John Quincy Adams

• Monroe Doctrine

Susan B. Anthony

• Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Hugo Black

• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Harry Blackmun

• Roe v. Wade

Stephen R. Bradley

• Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

David J. Brewer

• Muller v. Oregon

Henry Billings Brown

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell

Norris Brown

• Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

George Bryan

• Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

William Jennings Bryan

• William Jennings Bryan's “Cross of Gold” Speech

George H. W. Bush

• George H. W. Bush's Address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis

George W. Bush

• George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001

Jay S. Bybee

• Bybee Torture Memo

César Chávez

• César Chávez's Commonwealth Address

City of Boston

• Boston Non-Importation Agreement

Henry Clay

• Compromise of 1850

Bill Clinton

• Bill Clinton's Radio Address on the Welfare Reform Act

Congress, U.S.

• Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
• Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Bill of Rights
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Dawes Severalty Act
• Federal-Aid Highway Act
• Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Homestead Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Lend-Lease Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Morrill Act
• National Industrial Recovery Act
• National Labor Relations Act
• Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Pendleton Civil Service Act
• Servicemen's Readjustment Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Social Security Act
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Tennessee Valley Authority Act
• Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• Voting Rights Act

Constitutional Convention

• Constitution of the United States

Continental Congress, First

• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

Nathan Dane

• Northwest Ordinance

Jefferson Davis

• Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address to the Confederacy

Henry L. Dawes

• Dawes Severalty Act

William R. Day

• Hammer v. Dagenhart

Department of War, U.S.

• War Department General Order 143

John Dickinson

• Articles of Confederation

Stephen Douglas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Frederick Douglass

• Frederick Douglass's “Fourth of July” Speech

W. E. B. Du Bois

• Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

Dorman B. Eaton

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

Thomas Edison

• Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Incandescent Light Bulb

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
• Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
• Executive Order 10730

Welbore Ellis

• Quartering Act

Ralph Flanders

• Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy

William Lloyd Garrison

• William Lloyd Garrison's First Liberator Editorial

George III, King

• Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
• Proclamation of 1763

John Glenn

• John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center

Ulysses S. Grant

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

George Grenville

• Quartering Act

Galusha Grow

• Homestead Act

Alexander Hamilton

• Jefferson's and Hamilton's Opinions on the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States

John Marshall Harlan

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Fred Hartley, Jr.

• Taft-Hartley Act

Rutherford B. Hayes

• Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address

Patrick Henry

• Patrick Henry's “Liberty or Death” Speech

House of Representatives, U.S.

• Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Articles of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

Cordell Hull

• Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Indian Peace Commission

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Second Bank of the United States
• Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification and Andrew Jackson's Proclamation regarding Nullification

Thomas Jefferson

• Declaration of Independence
• Jefferson's and Hamilton's Opinions on the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Thomas Jefferson's Message to Congress about the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Anthony M. Kennedy

• Lawrence v. Texas

John F. Kennedy

• Executive Order 10924
• John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address
• John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Kerner Commission

• Kerner Commission Report Summary

John Kill Buck, Jr.

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” Speech
• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Andrew and Thomas Lewis

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln's “House Divided” Speech
• Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address

James Madison

• Federalist Papers 10, 14, and 51
• James Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments

George Marshall

• Marshall Plan

John Marshall

• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Marbury v. Madison
• McCulloch v. Maryland

George Mason

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

John McCloy

• Executive Order 9066

William McKinley

• William McKinley's Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention

Christopher Memminger

• South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

Mississippi State Legislature

• Black Code of Mississippi

James Monroe

• Monroe Doctrine

Justin Smith Morrill

• Morrill Act

Richard Nixon

• Richard Nixon's Smoking Gun Tape

George Norris

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act

Frederick North

• Intolerable Acts

Thomas Paine

• Common Sense

Alice Paul

• Equal Rights Amendment

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Thomas Pownall

• Quartering Act

John Pownell

• Proclamation of 1763

Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.

• Executive Order 8802

Ronald Reagan

• Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Executive Order 8802
• Executive Order 9066
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Pearl Harbor” Speech
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Message to Congress

Theodore Roosevelt

• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

John Sherman

• Sherman Antitrust Act

South Carolina Nullification Convention

• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification and Andrew Jackson's Proclamation regarding Nullification

Stamp Act Congress

• Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Henry Stimson

• Executive Order 9066

Joseph Story

• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee

Supreme Court, U.S.

• Bush v. Gore

George Sutherland

• United States v. Curtiss-Wright

Robert A. Taft

• Taft-Hartley Act

Roger Taney

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Lorenzo Thomas

• War Department General Order 143

Strom Thurmond

• Southern Manifesto

William Monroe Trotter

• Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

Harry S. Truman

• Executive Order 9981
• Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
• Truman Doctrine

Lyman Trumbull

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Robert F. Wagner

• National Labor Relations Act

Earl Warren

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Miranda v. Arizona

Booker T. Washington

• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address

George Washington

• George Washington's Farewell Address
• George Washington's First Annual Message to Congress
• George Washington's First Inaugural Address

White Eyes

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

Woodrow Wilson

• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
• Woodrow Wilson: Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany

Edwin Witte

• Social Security Act

John C. Yoo

• Bybee Torture Memo

Arthur Zimmermann

• Zimmermann Telegram