HISTORIC DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES

• Annapolis Convention, 14 September 1786
• Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791
• Constitution of the State of Kansas, 29 January 1861
• Declaration of Arms, 6 June 1775
• Declaration of Causes of seceding states, 24 December 1860 - 2 February 1861
• Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
• Emancipation Proclamation, 22 September 1862
• Equal Employment Opportunity, 24 September 1965
• Espionage Act of 1918, 16 May 1918
• Federalist Papers #10, 23 November 1787
• Federalist Papers #51, 8 February 1788
• Fundamental Orders of 1639, 14 February 1639
• George C. Wallace's speech on Civil Rights, 4 July 1964
• Letters of Transmittal of US Constitution, 17 September 1787
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War, 24 October 1862 - 19 August 1865
• Maps of U.S. Battlefields
• Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream, 28 August 1963
• Mayflower Compact, 11 November 1620
• Monroe Doctrine, 2 December 1823
• Nelson Mandela's Speech Upon Release, 1992
• North Atlantic Treaty, 4 April 1949
• Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787
• Papers of George Washington
• Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty" speech, 23 March 1775
• Photographic Time Line of the Civil War, January 1861 - January 1865

  PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES BY DATE

• President George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
• President John Adams, inaugural address, 4 March 1797
• President Thomas Jefferson, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1801
• President Thomas Jefferson, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1804
• President James K. Polk, inaugural address, 4 March 1845
• President Franklin Pierce, inaugural address, 4 March 1853
• President James Buchanan, inaugural address, 4 March 1857
• President Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1861
• President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863
• President Abraham Lincoln, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1865
• President Rutherford B. Hayes, inaugural address, 5 March 1877
• President James Garfield, inaugural address, 4 March 1881
• President Grover Cleveland, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1885
• President Benjamin Harrison, inaugural address, 4 March 1889
• President Grover Cleveland, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1893
• President William McKinley,1st inaugural address, 4 March 1897
• President William McKinley, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1901
• President Theodore Roosevelt, inaugural address, 4 March 1905
• President William H. Taft, inaugural address, 4 March 1909
• Prsident Woodrow Wilson, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1913
• President Woodrow Wilson, 2nd inaugural address, 5 March 1917
• President Warren G. Harding, inaugural address, 4 March 1921
• President Calvin Coolidge, inaugural address, 4 March 1925
• President Herbert Hoover, inaugural address, 4 March 1929
• Prsident Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1933
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 1937
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quaranteen Speech, 5 October 1937
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3rd inaugural address, 20 January 1941
• President Harry S. Truman, address before congress, 12 March 1947
• President Harry S. Truman, Truman Doctrine, 12 March 1947
• President Harry S. Truman, inaugural address, 20 January 1949
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1953
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2nd inaugural address, 21 January 1957
• President John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 20 January 1961
• President Lyndon B. Johnson, inaugural address, 20 January 1965
• President Lyndon B. Johnson,"We Shall Overcome" speech, 15 March 1965
• President Richard M. Nixon, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1969
• President Richard M. Nixon, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 1973
• President Jimmy Carter, inaugural address, 20 January 1977
• President Ronald Reagan, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1981
• President Ronald Reagan, 2nd inaugural address, 21 January 1985
• President George Bush, inaugural address, 20 January 1989