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PRIMARY SOURCE LINKS

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Cycles in U.S. History
http://www.timepage.org/time.html

Hypertext: American History
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html

American History 102
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/html/notes.html

Using Primary Sources
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Project Gutenberg: Archive
http://www.promo.net/pg/list.html

Resources on the Internet
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml

Index for Historians
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

Primary Readings
 

Colonialism
The Magna Carta
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/magna.htm
The Mayflower Compact
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/mayflower.htm
A Contract of Indenture
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/contract.htm
Act of Toleration
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/toleration.htm
William Penn on Government
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/penn.htm
Martha Cory's Testimony
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/witch-1.htm
Ann Putnam's Deposition
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/witch-2.htm
An Observation of . . .
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/kalm.htm

Revolution
Stamp Act Grievances
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/stamp.htm
Stamp Act Riots
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/riots.htm
A Tory's View
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/tory.htm
Common Sense
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/paine.htm
Declaration of Independence
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/dec.htm
"He Waged Cruel War"
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/cruelwar.htm
Treaty of Paris 1783
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/treaty83.htm

New Republic
The Articles of Confederation
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/confed.htm
Hamilton on the Confederation
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/confed.htm
Washington on Confederation
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/wash-confed.htm
Annapolis Conference
http://www.perno.com/history/docs/anna.htm
Henry Speaks on Ratificationhttp://www.perno.com/history/docs/henry-1.htm
Federalist Paper #9
Federalist Paper #10
Federalist Paper #30
Federalist Paper #51
Henry on a Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights
Washington's Neutrality
Hamilton Defends his Bank
Jefferson Attacks the Bank
Jay's Treaty
Washington's Farewell
1796 Election Broadside
Alien Acts
The Sedition Act
Naturalization Act
The Kentucky Resolutions
Rhode Island Responds
Jefferson's First Inaugural
Debate over Louisiana
Aaron Burr's Treason

Ante Bellum America
Early New York
War Hawks
The Monroe Doctrine
Calhoun Defends Slavery
The Positive Good Theory
Indian Policy
The Trail of Tears
The Lowell System
A Letter from Brook Farm
Wonders of Phrenology
A Cry for Temperance
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Dickinson from Mt Holyoke
Seneca Fall Declaration
Jackson under attack
Jackson Vetoes the Bank
Jackson on Nullification
Jackson's Farewell
Destiny of a Race

Civil War
Garrison on Mexican War
Garrison on Slavery
Garrison: The Liberator
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Causes of the Civil War
Webster-Hayne Debate
Lincoln on the Know-Nothings
Lincoln: "A house divided . . "
Greeley on John Brown
Thoreau on John Brown
Lincoln replies to Greeley
Lincoln Campaign Song
Lincoln's Slavery Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Thanksgiving Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Sherman outside Atlanta
New York Draft Riots
Lincoln's Second Inaugural

Post Civil War
Black Enfranchisement
Johnson Offers Amnesty
Transcontinental Railroad
Hayes On Civil Service Reform
The Pendleton Act
The Knights of Labor
The Turner Thesis
Waving the Bloody Shirt
On Sharecropping
The Coming of the White Man
 

Gilded Age
Hearst on Yellow Press
Republican Platform, 1896
Democratic Platform, 1896
Populist Platform, 1892
Cross of Gold Speech
McKinley on Gold
Populist Platform, 1892
Carnegie Writes about Wealth
Rockefeller before Congress
On Honest Graft
Cleveland Vetoes Literacy Test
Sweat Shop Pay Roll
Cleveland on Labor
Plessy v. Ferguson
Justice Harlan Descents Plessy
Gilded Age Slaughterhouses
On Seasonal Unemployment
Conkling on the Spoils System
Sweat Shop Working Conditions
Railroad Strike turns Violent
Gompers on Haymarket Square

Imperialism
Bryan on the Philippines
March of the American Flag
Mahan on Sea Power
Open Door Notes
Carl Schurz on Imperialism
McKinley on the Philippines

The Progressives
Good Government Reformers
The Social Gospel
The Brandeis Brief
Jane Addams on Social Reform
An Anti-Suffrage Argument
The Jungle [Excerpt]
TR on Meat Packing
On Women Workers
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
On Workers Health
Factory Rules
Black Migration
Mencken on Government
How the Other Half Lives
Lloyd on Combinations
Socialist Platform, 1908
Union Song: Union Maid
TR's Square Deal
TR on Muckrakers
AF of L on Women Workers

World War I
Mencken on WWI
Schenck v. United States
Norris Opposes WWI
Cabinet Meeting on WWI
Wilson on The Sussex
Bryan on The Lusitania
The Zimmermann Telegram
Wilson War Message
Debs opposes Involvement
The Espionage Act
Debs v. United States
WWI and Civil Rights
World War I Loyalty Pledge
 

The Roaring Twenties
Mencken on Coolidge

Depression and New Deal

World War II
Neutrality Act of 1937
FDR Quarantine Speech
North Africa Campaign
The Atlantic Charter
The Cairo Conference
The Casablanca Conference
The Moscow Conference
The Potsdam Conference
The Tehran Conference
The Yalta Conference
Declaration of War on Germany
Declaration of War on Japan
FDR on Pearl Harbor Attack
Neutrality Act of 1939

Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Bipartisan Foreign Policy
Call for Détente
George Kennan
Walter Lippmann
Marshall Plan
A Cold War Policy
 

Civil Rights
On the Black Press
Hughes: The Big Sea
Kerner Report
King: I have a Dream
Black Manifesto
On the Black Panthers
Black Consciousness
On Black Power I
On Black Power II
Malcolm X Speaks Out
Flush Times of Alabama
 

Kennedy Administration
New Frontier
 

Johnson Administration
The Great Society

Red Scare
Whittaker Chambers
Lillian Hellman Defies HUAC
Hoover on Hollywood
McCarthy, Press Account
McCarthy's Wheeling Speech
McCarthy Attacks Marshall
The Costs of McCarthyism
The Hollywood Ten
 

Vietnam War

NSC Memo
The Geneva Accords
Special Report on Commitment
On Aid to French Indochina
The Domino Theory
JFK Advises Diem
Fullbright Opposes Involvement
LBJ: Why Vietnam
LBJ: Defends Involvement
LBJ and Ball Review Policy
Bundy Recommends Reprisal
Ball's Dissenting Opinion
McNaughton's Assessment
Hilsman Recalls an Evaluation
Kennedy's Analysis of Diem
Herblock on Commitment
Mauldin on Commitment
LBJ on the Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The War Powers Act

Nixon Administration

Watergate Cover-up
Articles of Impeachment

The Counter Culture
The Chicago Police Riot
The Greening of America
Protest Against DOW Chemical
SDS Endorses Revolution
Phil Oachs: Draft-Dodgers Rag

Modern Society

Little Murderers
 

Primary sources

FindLaw Court Opinions
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Lii Hermes [Supreme Court]
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/#court

BYU McKay School Archive
http://www.byu.edu/ipt/vlibrary/curriculum/ushistory.html

American History Documents
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

Chronology of US Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/

The Federalist Papers
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/federalist/index.htm

Archiving Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/

The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm
 
 

Government

National Archives and Records
http://www.nara.gov/

The United States Census
http://www.census.gov/

The House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

The United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

The United Nations
 http://www.un.org/

Senator Ted Kennedy
http://kennedy.senate.gov/

Senator John Kerry
http://kerry.senate.gov

Congressman  Barney Frank

Congressman Steven Lynch

Stae Senator Robert Creedon

Contact President Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Speaker Denny Hastert
http://speakernews.house.gov/

Majority Leader Tom Daschle
http://www.senate.gov/~daschle/

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