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History
US History I to 1877
US History II 1877 to the Present
African American History
World History I to 1500
World History II 1500 to Present
Western Civilization I to 1500
Western Civilization II 1500 to present
East Asia
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Women's History
American Studies
Introduction to American Studies
Religious Studies
Comparative Religions
Western Religions
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American Presidency
American Government
: Theoretical and Constitutional Underpinnings of U.S. Government
1. Theoretical and Constitutional Underpinnings of U.S. Government
2. Political Beliefs and Behaviors
3. Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media
4. Institutions of National Government: Presidency
5. Institutions of National Government: Congress
6. Institutions of National Government: Federal Courts
7. Institutions of National Government: Bureaucracy
8. Public Policy
9. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Recommended Docs
Additional Docs
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
James Madison: Federalist 51 (1788)
Bill of Rights (1791)
Alexander Hamilton: "Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States" (1791)
Thomas Jefferson: “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank” (1791)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Andrew Jackson: Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Regarding Nullification (1832)
Barbara Jordan: "The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment" (1974)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690)
James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
Patrick Henry: Resolutions in Opposition to the Stamp Act (1765)
Benjamin Franklin: "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" (1773)
George Mason: Fairfax County Resolves (1774)
John Hancock: Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
Patrick Henry: Speech to the First Continental Congress (1774)
John Adams: "Letters of Novanglus" (1775)
Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 1 (1776)
Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 4 (1777)
Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
James Madison: Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments (1785)
Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786)
Elbridge Gerry: Letter to the Massachusetts Legislature on the U.S. Constitution (1787)
George Mason: "Objections to This Constitution of Government" (1787)
James Madison: Speech on the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention (1787)
John Jay: Federalist 2–5 and 64 (1787–1788)
Roger Sherman: "Letters of a Countryman" (November 14, 1787) (1787)
Roger Sherman: "Letters of a Countryman" (November 22, 1787) (1787)
Samuel Adams: Letter to Richard Henry Lee (1787)
John Adams: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787–1788)
Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution (1787)
James Madison: Federalist 10 (1787)
James Madison: Federalist 14 (1787)
Alexander Hamilton: Federalist 84 (1788)
Elbridge Gerry: First Reply to "A Landholder" (1788)
Elbridge Gerry: Second Reply to "A Landholder" (1788)
John Hancock: Address to the General Court of Boston (1788)
John Hancock: Address to the Ratification Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1788)
Patrick Henry: "Liberty or Empire?" Speech (1788)
Samuel Adams: Massachusetts Ratifying Convention Speeches (1788)
James Madison: Speech to the House of Representatives Proposing a Bill of Rights (1789)
James Monroe: Address to the National Convention of France (1794)
Samuel Adams: Address to the Massachusetts Legislature (1795)
James Madison: Virginia Resolutions (1798)
Daniel Webster: Second Reply to Robert Hayne (1830)
Joseph Story: “Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves” (1833)
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1913)
Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1919)
Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920)
