MAJOR DOCUMENTS

COLLECTIONS

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
• A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents - College of Law/University of Oklahoma
• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History - University of Kansas

DOCUMENTS

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (July 4, 1776)

• The Declaration of Independence - The Charters of Freedom - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents - Online Exhibition/Library of Congress
  • "A Dunlap Broadside," one of only twenty-four known surviving copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, done by John Dunlap in Philadelphia, July 4, 1776"
• The Declaration of Independence - The Charters of Freedom - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

• The Constitution of the United States - The Charters of Freedom - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
• Analysis and Interpretation - Annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, prepared by the Congressional Research Service/Library of Congress

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

• The Bill of Rights - The Charters of Freedom - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

OTHER DOCUMENTS

• The Articles of Confederation - College of Law/University of Oklahoma
• The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 - College of Law/University of Oklahoma
• The Treaty of Paris (1783) - American Originals II - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
• The Emancipation Proclamation - Exhibit Hall/U.S. National Archives & Records Administration

SELECTED SPEECHES

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents - Bartleby.com
• The Gettysburg Address - Online Exhibit/Library of Congress
• "Thus Spoke Chief Seattle: The Story of an Undocumented Speech," by Jerry L. Clark, Prologue, Spring 1985, U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
• "I Have a Dream" - Address delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University (German version)