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Bakhtáwar Khán

Bakhtáwar Khán: Mirát-i-’A’lam

James H. Payne

James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny”

Asoka

Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka

William Acton

William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams: Letter to Mercy Warren

Abigail Adams: Letter to John Adams

Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Letter to John Adams

Abigail Adams: Letter to John Quincy Adams

Abigail Adams: Letter to Lucy Cranch

Abigail Adams: Letter to Thomas Boylston Adams

Henry Adams

Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

John Adams

John Adams: Thoughts on Government

John Adams: Report of a Constitution, or Form of Government, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

John Adams: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

John Adams: Inaugural Address

John Adams: "Letters of Novanglus"

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: Diary Entries on the Monroe Doctrine

John Quincy Adams: First Annual Message to Congress

John Quincy Adams: Jubilee of the Constitution Address

John Quincy Adams: Congressional Debate over Motion for Censure

John Quincy Adams: Address to Constituents at Braintree

John Quincy Adams: Diary Entries on the Adams-Onís Treaty

John Quincy Adams: Diary Entries on the Missouri Question

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams: Letter to James Warren

Samuel Adams: Letter to Noah Webster

Samuel Adams: Letter to Richard Henry Lee

Samuel Adams: Massachusetts Ratifying Convention Speeches

Samuel Adams: Address to the Massachusetts Legislature

Samuel Adams: Instructions to Boston's Representatives

Samuel Adams: "CANDIDUS"

Jane Addams

Jane Addams: "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"

Jane Addams: "A Modern Lear"

Jane Addams: "Passing of the War Virtues"

Jane Addams: "Why Women Should Vote"

Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

Adolph L. Reed, Jr.: “When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina”

Aethelstan

II Aethelstan; or, the Grately Code

Hocine Aït Ahmed

Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front

Akhenaten

“Great Hymn to the Aten”

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Constitutive Act of the African Union

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Confessions

Muhammad al-Kanami

Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello

Abu al-Kulayni

Usul al-kafi

Muhammad al-Mawardi

Muhammad al-Mawardi: “On Qadis”

Nizam al-Mulk

Nizam al-Mulk: Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings

Leon Alberti

Leon Alberti: On Painting

Alcuin of York

Alcuin of York: Letter to Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne

Alexander I

Holy Alliance

Alexis I

Great Muscovite Law Code

Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger: Ragged Dick

Richard Allen

Richard Allen: "An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice"

Salvadore Allende

Salvador Allende: First Annual Message to the National Congress

B. R. Ambedkar

Constitution of India

Leopold Amery

Balfour Declaration

Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson: My Lord, What a Morning

Osborne P. Anderson

Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper's Ferry

Johann Valentin Andreae

Fama Fraternitatis

Edmund Andros

Edmund Andros: Report of His Administration

Anonymous

The Secret History of the Mongols

Susan B. Anthony

Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Susan B. Anthony: Letters concerning Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election

Susan B. Anthony: "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?"

Susan B. Anthony: "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future"

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae

Óscar Arias

Óscar Arias: “Thoughts on Peace”

Aristotle

Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage

Aristotle: Athenian Constitution

Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta

Aristotle: “The Nature, End, and Origin of the States”

Arjan Dev

Raag Gond

Arrian

Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander

Norman Asing

Norman Asing: Letter to Governor John Bigler

Athanasius

Nicene Creed

Miguel Atristain

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Clement Attlee

Potsdam Conference Protocols

Bernard Atton

Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo: City of God

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi: “Freedom from Fear”

Austro-Hungarian Government

Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian Reply

James Battle Avirett

James Battle Avirett: The Old Plantation

Bab

Bab: Persian Bayan

Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon: Manifesto

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”

‘Abd-al-Qadir Bada’uni

‘Abd-al-Qadir Bada’uni: Chronicles

Élisabeth Badinter

Élisabeth Badinter: The Conflict

Baha’u’llah

Kitab-i-aqdas

Ella Baker

Ella Baker: "Bigger than a Hamburger"

Ella Baker: "The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle"

Ella Baker: "Developing Community Leadership"

"Ella Baker: Organizing for Civil Rights"

Josephine L. Baker

Josephine L. Baker: “A Second Peep at Factory Life”

Arthur Balfour

Balfour Declaration

Ban Gu

Ban Gu: “Treatise on Food and Money”

Ban Zhao

Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson

François Barbé-Marbois

Louisiana Purchase Treaty

Benjamin R. Barber

Benjamin R. Barber: “Jihad vs. McWorld”

Francis Barrett

Francis Barrett: The Magus

Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton: The Man Nobody Knows

Clara Barton

Clara Barton: A Story of the Red Cross

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa

Ba’al Shem Tov

Ba’al Shem Tov: “The Holy Epistle”

Thomas à Becket

Thomas à Becket: Letter to Henry II

Bede

Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

Cardinal Bellarmine

Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories

Muhammad Bello

Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello

Ahmed Ben Bella

Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front

David Ben-Gurion

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Benedict of Nursia

Holy Rule of Saint Benedict

Eduard Bernstein

Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism

Rusty Bernstein

Freedom Charter of South Africa

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune: "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?"

Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu

Napoleonic Code

Steve Biko

Steve Biko: “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity”

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans

’Adi bin Musafir

Kitab al-jilwah

Bishop Ambrose

Bishop Ambrose: Reply to Symmachus

Bishop Daniel of Winchester

Bishop Daniel of Winchester: Letter to Boniface on Conversion

Drogo, Bishop of Terouanne

Truce for the Bishopric of Terouanne

Hugo Black

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Hugo Black: Opinion in Korematsu v. United States

Hugo Black: Opinion in Adamson v. California

Hugo Black: Opinion in Gideon v. Wainwright

Hugo Black: Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut

Black Panther Party

Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”

Thomas Blackburn

Leeds Woolen Workers Petition

Harry Blackmun

Roe v. Wade

Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Beal v. Doe

Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick

Harry Blackmun: Opinion in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services

Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Callins v. Collins

Louis Blanc

Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor

Helena Blavatsky

Helena Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto

Boniface

Boniface: Letter to Pope Zacharias on the Foundation of the Monastery at Fulda

Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII: Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam

Ralph Borsodi

Ralph Borsodi: “President Roosevelt’s New Land and Population Policy”

Joseph P. Bradley

Civil Rights Cases

Stephen R. Bradley

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

Raymond Bennett Bragg

Humanist Manifesto

Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis: Opinion in Whitney v. California

Louis D. Brandeis: Opinion in Olmstead v. United States

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Opportunity in the Law"

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Greatest Life Insurance Wrong"

Louis D. Brandeis: "The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It"

William J. Brennan, Jr.

William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Baker v. Carr

William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Craig v. Boren

William J. Brennan, Jr.: Opinion in Texas v. Johnson

David J. Brewer

Muller v. Oregon

Cyril Briggs

Cyril Briggs: Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood

British Parliament

British Regulating Act

Resolves of Parliament Condemning Massachusetts Circular

Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland

Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act

Riot Act

Henry Billings Brown

Plessy v. Ferguson

The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell

Henry "Box" Brown

Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown, Written by Himself

Norris Brown

Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Ronald H. Brown

Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown: "Slavery As It Is"

John Edward Bruce

John Edward Bruce: "Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy"

George Bryan

Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan: "Cross of Gold" Speech

William Jennings Bryan: Speech to Congress on Tariff Reform

William Jennings Bryan: Speech at the Scopes Trial

James Buchanan

James Buchanan: Remarks to Congress on Slavery

James Buchanan: Inaugural Address

James Buchanan: Fourth Annual Message to Congress

Buddha

Noble Eightfold Path

Ralph J. Bunche

Ralph J. Bunche: "The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted"

John Bunyan

John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress

Warren E. Burger

Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics

Warren E. Burger: Opinion in United States v. Nixon

Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Milliken v. Bradley

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate

Aaron Burr: Deciphered Letter to General James Wilkinson

Aaron Burr: Address to the Court on Innocence of Treason

Aaron Burr: Motion to the Court to Limit Prosecution Evidence

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr

Letitia M. Burwell

Letitia M. Burwell: A Girl’s Life in Virginia before the War

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush: Address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis

George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States

George H. W. Bush: “Read My Lips” Speech

George W. Bush

George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001

George W. Bush: Remarks on Signing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act

George W. Bush: Second State of the Union Address

George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq

George W. Bush: Second Inaugural Address

Executive Order 13228: Establishing the Office of Homeland Security

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Ku Klux Klan Act

Broadus N. Butler

Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel

John Washington Butler

Tennessee Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Evolution

Jay S. Bybee

Bybee Torture Memo

Robert C. Byrd

Robert C. Byrd: Line-Item Veto Speech XIV

Robert C. Byrd: "We Stand Passively Mute" Speech

Robert C. Byrd: "The Emperor Has No Clothes" Speech

Lázaro Cárdenas

Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation on the Nationalization of Mexican Oil

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Julius Caesar

Law of Caesar on Municipalities

Richard Harvey Cain

Richard Harvey Cain: "All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights"

Francisco García Calderón

Francisco García Calderón: Latin America: Its Rise and Progress

John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun: "On the Second Resolution Reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations"

John C. Calhoun: "On the Relation Which the States and General Government Bear to Each Other"

John C. Calhoun: "To the People of the United States"

John C. Calhoun: "On the Reception of Abolition Petitions"

John C. Calhoun: "On His Resolutions in Reference to the War with Mexico"

John C. Calhoun: "On the Slavery Question"

John C. Calhoun: South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Cecil Calvert

Maryland Toleration Act

John Calvin

John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael: "Black Power"

Stokely Carmichael: “What We Want”

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”

John of Plano Carpini

John of Plano Carpini: History of the Mongols

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter: “Crisis of Confidence” Speech

René Cassin

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Cassiodorus

Letters of Cassiodorus in the Name of Theodoric

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me

Catherine II

Catherine II of Russia: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners

Marcus Cato

Marcus Cato (the Elder): On Agriculture

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit

César Chávez

César Chávez: Commonwealth Address

César Chávez: The Plan of Delano

César Chávez: Address to the Convention of United Farm Workers of America

César Chávez: Wrath of Grapes Speech

Edwin Chadwick

Edwin Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population

Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain: Speech on Germany's Invasion of Poland

Charlemagne

Charlemagne: Great Capitulary

Charlemagne: Letter to Abbot Baugualf of Fulda

Charlemagne: Capitulary for Saxony

Charles I

Charles I: Speech on the Scaffold

Charles V

New Laws of the Indies

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service

Salmon P. Chase: Opinion in Texas v. White

Salmon P. Chase: “Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress”

Thomas Morris Chester

Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek: Speech before the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Government in Chungking

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm: Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment

Shirley Chisholm: Announcement of Candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President

Shirley Chisholm: "The Black Woman in Contemporary America"

Choe Nam-seon

Korean Declaration of Independence

Chung Won-shik

Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and . . . Cooperation between South and North Korea

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” Speech

Winston Churchill: Iron Curtain Speech

Yalta Conference Joint Statement

Cicero

Cicero: On the Laws

City of Boston

Boston Non-Importation Agreement

William Clark

Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Henry Clay

Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay: Speech on the Bill to Raise an Additional Military Force

Henry Clay: Speech on South American Independence

Henry Clay: Letter to the Editors of the Washington National Intelligencer on Texas Annexation

Henry Clay: Remarks on the Compromise of 1850 Resolutions

Cleanthes

Cleanthes: "Hymn to Zeus"

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver: "Education and Revolution"

Georges Clemenceau

Treaty of Versailles

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland: First Inaugural Address

Grover Cleveland: Special Session Message to Congress on the Economic Crisis

Grover Cleveland: Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty

Grover Cleveland: Fourth Annual Message to Congress

Grover Cleveland: "Principles above Spoils" Letter

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton: Radio Address on the Welfare Reform Act

Bill Clinton: First Inaugural Address

Bill Clinton: Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement

Bill Clinton: Remarks on Signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

Bill Clinton: Remarks at Annual Prayer Breakfast

Bill Clinton: Farewell Address

Bill Clinton: Remarks Announcing the New Policy on Gays and Lesbians in the Military

Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb: Letter to J. D. Hoover

John Thomas Codman

John Thomas Codman: Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs

Benjamin Colman

Benjamin Colman: Some Observations on Receiving the SMALL-POX by Ingrafting or Inoculating

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus’s Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America

Anna Comnena

Anna Comnena: Alexiad

Marquis de Condorcet

Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Confucius

Mandate of Heaven

Classic of Rites

Analects of Confucius

Congress, U.S.

Interstate Highway Act

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Bill of Rights

Alien and Sedition Acts

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

Missouri Compromise

Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Homestead Act

Morrill Act

Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park

Chinese Exclusion Act

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Interstate Commerce Act

Dawes Severalty Act

Sherman Antitrust Act

Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Tennessee Valley Authority Act

National Industrial Recovery Act

National Labor Relations Act

Social Security Act

Lend-Lease Act

GI Bill

Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Volstead Act

Alaska Conservation Act

American Antiquities Act

Americans with Disabilities Act

Brady Handgun Act

Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony

Fair Labor Standards Act

Espionage Act

Immigration Act of 1891

Congressional Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina

Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act

Pacific Railway Act

No Child Left Behind Act

Report on the Death of Pat Tillman

Occupational Safety and Health Act

Endangered Species Act

National Quarantine Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Superfund

Clean Water Act

Patriot Act

Act Establishing Medicare and Medicaid

Federal Reserve Act

Neutrality Act

Wilderness Act

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Sedition Act

Act to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps

Public Broadcasting Act

Landrum-Griffin Act

Defense of Marriage Act

Equal Pay Act

Clean Air Act

Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary

Earl Conrad

Haywood Patterson: Scottsboro Boy

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Constantine I

Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Constitutional Convention

Constitution of the United States

Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution

Continental Congress, First

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

Convention Parliament

English Bill of Rights

Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper: "Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres

Samuel Cornish

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom's Journal Editorial

Hernan Cortés

Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V

Count Baldwin

Truce for the Bishopric of Terouanne

José Bernardo Couto

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

David Crockett

Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

Herbert Croly

Herbert Croly: The Promise of American Life

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell: Speech at the Opening of the Protectorate Parliament

Jim Crow

“Jim Crow”

Luis G. Cuevas

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

George Curzon

Treaty of Lausanne

Bernal Díaz

Bernal Díaz: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

William Knox D'Arcy

D’Arcy Concession

Vasco da Gama

A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama

Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier: Radio Address to the People of France

Nathan Dane

Northwest Ordinance

Dante

Dante: The Divine Comedy

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío: “To Roosevelt”

Darius the Great

Darius the Great: Tomb Inscription

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man

Donald Davidson

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Angela Davis

Angela Davis: "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation"

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address to the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis: Resolutions to the U.S. Senate on the Relations of States

Jefferson Davis: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate

Jefferson Davis: Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

John P. Davis

John P. Davis: "A Black Inventory of the New Deal"

Henry L. Dawes

Dawes Severalty Act

William R. Day

Hammer v. Dagenhart

Lope de Aguirre

Lope de Aguirre: Letter to King Philip of Spain

Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain: Voyages

Robert de Courçon

Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle: Appeal of 18 June

Roger de Hoveden

Annals of Roger de Hoveden

Agustín de Iturbide

Treaty of Córdoba

Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero: Plan of Iguala

Fray Antonio de la Ascension

Fray Antonio de la Ascension: A Brief Report of the Discovery in New Spain

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de la Cruz: “The Poet’s Answer to Sor Filotea De La Cruz”

Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega: Royal Commentaries of the Incas

Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Jacques de Maleville

Napoleonic Code

Bernardino de Sahagún

Rig Veda Americanus

Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs: Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World

Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech

Eugene V. Debs: "Liberty"

Eugene V. Debs: "How I Became a Socialist"

Decemvirs of Rome

Twelve Tables of Roman Law

Martin Delany

Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, ... and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

Deng Xiaoping

Constitution of the People’s Republic of China

Department of Defense, U.S.

U.S. Department of Defense Rules of Engagement

U.S. Department of Defense: Combat Interview of D-day Survivors from the 116th Infantry Regiment

Department of War, U.S.

U.S. War Department General Order 143

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report

U.S. War Department Pamphlet on Censorship

René Descartes

René Descartes: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason

John Dickinson

Articles of Confederation

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot: Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville

Dionysius the Areopagite

Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy

Everett Dirksen

Everett Dirksen: Observations on His Sixty-eighth Birth Anniversary

Everett Dirksen: Good Government Award Acceptance Speech

Everett Dirksen: Definition of Freedom

Everett Dirksen: Final Spring Address

Everett Dirksen: "An Idea Whose Time Has Come"

Ignatius Donnelly

Populist Party: Omaha Platform

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos: “Harlan: Working under the Gun”

Stephen A. Douglas

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen A. Douglas: Speech Defending the Compromise of 1850

Stephen A. Douglas: First Debate with Abraham Lincoln

Stephen A. Douglas: Seventh Debate with Abraham Lincoln

William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas: Opinion in Dennis v. United States

William O. Douglas: Opinion in Mapp v. Ohio

William O. Douglas: Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut

William O. Douglas: Opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton

William O. Douglas: Opinion in Furman v. Georgia

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: "Fourth of July" Speech

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: Letter "To My Old Master"

Frederick Douglass: “Our National Capital” Lecture

Frederick Douglass: First Editorial of the North Star

Frederick Douglass: The Reasons for Our Troubles

Frederick Douglass: "Men of Color, To Arms!"

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie

W. E. B. Du Bois

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

W. E. B. Du Bois: "Strivings of the Negro People"

W. E. B. Du Bois: "The Parting of the Ways"

W. E. B. Du Bois: "Agitation"

W. E. B. Du Bois: "Returning Soldiers"

W. E. B. Du Bois: "Marxism and the Negro Problem"

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois: An Appeal to the World

Allen Dulles

Allen Dulles: Address on the Soviet Military Threat

Allen Dulles: "The Present Situation in Germany"

Allen Dulles: Television Interview on the Soviets' Intentions

John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala

John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis

John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China

John Foster Dulles: News Conference on U.S. Relations with Latin American Nations

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: "The Negro Woman and the Ballot"

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

Charles Eastman

Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood

Dorman B. Eaton

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Maria Eugenia Echenique

Maria Eugenia Echenique: “The Emancipation of Women”

Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison: Patent Application for the Incandescent Light Bulb

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

George Cary Eggleston

George Cary Eggleston: A Rebel’s Recollections

Einhard

Einhard: Life of Charlemagne

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Order of the Day

Dwight D. Eisenhower: First Inaugural Address

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Atoms for Peace Speech

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower Doctrine

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Second Inaugural Address

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Cross of Iron" Speech

Welbore Ellis

Quartering Act

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fugitive Slave Law

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature”

Victor Emmanuel

Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament

Emperor Henry V

Concordat of Worms

Emperor Trajan

Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians

Friedrich Engels

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto

Enheduanna

Enheduanna: Hymns to Inana

Enoch

Book of Enoch

Ephraem the Syrian

Book of the Cave of Treasures

Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly

Etheria

The Pilgrimage of Etheria

Eusebius of Caesarea

Nicene Creed

Ezana

Inscription of Ezana

Alexander Falconbridge

Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

James Fallows

James Fallows: “Containing Japan”

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday: Letter to the Editor of the [London] Times

Harriet Farley

Harriet Farley (Using the Pseudonym “Susan”): Letters from the Lowell Mill

Louis Farrakhan

Louis Farrakhan: Million Man March Pledge

Robert Fechner

Robert Fechner: “My Hopes for the CCC”

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad

Federal Communications Commission

Fairness Doctrine

Ferdinand and Isabella

Alhambra Decree

Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada

Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation

Stephen J. Field

Stephen J. Field: Opinion in Cummings v. Missouri

Stephen J. Field: Opinion in Munn v. Illinois

Stephen J. Field: Opinion in Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan

Stephen J. Field: "The Centenary of the Supreme Court of the United States"

Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney: “What a Revival of Religion Is”

Robert Fitzwalter

Magna Carta

Ralph Flanders

Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy

John Gould Fletcher

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Hugh M. Foot

UN Security Council Resolution 242

T. Thomas Fortune

T. Thomas Fortune: "The Present Relations of Labor and Capital"

Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration

Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast

Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco

Francis of Assisi

Canticle of the Creatures

Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter: Opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis

Felix Frankfurter: Opinion in Colegrove v. Green

Felix Frankfurter: Opinion in Cooper v. Aaron

Felix Frankfurter: Opinion in Gomillion v. Lightfoot

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention

Benjamin Franklin: “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge”

Benjamin Franklin: "Exporting of Felons to the Colonies"

Benjamin Franklin: "The Way to Wealth"

Benjamin Franklin: "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One"

Benjamin Franklin: "The Sale of the Hessians"

Benjamin Franklin: "An Address to the Public"

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin: Letter to Peter Collinson on the Plan of Union

Benjamin Franklin: Albany Plan of Union

John Hope Franklin

One America in the 21st Century

Franz I

Holy Alliance

John C. Frémont

John C. Frémont: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California

Richard Frethorne

Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique

National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose

Otto Friedrich

Time: “The Computer Moves In”

Friedrich Wilhelm III

Holy Alliance

Jean Froissart

Jean Froissart: The Chronicles of Froissart

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man

Yukichi Fukuzawa

Yukichi Fukuzawa: “Good-bye Asia”

Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller: "A Short Essay on Critics"

Galerius

Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger

John S. Gambs

John S. Gambs: "United We Eat"

Gao E

Cao Xueqin and Gao E: The Story of the Stone

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez: “The Solitude of Latin America”

Gerald Gardner

Gerald Gardner: Book of Shadows

Henry Highland Garnet

Henry Highland Garnet: "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"

W. L. Garrison

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison: First Liberator Editorial

William Lloyd Garrison: Speech Relating to the Execution of John Brown

William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison: "The Triumph of Mobocracy in Boston"

William Lloyd Garrison: "Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention"

William Lloyd Garrison: "Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States"

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey: "The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"

General Syrian Congress

Resolution of the General Syrian Congress

Giovanni Gentile

Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism”

David Lloyd George

Balfour Declaration

Treaty of Versailles

George III

Proclamation of 1763

Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition

Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry: Letter to the Massachusetts Legislature on the U.S. Constitution

Elbridge Gerry: Letter to the Electors of Middlesex

Elbridge Gerry: Speech on Paying Revolutionary War Debts

Elbridge Gerry: First Reply to "A Landholder"

Elbridge Gerry: Second Reply to "A Landholder"

A. L. Geyer

A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opinion in United States v. Virginia

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opinion in Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opinion in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, v. Carhart

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft

William Gladstone

William Gladstone: Irish Home Rule Speech

John Glenn

John Glenn: Official Communication with the Command Center

Hans Globke

Nuremberg Laws

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels: “Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose”

Arthur Goldberg

UN Security Council Resolution 242

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman: Speech against Conscription and War

Emma Goldman: "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For"

Emma Goldman: "The Psychology of Political Violence"

Emma Goldman: "Marriage and Love"

Emma Goldman: “The Philosophy of Atheism”

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater: Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party

Barry Goldwater: Address to the Republican National Convention

Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers: Address to Workers in Louisville, Kentucky

Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike

Samuel Gompers: Circular to the Organizers of the American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers: Address to the Annual Meeting of the National Civic Federation

Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters' Case

Samuel Gompers: Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev: Farewell Address

Al Gore

Al Gore: "From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less"

Al Gore: Address to the 1996 Democratic National Convention

Al Gore: 2000 Concession Speech

Al Gore: High-Performance Computing Act of 1991

Marie Gouze (Olympe de Gouges)

Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

Billy Graham

Billy Graham: "The Flame of Political Dilemma"

Billy Graham: "The Coming Storm"

Billy Graham: "The Winds of Change"

Billy Graham: "When Life Turns against Us"

Billy Graham: "A Final Word from Billy Graham"

Ulysses S. Grant

Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia

Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman

Ulysses S. Grant: Final Report of Military Operations

Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address

Ulysses S. Grant: Special Message to Congress Announcing Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

Ulysses S. Grant: Sixth Annual Message to Congress

Ulysses S. Grant: Special Message to the Senate on Unrest in Louisiana

Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain

Daniel Gray

Daniel Gray: An Address to the People of Hampshire

Thomas Ruffin Gray

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks

Gregory VII

Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban

William Greider

William Greider: “The Education of David Stockman”

George Grenville

Quartering Act

Andrei Gromyko

Helsinki Final Act

Galusha Grow

Homestead Act

Guangxu

Emperor Guangxu: Abolition of the Examination System

Vicente Guerrero

Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero: Plan of Iguala

Che Guevara

Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly

Che Guevara: “Guerrilla Warfare: A Method”

Jehuda ha-Nasi

Pirke Avot

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Ekaku: “Song of Meditation”

Prince Hall

Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court

Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton: Federalist 84

Alexander Hamilton: Letter to Harrison Gray Otis on Westward Expansion

Alexander Hamilton: "First Report on Public Credit"

Alexander Hamilton: "Against an Alliance with France"

Alexander Hamilton: "Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States"

Hammurabi

Code of Hammurabi

Han Fei

Han Feizi

Han Yong'un

Korean Declaration of Independence

Han Yu

Han Yu: “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones”

John Hancock

John Hancock: Boston Massacre Oration

John Hancock: Address to the Ratification Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

John Hancock: Address to the General Court of Boston

Hariharanandanatha (?)

Mahanirvana Tantra

John Marshall Harlan

Plessy v. Ferguson

John Marshall Harlan: Opinion in the Civil Rights Cases

John Marshall Harlan: Opinion Hurtado v. California

John Marshall Harlan: Opinion Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.

Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights

To Secure These Rights

Fred Hartley, Jr.

Taft-Hartley Act

Hatshepsut

Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut

Hattusilis III

Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Casey Hayden

Casey Hayden and Mary King: “Sex and Caste”

Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden: “The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society”

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address

Henry I

Henry I: Charter of Liberties

Henry II

Constitutions of Clarendon

Henry IV

Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry: "Liberty or Death" Speech

Patrick Henry: Resolutions in Opposition to the Stamp Act

Patrick Henry: Letter to Robert Pleasants, a Quaker, Concerning Slavery

Patrick Henry: Speech to the First Continental Congress

Patrick Henry: "Liberty or Empire?" Speech

Patrick Henry: Election Speech at Charlotte Court House

Joseph Hepworth

Leeds Woolen Workers Petition

Herodotus

Herodotus: “The Battle of Marathon”

Herodotus: “On Libya”

Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl: “A Solution to the Jewish Question”

Hesiod

Hesiod: Theogony

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess: Oath to Adolf Hitler

Andries Hessels

Dutch Declaration of Independence

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich: Memorandum concerning Kristallnacht

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese Laws Governing Military Households

A. Leon Higginbotham

A. Leon Higginbotham: "An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague"

Anita Hill

Anita Hill: Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas

Hippocrates

Hippocratic Oath

Hirohito

Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler: Proclamation to the German People

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf

Ho Chi Minh

Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Opinion in Lochner v. New York

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Opinion in Schenck v. United States

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Opinion in Abrams v. United States

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Opinion in Buck v. Bell

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: "Early Forms of Liability"

Homer

Homer: Iliad

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover: Inaugural Address

Herbert Hoover: Kellogg-Briand Pact Proclamation

Herbert Hoover: Annual Message to Congress

Herbert Hoover: "Rugged Individualism" Campaign Speech

Herbert Hoover: "The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal"

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover: Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee

J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on the Leak of Vietnam War Information

J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on Martin Luther King

J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on Abbie Hoffman

J. Edgar Hoover: Letter to Harry Truman's Special Consultant, Sidney Souers

Daniel Horsmanden

Daniel Horsmanden: The New-York Conspiracy

House of Representatives, U.S.

Articles of Impeachment of Bill Clinton

Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Charles Hamilton Houston

Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada

Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Hurd v. Hodge

Charles Hamilton Houston: "Educational Inequalities Must Go!"

Sam Houston

Sam Houston: Inaugural Address as President of the Republic of Texas

Sam Houston: Speech Supporting the Compromise of 1850

Sam Houston: Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Sam Houston: Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy

Edgar Howard

Indian Reorganization Act

Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Hua Guofeng

Constitution of the People’s Republic of China

Huan Kuan

Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron

Cordell Hull

Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

John Hume

Northern Ireland Peace Agreement

John Humphrey

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Larry Hunter

Republican Contract with America

Anne Hutchinson

Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson

Abu ibn al-’Arabi

Muhammad ibn al-’Arabi: The Meccan Illuminations

Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun

Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun: “Social Solidarity”

Usama ibn Munqidh

Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”

Harold Ickes

Harold Ickes: I Am an American Day Speech

Indian Peace Commission

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Indians of All Tribes

Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation

William I of Aquitaine

Foundation Charter of the Order of Cluny

Henricus Institoris

Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum

Ito Hirobumi

Meiji Constitution of Japan

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal

Andrew Jackson: Veto Message Regarding the Second Bank of the United States

Andrew Jackson: Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Regarding Nullification

Andrew Jackson: Proclamation Regarding the Opening of U.S. Ports to British Vessels

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson: "The Struggle Continues"

Jesse Jackson: "The Fight for Civil Rights Continues"

Jesse Jackson: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address

Robert H. Jackson

Robert H. Jackson: Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

Robert H. Jackson: Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany

Robert H. Jackson: Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany

Robert H. Jackson: "The Federal Prosecutor"

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

James I

James I: Speech on the Divine Right of Kings

William James

William James: “What Pragmatism Means”

Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

John Jay

John Jay: Letter to George Washington

John Jay: Draft of the Proclamation of Neutrality

John Jay: "Circular-Letter from Congress to Their Constituents"

John Jay: Federalist 2–5 and 64

John Jay: "Charge to the Grand Juries"

Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson: “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank”

Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson: Message to Congress about the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Indiana Territory Governor William H. Harrison

Thomas Jefferson: Second Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Lahore Resolution

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI

John

Bible: Revelation

Albert Johnson

Immigration Act of 1924

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson: First Annual Message to Congress

Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Act

Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill

James Johnson

James Weldon Johnson's "Harlem: The Culture Capital"

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Commencement Address at the University of Michigan

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Remarks on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Civil Rights

Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity

Mary Harris Jones

Mary Harris Jones: The Autobiography of Mother Jones

Rufus M. Jones

Rufus M. Jones: "Essential Truths"

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan: "The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment"

Barbara Jordan: "Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?"

Barbara Jordan: "Change: From What to What?"

Julian the Apostate

Julian the Apostate: Letter to Arsacius

Alexander Jung

Alexander Jung: “Ponzi Planet: The Danger Debt Poses to the Western World”

Justinian I

Code of Justinian

Juvenal

Juvenal: Satires

Kabir

Raag Gond

Kai Kaus

Kai Kaus on the Purchase of Slaves

Cai Kang

Cai Kang: “Forging of Official Documents”

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant: “What Is Enlightenment?”

Allan Kardec

Allan Kardec: The Spirits' Book

Yosef Karo

Shulchan Arukh

Kautilya

Kautilya: Arthashastra

Keaulumoku

Kumulipo

Jack Kemp

Jack Kemp: Remarks to Congress on Kemp-Roth Bill

George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram”

George F. Kennan: "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"

George F. Kennan: "PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy"

George F. Kennan: "Introducing Eugene McCarthy"

George F. Kennan: "A Modest Proposal"

Anthony M. Kennedy

Lawrence v. Texas

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address

Executive Order 10924: Peace Corps

John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Address

John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba

John F. Kennedy: Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy: Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention

Robert F. Kennedy: Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Cape Town

Robert F. Kennedy: Address at the University of California, Berkeley

Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Death of Martin Luther King

William Kent

National Park Service Organic Act

Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta: “The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau”

Kerner Commission

Kerner Commission Report

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

John Kerry

John Kerry: Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War

Genghis (Chinggis) Khan

Great Yasa of Genghis Khan

Sikander Hayat Khan

Lahore Resolution

Mohamed Khider

Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front

Ayatollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev: Secret Speech

John Kill Buck, Jr.

Treaty of Fort Pitt

Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung: “On the Establishment of the Workers’ Party of North Korea”

Mary King

Casey Hayden and Mary King: “Sex and Caste”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”

Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley: West African Studies

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”

Henry Kissinger

Helsinki Final Act

Kita Ikki

Kita Ikki: General Outline of Measures for the Reorganization of Japan

Henry Blue Kline

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Knights of Labor

Oath of the Knights of Labor

Kaufmann Kohler

Pittsburgh Platform

Kotoku

New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict

Robert La Follette

Robert La Follette: Speech on the Amendment of National Banking Laws

Robert La Follette: Speech Opposing War with Germany

Robert La Follette: Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action

Paul Lafargue

Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal”

Marie-Joseph du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Stephen Langton

Magna Carta

Lyle H. Lanier

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Laozi

Dao De Jing

James Lawson, Jr.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose

Father Paul le Jeune

Father Paul Le Jeune: “Brief Relation of the Journey to New France”

Father Le Petit

Father le Petit: Letter to Father D’avaugour, Procurator of the Missions in North America

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary: Start Your Own Religion

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Mary Lee

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Custis Lee

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1862)

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1863)

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Jefferson Davis (1864)

Robert E. Lee: Letter to Andrew Hunter

Robert E. Lee: General Order No. 9

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?

James Fulton Leonard, Jr.

Biological Weapons Convention

Andrew and Thomas Lewis

Treaty of Fort Pitt

Meriwether Lewis

Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt

Li Hongzhi

Li Hongzhi: Zhuan falun

Licinius

Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh: The Way Things Ought to Be

Lin Zexu

Lin Zexu: “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria”

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James C. Conkling

Abraham Lincoln: "House Divided" Speech

Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address

Robert R. Livingston

Louisiana Purchase Treaty

Thomas Lobley

Leeds Woolen Workers Petition

Alain Locke

Alain Locke: "Enter the New Negro"

John Locke

John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government

Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands

Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico

Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech Opposing the League of Nations

Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on President Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a World Peace

Londen Nyingpo

gZi-brjid

Jack London

Jack London: “The Story of an Eyewitness”

Huey Long

Huey Long: "Every Man a King" Address

Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" Address

Huey Long: "Our Growing Calamity" Address

Anita Loos

Anita Loos: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Louis XIV

Louis XIV: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Lucretius

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence

Martin Luther

Martin Luther: Ninety-five Theses

Andrew Nelson Lytle

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress

Douglas MacArthur: Radio Broadcast after the Surrender of Japan

John Alexander Macdonald

Constitution Act of Canada

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince

Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Francisco Madero

Francisco Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí

James Madison

James Madison: Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments

James Madison: Federalist 10

James Madison: Speech on the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention

James Madison: Speech to the House of Representatives Proposing a Bill of Rights

James Madison: Virginia Resolutions

James Madison: "Advice to My Country"

James Madison: Federalist 14

James Madison: Federalist 51

James Madison: War Message to Congress

Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi: Quit India Speech

Mahavira

Jain Sutras

Maimonides

Mishneh Torah

Malcolm X

Malcolm X: "Message to the Grass Roots"

Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet"

Malcolm X: "After the Bombing"

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address

Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”

Mani

Mani: Evangelium

Horace Mann

Horace Mann: “The Condition of the Children of Laborers on Public Works”

Manu

Laws of Manu

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong: “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui: History of the World Crisis

Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella: Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla

William Marshal

Magna Carta

George Marshall

Marshall Plan

George Marshall: Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War

George Marshall: Speech to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy

George Marshall: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

George Marshall: Washington's Birthday Remarks at Princeton University

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison

John Marshall: McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Fletcher v. Peck

Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Furman v. Georgia

Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Florida v. Bostick

Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Grayned v. City of Rockford

Thurgood Marshall: Equality Speech

Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Marsilius of Padua

Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace

Karl Marx

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto

Mary Magdalene

Gospel according to Mary Magdalene

Richard Barnes Mason

Richard Barnes Mason: Official Report on the Gold Mines

George Mason

George Mason: Virginia Declaration of Rights

George Mason: Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London

George Mason: Fairfax County Resolves

George Mason: "Objections to This Constitution of Government"

John Mason

John Mason: A Brief History of the Pequot War

Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen

Nzinga Mbemba

Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy: Telegram to President Harry S. Truman

Joseph McCarthy: Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower

Joseph McCarthy: "Enemies from Within" Speech

John J. McCloy

John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz

Claude McKay

Claude McKay: “If We Must Die”

William McKinley

William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention

William McKinley: Home Market Club Speech

William McKinley: Last Speech

William McKinley: "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation

John McLean

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

John McNaughton

John McNaughton: Plan of Action for South Vietnam

Johannes Megapolensis, Jr

Johannes Megapolensis, Jr.: A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians

Meher Baba

Meher Baba: Discourses

Christopher Memminger

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

Chico Mendes

Chico Mendes: “The Destruction of Our Rain Forest”

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

Robert L. Miller

Robert L. Miller: “It’s a Great Life”

Alfred Milner

Balfour Declaration

Newton Minow

Newton N. Minow: Vast Wasteland of Television Speech

Mississippi State Legislature

Black Code of Mississippi

Vyacheslav Molotov

Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Vyacheslav Molotov: Address on Germany’s Invasion of Russia

James Monroe

James Monroe: Address to the National Convention of France

James Monroe: Second Annual Message to Congress

James Monroe: Second Inaugural Address

Monroe Doctrine

James Monroe: Special Message to the Senate on the Slave Trade Convention with Great Britain

James Monroe: First Annual Message to Congress

Louisiana Purchase Treaty

Edwin Montagu

Government of India Act

John L. Moore

John L. Moore: "In the Lion's Mouth"

Edmund Dene Morel

Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden

Justin Smith Morrill

Morrill Act

Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse: Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States

Moses

Bible: Deuteronomy

Bible: Exodus

Moshweshewe

Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Moynihan Report

Muhammad

Qur’an (Koran)

Muhammad XII

Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada

John Muir

John Muir: "The Treasures of the Yosemite"

Pauli Murray

National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism”

Joaquim Nabuco

Joaquim Nabuco: “We Are Seeking Our Country’s Highest Interests”

Nakano-Oe

New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict

Namdev

Raag Gond

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal

Otis Nation

Testimony of Otis Nation to the Tolan Committee on Internal Migration

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

9/11 Commission Report

National Congress of British West Africa

Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa

National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People

Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States

Nebmare-nakht

Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal Schoolbook

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru: Speeches on the Granting of Indian Independence

New York State Assembly

Report of the Special Committee on Railroads

New York State Legislature

Act in Relation to the Organization of a Colored Regiment in the City of New York

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power

Hezekiah Niles

Hezekiah Niles: “Great National Interests”

Herman Clarence Nixon

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon: Smoking Gun Tape

Richard M. Nixon: Resignation Address to the Nation

Richard M. Nixon: "Checkers" Speech

Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev

Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech

Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom

George Norris

Tennessee Valley Authority Act

Frederick North

Intolerable Acts

Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup

Caroline Sheridan Norton

Caroline Norton: Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill

Julius Kambarage Nyerere

Arusha Declaration

O Sechang

Korean Declaration of Independence

Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger

Barack Obama

Barack Obama: Inaugural Address

Barack Obama: Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention

Barack Obama: "The American Promise"

Barack Obama: First State of the Union Address

Barack Obama: Remarks on Signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Barack Obama: Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention

Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union"

Barack Obama: Remarks on Health Care Reform

Octavian

Deeds of the Divine Augustus

James Oglethorpe

James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”

Ohio Legislature

Ohio Black Code

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Memorandum on the Radiological Dangers of a Nuclear Detonation

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy

J. Robert Oppenheimer: General Advisory Committee Report on the Building of the H-Bomb

Order of the Dorcas Society

Organizational Records of the Dorcas Society of Cincinnati

Oregon State Legislature

Death with Dignity Act

Vittorio Orlando

Treaty of Versailles

Orpheus

Orphic Tablets and Hymns

Jose Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses

George Orwell

George Orwell: Burmese Days

James Otis

James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen: Poems

Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens: Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man

Frank Lawrence Owsley

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Padmasambhava

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine: Common Sense

Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 1

Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 4

Thomas Paine: Rights of Man

Juan López de Palacios Rubios

Requerimiento

Paracelsus

Paracelsus: Concerning the Nature of Things

Ely Parker

Ely Parker: Report on Indian Affairs to the War Department

Ely Parker: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Ely Parker: Letter of Resignation as Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Ely Parker: Letter to Harriet Maxwell Converse about Indian Policy Reform

Wayne W. Parrish

Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins

Ismet Pasa

Treaty of Lausanne

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal: Pensées

Patanjali

Patanjali: Yoga Sutras

Haywood Patterson

Haywood Patterson: Scottsboro Boy

Paul

Bible: Letter of Paul to the Galatians

Alice Paul

Equal Rights Amendment

Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

"Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment"

Charles Paulet (Lord St. John)

Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration

Peacemaker

Iroquois Thanksgiving Address

Patrick Pearse

Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic

Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science

John W. Pehle

John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz

Juan Perón

Juan Perón: “Twenty Fundamental Truths of Justicialism”

Pericles

Funeral Oration of Pericles

Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins: "Social Insurance for U.S." Radio Address

Frances Perkins: "What You Really Want Is an Autopsy"

Frances Perkins: "City Diets and Democracy"

Frances Perkins: "Three Decades: A History of the Department of Labor"

Petrarch

Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio

Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli

David Philipson

Pittsburgh Platform

Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips: "The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement"

Wendell Phillips: "Crispus Attucks"

Wendell Phillips: "The Puritan Principle and John Brown"

Wendell Phillips: "Under the Flag"

Wendell Phillips: "The Foundation of the Labor Movement"

Wendell Phillips: "The Murder of Lovejoy"

Piankhi

Victory Stela of Piankhi

William Pickens

William Pickens: "The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

Captain Pipe

Treaty of Fort Pitt

Pius IX

Pope Pius IX: Syllabus of Errors

Hernando Pizarro

Hernando Pizarro: Letter to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo

Plato

Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”

Plato: “Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites”

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians

Plutarch

Plutarch: Life of Alexander

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart: A Murderer’s Confession”

James Polk

James Polk: Inaugural Address

James Polk: Message to Congress on War with Mexico

James Polk: Farewell Message to Congress

Marco Polo

Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou

Polybius

Polybius: The Histories

Pope Calixtus II

Concordat of Worms

Pope Gelasius I

Pope Gelasius I: Letter to Emperor Anastasius

Pope Leo XII

Pope Leo XII: In plurimis

Pope Paul III

Pope Paul III: Sublimus dei

Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis

Napoleonic Code

Colin Powell

Colin Powell: Remarks to the United Nations Security Council

Colin Powell: Opening Remarks on Intelligence Reform to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Colin Powell: "U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead"

Colin Powell: Commencement Address at Howard University

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: Speech on Civil Rights

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power"

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: "Black Power and the Future of Black America"

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Lewis F. Powell: “Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprise System”

John Pownell

Proclamation of 1763

Catherine Sager Pringle

Catherine Sager Pringle: Across the Plains in 1844

Procopius

Procopius: Alaric’s Sack of Rome

Progressive Party

Progressive Party Platform

Ptahhotep

“Instructions of Ptahhotep”

Ptolemy

Ptolemy: “Letter to Flora”

Ann Putnam

Ann Putnam: Confession

Qianlong

Qianlong: Letter to George III

Ram Das

Raag Gond

Pandita Ramabai

Pandita Ramabai: The High-Caste Hindu Woman

Ramses II

Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty

A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph: "Call to Negro America to March on Washington"

John Crowe Ransom

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.

Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries

Ravi Das

Raag Gond

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan: "Evil Empire" Speech

Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Republican National Convention

Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address

Ronald Reagan: "A Time for Choosing"

Ronald Reagan: Letter to the American People about Alzheimer's Disease

Ronald Reagan: Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate

David Reed

Immigration Act of 1924

John Reed

John Reed: “Soviets in Action”

William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist's Opinion in United States v. Lopez

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Walter Reuther

Walter Reuther: National Hour Radio Address on Inflation

Walter Reuther: Address before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Walter Reuther: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally

Walter Reuther: "500 Planes a Day" Speech

Walter Reuther: "The Guaranteed Annual Wage"

Walter Reuther: Labor Day Address

Walter Reuther: “Auto Workers Strike”

Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith

Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci: “Religious Sects among the Chinese”

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice: Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum

Condoleezza Rice: "International Support for Iraqi Democracy"

Condoleezza Rice: "Transformational Diplomacy"

Condoleezza Rice: Address to the Republican National Convention

Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives

Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre: “On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy”

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson: I Never Had It Made

John S. Rock

John S. Rock: "Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions"

Rocky Mountain News

Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony

Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory

Robert Athlyi Rogers

Robert Athlyi Rogers: Holy Piby

John Rolfe

John Rolfe: Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys

Roman Catholic Church

Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent

Óscar Romero

Óscar Romero: Last Sermon

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt: Resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution

Eleanor Roosevelt: “In Your Hands”

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do"

Eleanor Roosevelt: "The Struggle for Human Rights"

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt: “Women and the Vote”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress

Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Pearl Harbor" Speech

Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Second Bill of Rights" Message to Congress

Yalta Conference Joint Statement

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Theodore Roosevelt: Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes

Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message to Congress on Worker's Compensation

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation

Theodore Roosevelt: Speech to the New York Republican State Convention

Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate

Theodore Roosevelt: "The Strenuous Life"

George Frederick Root

George Frederick Root: “Battle-Cry of Freedom”

John Ross

John Ross: Memorial to Congress

John Ross: Letter to David Crockett

John Ross: Annual Message to the Cherokee Nation

John Ross: Letter to Martin Van Buren

John Ross: Address to the Cherokee Nation

John Ross: Address to a General Council of the Cherokee Nation

Eugene Rostow

UN Security Council Resolution 242

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract

Milo Rowell

Constitution of Japan

Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

William of Rubruck

The Journey of William of Rubruck

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women"

Thomas Carter Ruffin

State v. Mann

Horace Rumbold

Treaty of Lausanne

John Russwurm

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom's Journal Editorial

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises

Saint Patrick

The Confession of Saint Patrick

Saint Perpetua

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity

Saint Saturus

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger: Hotel Brevoort Speech

Margaret Sanger: "Sexual Impulse-Part II"

Margaret Sanger: "The Prevention of Conception"

Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”

Domingo Sarmiento

Domingo Sarmiento: Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants

Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly: “Female Emancipation?”

Ismar Schorsch

Ismar Schorsch: The Sacred Cluster

Second Vatican Council

Vatican II

Roy Wood Sellars

Humanist Manifesto

Senate, U.S.

U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans

Serbian Government

Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian Reply

Seventeenth International Conference of the Red Cross

Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War

William Henry Seward

William Henry Seward: Speech on the Admission of California to Statehood

William Henry Seward: Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln

William Henry Seward: Speech on the "Irrepressible Conflict"

Shantideva

Shantideva: Bodhicaryavatara

Lemuel Shaw

Roberts v. City of Boston

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A Defense of Poetry”

John Sherman

Sherman Antitrust Act

Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman: "Letters of a Countryman" (November 14, 1787)

Roger Sherman: "Letters of a Countryman" (November 22, 1787)

Roger Sherman: “A Caveat against Injustice”

William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15

Shigenori Togo

Japan's Fourteen-part Message

Dame Shirley

Dame Shirley: The Shirley Letters from California Mines

Shotoku

Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution

Shubshi-meshre-Sakkan

Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer

Ahmed Shukeiri

Palestinian National Charter

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès: “What Is the Third Estate?”

Sinleqeunnini

Epic of Gilgamesh

Charles Siringo

Charles Siringo: A Texas Cow Boy

Beate Sirota

Constitution of Japan

Adam Smith

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Al Smith

Al Smith: Address of Acceptance of the Democratic Presidential Nomination

Francis Smith

Francis Smith: Letter to Governor Thomas Gage

Joseph Smith

Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Reed Smoot

National Park Service Organic Act

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas: "The SCUM Manifesto"

Bishop Solomon

Bishop Solomon: The Book of the Bee

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “A World Split Apart”

Son Byonghui

Korean Declaration of Independence

South Carolina Nullification Convention

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka: “Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria”

Salminius Hermias Sozomenus

Salminius Hermias Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History

Alexander Spotswood

Letters of Governor Alexander Spotswood

Jacobus Sprenger

Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum

Joseph Stalin

Potsdam Conference Protocols

Yalta Conference Joint Statement

Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan”

Stamp Act Congress

Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress

Edward Stanley

Queen Victoria: Proclamation concerning India

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Solitude of Self"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address to the New York Legislature

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Marchionne di Coppo Stefani

Marchionne di Coppo Stefani: Florentine Chronicle

Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens: "The Shame of Minneapolis"

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem: “Living the Revolution”

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Elinore Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Henry Stimson

Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment

Oliver Stone

Gordon Gekko: “Greed Is Good” Speech

Joseph Story

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

United States v. Amistad

Joseph Story: Letter to Samuel P. P. Fay as “Matthew Bramble”

Joseph Story: Opinion in United States v. Coolidge

Joseph Story: “Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves”

Wilhelm Stuckart

Nuremberg Laws

Snorri Sturluson

Snorra Edda

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu: The Art of War

Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Principles of the People”

Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday: “Get on the Water Wagon”

Supreme Court, U.S.

Bush v. Gore

Clay v. United States

Pentagon Papers Case

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

George Sutherland

United States v. Curtiss-Wright

John A. Sutter

John A. Sutter: “The Discovery of Gold in California”

Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg: Invitation to the New Church

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus: Relation 3

Synod of Charroux

Synod of Charroux: Peace of God

Publius (Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus

Tacitus: Germania

Robert A. Taft

Taft-Hartley Act

Robert A. Taft: "Equal Justice under Law"

Robert A. Taft: "The Sound Basis for Federal Aid to Education"

Robert A. Taft: "The Place of the President and Congress in Foreign Policy"

Antonio Taguba

Taguba Report

Roger B. Taney

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Roger B. Taney: Opinion in the License Cases

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Roger B. Taney: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge

Allen Tate

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Jacques Tayaert

Dutch Declaration of Independence

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon”

Tecumseh

Tecumseh: Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison at Fort Vincennes

Tecumseh: Speech to Major General Henry Procter at Fort Malden

Tecumseh: Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws

Henry John Temple

Treaty of Nanjing

Teresa of Ávila

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus

Mary Church Terrell

Mary Church Terrell: "The Progress of Colored Women"

Luther L. Terry

Smoking and Health

Theodosius II

Theodosian Code

Frederic John Napier Thesiger

Government of India Act

Thomas

Gospel of Thomas

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger

Lorenzo Thomas

U.S. War Department General Order 143

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau: “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

Henry David Thoreau: Walden

Thucydides

Funeral Oration of Pericles

Strom Thurmond

Southern Manifesto

Strom Thurmond: Keynote Address at the States' Rights Democratic Conference

Tiglath-pileser I

Middle Assyrian Laws

Tirumular

Tirumular: “Atbudha Dance”

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Japan's Closed Country Edict

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese Laws Governing Military Households

Francois-Dominique Toussaint-Louverture

Constitution of Haiti

José Trigueirinho

José Trigueirinho: Calling Humanity

David Trimble

Northern Ireland Peace Agreement

Nicholas Trist

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

François Denis Tronchet

Napoleonic Code

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky: “I Stake My Life!”

Monroe Trotter

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson

Harry S. Truman

Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel

Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces

Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine

Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

Harry S. Truman: Report to the American People on Korea

Harry S. Truman: Inaugural Address

Harry S. Truman: Address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Potsdam Conference Protocols

Harry S. Truman: Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program

Lyman Trumbull

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Lucian Truscott IV

Lucian Truscott IV: “Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square”

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"

Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

Henry McNeal Turner

Henry McNeal Turner: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature

Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Ben Turok

Freedom Charter of South Africa

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel

Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa”

Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Roughing It

Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”

Twelve Southerners

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Umar I

Covenant of Umar I

United States Immigration Commission

Dillingham Commission Report

Unknown

Anti-Federalist 3

Anti-Federalist 1

Bible: Matthew

“When Heirs Have Already Been Installed, They Ought Not to Be Displaced”

Popol Vuh

"Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause"

Hittite Laws

Canon of Filial Piety

Domesday Book

Bible: Genesis

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Emerald Tablet

Enuma Elish

Heart Sutra

“Hymn to the Nile”

Nihongi

The Key of Solomon the King

The Voyage of Bran

Lotus Sutra

Pseudo-Sibylline Oracles

Pyramid Texts

Rig Veda

Sefer Yetzirah

Upanishads

Yengishiki

Yoruba Praise Poem to Sango

Daoist Meditations

Annals of Xanten

The King's Mirror

“The Song of Lasting Regret”

“Manslaughter over an Outhouse”

Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army

Second Rule of the Friars Minor

The Battle at Maldon

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Youth International Party Manifesto!

Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan

Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan

Imperial Catechism

Anti-Federalist 9

Anti-Federalist 8

The Lay of the Cid

Bible: Jeremiah

Time: “Cities: New Men for Detroit and Atlanta”

Zend Avesta

Medellín Conference Statements on Peace and Justice

Bible: 1 Samuel

Dayton Peace Accords

Bhagavad Gita

Camp David Accords

Proclamation of the Young Turks

Classic of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar

Song of Hildebrand

Urban II

Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade

Andrew Ure

Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures

Urukagina

Reform Edict of Urukagina

Jacob Valcke

Dutch Declaration of Independence

Valmiki

Valmiki: Ramayana

Adriaen van der Donck

Adriaen van der Donck: Description of the New-Netherlands

Pieter van Dieven

Dutch Declaration of Independence

Various

Testimony Before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South Against Blacks

Treaty on European Union

Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala

Constitution of the Fante Confederacy

Treaty of Westphalia

Paris Peace Accords

North Atlantic Treaty

Anti–Ballistic Missile Treaty

Warsaw Security Pact

United Nations Charter

Mayflower Compact

People’s Charter

Constitution of Rwanda

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change

Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade

Tripartite Act

Munich Pact

Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland

Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany

Massachusetts Bill of Rights

Schleitheim Confession

Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee

Republican Party Platform

Treaty of Ghent

American Platform of Principles

Virginia Debate on the Ratification of a Federal Constitution

Democratic Party Platform

Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent

Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress

My Lai Massacre Witness Statements and Testimony

National Black Political Convention Gary Declaration

Letter of the Smyrnaeans on the Martyrdom of Polycarp

Ottoman Constitution

Beliefs and Principles of the John Birch Society

Draft Proposals for Peace between the Governments of Japan and the United States

Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

UN Human Rights Report on Zaire

Boxer Protocol

Panama Canal Treaty

Gadsden Purchase Treaty

Constitution of Mexico

Declaration of the Independence of the United Provinces of South America

Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts

"A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting"

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”

Loreta Janeta Velazquez

Loreta Janeta Velazquez: The Woman in Battle

Eleutherios Venizelos

Treaty of Lausanne

Petrus Paulus Vergerius

Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”

Antônio Vieira

Antônio Vieira: “Children of God’s Fire”

Frederick Moore Vinson

Sweatt v. Painter

Virgil

Virgil: Aeneid

Virginia House of Burgesses

Virginia's Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage

Virginia's Act XII: Negro Women's Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother

Virginia Legislature

Virginia Slave Code

Voltaire

Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire: Candide

Friedrich von Bernhardi

Friedrich von Bernhardi: Germany and the Next War

Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

Bernhard von Bulow

Bernhard von Bülow on Germany's “Place in the Sun”

Cardinal Clemens von Galen

Cardinal Clemens von Galen: “Against Nazi Euthanasia”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Klemens von Metternich

Carlsbad Decrees

Helmuth von Moltke

Helmuth von Moltke: Memorandum of the Councils of War Said to Have Been Held during the Wars

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Vyasa

Vishnu Purana

Ashvamedha Parva

John Donald Wade

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Robert F. Wagner

National Labor Relations Act

Morrison R. Waite

United States v. Cruikshank

David Walker

David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

George Wallace

George Wallace: Inaugural Address as Governor

Wang Bi

Wang Bi: “Outline Introduction to the Laozi”

Wang Kon

Wang Kon: Ten Injunctions

Earl Warren

Brown v. Board of Education

Miranda v. Arizona

Earl Warren: Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims

Earl Warren: Warren Commission Report

Bond v. Floyd

Loving v. Virginia

South Carolina v. Katzenbach

Robert Penn Warren

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address

Booker T. Washington: Letter to William Howard Taft

Booker T. Washington: Letter to C. Elias Winston

Booker T. Washington: "Statement on Suffrage"

Booker T. Washington: "A Protest against Lynching"

George Washington

George Washington: First Inaugural Address

George Washington: First Annual Message to Congress

George Washington: Farewell Address

George Washington: Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission

George Washington: Proclamation of Neutrality

George Washington: Letter to Henry Knox

Robert Clifton Weaver

Robert Clifton Weaver: "The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts"

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster: Second Reply to Robert Hayne

Daniel Webster: Speech to the Senate on the Preservation of the Union

Stanley Weiser

Gordon Gekko: “Greed Is Good” Speech

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells: The Red Record

Ida B. Wells: "Eight Men Lynched"

Ida B. Wells: "Lynching and the Excuse for It"

Ida B. Wells: "Booker T. Washington and His Critics"

Ida B. Wells: "Lynching: Our National Crime"

Ida B. Wells: "Lynch Law in America"

M. Jay Wells

M. Jay Wells: “Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened”

John Wesley

John Wesley: Thoughts upon Slavery

Western Defense Command

Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast

Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco

Westminster Assembly of Divines

Westminster Confession

P. C. Weston

P. C. Weston: Rules on the Rice Estate

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley: “His Excellency General Washington”

Burton Wheeler

Indian Reorganization Act

Captain White Eyes

Treaty of Fort Pitt

George H. White

George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress

Horace White

Horace White: Eyewitness Account of the Great Chicago Fire

Walter F. White

Walter F. White: "The Eruption of Tulsa"

Walter F. White: "U.S. Department of (White) Justice"

Edward Douglass White, Jr.

Guinn v. United States

George Whitefield

George Whitefield: “The Great Duty of Family-Religion”

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: Selections from Drum-Taps

Courtney Whitney

Constitution of Japan

William H. Whyte

William H. Whyte: The Organization Man

William Wilberforce

Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies

Friedrich Wilhelm IV

Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849

Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins: "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back"

Frances Willard

Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Aubrey Williams

Aubrey Williams: “The Problem of Unemployment”

Peter Williams, Jr.

Peter Williams, Jr.: "Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade"

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany

Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson: Address at Gettysburg

Woodrow Wilson: Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Trusts and Monopolies

Woodrow Wilson: Address in Support of a World League for Peace

Woodrow Wilson: Second Inaugural Address

Treaty of Versailles

Covenant of the League of Nations

Edward Winslow

Letter of Edward Winslow to a Friend

Isaac Mayer Wise

Pittsburgh Platform

Edwin Witte

Social Security Act

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Robert Wood

Leeds Woolen Workers Petition

Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull: "'And the Truth Shall Make You Free'"

Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality

Ellen S. Woodward

Ellen S. Woodward: Address before the Democratic Women's Regional Conference for Southeastern States

John Woolman

John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes

Richard Wright

Richard Wright: “Blueprint for Negro Writing”

Wu Tingfang

Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication

Saint Francis Xavier

Saint Francis Xavier: Letter to the Society of Jesus in Europe

Ouyang Xiu

Ouyang Xiu: “On the Partisanship of Friends”

Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin and Gao E: The Story of the Stone

A. B. Xuma

A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”

Yaroslav

Justice of the Rus

Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska: “The Fat of the Land”

Anzia Yezierska: “How I Found America”

Yon Hyong-muk

Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and . . . Cooperation between South and North Korea

John C. Yoo

Bybee Torture Memo

Brigham Young

Brigham Young: Sermon on Race and Slavery

Brigham Young: Sermon on Mormon Governance

Stark Young

Twelve Southerners: I’ll Take My Stand

Yuan Shikai

Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa: Statement to Congress on Record Labeling

Zhang Jian

Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication

Zheng He

Zheng He: Inscription to the Goddess the Celestial Spouse

Yan Zhitui

Yan Zhitui: Family Instructions for the Yen Clan

Arthur Zimmermann

Zimmermann Telegram

Zitkala-sa

Zitkala-Sa: American Indian Stories

Zitkala-Sa: Old Indian Legends

Émile Zola

Émile Zola: “I Accuse”

Yao Zui

Yao Zui: “Continued Classifications of Painters”