American historical documents, 1000-1904
By: with introductions and notes.
Edition: Registered edition.
Series: Harvard classics -- v. 43.
Publisher: P. F. Collier
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: United States -- History -- Sources.
Table of contents: value: The voyages to Vinland (c. 1000).; value: The letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his discovery (1493).; value: Amerigo Vespucci's account of his first voyage (1497).; value: John Cabot's discovery of North America (1497).; value: First Charter of Virginia (1606).; value: The Mayflower compact (1620).; value: The fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639).; value: The Massachusetts body of liberties (1641).; value: Arbitary government described and the Government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion, by J. Winthrop (1644).; value: The instrument of government (1653).; value: A healing question, by H. Vane (1656).; value: John Eliot's Brief narrative (1670).; value: Declaration of rights (1765).; value: The Declaration of independence (1776).; value: The Mecklenburg declaration of independence (1775).; value: Articles of confederation (1777).; value: Articles of capitulation, Yorktown (1781).; value: Treaty with Great Britain (1783).; value: Constitution of the United States (1787).; value: The Federalist, nos. 1 and 2 (1787).; value: Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland (1819).; value: Washington's First inaugural address (1789).; value: Treaty with the Six Nations (1794).; value: Washington's Farewell address (1796).; value: Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase, 1803).; value: Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812) (1814).; value: Arrangement as to the naval force to be respectively maintained on the American lakes (1817).; value: Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida) (1819).; value: The Monroe doctrine (1823).; value: Webster-Ashburton treaty with Great Britain (1842).; value: Treaty with Mexico (1848).; value: Fugitive slave act (1850).; value: Lincoln's First inaugural address (1861).; value: Emancipation proclamation (1863).; value: Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg.; value: Lincoln's Gettysburg address (1863).; value: Proclamation of amnesty (1863).; value: Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864).; value: Terms of Lee's surrender at Appomattox (1865).; value: Lee's Farewell to his army (1865).; value: Lincoln's Second inaugural address(1866).; value: Treaty with Russia (Alaska purchase) (1867).; value: Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898).; value: Recognition of the independence of Cuba (1898).; value: Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines) (1898).; value: Convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama (1904)