Directory of Historical Documents Resources

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• Declaration of Independence
• Federalist Papers
• Thanksgiving Proclamations
• U.S. Constitution

Resources in This Category

• American Experience - War Letters

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/warletters/
  Feature about war letters from the American Revolution to Desert Storm. Film description, transcript of letters, timeline, gallery, and teacher's guide.

• Bartleby.com: American Historical Documents

  http://www.bartleby.com/43/
  Text of 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts, and governmental documents from Eric the Red's c. 1000 description of Vinland to the Panama Convention of 1904.

• Charters of Freedom

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html
  Information and images on several important historical American documents including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

• Constitution of the Confederate States of America

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1851-1875/the-constitution-of-the-confederate-states-of-america-1861.php
  Hypertext from the Revolution to Reconstruction project, University of Groningen.

• Declaration and Resolves Of The First Continental Congress

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/resolves.asp
  Hypertext from the Journals of Congress (ed. 1800) at the Avalon Project.

• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/
  Extensive collection of hypertext transcripts of historical documents, speeches, letters, and other source material pertaining to U.S. history.

• Gilder Lehrman Collection

  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
  One of the largest collections of American historical documents in private hands. The collection's holdings are strongest from 1760 through 1876.

• HarpWeek

  http://www.harpweek.com/
  Sells fully indexed, digitized version of Harper's Weekly, the preeminent news and literary journal of the last half of the 19th century.

• Historical Text Archive

  http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=17
  Documents categorized by the following: Native American, Colonial, Revolutionary, Early Republic, 19th Century and 20th Century.

• Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation

  http://chnm.gmu.edu/declaration/
  The Declaration of Independence, as it has been translated into different languages, and at different times. Compliments March 1999 Journal of American History roundtable discussion of the same title.

• Journey Back In Time

  http://www.journeybackintime.com/
  Michael Kocha's collection of thousands of historical newspaper articles, documents, and writings of America's past spanning more than 400 years. Available online by subscription.

• OurDocuments.gov

  http://ourdocuments.gov/
  Milestone documents of American history, presented by the National Archives and Records Administration.

• Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html
  Collection of legal documents, pamphlets, and books concerning slavery, slaves, and abolition.

• The Avalon Project

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp
  Major documents collections from pre-18th century to present day. Includes Mexican-American diplomacy and US statutes concerning Native Americans and slavery.

• The Emancipation Proclamation

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html
  Complete text.

• The United States Democratic Review

  http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/u/usde/usde.html
  Political journal archive, published from 1837-1859. Part of the Making of America e-text collection at Cornell University.

• US Historical Documents

  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
  A Chronology of US Historical Documents from pre-Colonial to present day.

• Warletters.com - The Legacy Project

  http://www.warletters.com/
  The project's mission is to honor America's veterans and active duty personnel by preserving their wartime letters and other written communications.

• Words and Deeds in American History

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html
  Library of Congress- "Representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century."

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