07/05/2024
Just ordered the book, "American Historical Documents' for school this fall. As a resource it contains...
“The Voyages to Vinland” (c. 1000)
• “The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery” (1493)
• “Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage” (1497)
• “John Cabot’s Discovery of North America” (1497)
• “First Charter of Virginia” (1606)
• “The Mayflower Compact” (1620)
• “The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut” (1639)
• “The Massachusetts Body of Liberties” (1641)
• “Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion”, by John Winthrop (1644)
• “The Instrument of Government” (1653)
• “A Healing Question”, by Sir Henry Vane” (1656)
• “John Eliot’s “Brief Narrative” (1670)
• “Declaration of Rights” (1765)
• “The Declaration of Independence” (1776)
• “The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence” (1775)
• “Articles of Confederation” (1777)
• “Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown” (1781)
• “Treaty with Great Britain” (1783)
• “Constitution of the United States” (1787)
• “The Federalist”, Nos. 1 and 2 (1787)
• “Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland” (1819)
• “Washington’s First Inaugural Address” (1789)
• “Treaty with the Six Nations” (1794)
• “Washington’s Farewell Address” (1796)
• “Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)” (1803)
• “Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)” (1814)
• “Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes” (1817)
• “Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)” (1819)
• “The Monroe Doctrine” (1823)
• “Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain” (1842)
• “Treaty with Mexico (1848)
• “Fugitive Slave Act” (1850)
• “Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address” (1861)
• “Emancipation Proclamation” (1863)
• “Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg”
• “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address” (1863)
• “Proclamation of Amnesty” (1863)
• “Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby” (1864)
• “Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox” (1865)
• “Lee’s Farewell to His Army” (1865)
• “Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address” (1865)
• “Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End” (1866)
• “Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)” (1867)
• “Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands” (1898)
• “Recognition of the Independence of Cuba” (1898)
• “Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)” (1898)
• “Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama” (1904)
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