Ebook: American Historical Documents (1000-1904)

New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1916. – 462 p. — (The Harvard Classics Series, Volume 43).
With Introductions and Notes.Contents
The Voyages to Vinland
The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery
Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage
John Cabot's Discovery of North America
First Charter of Virginia
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, by John Winthrop
The Instrument of Government
A Healing Question, by Sir Henry Vane
John Eliot's Brief Narrative
Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown
Treaty with Great Britain
Constitution of the United States
The Federalist, Nos. I and 2
Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of Mcculloch vs. The State of Maryland
Washington's First Inaugural Address
Treaty with the Six Nations
Washington's Farewell Address
Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)
Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)
Arrangement as to the Naval Force to be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes
Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)
The Monroe Doctrine
Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain
Treaty with Mexico
Fugitive Slave Act
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Proclamation of Amnesty
Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby
Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
Lee's Farewell to his Army
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End
Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba
Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)
Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama