Please note that many of the following Documents have words spelled as they were at the time they were written.
Early
Time Line of Western Philosophers
Time Line of Western Philosophy
The Code of Hammurabi (2500 BC)
The Republic by Plato (360 BC)
The Oath of Hippocrates (Fifth Century)
Pre-Colonial
Letter from Christopher Columbus to King and Queen of Spain (1490's)
Martin Luther 95 Theses (1517)
17th Century
The First Virginia Charter (April 10, 1606)
The Second Virginia Charter (May 23, 1609)
The Third Virginia Charter (March 12, 1612)
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
The English Bill of Rights (1689)
18th Century
Early Congressional Documents (1774-1789)
The Albany Plan of 1754 (1754)
The Resolutions of the Stamp Act (October 19, 1765)
Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (November 20, 1772)
The Declaration of Rights (October 14, 1774)
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (March 23,1775)
The Declaration of Arms (July 6, 1775)
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
Olive Branch Petition (July 8, 1775)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12,1776)
The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
The Articles of Confederation (November 15,1777)
Treaty of Alliance with France 1778
The Great Seal of the United States 1782
Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
The United States Constitution (1787)
The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
Federalist Papers 10 and 51 (1787-1787)
Three-Fifths Compromise (1787)
The Letter of Transmittal of the United States Constitution (September 17, 1789)
George Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789)
The Bill of Rights (1791) Amendments 1-27
Patent of the Cotton Gin (1794)
The Naturalization Act of 1795
Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior by George Washington
George Washington's Farewell Address 1796
George Washington's Prayer Journal
More Washington Coming!!
The Proclamation of Neutrality (April 22, 1793)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
The Treaty of Greenville (1795)
The Sedition Act (July 14,1798)
The Alien and Sedition Act (1798)
The Virginia and Kentucky and Resolves (1798)
19th Century
The Danbury Baptists' letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 7, 1801)
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists (January 1, 1802)
The Star Spangled Banner (September 20, 1814)
The Monroe Doctrine (December 2,1823)
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)
Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress (1830)
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sanford) (1857)
Lincoln Douglas First Debate Ottawa, Illinois August 21, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Second Debate Freeport, Illinois August 27, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Third Debate Jonesboro, Illinois September 15, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Fourth Debate Charleston, Illinois September 18, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Fifth Debate Galesburg, Illinois October 7, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Sixth Debate Quincy, Illinois October 13, 1858
Lincoln Douglas Seventh Debate Alton, Illinois October 15, 1858
Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
Constitution of the Confederate States (March 11, 1861)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
War Department General Order 143: Creation of the US Colored Troops (1863)
Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Articles of Agreement Regarding the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
13th Amendment to the US Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Treaty of Medicine Lodge (1867)
Check for the purchase of Alaska (1868)
14th Amendment to the US Constitution: Civil Rights to Former Slaves (1868)
15th Amendment to the US Constitution: Voting Rights to Former Slaves (1870)
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1878)
Thomas Edison Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
Interstate-Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes General Allotment Act (1887)
Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
20th Century
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of (1916)
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (1941)
President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
Executive Order 9066: Japanese Relocation Order (1942)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
North Atlantic Treaty (April 4, 1949)
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy (1961)
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King (August 28, 1963)
Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
21th Century
Other
The Broken Window Theory (March 1982)
Not yours to give by Davy Crockett ( Member of Congress 1827-1835)
That which is seen and that which is not seen (Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850)
What happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Obituary (The Death of Common Sense)