US History - Selected texts
An American anthology: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Mayflower
Compact (1620)
From
History of Plymouth Plantation, c. 1650
Declaration
of Independence (1776)
Thomas
Jefferson, “But we have an immensity of land …,” (1784)
Land
Ordinance (1785)
Northwest
Ordinance 1787)
The
American Constitution as of 1787
The Constitution
George
Washington, "Farewell Address" (1796)
Slavery
a Positive Good by John C. Calhoun (1837)
Abraham
Lincon's First Inaugural Address (1861)
Abraham
Lincon's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Turner
and the frontier hypothesis (1893)