Constitutional Resources
- The Constitution of The United States of America
- The Amendments to the Constitution
- The Bill of Rights
- Key Amendments
- The Failed Amendments
- Declaration of Independence
- "He Waged Cruel War"
- Locke and The Declaration of Independence
- Second Treatise on Civil Government
- Understanding Inevitable Discovery
- Establishment Clause [Key Decisions]
- Dred Scott & the 14th Amendment
Election Resources
American History Documents
- Ann Putnam's Deposition April 1692
- The Confession of Ann Putnam
- Martha Cory's Testimony, Salem, 1692
- Conclusions of the Massachusetts Bay Elders
- Indentured Servant Contract
- Virginia Fornication Laws
- Mayflower Compact
- A Strange Case of Bestiality, William Bradford
- Massachusetts School Law
- William Penn on Government
- Parris "Christ Knows How Many Devils There Are"
- An Observation of the American Colonies
- Maryland Act of Religious Toleration
- Stamp Act Grievances
- Second Treatise on Civil Government
- Common Sense [Excerpt]
- Wage Cruel War
- Declaration of Independence
- A Tory View
- Treaty of Paris 1783
- Jay on Treaty with British
- Federalists Paper #10
- Federalists Paper #30
- Federalists Paper #51
- Henry on Ratification
- Henry on a Bill of Rights
- Hamilton on Loose Construction
- Jefferson on Strict Construction
- Washington Declares Neutrality
- Washington's Farewell Address
- Alien Acts
- Naturalization Act
- Jefferson's 1st Address
- The Burr Decision
- Kentucky Resolutions
- War Hawks 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Election of 1828 [Broadside]
- Bank Veto
- Jackson On Nullification
- Jackson's Farewell Address
- Lowell Factory Rules
- Garrison: The Liberator
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- William Lloyd Garrison Renounces War
- Garrison justifies Organization Against Slavery
- Garrison on the Constitution
- Defense of Slavery As a Benefit to Society
- Calhoun's Positive Good Theory of Slaver
- Lincoln on the Know-Nothings
- The Destiny of a Race, Thomas Hart Benton
- The Missouri Compromise
- Westward Expansion - Trek to Salt Lake
- Westward Expansion - hardships on the trail
- Westward Expansion - Women's Rights
- Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo 1848
- Treaty with Mexico 1853
- The Wilmot Proviso
- Howell Cobb’s Letter to Georgia Unionists
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act 1850
- John C. Calhoun Challenges the Compromise (1850)
- William H. Seward Calls for the Compromise (1850)
- Webster calls for Compromise
- An Anonymous Georgian, “Plain Words”
- Resolutions of the Nashville Convention
- Garrison, On the United States Constitution
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on the new Fugitive Slave Law
- The Georgia Platform (1850)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Le Compton Constitution
- The Dred Scott Decision
- Appeal of the Independent Democrats
- Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech
- Lincoln - Douglas Debates
- Seward’s Irrepressible Conflict Speech
- Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown
- John Brown from the Docket
- Horace Greeley on John Brown’s Raid
- 1860 Campaign Song: Lincoln and Liberty
- Platform of the Constitutional Party 1860
- Republican Party Platform 1860
- Democratic Party Platform 1860
- Democratic Party (Southern) Platform 1860
- Angry Southerner writes of Lincoln
- Howell Cobb to the People of Georgia 1860
- South Carolina Causes of Secession
- South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
- Floyd County Resolutions on Secession
- Lincoln’s Letter to Stephens on Slavery
- James Buchanan on Secession
- Southern Complaints
- South’s bid for Economic Independence
- The Folly of the South (Congressional Speech)
- Crittenden Pleas for Peace
- Crittenden Compromise 1860
- Jefferson Davis on Secession
- Lincoln on Secession
- Sectional Embitterment
- On Nationalism
- Northern Disdain for the South
- Northern Complaints regarding Secession
- Defenses of Slavery
- Opinions On American Democracy
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
- Lincoln: A Special Message to Congress
- Editorial in Cincinnati Commercial
- Lincoln Replies to Horace Greeley
- Lincoln proposes an amendment on Slavery
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Gettysburg’s Address
- Senator Sherman on Nationalism
- A Whig Account of the New York Draft Riots
- Sherman to the Defenders of Atlanta
- Hood replies to Sherman
- Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- Thanksgiving Proclamation
- Andrew Johnson offers Amnesty to rebels
- The Day the Transcontinental Railroad was Finished
- War Department's Indian Policy
- Turner -The Significance of the Frontier
- Letter from a Gold Miner
- Geronimo, His own story
- A Missionary Tells of the Trail of Tears
- A Cowboy Talks of the Trail
- Ten Bears Speaks of his Land
- English Only Indian Schools
- Andrew Carnegie writes about attaining Wealth
- Taylor on Taylorism
- John D. Rockefeller Defends his Business Practices
- Journalist Henry D. Lloyd Warns against an Age of Combination
- Waving the Bloody Shirt
- Honest Graft
- Defense of the Spoils System
- President Hayes Favors Civil Service Reform
- Congressional aide speaks on civil service reform
- The Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Cleveland Veto - Literacy Test for Immigrants
- William Randolph Hearst Creates the Yellow Press
- The Ferris Wheel [The 1892 Chicago Exposition]
- The Chinese Exclusion Act [1882]
- New York City
- An Assessment of America’s Slaughterhouses
- Knights of Labor State their Demands
- A Union Leader Sees Worker Regimentation
- The testimony of a machinist before the Senate Committee on Labor
- Working Conditions in the Sweatshop
- Sweat Shop Payroll
- Western Union Telegraph Company employee contract
- Gompers on strikes and violence
- Clemency for the Hay Market Anarchists
- A Railroad Strike Turns Violent
- A Worker Stresses Seasonal Unemployment
- Union Maid, by Woody Guthrie
- AFL Perspective on Women in the Work Force
- The Populists Party Platform 1892
- William McKinley, The Gold Standard
- W. J. Bryan “Cross of Gold” Speech
- The Platform of the Populist Party 1896
- The Republican Platform 1896
- Rebuttal of the Populist complaints
- Frank Norris, The Octopus
- The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
- Mahan - Influence of Sea Power on International Politics
- Mahan - The Interest of America in Sea Power
- The Open Door Notes
- Beveridge envisions the March of America's Flag
- Schurz Questions American Military Expansion
- W. J. Bryan on the Philippine Problem
- Beverage - On War in the Philippines
- Beveridge - The Philippines are ours forever
- TR on Expansion
- TR on the Strenuous Life and Expansionism
- Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
- The Anti-Imperialist League
- William McKinley on Annexation of the Philippines
- Supreme Court Decision - An Insular Case
- The New Social Gospel
- Teddy Roosevelt Insists on Regulatory Legislation
- Theodore Roosevelt Describes the Muckrakers
- H. L. Mencken bemoans the Progressives
- Witnesses at a Temperance Meeting
- The Wonders of Phrenology Revealed
- A Bishop Decries the Curse of Intemperance
History Notes
- The Four Turnings: Why Trump?
- The American-Vietnam War
- Cambridge Cycles of American History
- Understanding
the Dec. of Ind.
- Agitations and Extremists [Worksheet]
- Extremists
- Compromise of 1850
- Dred
Scott Decision & 14th Amendment
- Radical Republican
Reconstruction
- Industrial
Revolution
- The Four
Turnings
- Cycles
of American History
- The Second Turning
- Cycles of
Rule
- Sectional
Map 1861
- Gilded Age - Progressives
- Monroe Doctrine
- Coming of Depression
- Tariffs
- Nature of Governments
Sites
Propaganda Speeches
- Waving the Bloody Shirt [Excerpt]
- March of the Flag [Excerpt]
- Iron Curtain Speech [Excerpt]
- Common Sense [Excerpt]
Historical Microcosm
- On Search and Destroy [Michael Herr, Dispatches]
- Roman View of Christ [I Claudius]
- Livia Addresses the Gladiators [I Claudius]
- Pioneer Spirit [David Milch, Deadwood]
European History
- The Plague Doctor Contract
- Bear Baiting
- The Prince [Excerpt]
- Aristotle on Politics
- Street Butchers
- Magna Carta
- Black Death
- England's Prisons
- Helvetius
- On Revolution
- Tormenta
- On World War I
- Witch DBQ
Advanced Placement Macroeconomics
- 2016
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- 2001 A
Advanced Placement Government and Politics
Source Evaluation Documents and
Tools
- Virginia Fornication Laws
- Massachusetts School Law
- William Penn on Government
- Washington
on Self-Improvement
- Historical Methods
- Causes of the Civil War
- Teaching Source Evaluation #01
- Analyzing Primary Sources
- Reading a Primary Source
- Source Evaluation Lecture
Advanced
Placement Human Geography
American History Documents
- Some of the Reasons Against Women's Suffrage
- President Grover Cleveland Upholds the Dignity of Labor
- The Brandeis Brief States the Case for Protective Legislation
- The Girls Bill [eight hour day]
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [Interviews with Survivors]
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [City Report]
- Women who do not work
- Jane Addams on the need for Reform
- Adkins v. Children's Hospital/, [Supreme court]
- Muller v. Oregon, [Supreme Court]
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
- How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
- Socialist Platform for the 1908 Presidential Election
- Candidate Teddy Roosevelt Campaigns for a Square Deal
- Prohibition and Personal Liberty
- The Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1848]
- The Status of Women, Past, Present, and Future, Susan B. Anthony
- Why Women Should Vote, Jane Addams
- Why Women Should Not Vote
- Emily Dickerson
- On Women Smokers, W.E.B.
- NOW Platform of 1966
- Fred. Douglass Argue the Case for Enfranchisement
- Civil Rights Act 1866
- Black Codes of Mississippi
- The Atlanta Compromise
- Black feminist Activist critiques B. T. Washington
- The Ms-Education of the Negro
- W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
- W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Niagara Movement"
- Black Activist on Tuskegee
- Dissenting Opinion: Plessy v. Ferguson
- World War I Stimulates Black Activism
- Senator Norris Opposes Involvement in World War I
- W. J. Bryan on Lusitania
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- The Sussex Pledge
- A Question of War with Germany
- Wilson's War Message
- Four Minute men
- The Espionage Act
- Schenck v. United States, Justice O. W. Holmes
- Critique of the War by Eugene Debs
- Majority Opinion: Debs. v. United States
- Wilson’s Fourteen Points
- Against the League of Nations
- Henry Cabot Lodge on The League Nations proposal
- Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson on Compromise
- Woodrow Wilson defends the League
- Woodrow Wilson Appeals to the Nation on the League
- John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace
- W.E.B. Du Bois on the League and Politics
- Jane Addams on the League
- Will Rogers on Calvin Coolidge
- Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
- Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
- The Klan's Fight for Americanism
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
- H. L. Mencken on Calvin Coolidge
- Aimee McPherson Rises from the Sea
- The Biggest Thing That Lindbergh Has Done
- Rebuttal of Keynesian Economics
- Schechter v. United States
- New Deal Record on Race
- Sharecropping: The Ills of the South
- Neutrality Act 1937
- Neutrality Act 1939
- Japanese Quarantine Speech
Essays
- A History of the Vietnam War [Anthony Perno]
- The Crash of 1929 [Barrington Boardman]
- Orwell and Huxley Today [Neil Postman]
- The Death of Benny Paret [Norman Mailer]
- The Four Turnings [Anthony Perno]
- Trolley Dodgers [Anthony Perno]
- Goebbels and “Iron Curtain” [Anthony Perno]
- Roman Law: " Penetration" [Anthony Perno]
- Monroe Doctrine [Anthony Perno]
- Dred Scott Decision[Anthony Perno]
- Political Parties Timeline [Anthony Perno]
- A Bad Guess [H. L. Mencken]
Historical Documents/Resources
Debate over the Pledge to The Flag
Advanced
Placement Modern European
- 2015
- 2014
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- 2012 A
- 2011 A
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- 2005 A
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- 2001 A
Cambridge International Exams
- 2014 June
- 2014 Nov 1
- 2014 Nov 3
- 2013 June
- 2012 June
- 2012 June 2
- 2012 Nov
- 2012 Nov 2
- 2011 Nov 2
- 2011 June 2
- 2011 Nov
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- 2002 Nov
- 2002 June
- 2001 Nov
Advanced Placement U.S. History
American History Documents
- The Atlantic Charter
- War Message - Infamy
- Congressional Declaration of War on Japan
- Congressional Declaration of War on Germany
- Statement on North African Policy
- Casablanca Conference
- The Moscow Agreement
- Tehran Conference
- Joseph Goebbels' Iron Curtain Speech
- The Cairo Conference Statement on War
- Yalta conference
- Potsdam Conference
- Containment Doctrine
- George F. Kennan Recalls
- Marshall Plan
- Domino Theory
- A Call for Bipartisan Support
- Critique of Containment by Walter Lippmann
- on the Sources of Soviet Conduct
- Whittaker Chambers Hears the Voice of the People
- Lillian Hellman Defies HUAC
- J. Edgar Hoover Notes the Communist Interest in Hollywood
- Joseph R. McCarthy's Wheeling Speech
- Joseph McCarthy, Press Account
- Edward Dmytryk Recalls the Hollywood Ten in Washington
- McCarthy Attacks George C. Marshall
- Victor Navasky Tallies up the Cost of McCarthyism
- Detente
- Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a Dream”
- Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from the Birmingham jail
- Malcolm X Demands Black Liberation
- Malcolm X Speech to Mississippi Youth
- Stokely Carmichael's Assertion of Black Consciousness
- Stokely Carmichael's "What We Want"
- Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton Define Black Power
- On Black Power, Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
- James Forman's Black Manifesto
- The Black Panther Program
- Statement by the minister of defense of the Black Panthers
- A Critical Assessment of Black Power from the Black Press
- The Kerner Commission
- A Citizens' Guide to Civil Rights
- JFK, on The New Frontier
- MEMO: JFK to LBF on the Space Race
- JFK on Civil Rights
- LBJ on The Great Society
- Little Murders, by Jules Feiffer
- The Counter Culture Critiqued
- Brenda and Eddy, Billy Joel
- College Protests polarizes the Nation
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- SDS Militants Endorse Revolution
- A Police Riot in the Streets of Chicago
- Chicago Riots [City Report]
- Watergate Impeachment Articles
- The Geneva Accords [1954]
- On Aid to Vietnam [1954]
- NSC Memo #68
- Kennedy Letter to Diem
- JFK evaluates Diem
- LBJ's Message on Tonkin
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- LBJ's War Message
- Johnson Admin's Policy Review
- Defense Department Review
- A Negative Report
- George Ball Dissents
- LBJ Why Vietnam?
- A Call for Sustained Reprisal
- Assessment of Conditions in Vietnam
- William Fulbright Challenges the War
- The War Powers Act