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- American Newspaper
Repository - A collection of original late nineteenth, and twentieth
century newspapers.
- Articles
of Confederation (1777)- Full-text.
- The Avalon Project
- Major documents collections from pre-18th century to present day.
Includes Mexican-American diplomacy and US statutes concerning Native
Americans and slavery.
- Bartleby.com: American Historical
Documents - Text of 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts,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.
- The
Bowen Freedom Foundation - Text of numerous documents from the early
history of the United States.
- Chinese
Exclusion Act, 1882 - Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act which barred
Chinese laborers from entering the United States and denied them naturalization.
- Constitution
of the Confederate States of America - Hypertext from the Revolution
to Reconstruction project, University of Groningen.
- Constitution
of the United States- An online copy.
- Core Documents of
U.S. Democracy - Key documents that define the American democracy,
divided by governmental branch.
- Declaration
and Resolves Of The First Continental Congress - Hypertext from
the Journals of Congress (ed. 1800) at the Avalon Project.
- Douglass: Archives of American
Public Address - Electronic archive of American oratory and related
documents, intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American
rhetorical history at Northwestern University.
- The
Emancipation Proclamation - Complete text.
- From Revolution to Reconstruction:
Documents - Extensive collection of hypertext transcripts of historical
documents, speeches, letters, and other source material pertaining to
U.S. history.
- Gilder Lehrman Collection
- One of the largest collections of American historical documents in
private hands. The collection's holdings are strongest from 1760 through
1876.
- Gilder Lehrman E-Journal
of American History - Publishes manuscripts with transcript and
commentary from the Gilder Lehrman Collection for use of scholars, teachers
and students.
- HarpWeek - Sells fully indexed,
digitized version of Harper's Weekly, the preeminent news and literary
journal of the last half of the 19th century.
- Interpreting the Declaration
of Independence by Translation- 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
- 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.
- Key American
Historical Documents and Subjects Compendium - Full texts of key
American historical documents all on one page.
- Launching of a New
Constitution- This site stands as an example of how to link the
Internet directly to classroom content at the middle and high school
levels, but it is not the only option. It is a complete unit on The
Constitution of the United States of America, and uses unique question
sheets on every article and section in the Constitution . Plus, it provides
lesson plans for each lesson and more.The hope is that it will lead
to the exchange of ideas on this subject.
- National Security Archive-
A wearhouse of once top secret documents.
- OurDocuments.gov - Milestone
documents of American history, presented by the National Archives and
Records Administration.
- Scanned
Originals of Early American Documents - US Constitution, US Bill
of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. From Emory Law School.
- US Historical Documents
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents from pre-Colonial to present
day.
- U.S. Historical Documents Archive
- Large archive of documents gathered from the United States' history,
including speeches, laws, declarations, and court cases.
- The
Emancipation Proclamation- Full-text.
- Words and
Deeds in American History - Library of Congress- "Representative
documents spanning from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century."
- Ye Olde
English Sayings- Research the origins of words we commonly use--where
they originated and why.
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