Read the actual words of these earliest Americans and their attempt at self-government with the writing of the Mayflower Compact. Link directly to other colonial charter pages.
Yale Law School does an excellent job in presenting historical documents centered around the Middle East crisis beginning with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement up to present day UN resolutions. This site provides a complete timeline that links to these documents.
A lecture by Maxime Kovalevsky discusses the origin, growth, and abolition of serfdom in Russia. It describes the important facts of Russian serfdom, the history and growth of the institution, and the peasant-landlord relationship.
Contains the actual text of all fourteen articles of the North Atlantic Treaty.
A copy of the entire Northwest Ordinance document is given.
Twenty-five lectures from Yale course, ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, with a syllabus, handouts, reading assignments, activities, and a final exam study guide. Lectures are available as text transcripts, audio, and video. Poets and topics covered: Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats, World War I poetry, imagism, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop.
The original text of a plan presented by Charles Pinckney to The Second Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
This site provides a copy of Woodrow Wilson's speech of the Fourteen Points given during World War I.
Primary text of the Proclamation of 1763 ordered by King George III. The colonists' main objection was to a reserved area west of the Appalachian Mountains. American colonists were forbidden to settle in this area, and many colonies already claimed land in the Ohio Valley as theirs.
Provides the text of the protocol concluded by Italy, Germany, and Japan at Rome on November 6, 1937.
This is a timeline of the Quasi-War with Franc, listing government documents that relate to that "war." Clicking on the dates of the documents give access to the documents themselves.
The original text of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the state of Massachusetts in February 1788.
The original text of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the State of New Hampshire in June 1788 with a list of the legislators.
Text of the document recommending ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the Pennsylvania legislature.
The text of the document signed by the legislature of South Carolina ratifying the U. S. Constitution.
The original text of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the State of Virginia.
The original text of the resolution of Congress submitting the newly drafted constitution to the states for ratification.
An electronic version of the original English Bill of Rights, written in 1689, which influenced the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, and laid the basis for American Democracy and common law.
The Avalon Project, at the Yale Law School, provides the actual text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The text of the public Treaty of Velasco between David G. Burnet, representing the Republic of Texas, and Santa Anna, ending the Texas Revolution.