Entire Collection The Magna Carta—the First Document to Guarantee That a King Was Not Above the Law Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press John Hancock Signed Protest Against Taxation Without Representation Paul Revere’s Iconic Boston Massacre Print The First Published Book by an African American Woman Journal of the Proceedings of the First Continental Congress in 1774, Owned and Signed by Charles Thomson Thomas Paine’s Common Sense—the Little Pamphlet that Made Independence Happen Common Sense: Of the Origin and Design of Government The Declaration of Independence The Articles of Confederation “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of Many, One) The United States Constitution – a Declaration of Interdependence The Federalist No. 1—Rare Early Printing in The Pennsylvania Journal Virginia’s Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, with a Proposed Declaration of Rights and Other Proposed Amendments George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” George Washington’s Undelivered Inaugural Address Collection Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System and legal tender – on 11th day as Secretary of Treasury The Bill of Rights Washington’s First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation Elias Boudinot’s Copy of Acts of Second Session of First Federal Congress, Including Hamilton’s Assumption Plan, Jefferson’s Quid-Pro-Quo Moving the Capital South, and Ratifications of Bill of Rights The Lynchpin of Alexander Hamilton’s Assumption Plan, Signed by Thomas Jefferson Washington’s Vision of Inclusiveness: “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance” The First Electoral Transfer of Power to a New Party—Jefferson’s Inaugural Address Jefferson’s Famous Letter on the “Wall of Separation” Between Church and State Summoning Congress to Vote on the Louisiana Purchase The Monroe Doctrine—America Enters the World Stage Jefferson Warns of the Dangers of Slavery—“We Have the Wolf by the Ears” Frederick Douglass on Liberty Seneca Falls Women’s Suffrage Declaration of Sentiments Frederick Douglass’ Most Famous Speech—What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass Lectures on “The Anti-Slavery Movement” and the Constitution The Dreadful Dred Scott Decision—First Edition with Added Illustrations The Lincoln-Douglas Debates—First Edition, Inscribed by Lincoln Civil War “The Union Forever” Flag Made by Philadelphia Sailmaker, ca. 1861 President-Elect Abraham Lincoln at Independence Hall, 1861 Monumental “MEN OF COLOR To Arms! To Arms!” Recruiting Broadside The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 Oil Painting of Harriet Tubman Abolishing Slavery—The 13th Amendment The 14th Amendment—Equal Protection Under the Law 15th Amendment—Guaranteeing Voting Rights (for African American Men) Frederick Douglass Responds to the Author of Tales of the Chesapeake, and Mentions Trips to Peoria Excluding Chinese Immigration: President Chester Arthur Orders Seal Affixed to His Angell Treaty Proclamation Susan B. Anthony on "The Status of Woman, Past, Present and Future" “Watch Her Grow” “America the Beautiful” Franklin D. Roosevelt on the 150th Anniversary of the Constitution Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1940 State of the Union Address Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union Address, Proclaiming Four Freedoms Norman Rockwell’s Iconic Four Freedoms, Inspired by FDR and Issued by the Office of War Information FDR's Fireside Chat—Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency "The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America"—A Masterpiece by Pioneering Black Artist Charles White—Showing Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Crispus Attucks, et al. Norman Rockwell’s Freedom to Worship Study Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall & Channing Tobias 1953 NAACP Action Outline Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Speech—Referring to the Promise of the Declaration and Constitution Voting Rights Act of 1965—Lyndon B. Johnson Bill Signing Pen
