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1785-1812:
Diary of Martha Ballard |
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1791, 1809:
Jefferson's views on slavery [excerpts from several sources] |
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1800:
"An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade
from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country." (5/10) |
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1800:
Gabriel's Conspiracy - assorted documents |
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1800:
Harrison Land Law |
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1801:
State v. Boon |
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1801:
First Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1801:
First
Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson |
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1801:
Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson |
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1801-4:
“A Religious Flame That Spread All Over Kentucky" - Peter Cartwright
Brings Evangelical
Christianity to the West |
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1802:
Jefferson's
"Wall of Separation" Letter (1/1) |
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1802:
Noah Webster's Fourth of July Address |
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1802:
Second Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1803:
An Act to Prevent the Importation of Certain Persons
into Certain States, Where, by the Laws Thereof, Their Admission is
Prohibited (2/28) |
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1803:
The Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase -
Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge |
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1803:
"The
following resolution passed the House of representatives on Wednesday
last, and the
senate yesterday. [Regarding the free navigation of the
Mississippi River]" - broadside |
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1803:
French Exchange copy of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty--Convention
for Payment of Sums Due by France to U. S. Page 1,
Cover,
Transcription |
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1803:
Jefferson's Secret Message Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition |
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1803:
Letter to James Madison, secretary of state, announcing that
Louisiana was purchased from France |
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1803:
Lewis and Clark Expedition Supplies List |
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1803:
Louisiana Purchase |
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1803:
Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the cession of
the province of Louisiana |
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1803:
Message of President Thomas Jefferson laying before the Senate the
conventions with France for the cession of the province of
Louisiana to the United States |
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1803:
Receipt for wine and kegs purchased by Meriwether Lewis |
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1803:
Gallatin Budget |
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1803:
Letter from President
Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis |
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1803?:
List of Indian presents purchased by Meriwether Lewis
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1803:
Louisiana Purchase and Associated Documents |
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1803:
Marbury v. Madison
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1803: President
Thomas Jefferson's confidential message to Congress concerning
relations with the Indians.
Pages:
1
2
3
4 |
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1803:
Receipt for 131 rolls of pigtail tobacco purchased by Meriwether
Lewis |
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1803:
Receipt for wine and kegs purchased by Meriwether Lewis |
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1803:
Speech Opposing the Louisiana Purchase - Senator Samuel White |
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1803:
Third Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1803:
Treaty
of Ft. Wayne |
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1804:
12th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1804?:
"An Act to Abolish Slavery" - pamphlet |
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1804:
Black Laws of
Ohio |
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1804:
Fourth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1804:
Letter on
Presidential Appointments (midway down the page)- Abigail Adams |
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1804:
"The Republican. No. II" - Fisher Ames |
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1804-1806:
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, 1804-1806 [all volumes]
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1805:
An Account of Expeditions to the Sources
of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to
the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun,
Rivers |
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1805:
Fifth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1805:
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American
Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral
Observations. In Three Volumes. - Mrs. Mercy Otis Warren of
Plymouth (Mass.) |
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1805:
"Indian speech, delivered before a gentleman missionary, from
Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Red
Jacket. His Indian name is Sagu-ua-what-hath, which being interpreted, Keeper-awake" - broadside |
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1805:
Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific Ocean |
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1805:
"A Literary Lady" - Charles Brockden Brown -
Literary Magazine,
Volume III, pp. 359-360 |
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1805:
New England Primer |
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1805:
Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion |
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1805:
Second Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson |
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1805:
"Speciment of Political Improvement" - Charles Brockden Brown -
Literary Magazine, Volume III, pp. 120-128 |
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1806:
Account of a Connecticut Camp Meeting |
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1806:
Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark |
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1806:
A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of
General George Washington - Mason Locke Weems |
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1806:
Sixth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1807:
An Act to
Prohibit the Importation of Slaves |
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1807:
A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson:
containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the
Indians and French |
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1807:
Bank
note published by Hallowell Bank in MA |
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1807:
"The Columbiad" - a poem by Joel Barlow |
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1807:
New England Primer |
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1807:
"Remarks on the slave-trade ... Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, No.
362 Pearl-Street " -
broadside
image |
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1807:
Seventh Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1807:
The Stranger in America: Containing Observations Made During
a Long Residence in that Country - Charles William Janson |
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1807:
Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial
for treason (6/13) |
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1807:
"Who Shall Not Vote?" - Acts of the 32nd General Assembly of NJ |
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1808:
"The constitution. Fellow-citizens of New-Hampshire. At an awful
crisis, at a momentous period
of our political existence we address
you ... The Anti-Madison and anti-embargo list for electors ...
[Signed] A Republican" - broadside |
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1808:
"Dignified patriotism. Extract from the Hon. Mr. Hillhouse's
speech, in the Senate of the United States, against the passing of the new embargo law" -
broadside |
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1808:
Eighth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson |
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1808:
A Thanksgiving Sermon by Absalom Jones |
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1809:
First Inaugural Address - James Madison |
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1809:
Treaty
of Vincennes Indiana Territory |
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1810:
Census
Data for the Year 1810 |
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1810:
Fletcher
v. Peck |
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|
1810:
Macon Bill No. 2 (5/1) |
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1810:
Portrait of Absalom Jones - painting by
Raphaelle Peale |
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1811:
The Debate over War in Congress |
|
|
1811:
Journal of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie
Brackenridge |
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|
1811:
"Let every Federalist do his duty, and Massachusetts will yet be
saved!!! Federal republicans!", Boston (April) - broadside |
|
|
1812:
The
American Debate Over the War of 1812 (multiple documents/excerpts) |
|
|
1812:
Documents
for Debate on Going to War in 1812 |
|
|
1812:
"Gerrymander"
- an anonymous political cartoon |
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|
1812:
"Prompt
patriotism. At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one
hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one towns/in the late County
of Hampshire, comprising the counties, of Hampshire, Franklin and
Hampden, convened at the Court-House in Northampton, on
the 20th day
of July inst at 11 o'clock [Resolves on war] July 21, 1812" -
broadside |
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|
1812:
U.
S. vs. Hudson and Goodwin |
|
|
1812:
The
War of 1812 - assorted documents of the war
|
|
|
1812:
Washington's Black Code |
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|
1812-13:
Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper
Missouri - John
C. Luttig |
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|
1813:
"Naval Battle Between the
United States and the Macedonian on October 30, 1812- a
painting by Thomas Birch |
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|
1813:
Second Inaugural
Address - James Madison |
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|
1814:
Amendments to the Constitution as Proposed by the Hartford
Convention |
|
|
1814:
The Fall of Washington or Maddy in Full Flight -
political cartoon |
|
|
1814:
Star Spangled Banner
Lyrics |
|
|
1814:
The Treaty of
Ghent |
|
|
1814:
Treaty with Great Britain that ended our participation in the War of
1812 |
|
|
1815:
A
Convention to Regulate the Commerce - Britain & the U. S. |
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1815:
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington |
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1815:
"Glorious
news from New Orleans! Splendid victory over the British forces Essex,
Register Office. 2/9" - broadside |
|
|
1815:
“I found him to be a very intelligent and feeling man” - Enslaved
James Riley Encounters an Arab Trader |
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|
1815:
Jackson's
letter describing the Battle of New Orleans |
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|
1815:
John Adams
Letter to George Washington Adams and John Adams 2d (5/3) - preserve
all that you write |
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|
1815:
"Liberty and Peace" - song lyrics |
|
|
1815:
Memoirs
of Susan Mansfield Huntington of MA - excerpts |
|
|
1815:
Treaty
of Portage des Sioux |
|
|
1815:
United Kingdom Commerce and Navigation Treaty (7/3) |
|
|
1816:
The
Barbary Treaties |
|
|
1816:
Diary of Stirling Murray, a fragment from 1816 dealing with the slave
trade in Havana |
|
|
1816:
Governor Tompkins (NY) Speech |
|
|
1816:
Iroquois Creation Myth |
|
|
1816:
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer
regarding the Dartmouth College case (7/21) |
|
|
1816:
Slave bill of sale from Jane E Williams |
|
|
1817:
Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the
American Lakes |
|
|
1817:
Excerpt
from the Cotton Book of G. W. Lovelace |
|
|
1817:
First Inaugural
Address - James Monroe |
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|
1817:
Rush-Bagot
Agreement |
|
|
1818:
Circular letter regarding the establishing of Sunday schools in Boston |
|
|
1818:
Curriculum for the University of Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
|
1818:
John
Taylor, Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays,
Practical and
Political - The Future
of the Union |
|
|
1818:
Observations
on the Real Rights of Women
- Hannah Crocker - excerpts |
|
|
1818:
The Sally Hemmings Accusation Against Thomas Jefferson - article by
James T. Callender |
|
|
1818:
“Suffer for About the First Six Months After Leaving Home”- John Doyle
Writes Home to Ireland |
|
|
1819:
Adams-Onis
Treaty |
|
|
1819:
American State Papers,
Military Affairs, "Description of the United States Armory at Springfield,
Massachusetts" |
|
|
1819:
Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
|
|
1819:
Extract
from the Albany Daily Advertiser |
|
|
1819:
McCulloch v. Maryland
|
|
|
1819:
The Real Thirteenth Amendment |
|
|
1819:
Tallmadge's
Speech to Congress |
|
|
1819:
Treaty
of Edwardsville with the Kickapoo Indians (7/30) |
|
|
1819:
Treaty of Fort Harrison with the Kickapoo Indians (8/30) |
|
|
1820:
Census
Data for the Year 1820 |
|
|
1820:
Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress |
|
|
1820:
Compromise of
1820 - Tallmadge Amendment |
|
|
1820:
Compromise
of 1820 - Taylor's Amendment |
|
|
1820:
Compromise of
1820 - Thomas's Amendment |
|
|
1820:
Cotton Boom in Alabama and Mississippi |
|
|
1820: John Quincy Adams & John C. Calhoun Discuss the Compromise of 1820 |
|
|
1820:
The
Missouri Compromise
- James G. Blaine |
|
|
1820:
Missouri
Enabling Act |
|
|
1820:
Plymouth Oration - Daniel Webster (12/22) |
|
|
1820:
Record of the US Senate Debate on the Admission of Missouri |
|
|
1820:
Report on Indians of the Upper Mississippi Valley - Morrill Marston |
|
|
1820:
"Sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise" - Thomas Jefferson to John
Holmes, 22 April 1820 -
Writings of Thomas
Jefferson
(1854), volume 7 |
|
|
1820:
Slavery and the Constitution - John Quincy Adams |
|
|
1820:
Taylor Amendment (1/26) |
|
|
1820:
Thomas Amendment (2/17) |
|
|
1820:
Thomas Jefferson letter to John Holmes |
|
|
1820:
Treaty
of St. Louis (Missouri Territory) with the Kickapoo Indians (7/19) |
|
|
1820:
Treaty of Vincennes with the Kickapoo Indians (9/5) |
|
|
1821:
Cohens v. Virginia
|
|
|
1821:
Second Inaugural
Address - James Monroe
|
|
|
1821:
Thomas Jefferson's Biography (excerpts) - views on slavery |
|
|
1821:
Warning
Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy" - John Quincy Adams |
|
|
1823:
British
Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration
with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America |
|
|
1823:
Captured By Indians- Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian |
|
|
1823: John
Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11/7 |
|
|
1823:
Joshua
& Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson |
|
|
1823:
Monroe Doctrine |
|
|
1823:
Monroe
Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice |
|
|
1823:
Thomas
Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10/24) |
|
|
1824:
Gibbons
v. Ogden |
|
|
1824:
“My Husband Was Seized With the Mania” - Emigration from New York to
Michigan |
|
|
1824:
Notices
& Advertisements from the New York Evening Post
|
|
|
1826:
Adams and Jefferson - funeral oration by Daniel Webster
(8/2) |
|
|
1825:
The Bunker Hill Monument - Daniel Webster (6/17) |
|
|
1825:
"Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man
must do well" - broadside |
|
|
1825:
Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adam |
|
|
1825:
Thomas
Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee |
|
|
1826:
Death of
Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day
- Thomas H. Benton |
|
|
1826:
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman |
|
|
1827:
The First African American Newspaper Appears - from
Freedom's
Journal,
(3/16) |
|
|
1828:
Noah
Webster - An American Dictionary of the English Language
- search engine showing an 1828 definition of a word with a 1913
definition of that same word |
|
|
1828:
SC's Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's
speech |
|
|
1959:
"The Battle of New Orleans" - lyrics by Johnny Driftwood (with audio) |
