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Obligations, 1020
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The Concordat of Worms 1122
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Princes, 1231
Confirmation of the Charters, 1297
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England
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Second Treatise of Civil Government
by John Locke
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Karl Marx: Das Kapital (1867)
Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, 1923
American
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Public Address
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from History
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Colonial Charters, Grants and Related
Documents
Forfeiture in England and Colonial
America
Records of The Virginia Company of
London, 1619
The Mayflower Compact, 1620
John ~Winthrop's City upon a Hill,
1630
The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
The Albany Plan, 1754
The Stamp Act, 1765
Resolutions Adopted by the Stamp Act
Congress, 1765
The Declaratory Act, 1766
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,
1775
The Virginia Declaration of Rights,
1776
The Declaration of Arms, 1776
Common Sense, 1776
Spy Letters of the American
Revolution
Declaration of Independence
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Introduction
Declaring Independence: Drafting the
Documents
A History of the Declaration of
Independence
The Rise and Fall of the Newburgh
Conspiracy, 1782
The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
Articles of Confederation: 1776-1781
The Articles of Confederation, 1777
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Constitution
The Annapolis Convention, 1786
Northwest Ordinance, 1887
The Constitution
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of Legal Rights for Slaves, 1791
The Proclamation of Neutrality of
1793
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
The Jay Treaty, 1794
The Treaty of Greenville, 1795
The Sedition Act of 1798
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Louisiana Purchase, 1803
St. George Tucker's Note on
Blackstone's Commentaries, 1803
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Laws, 1804 NEW
Tecumseh's Speech at Vincennes, 1810
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Alexis DeTocqueville: Democracy in
America, 1831
Legal and Judicial History of the Mormons
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1841
The Dred Scott Decision, 1846
Civil Disobedience by Henry David
Thoreau, 1846
Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
William Henry Seward's Higher Law
Speech, 1850
Compromise of 1850
John C. Calhoun's Speech to the
Senate Against the Compromise of 1850
The Gadsden Purchase, 1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Abraham Lincoln's A House Divided
Speech, 1858
John Brown's Final
Address to the Court, 1859
William Lloyd
Garrison's Speech on the Death of John Brown, 1859
Causes of the Civil War
Declaration of Causes of Secession,
1861
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States of America, 1861
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Constitutional Address, 1861
The Homestead Act, 1862
The Morrill Act, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
Treaty
Between the U.S. & Great Britian for the Suppression of the Slave
Trade, 1862
The Lincoln Legal Papers
The Gettysburg Address, 1863
Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in
the U. S. Civil War
Sullivan Ballou's Letter to His Wife
The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5,
1864
Reconstruction: Roads to Reunion
Congressional Reconstruction, 1865
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& Southern Society Project
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Bureau by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Populist Movement, 1867-1890
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Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
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Adams, 1880
The Pendleton Act, 1883
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
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& The Masses During the Gilded Age
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An
American in the Philippines: George Percival Scriven, 1899-1901 NEW
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, 1890
The Turner Thesis: The Significance
of the Frontier in American History, 1893
Lynch Law
in America by Ida B. Wells, 1900
The History of the Standard Oil
Company by Ida Tarbell, 1904
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906
Theodore Roosevelt & New
Nationalism, 1910
The World War I Document Archive
The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916
The Zimmerman Note, January 1917
Balfour Declaration, November 1917
The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
1918
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen
Points Speech, 1918
The Peace Treaty of Versailles, June
28, 1919
The Covenant of the League of Nations
The Palmer Raids & The Red Scare,
1918-1921
The Lusk Committee: Joint
Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities &
The Red Scare,1920
American Prohibition
Ohio Dry Federation Prohibition
Campaign of 1918
The Temperance Movement in
Westerville, Ohio
The Teapot Dome Scandal, 1924
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928-1929
Father Charles E. Coughlin's Radio
Addresses
The Main Causes of the Great
Depression
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929
The Dust Bowl
New Deal Network
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
Social Security History, 1935
WPA Life Histories, 1936-1940
First Lady's Lobbying Efforts for
Federal Action Against Lynchings, 1936
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four
Freedoms, January 6, 1941
The Atlantic Charter, August 1941
Thurgood Marshall to The NAACP Legal
Staff Concerning Voting Rights Cases, November 1941
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, December 8,
1941
Declaration of War on Japan, December
8, 1941
Declaration of War on Germany,
December 11, 1941
World War II Documents
World War II Propaganda Posters
War Movies and War Propaganda
Conferences During World War II
Japanese-Americans in USA Relocated,
1942
German Surrender Documents of World
War II, May 8, 1945
The Atomic Bomb Decisions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki,
August, 1945
Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68,
February 22, 1946
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain
Speech, March 5, 1946
The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947
The Marshall Plan, June 5, 1947
President Truman and Executive Order
9981, 1948
NATO & The North Atlantic Treaty,
April 4, 1949
Senator Joseph McCarthy: A Multimedia
Celebration, 1952
CIA Involved in Guatemala Coup, 1954
John Foster
Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957
School Integration, 1957-1975
Port Huron Statement, 1962
Letter From Birmingham Jail, 1963
Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream
Speech, 1963
Apollo to the Moon, 1963-1972
The President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection
Jack Ruby to Attorney Elmer Gertz
Revealing the Assassin's Despair,1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson's The War
on Poverty, March 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson's The
American Promise, 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The War Powers Act of 1973
Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and
Slang
SHWV Vietnam Internet Resources
Liberal Goals and Foreign Policy
Mistakes: Robert McNamara
The Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers & Trial of
Daniel Ellsberg, 1971
Washington Post--Watergate
President Gerald Ford Speech -
Pardoning Richard Nixon, 1974
President Jimmy Carter's Speech-Human
Rights & Foreign Policy, 1977 NEW
A CIA Funding Operation
Sanctions Against South Africa, 1986
Documents Related to the Iran-Contra
Affair
Famous
Trials & Cases
Famous Trials of the 20th Century
The Crime Library
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Salem Witch Trials Chronology, 1692
New York v. John Peter Zenger, 1735
The Boston Massacre Trials, 1770
Chisholm, Executor. v. Georgia (U.S.
Supreme Court), 1793
United States v. Callender[Circuit
Court, D. Virginia] 1800
John Marshall's Supreme Court Cases
Chief Justice John Marshall: Court
Decisions
Marbury v. Madison, 1803
William Marbury v. James Madison,
Secretary of State of the United States, 1803
The Trials of Aaron Burr: 1806 - 1807
Fletcher v. Peck (U.S. Supreme Court)
1812
The United States v. Hudson and
Goodwin (U.S. Supreme Court) 1812
Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer
Regarding the Dartmouth College Case, 1816
Trustees of Dartmouth College v.
Woodward (U.S. Supreme Court) 1819
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia,
1831
The Amistad, (U.S. Supreme Court)
1841
Amistad Trial
John Swift v. George W. Tyson, 1842
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (41 U.S. (16
Pet.) 539) 1842
Dred Scott v. John A. Sandford, 1856
The Impact of Dred Scott
Trial of Captain Henry Wirz,
Commandant of Andersonville Prison, 1865
Ex parte Milligan, 1866
Introduction to Ex parte Milligan
Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873
The 14th Amendment: The Slaughter-House
Cases (83 U.S. 36), 1873
Santa Clara v.
Southern Pacific Railroad, 1886 NEW
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1892
After the Civil War: Plessy v.
Ferguson
Northern Securities Co. v. U. S.,
1904
The Murder of Stanford White: The
Harry Thaw Case, 1906
The Trial of Harry K. Thaw, 1915 NEW
Muller v. Oregon, 1908
Standard Oil Co. v. U. S., 1911
Abrams v. United States, 1919
Greatest Trials of All Time: Sacco
& Vanzetti, 1921
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Leopold & Loeb, 1924
The Scopes Trial, 1925
William Jennings Bryan & Scopes
Trial
Near v. Minnesota, 1931
The Scottsboro Trial, 1931
The Case of the "Scottsboro Boys"
The Lindbergh Case: The Trial of the
Century, 1935
Korematsu v. United States, 1944
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945-1947
International Military Tribunal-Nuremberg
The Alger Hiss Case, 1949
Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of
Two Men
Alger Hiss
Sweatt v. Painter Archive, 1950
The Rosenbergs Trial, 1951
The Trial of Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg
The Rosenbergs
Judge Kaufman and the Rosenbergs
The Sam Sheppard Case, 1954
Bown v. Board of Education, 1952-1954
Chief Justice Warren's Decision in
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Felix Frankfurter's Draft Decree to
Enforce the Brown Decision, 1955
Cooper v. Aaron, 1958
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
Pointer v. Texas, 1965
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
The My Lai Courts-Martial, 1970
The New York Times v. United States,
1971 NEW
Roe v. Wade in a Nutshell, 1973
Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke 1978
CompuServe, Inc. v. Patterson, 1996
The Unabomber Trial, 1997
The Oklahoma City Bombing Trial, 1998
Law in
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Picturing Justice
Origin of Lady of Justice
Law and Popular Culture Collection
Collins to Grisham
America's School House Rock
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