United States Historical Documents

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Federalist Papers - The documents written by Madison and Hamilton arguing the merits of the 1789 Constitution

• United States Constitution - The full searchable text of the Constitution.

• The Original 13 Colonies that became the United States

• Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln's proclamation freeing the slaves during the Civil War

• Gettysburg Address - Lincoln's famous speech from 1863

  • The Gettysburg Address if Lincoln had been able to use Powerpoint...

• The Four Freedoms - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's remarks at the end of his State of the Union Address on January 6, 1941

• President Kennedy's Moon Speech - the famous 1961 speech in which JFK committed the US to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

• The Great Society Speech - President Lyndon Baines Johnson's 1964 speech outlining his domestic policy philosophy

• War Powers Act - Passed by Congress in 1973, over the veto of Richard Nixon, this act represents an important attempt by the Legislative brach to assert itself over the Executive arm of government

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