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Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-Shek: Speech before the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Government in Chungking
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
17th International Conference of the Red Cross
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Asoka
Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka
Abigail Adams
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
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: "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
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
Jane Addams
Jane Addams: "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"
Jane Addams: "Passing of the War Virtues"
Jane Addams: "Why Women Should Vote"
Aethelstan
II Aethelstan; or, the Grately Code
Lope de Aguirre
Lope de Aguirre: Letter to King Philip of Spain
Hocine Aït Ahmed
Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front
Akhenaten
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Muhammad al-Kanami
Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello
Abu al-Kulayni
Muhammad Al-Mawardi
Leon Alberti
Alexander I
Alexis I
Salvadore Allende
Salvador Allende: First Annual Message to the National Congress
B. R. Ambedkar
Leopold Amery
Osborne P. Anderson
Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper's Ferry
Johann Valentin Andreae
Anonymous
Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army
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: “The Nature, End, and Origin of the States”
Arrian
Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
Athanasius
Miguel Atristain
Clement Attlee
Bernard Atton
Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo: City of God
Marcus Aurelius
Austro-Hungarian Government
Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian Reply
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist
Bab
Baha’u’llah
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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"
Arthur Balfour
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson
François Barbé-Marbois
Francis Barrett
Clara Barton
Clara Barton: A Story of the Red Cross
Ba’al Shem Tov
Ba’al Shem Tov: “The Holy Epistle”
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
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?"
Wang Bi
Wang Bi: “Outline Introduction to the Laozi”
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
Bishop Solomon
Bishop Solomon: The Book of the Bee
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
Harry Blackmun
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
Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto
Boniface VIII
Boniface VIII: Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam
Joseph P. Bradley
Stephen R. Bradley
Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
Raymond Bennett Bragg
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
Cyril Briggs
Cyril Briggs: Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood
British House of Commons
British Parliament
Resolves of Parliament Condemning Massachusetts Circular
Brown
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Henry Billings Brown
The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell
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
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
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
Benjamin Franklin Butler
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
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
Julius Caesar
Law of Caesar on Municipalities
Francisco Garcia Calderón
Francisco Garcia 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 Calvin
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Captain Pipe
Captain White Eyes
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael: "Black Power"
Rene Cassin
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me
Catherine II
Catherine II of Russia: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit
César Chávez
César Chávez: Commonwealth Address
Cesar Chavez: The Plan of Delano
Cesar Chavez: Address to the Seventh Constitutional Convention of United Farm Workers of America
Cesar Chavez: Wrath of Grapes Speech
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain: Speech on the Germany's Invasion of Poland
Charlemagne
Charles I
Charles I: Speech on the Scaffold
Charles V
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 to the People of the United States
Thomas Morris Chester
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm's Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm's Announcement of Candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President
Shirley Chisholm: "The Black Woman in Contemporary America"
Choe Namson
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
CIA
Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
City of Boston
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
Henry Clay
Henry Clay's Speech on the Bill to Raise an Additional Military Force
Henry Clay's 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
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver: "Education and Revolution"
Georges Clemenceau
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland's First Inaugural Address
Grover Cleveland's Special Session Message to Congress on the Economic Crisis
Grover Cleveland's Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty
Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message to Congress
Grover Cleveland's "Principles above Spoils" Letter
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton: Radio Address on the Welfare Reform Act
Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address
Bill Clinton's Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement
Bill Clinton on Signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
Bill Clinton's Remarks at Annual Prayer Breakfast
Bill Clinton's Farewell Address
Bill Clinton: Remarks Announcing the New Policy on Gays and Lesbians in the Military
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
Confucius
Congress, U.S.
Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Americans with Disabilities Act
Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony
Congressional Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina
Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act
Report on the Death of Pat Tillman
Occupational Safety and Health Act
Act Establishing Medicare and Medicaid
Earl Conrad
Haywood Patterson: Scottsboro Boy
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
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
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
Jose Bernardo Couto
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell: Speech at the Opening of the Protectorate Parliament
Luis G. Cuevas
George Curzon
Bernal Díaz
Bernal Díaz: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
William Knox D'Arcy
Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier: Radio Address to the People of France
Nathan Dane
Rubén Darío
Carles Darwin
Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man
Ram Das
Ravi Das
Angela Davis
Angela Davis: "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation"
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis's Resolutions to the U.S. Senate on the Relations of States
Jefferson Davis's Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate
Jefferson Davis's 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
William R. Day
Robert de Courçon
Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle: Appeal of 18 June
Agustín de Iturbe
Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero: Plan of Iguala
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz: “The Poet’s Answer to Sor Filotea De La Cruz”
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bernardino de Sahagún
Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs's Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
Eugene V. Debs's Antiwar Speech
Eugene V. Debs: "How I Became a Socialist"
Decemvirs of Rome
Deng Xiaoping
Constitution of the People’s Republic of China
Department of War, U.S.
War Department General Order 143
René Descartes
René Descartes: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason
Arjan Dev
John Dickinson
Dionysius the Areopagite
Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen's Observations on His Sixty-eighth Birth Anniversary
Everett Dirksen's Good Government Award Acceptance Speech
Everett Dirksen's Definition of Freedom
Everett Dirksen's Final Spring Address
Everett Dirksen: "An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
Ignatius Donnelly
Populist Party: Omaha Platform
Stephen Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas: Speech Defending the Compromise of 1850
Stephen A. Douglas's First Speech of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas's Opinion in Dennis v. United States
William O. Douglas's Opinion in Mapp v. Ohio
William O. Douglas's Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut
William O. Douglas's Opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton
William O. Douglas's 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
First Editorial of the North Star
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: "Returning Soldiers"
W. E. B. Du Bois: "Marxism and the Negro Problem"
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Allen Dulles
Allen Dulles: Address on the Soviet Military Threat
Allen Dulles's "The Present Situation in Germany"
Allen Dulles's Television Interview on the Soviets' Intentions
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala
John Foster Dulles's Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis
John Foster Dulles's Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China
John Foster Dulles's News Conference on U.S. Relations with Latin American Nations
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: "The Negro Woman and the Ballot"
Dorman B. Eaton
Maria Eugenia Echenique
Maria Eugenia Echenique: “The Emancipation of Women”
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison: Patent Application for the Incandescent Light Bulb
Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Queen Victoria: Proclamation concerning India
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Order of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Atoms for Peace Speech
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Special Address to Congress on the Eisenhower Doctrine
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Second Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" Speech
Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin Ekaku: “Song of Meditation”
Welbore Ellis
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto
Enoch
Ephraem the Syrian
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
Etheria
Eusebius of Caesarea
Ezana
Alexander Falconbridge
Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan: Million Man March Pledge
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Communications Commission
Ferdinand and Isabella
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's Opinion in Cummings v. Missouri
Stephen J. Field's Opinion in Munn v. Illinois
Stephen J. Field's Opinion in Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan
Stephen J. Field's "The Centenary of the Supreme Court of the United States"
Robert Fitzwalter
Ralph Flanders
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Robert La Follette
Robert La Follette's Speech on the Amendment of National Banking Laws
Robert La Follette's Speech Opposing War with Germany
Robert La Follette's Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action
Hugh M. Foot, Lord Caradon
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 Assissi
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis
Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Colegrove v. Green
Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Cooper v. Aaron
Felix Frankfurter's Opinion in Gomillion v. Lightfoot
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention
Benjamin Franklin: Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America
Benjamin Franklin's "Exporting of Felons to the Colonies"
Benjamin Franklin's "The Way to Wealth"
Benjamin Franklin's "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One"
Benjamin Franklin's "The Sale of the Hessians"
Benjamin Franklin's "An Address to the Public"
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
John Hope Franklin
One America in the 21st Century
Franz I
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose
Otto Friedrich
Jean Froissart
Jean Froissart: The Chronicles of Froissart
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller: "A Short Essay on Critics"
Muammar al- Gaddafi
Constitutive Act of the African Union
Galerius
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
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"
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison: First Liberator Editorial
William Lloyd Garrison's Speech Relating to the Execution of John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison's "The Triumph of Mobocracy in Boston"
William Lloyd Garrison's "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
George III
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's Letter to the Electors of Middlesex
Elbridge Gerry's Speech on Paying Revolutionary War Debts
Elbridge Gerry's First Reply to "A Landholder"
Elbridge Gerry's Second Reply to "A Landholder"
A. L. Geyer
A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in United States v. Virginia
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Friends of the Earth, Inc. et al. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft
John Glenn
John Glenn: Official Communication with the Command Center
Hans Globke
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels: “Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
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's Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party
Barry Goldwater's Address to the Republican National Convention
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers's Address to Workers in Louisville, Kentucky
Samuel Gompers's Editorial on the Pullman Strike
Samuel Gompers's Circular to the Organizers of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers's Address to the Annual Meeting of the National Civic Federation
Samuel Gompers's Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters' Case
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev: Farewell Address
Al Gore
Al Gore's "From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less"
Al Gore’s “Address to the 1996 Democratic National Convention”
Al Gore’s 2000 Concession Speech
Marie Gouze (Olympe de Gouges)
Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
Billy Graham
Billy Graham's "The Flame of Political Dilemma"
Billy Graham's "The Coming Storm"
Billy Graham's "The Winds of Change"
Billy Graham's "When Life Turns against Us"
Billy Graham's "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's Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant's Final Report of Military Operations
Ulysses S. Grant's First Inaugural Address
Ulysses S. Grant's Special Message to Congress Announcing Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
Ulysses S. Grant's Sixth Annual Message to Congress
Ulysses S. Grant's Special Message to the Senate on Unrest in Louisiana
Ulysses S. Grant's Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain
Thomas Ruffin Gray
Gregory VII
Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban
George Grenville
Andrei Gromyko
Galusha Grow
Ban Gu
Ban Gu: “Treatise on Food and Money”
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
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's Federalist 84
Alexander Hamilton's Letter to Harrison Gray Otis on Westward Expansion
Alexander Hamilton's "First Report on Public Credit"
Alexander Hamilton's "Against an Alliance with France"
Alexander Hamilton: "Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States"
Hammurabi
Han Fei
Han Yong'un
Korean Declaration of Independence
Han Yu
Han Yu: “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones”
John Hancock
John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration
John Hancock's Address to the Ratification Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
John Hancock's Address to the General Court of Boston
Hariharanandanatha (?)
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan's Opinion in the Civil Rights Cases
John Marshall Harlan's Opinion Hurtado v. California
John Marshall Harlan's Opinion Pollock v. Farmers' Loan + Trust Co.
Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington: The Other America
Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
Fred Hartley, Jr.
Hatshepsut
Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
Hattusilis III
Casey Hayden
Tom Hayden
“The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society”
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address
Zheng He
Zheng He: Inscription to the Goddess the Celestial Spouse
Henry I
Henry II
Henry IV
Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry: "Liberty or Death" Speech
Patrick Henry's Resolutions in Opposition to the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry's Letter to Robert Pleasants, a Quaker, Concerning Slavery
Patrick Henry's Speech to the First Continental Congress
Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention Opposing the Constitution
Patrick Henry's Election Speech at Charlotte Court House
Herodotus
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl: “A Solution to the Jewish Question”
Hesiod
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess: Oath to Adolf Hitler
Andries Hessels
Dutch Declaration of Independence
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich's 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
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler: Proclamation to the German People
Ho Chi Minh
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Thomas Hobbes
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Book
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Lochner v. New York
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Schenck v. United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Abrams v. United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Opinion in Buck v. Bell
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s "Early Forms of Liability"
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address
Herbert Hoover's Kellogg-Briand Pact Proclamation
Herbert Hoover's Annual Message to Congress
Herbert Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" Campaign Speech
Herbert Hoover's "The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal"
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover: Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
J. Edgar Hoover's Memo on the Leak of Vietnam War Information
J. Edgar Hoover's Memo on Martin Luther King
J. Edgar Hoover's Memo on Abbie Hoffman
J. Edgar Hoover's Letter to Harry Truman's Special Consultant, Sidney Souers
House of Representatives, U.S.
Articles of Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston's Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada
Charles Hamilton Houston's Petition in Hurd v. Hodge
Charles Hamilton Houston: "Educational Inequalities Must Go!"
Sam Houston
Sam Houston's Inaugural Address as President of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston's Speech Supporting the Compromise of 1850
Sam Houston's Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sam Houston's Speech on Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy
Edgar Howard
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
Abu ibn al-’Arabi
Muhammad ibn al-’Arabi: The Meccan Illuminations
Harold Ickes
Harold Ickes: I Am an American Day Speech
Kita Ikki
General Outline of Measures for the Reorganization of Japan
Indian Peace Commission
Indians of All Tribes
Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation
Henricus Institoris
Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum
Ito Hirobumi
Agustin de Iturbide
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's 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's Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Robert H. Jackson's Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
Robert H. Jackson's Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
Robert H. Jackson's "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
John Jay
John Jay's Letter to George Washington
John Jay's Draft of the Proclamation of Neutrality
John Jay's "Circular-Letter from Congress to Their Constituents"
John Jay's Federalist 2-5 and 64
John Jay's "Charge to the Grand Juries"
Thomas Jefferson
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's 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's Second Inaugural Address
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
John
Albert Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson's First Annual Message to Congress
Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act
Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
James Johnson
James Weldon Johnson's "Harlem: The Culture Capital"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Assuming the Presidency
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Commencement Address at the University of Michigan
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Remarks on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Civil Rights
Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity
Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones: The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan's "The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment"
Barbara Jordan's "Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?"
Barbara Jordan's "Change: From What to What?"
Justinian I
Juvenal
Kabir
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
Kautilya
Keaulumoku
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan: Long Telegram
George F. Kennan's "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
George F. Kennan's "PPS/23 Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy"
George F. Kennan's "Introducing Eugene McCarthy"
George F. Kennan's "A Modest Proposal"
Anthony M. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy: Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs
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
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy's Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention
Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Cape Town
Robert F. Kennedy's Address at the University of California, Berkeley
Robert F. Kennedy's 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
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun: “Social Solidarity”
Genghis (Chinggis) Khan
Sikander Hayat Khan
Mohamed Khider
Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev: Secret Speech
John Kill Buck, Jr.
Mary King
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
Kaufmann Kohler
Kotoku
New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict
Paul Lafargue
Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal”
Stephen Langton
Laozi
James Lawson, Jr.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee's Letter to Mary Lee
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Custis Lee
Robert E. Lee's Letter to Jefferson Davis (1862)
Robert E. Lee's Letter to Jefferson Davis (1863)
Robert E. Lee's Letter to Jefferson Davis (1864)
Robert E. Lee's Letter to Andrew Hunter
Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?
James Fulton Leonard, Jr.
Andrew and Thomas Lewis
Li Hongzhi
Licinius
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Lin Zexu
Lin Zexu: “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria”
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: "House Divided" Speech
Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
Robert R. Livingston
Alain Locke
Alain Locke: "Enter the New Negro"
John Locke
John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge's Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands
Henry Cabot Lodge's Speech on Mexico
Henry Cabot Lodge's Speech Opposing the League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge's Speech on President Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a World Peace
Londen Nyingpo
Huey Long
Huey Long's "Every Man a King" Address
Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" Address
Huey Long's "Our Growing Calamity" Address
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
Lycurgus
Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress
Douglas MacArthur: Radio Broadcast after the Surrender of Japan
John Alexander Macdonald
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
Francisco Madero
Francisco Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí
James Madison
James Madison: Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments
James Madison's Speech on the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention
James Madison's Speech to the House of Representatives Proposing a Bill of Rights
James Madison's Virginia Resolutions
James Madison's "Advice to My Country"
Mary Magdalene
Gospel According to Mary Magdalene
Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi: Quit India Speech
Mahavira
Maimonides
Malcolm X
Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots"
Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" Speech
Malcolm X: "After the Bombing"
Jacques de Maleville
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address
Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”
Mani
Manu
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong: “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”
José Carlos Mariátegui
José Carlos Mariátegui: History of the World Crisis
Carlos Marighella
Carlos Marighella: Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
William Marshal
George Marshall
George Marshall's Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War
George Marshall's Speech to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy
George Marshall's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
George Marshall's Washington's Birthday Remarks at Princeton University
John Marshall
John Marshall: McCulloch v. Maryland
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Furman v. Georgia
Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Florida v. Bostick
Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Grayned v. City of Rockford
Thurgood Marshall: Equality Speech
Marsilius of Padua
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace
Karl Marx
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto
George Mason
Virginia Declaration of Rights
George Mason's Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London
George Mason's Fairfax County Resolves
George Mason's "Objections to This Constitution of Government"
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen
Nzinga Mbemba
Nzinga Mbemba's Appeal to the King of Portugal
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy's Telegram to President Harry S. Truman
Joseph McCarthy's Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy: "Enemies from Within" Speech
William McKinley
William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
William McKinley's Home Market Club Speech
William McKinley's Last Speech
William McKinley: "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation
John McLean
Meher Baba
Christopher Memminger
South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes: “The Destruction of Our Rain Forest”
Klemens von Metternich
John Stuart Mill
Alfred Milner
Newton Minow
Newton N. Minow: Vast Wasteland of Television Speech
Mississippi State Legislature
Vyacheslav Molotov
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Vyacheslav Molotov: Speech on Germany’s Invasion of Russia
James Monroe
James Monroe's Address to the National Convention of France
James Monroe's Second Annual Message to Congress
James Monroe's Second Inaugural Address
James Monroe's Special Message to the Senate on the Slave Trade Convention with Great Britain
Edwin Montagu
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
Moses
Mark X of Moshweshewe
Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Muhammad
Muhammad XII
Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
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
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
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
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
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
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Nixon: Smoking Gun Tape
Richard M. Nixon's Resignation Address to the Nation
Richard M. Nixon's "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
Nizam al-Mulk
Nizam al-Mulk: Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom
George Norris
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
Frederick North
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
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
Ohio Legislature
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer's Memorandum on the Radiological Dangers of a Nuclear Detonation
J. Robert Oppenheimer's 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
Vittorio Orlando
Orpheus
Jose Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
James Otis
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
Wilfred Owen
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens: Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man
Padmasambhava
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 1
Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 4
Juan Lopez de Palacios Rubios
Paracelsus
Paracelsus: Concerning the Nature of Things
Ely Parker
Ely Parker's Report on Indian Affairs to the War Department
Ely Parker's Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Ely Parker's Letter of Resignation as Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Ely Parker's Letter to Harriet Maxwell Converse about Indian Policy Reform
Ismet Pasa
Blaise Pascal
Patanjali
Haywood Patterson
Haywood Patterson: Scottsboro Boy
Paul
Bible: Letter of Paul to the Galatians
Alice Paul
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
Patrick Pearse
Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic
Pericles
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins's "Social Insurance for U.S." Radio Address
Frances Perkins's "What You Really Want Is an Autopsy"
Frances Perkins's "City Diets and Democracy"
Frances Perkins's "Three Decades: A History of the Department of Labor"
Juan Peron
Juan Perón: “Twenty Fundamental Truths of Justicialism”
David Philipson
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips's "The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement"
Wendell Phillips's "Crispus Attucks"
Wendell Phillips's "The Puritan Principle and John Brown"
Wendell Phillips's "Under the Flag"
Wendell Phillips's "The Foundation of the Labor Movement"
Wendell Phillips's "The Murder of Lovejoy"
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
Hernando Pizarro
Hernando Pizarro: Letter to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo
Plato
Plato: “Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites”
James Polk
James Polk's Inaugural Address
James Polk's Message to Congress on War with Mexico
James Polk's Farewell Message to Congress
Marco Polo
Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou
Polybius
Pope Paul III
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Colin Powell
Colin Powell: Remarks to the United Nations Security Council
Colin Powell's Opening Remarks on Intelligence Reform to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Colin Powell's "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.'s "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power"
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.'s "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
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Preameneu
Progressive Party
Ptahhotep
Ptolemy
Ann Putnam
Qianlong
Qianlong: Letter to George III
Pandita Ramabai
Pandita Ramabai: The High-Caste Hindu Woman
Ramses II
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph: "Call to Negro America to March on Washington"
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan: "Evil Empire" Speech
Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Republican National Convention
Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address
Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech
Ronald Reagan's Letter to the American People about Alzheimer's Disease
Ronald Reagan: Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate
David Reed
John Reed
John Reed: “Soviets in Action”
William Rehnquist
William Rehnquist's Opinion in United States v. Lopez
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Walter Reuther
Walter Reuther's National Hour Radio Address on Inflation
Walter Reuther's Address before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Walter Reuther's Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally
Walter Reuther's "500 Planes a Day" Speech
Walter Reuther's "The Guaranteed Annual Wage" Address
Walter Reuther: Labor Day Address
Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci: “Religious Sects among the Chinese”
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice's Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
Condoleezza Rice's "International Support for Iraqi Democracy"
Condoleezza Rice: "Transformational Diplomacy"
Condoleezza Rice's Address to the Republican National Convention
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre: “On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy”
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson: I Never Had It Made
Rocky Mountain News
Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony
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
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
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
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes
Theodore Roosevelt's Special Message to Congress
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation
Theodore Roosevelt's Speech to the New York Republican State Convention
Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate
John Ross
John Ross's Memorial to Congress
John Ross's Letter to David Crockett
John Ross's Annual Message to the Cherokee Nation
John Ross's Letter to Martin Van Buren
John Ross's Address to the Cherokee Nation
John Ross's 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
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women"
Thomas Carter Ruffin
Rufus M. Jones
Rufus M. Jones: "Essential Truths"
Horace Rumbold
John Russwurm
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom's Journal Editorial
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger's Hotel Brevoort Speech
Margaret Sanger's "Sexual Impulse-Part II"
Margaret Sanger's "The Prevention of Conception"
Margaret Sanger's “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
Domingo Sarmiento
Domingo Sarmiento: Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants
Ismar Schorsch
Ismar Schorsch: The Sacred Cluster
Second Vatican Council
Roy Wood Sellars
Serbian Government
Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian Reply
William Henry Seward
William Henry Seward's Speech on the Admission of California to Statehood
William Henry Seward's Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Seward: Speech on the "Irrepressible Conflict"
Shantideva
Lemuel Shaw
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A Defense of Poetry”
John Sherman
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman's "Letters of a Countryman" (November 14, 1787)
Roger Sherman's "Letters of a Countryman" (November 22, 1787)
William T. Sherman
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
Shigenori Togo
Shotoku
Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution
Shubshi-meshre-Sakkan
Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer
Ahmed Shukeiri
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès: “What Is the Third Estate?”
Sinleqeunnini
Beate Sirota
Adam Smith
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Al Smith
Al Smith's Address of Acceptance of the Democratic Presidential Nomination
Joseph Smith
Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Reed Smoot
National Park Service Organic Act
Valerie Solanas
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”
Alexander Spotswood
Letters of Governor Alexander Spotswood
Jacobus Sprenger
Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum
Joseph Stalin
Yalta Conference Joint Statement
Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-Year Plan”
Stamp Act Congress
Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Solitude of Self"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Address to the New York Legislature
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens: "The Shame of Minneapolis"
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem: “Living the Revolution”
Rudolf Steiner
Henry Stimson
Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment
Oliver Stone
Gordon Gekko’s “Greed Is Good” Speech
Joseph Story
Joseph Story: Letter to Samuel P. P. Fay as “Matthew Bramble”
Joseph Story's “Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves”
Wilhelm Stuckart
Snorri Sturluson
Sun Tzu
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Principles of the People”
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il-sung: “On the Establishment of the Workers’ Party of North Korea”
Supreme Court, U.S.
George Sutherland
United States v. Curtiss-Wright
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi: “Freedom from Fear”
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg: Invitation to the New Church
Publius (Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus
Robert A. Taft
Robert A. Taft's "Equal Justice under Law"
Robert A. Taft's "The Sound Basis for Federal Aid to Education"
Robert A. Taft's "The Place of the President and Congress in Foreign Policy"
Antonio Taguba
Roger B. Taney
Roger B. Taney's Opinion in the License Cases
Jacques Tayaert
Dutch Declaration of Independence
Tecumseh
Tecumseh's Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison at Fort Vincennes
Tecumseh's Speech to Major General Henry Procter at Fort Malden
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Teresa of Ávila
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell: "The Progress of Colored Women"
U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
Theodosius II
Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford
Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger
Lorenzo Thomas
War Department General Order 143
Thucydides
Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond's Keynote Address at the States' Rights Democratic Conference
Tiglath-pileser I
Tirumular
Tokugawa Iemitsu
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese Laws Governing Military Households
Francois-Dominique Toussaint-Louverture
José Trigueirinho
José Trigueirinho: Calling Humanity
David Trimble
Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
Nicholas Trist
François Denis Tronchet
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky: “I Stake My Life!”
Monroe Trotter
Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson
William Monroe Trotter
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
Harry S. Truman
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Harry S. Truman's Statement Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
Harry S. Truman: Report to the American People on Korea
Harry S. Truman: Inaugural Address
Harry S. Truman's Address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Harry S. Truman: Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program
Lyman Trumbull
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
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
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”
Umar I
United States Immigration Commission
Unknown
“When Heirs Have Already Been Installed, They Ought Not to Be Displaced”
"Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause"
“Manslaughter over an Outhouse”
Urban II
Urukagina
Usama ibn Munqidh
Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”
Jacob Valcke
Dutch Declaration of Independence
Valmiki
Pieter van Dieven
Dutch Declaration of Independence
Various
Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala
Constitution of the Fante Confederacy
Intergovernmental Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change
Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Eleutherios Venizelos
Antônio Vieira
Antônio Vieira: “Children of God’s Fire”
Frederick Moore Vinson
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
Voltaire
Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary
Bernhard von Bulow
Bernhard von Bülow on Germany's “Place in the Sun”
Cardinal Clemens von Galen
Cardinal Clemens von Galen: Against Nazi Euthanasia
Vyasa
Robert F. Wagner
Morrison R. Waite
David Walker
David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
George Wallace
George Wallace: Inaugural Address as Governor
Wang Kon
Earl Warren
Earl Warren's Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims
Earl Warren's Warren Commission Report
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
Booker T. Washington's Letter to William Howard Taft
Booker T. Washington's Letter to C. Elias Winston
Booker T. Washington's "Statement on Suffrage"
Booker T. Washington's "A Protest against Lynching"
George Washington
George Washington: First Inaugural Address
George Washington: First Annual Message to Congress
George Washington: Farewell Address
George Washington's Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission
George Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
Robert Clifton Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver: "The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts"
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster's Second Reply to Robert Hayne
Daniel Webster's Speech to the Senate on the Preservation of the Union
Stanley Weiser
Gordon Gekko’s “Greed Is Good” Speech
Ida B. Wells
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"
Western Defense Command
Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast
Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco
Westminster Assembly of Divines
Burton Wheeler
George H. White
George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress
Horace White
Horace White's 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.
George Whitefield
George Whitefield: “The Great Duty of Family-Religion”
Courtney Whitney
William H. Whyte
William H. Whyte: The Organization Man
William Wilberforce
Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies
Friedrich Wilhelm III
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins: "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back"
Frances Willard
Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany
Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's Address at Gettysburg
Woodrow Wilson's Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Trusts and Monopolies
Woodrow Wilson's Address in Support of a World League for Peace
Woodrow Wilson's Second Inaugural Address
Covenant of the League of Nations
Edward Winslow
Letter of Edward Winslow to a Friend
Isaac Mayer Wise
Edwin Witte
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull: "'And the Truth Shall Make You Free'"
Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality
John Woolman
John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
Wu Tingfang
Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication
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
Yon Hyong-muk
Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and . . . Cooperation between South and North Korea
John C. Yoo
Yosef Karo
Brigham Young
Brigham Young's Sermon on Race and Slavery
Brigham Young's Sermon on Mormon Governance
Yuan Shikai
Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala
Zhang Jian
Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication
Ban Zhao
Yan Zhitui
Yan Zhitui: Family Instructions for the Yen Clan
Arthur Zimmermann
Émile Zola
Yao Zui
