WashLaw WEB -- Historical Documents

Historical Documents and Historical Speeches resource page with links to the Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact, Federalist Papers, President's inaugural speeches, Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of Paris and Greenville, plus famous speeches such as "I have a Dream," "Give me Liberty or Give me Death," and much more.

Annapolis Convention, 14 September 1786
Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791
Chisholm, Shirley - First African American Woman Elected to Congress 14 January 1972
Constitution of the State of Kansas, 29 January 1861
Declaration of Arms, 6 July 1775
Declaration of Causes of Seceding States, 24 December 1860 - 2 February 1861
Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
Declaration of War on Germany, 11 December 1941
Declaration of War on Japan, 8 December 1941
Douglass, Frederick, The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, 4 July 1852
Emancipation Proclamation, 22 September 1862
Equal Employment Opportunity, 24 September 1965
Espionage Act of 1918, 16 May 1918
Federalist Papers #10, 23 November 1787
Federalist Papers #51, 8 February 1788
Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Fundamental Orders of 1639, 14 February 1639
George C. Wallace speech on The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax, 4 July 1964
Letters of Transmittal of US Constitution, 17 September 1787
Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War, 24 October 1862 - 19 August 1865
Magna Carta, 1215
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream, 28 August 1963
Mayflower Compact, 11 November 1620
Monroe Doctrine, 2 December 1823
Nelson Mandela's Speech Upon Release, 1992
North Atlantic Treaty, 4 April 1949
Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787
Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty" speech, 23 March 1775
Photographic Time Line of the Civil War, January 1861 - January 1865
President George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
President George Washington, Papers of
President John Adams, inaugural address, 4 March 1797
President Thomas Jefferson, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1801
President Thomas Jefferson, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1805
President James K. Polk, inaugural address, 4 March 1845
President Franklin Pierce, inaugural address, 4 March 1853
President James Buchanan, inaugural address, 4 March 1857
President Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1861
President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago...." 19 November 1863
President Abraham Lincoln, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1865
President Rutherford B. Hayes, inaugural address, 5 March 1877
President James Garfield, inaugural address, 4 March 1881
President Grover Cleveland, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1885
President Benjamin Harrison, inaugural address, 4 March 1889
President Grover Cleveland, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1893
President William McKinley,1st inaugural address, 4 March 1897
President William McKinley, 2nd inaugural address, 4 March 1901
President Theodore Roosevelt, inaugural address, 4 March 1905
President William H. Taft, inaugural address, 4 March 1909
President Woodrow Wilson, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1913
President Woodrow Wilson, 2nd inaugural address, 5 March 1917
President Warren G. Harding, inaugural address, 4 March 1921
President Calvin Coolidge, inaugural address, 4 March 1925
President Herbert Hoover, inaugural address, 4 March 1929
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st inaugural address, 4 March 1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 1937
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quaranteen Speech, 5 October 1937
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3rd inaugural address, 20 January 1941
President Harry S. Truman, Address Before Congress, 12 March 1947
President Harry S. Truman, Truman Doctrine, 12 March 1947
President Harry S. Truman, inaugural address, 20 January 1949
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1953
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2nd inaugural address, 21 January 1957
President John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Act of 1964 signing, 2 July 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson, inaugural address, 20 January 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson, inaugural address, 20 January 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson,"We Shall Overcome" speech, 15 March 1965
President Richard M. Nixon, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1969
President Richard M. Nixon, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 1973
President Jimmy Carter, inaugural address, 20 January 1977
President Ronald Reagan, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 1981
President Ronald Reagan, 2nd inaugural address, 21 January 1985
President George Bush, inaugural address, 20 January 1989
President Bill Clinton, 1st inaugural address, 21 January 1993
President Bill Clinton, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 1997
President George W. Bush, 1st inaugural address, 20 January 2001
President George W. Bush Address to Nation on Terrorist Attacks of 9/11, 11 September 2001
President George W. Bush, On the al Qaeda and the Taliban, 7 October 2001
President George W. Bush, 2nd inaugural address, 20 January 2005
Proclamation of Neutrality, 22 April 1793
Rare & Historical Newspapers
Resolves of the Continental Congress, 5 September 1774
Robert C. Weaver: Negro as American, 16 June 1963
Sedition Act of 1798
September 11, 2001 Rhetoric, 11 September 2001
Shootdown Incident of 1960, 1 May 1960
Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1 November 1782
Treaty of Greenville, 3 August 1795
Treaty of Paris, 10 February 1783
Treaty of Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation, 1 July 1968
US Articles of Confederation, 15 November 1777
US Constitution, 17 September 1787
Vietnam War (Tonkin Gulf Resolution), 5 August 1964
Virginia Charter, The Second , 23 May 1609
Virginia Charter, The Third , 12 March 1612
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 12 June 1776
Women's Rights are Human Rights by Hillary Clinton, 5 September 1995, Beijing, China
WWII Surrender of Germany to Allies, 8 May 1945
WWII Surrender of Japan to Allies, 3 September 1945

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