Harvard Classics, Vol. 43

American Historical Documents

1000–1904

The 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents in this collection trace the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country to the Civil War and early twentieth-century international relations.

Bibliographic Record Introduction

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

 

1. The Voyages to Vinland
2. The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery
3. Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage
4. John Cabot’s Discovery of North America
5. First Charter of Virginia
6. The Mayflower Compact
7. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
8. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
9. Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, by John Winthrop
10. The Instrument of Government
11. A Healing Question, by Sir Henry Vane.
12. John Eliot’s Brief Narrative
13. Declaration of Rights
14. The Declaration of Independence
15. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
16. Articles of Confederation
17. Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown
18. Treaty with Great Britain
19. Constitution of the United States
20. The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2
21. Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland
22. Washington’s First Inaugural Address
23. Treaty with the Six Nations
24. Washington’s Farewell Address
25. Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)
26. Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)
27. Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes
28. Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)
29. The Monroe Doctrine
30. Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain
31. Treaty with Mexico
32. Fugitive Slave Act
33. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
34. Emancipation Proclamation
35. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
36. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
37. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
38. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
39. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
40. Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
41. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
42. Proclamation of Amnesty
43. Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby
44. Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox
45. Lee’s Farewell to His Army
46. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
47. Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End
48. Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)
49. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
50. Recognition of the Independence of Cuba
51. Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)
52. Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama