• Christopher Columbus, Extracts From His Journal (1492)
• Christopher Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain (1494)

• 1584- Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting

• The Iroquois Constitution
• 1606 - Instructions for the Virginia Colony
• 1621 - An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virgina Company in England, 24 July
• 1629 March 4- Charter of Massachusetts Bay
• 1649 - The Maryland Toleration Act

1650

• Proclamation of First Thanksgiving
• 1684 - Samuel de Champlain, Voyages
• 1687 - Memoir... Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January

1700

• King William Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
• Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
• 1733 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1734 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1735 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1736 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1737 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1738 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1739 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1740 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1741 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1742 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1743 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1744 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1745 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1746 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1747 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard
• 1748 - Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved

• 1750 - Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750
• 1750 - Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
• 1761 Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England
• 1765 Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd
• Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants
• Benjamin Franklin, "How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia
• 1770 March 5, Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
• 1770 March 13, Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre

• Yankee Doodle
• 1776 - Charles Inglis, "The True Interest of America Impartially Stated"
• US Articles of Confederation
• 1776-1783 - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

• 1789 - James Madison, speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789

• 1789 - George Washington, First Inaugural Adress
• 1793, George Washington, Second Inaugural Adress
• 1793, Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
• 1795 August 3, Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes [Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoes, Ottawas, Chipewas, Putawatimes, Miamis, Eel-river, Weea's, Kickapoos, Piankashaws, and Kaskaskias]

• 1797, John Adams Inaugural Address
• 1798 - The Sedition Act
• 1799, The Kentucky Resolutions

• 1801 Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• 1803 U.S. Supreme Court, Marbury v Madison
• 1805 Second Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

• 1809 James Madison, First Inaugural
• 1813, James Madison, Second Inaugural Address

• 1817 James Monroe, First Inaugural
• 1817 Opening of New York to Liverpool Packet Line
• 1819, U. S. Supreme Court, McCulloch v The State of Maryland
• 1819 - U.S. Supreme Court, Dartmouth College v Woodward
• 1821- James Monroe, Second Inaugural
• 1821 - Cohen v. Virginia
• 1824 - U.S. Supreme Court, Gibbons v Ogden

• John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)

• 1829 - Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural
• 1831 - U.S. Supreme Court, The Cherokee Nation v The State of Georgia
• 1832 - Treaty with the Potawatomi, October 27 [cede their title and interest to lands in the States of Indiana and Illinois, and in the Territory of Michigan]
• 1833 - Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural
• 1836 - Treaty with the Potawatomi, August 5 ["to remove to the country west of the Mississippi river"]
• 1836 - William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo,

• 1837 - Martin VanBuren, Inaugural Address

• 1841 - William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address

• 1845 - The Cruise of the 'Dove'. A Whalers' Song

• 1845 - James Polk, Inaugural Address
• 1848 - The Leg I Left Behind Me (1848)
• 1848 - Elizabeth M. Stanton, The Seneca Falls Declaration

• 1849 - Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address, 6 March

• 1853 - Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address
• 1855. Burning of the Steamship City of Newark
• 1856 - Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard States
• 1854 - Kansas Nebraska Act
• 1854 - Abraham Lincoln Speaks on the Kansas Nebraska Act
• 1856 - Scott vs. Sandford, The Dred Scott Case

• 1857 - James Buchanan, Inaugural Address
• Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
• An Early Play About John Brown, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
• 1859 - What John Brown Did In Kansas, Representative Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, December 12

• 1860 - The Crittendon Compromise
• 1861, Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address
• Text of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• 1862, Text of Lorena [a popular ballad of the times]
  
• 1863, Cordley, Richard, The Lawrence Massacre
• Marching Song of the First Arkansas
• 1863, 19 November, Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
• All Quiet Along the Potomac
• 1864, 5 August, The Wade-Davis Manifesto
• 1864, 8 July, Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill
• 1865 - Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

• 1866 - Report of the Joint Comittee on Reconstruction, June 20
• The Little Sod Shanty On My Claim
  [Song about homesteading on the plains]

• 1869 - Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address
• 1873 - Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address

• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address

• 1881 - James Garfield, First Inaugural

• 1885 - Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural

• 1893 - Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural

• 1899 - Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address
• Geneva Conventions
• 1897 - William McKinley, First Inaugural
• 1899 - First Open Door Note, September
• The Wabash Cannonball, Text

• William McKinley, Second Inaugural (1901)

• 1905 - Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address

• William Howard Taft, Inaugural (1909)

1913

• 1913- Kansas Penitentiary
• 1913 - Woodrow Wilson, Monopoly or Opportunity?
• 1913 - The Ludlow Massacre
  • 1913 - Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural
  • 1917 - Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address
  • 1918 - The Espionage Act of 1918
  • Justice Holmes Delivers the Majority Opinion in Schenk v. United States (1919) [Limitation of Freedom of Speech]
• League of Nations Treaty

• Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address (1921)

• Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address (1925)
• Race Riot in Tulsa, 31 May - 1 June, 1921
• Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address (1929)

• 1933, 4 March Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural (text)
• 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural (text)
• 1937 October, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Quarantine" Speech

• 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural
• The Reuben James, Words
• 1941, Atlantic Charter, August
• 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural
• 1941, "Day of Infamy" Speech, 8 December (text)
• Lili Marlene (German)
• Lili Marlene (English)
• and Melody
• 1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) D-Day Message, June 6, General Order of the Day, Invasion of Normandy
• 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Speech

• A Veteran of the Wrong War [mamy American volunteers who fought against the Nazis and Italians in Spain, 1936-1939, were treated as Communists rather than heroes]
  
• 1949 - Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address

• 1952 - Richard M. Nixon, Television Address. 23 September 1952
  [The "Checkers" speech]

• 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural
• 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"
• 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"
• 1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"
• 1957 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1957"
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1958"
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union, 1959"
• 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower, "State of the Union"

• Administration of John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
• 1961 - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech Jan. 20
• 1961 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address [Military-Industrial Complex Speech] Jan. 17

• 1962-Marilyn Monroe
• 1963-Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" Speech
• 1963-Robert C. Weaver, "The Negro as American"
• 1963-Gideon v. Wainwright [Supreme Court Decision establishing
  the defendant's right to counsel]
• 1964-George C. Wallace, &The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax&
• Barry Goldwater's Acceptance of the 1964 Republican Presidential Nomination
• Ronald Reagan, Address on Behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater.
  "Rendezvous with Destiny", October 27, 1964
• Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Speech (1965)
• 1968, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

• 1969, Richard M. Nixon, First Inaugural Speeche.
  

• 1972, Roe v. Wade [Majority opinion in landmark decision on abortion]
• VIETNAM
  • Richard M. Nixon, First Inaugural Speech
  • 1973, Richard M. Nixon, Second Inaugural Speech
• THE WATERGATE AFFAIR, 1972 - 1976
  • Richard M. Nixon and H. R. Haldeman. Conversation at the White House, 23 June 1972 (text)
    [The "Smoking Gun" tape]
  • 1973, Richard M. Nixon. First Watergate Speech
  • 1974, July 27, Articles of Impeachment. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary.
  • 1973, 13 August, Richard M. Nixon, Second Watergate Speech.
  • 1974, 10 August, Richard M. Nixon, Farewell Address to his Staff.
• Administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981

• Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address (1977)

• Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address (1981)
• Ronald Reagan: Second Inaugural Address (1985)
• Ronald Reagan: Remarks at a Joint Military Ceremony at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany; May 5, 1985

• George Bush: Inaugural Address, 1989
• Ronald Reagan: Farewell Address 11 January 1989

• 2001-Full Text of HR 3162 "The PATRIOT Act" 24 October [403 Kb]
• 2003-George W. Bush. State of the Union
  [Declaration of U.S. intentions toward Iraq]
• 2003-George W. Bush.Address Announcing the End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq. 1 May
• 2005-George W. Bush Second Inaugural Speech