Surrender Documents - WWII
Declaration on Human Rights - United Nations
The Sinews of Peace - Winston Churchill, March 5,
1946
Also called the "Iron Curtain Speech"
Truman Doctrine Speech, March 12, 1947
The "Long Telegram" - George Kennan
Soviet Conduct - X (George Kennan)
1st Inaugural Address - John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FRAUD, SHAM, AND HOAX, George Wallace - July 4 1964
"The Problem That Has No Name" - Betty Friedan, 1963
Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions, 1964
Controversy on Campus - Glenn S. Dumke, 1969
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, John Kerry - 1971
"AGGRESION FROM THE NORTH": STATE DEPARTMENT WHITE PAPER ON VIETNAM, February 27, 1965
Timeline of the Watergate Affair
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address - January 20, 1981
Democracy and Foreign Policy (1990)
Bob Dole's Republican Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, 1996
National Hymn of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany)
National Hymn of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany)