Sources
| Citation | Appears in | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 Republican Party Platform | primary | other | 1860 | 1860 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| A Black Union Soldier Comments on Treatment by Southerners (1870) | primary | other | 1870 | 1870 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| A Gaspesian Indian Defends His Way of Life, 1641 | primary | other | 1910 | 1910 | educational-use | Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) | primary | other | 1935 | 1935 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| A Phillip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt on Racial Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941) | primary | other | 1941 | 1941 | educational-use | Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
| A Slave Auction | primary | other | 1972 | 1972 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| Abigail Bailey Escapes an Abusive Relationship, 1815 | primary | other | 1815 | 1815 | educational-use | Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865 | primary | other | 1865 | 1865 | educational-use | The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
| Accusations of witchcraft, 1692 and 1706 | primary | other | 1868 | 1868 | educational-use | Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Alexander Stephens on Slavery and the Confederate Constitution, 1861 | primary | other | 1861 | 1861 | educational-use | The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville, “How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes,” 1840 | primary | other | 1997 | 1997 | educational-use | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 |
| Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917) | primary | other | 1917 | 1917 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Andrew Carnegie on “The Triumph of America” (1886) | primary | other | 1886 | 1886 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Angelina Grimké, Appeal to Christian Women of the South, 1836 | primary | other | 1836 | 1836 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| A Black Union Soldier Comments on Treatment by Southerners | primary | book | 1870 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1870 | public-domain | — |
| Arthur Rothstein, "Results of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma" (1936) | primary | other | 1936 | 1936 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Atlantic History in Global Perspective | secondary | other | 1999 | 1999 | educational-use | Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 |
| Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1976) | primary | other | 1976 | 1976 | educational-use | Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964) | primary | other | 1964 | 1964 | educational-use | Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s, Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| Bartolomé de Las Casas Describes the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, 1542 | primary | other | 2007 | 2007 | educational-use | The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 |
| Beer Destroyed in the District of Columbia (1923) | primary | other | 1923 | 1923 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) The American Yawp Reader | primary | other | 1940 | 1940 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940) | primary | other | 1940 | 1940 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941, Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
| Black Philadelphians Defend their Voting Rights, 1838 | primary | other | 1838 | 1838 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| Black scientist Benjamin Banneker demonstrates black intelligence to Thomas Jefferson, 1791 | primary | other | 1986 | 1986 | educational-use | Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| Blacksmith Apprentice Contract, 1836 | primary | other | 1835 | 1835 | educational-use | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 |
| Bonus Army Camp at Anacostia Flats (1932) | primary | other | 1932 | 1932 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Boston King recalls fighting for the British and securing his freedom, 1798 | primary | other | 1798 | 1798 | educational-use | America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
| Boston trader Sarah Knight on her travels in Connecticut, 1704 | primary | other | 1920 | 1920 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) | primary | other | 1954 | 1954 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| C. W. Turner, "A flapper girl" (1922) | primary | other | 1922 | 1922 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941) | primary | other | 1941 | 1941 | educational-use | Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
| Charlotte Forten complains of racism in the North, 1855 | primary | other | 1953 | 1953 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913) | primary | other | 1913 | 1913 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Chelsea Manning Petitions for a Pardon (2013) | primary | other | 2013 | 2013 | educational-use | The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
| Chinese Merchant Complains of Racist Abuse, 1860 | primary | other | 1877 | 1877 | educational-use | A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 |
| Civil War songs, 1862 | primary | other | 1862 | 1862 | educational-use | The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
| Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality” (1950) | primary | other | 1950 | 1950 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Creating the System: Railroads and the Modern Corporation | secondary | other | 2011 | 2011 | educational-use | Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 |
| Creek headman Alexander McGillivray (Hoboi-Hili-Miko) seeks to build an alliance with Spain, 1785 | primary | other | 1785 | 1785 | educational-use | Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 | primary | other | 1830 | 1830 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945) | primary | other | 1960 | 1960 | educational-use | Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945, Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Dorothea Dix defends the mentally ill, 1843 | primary | other | 1843 | 1843 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| Dorothea Lange, "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32" (1936) | primary | other | 1936 | 1936 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Dorothea Lange, "Hooverville of Bakersfield, California" (1936) | primary | other | 1936 | 1936 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Dorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938) The American Yawp Reader | primary | other | 1938 | 1938 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Dorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938) | primary | other | 1938 | 1938 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| What the Black Man Wants | primary | speech | 1865? | Frederick Douglass, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society , 1865 | public-domain | — |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953) | primary | other | 1953 | 1953 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Eliza Lucas Letters, 1740-1741 | primary | other | 1896 | 1896 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| Ellen Welles Page, "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" (1922) | primary | other | 1922 | 1922 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Emergency Banking Act (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Emergency Relief and Construction Act (1932) | primary | other | 1932 | 1932 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Emily Doe, Victim Impact Statement (2015) | primary | other | 2016 | 2016 | educational-use | The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
| Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917) | primary | other | 1917 | 1917 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Eugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902) | primary | other | 1902 | 1902 | educational-use | Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
| Extracts from Gibson Clough’s War Journal, 1759 | primary | other | 1861 | 1861 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) | primary | other | 1925 | 1925 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| F. T. Marinetti - The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism | primary | other | 1909 | 1909 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| FDR, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942) | primary | other | 1942 | 1942 | educational-use | Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
| Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 | secondary | book | 1988 | Eric Foner, Harper & Row, 1988 | fair-use-claim | — |
| Francis Daniel Pastorius Describes his Ocean Voyage, 1684 | primary | other | 1912 | 1912 | educational-use | Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on Banking (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936) The American Yawp Reader | primary | other | 1936 | 1936 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936) | primary | other | 1936 | 1936 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 1852 | primary | other | 1852 | 1852 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| General Benjamin F. Butler Reacts to Self-Emancipating People, 1861 | primary | other | 1861 | 1861 | educational-use | The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
| George Fitzhugh Argues that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, 1854 | primary | other | 1854 | 1854 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| George M. Garcia, Vietnam Veteran, Oral Interview (1969/2012) | primary | other | 2012 | 2012 | educational-use | Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
| George R. T. Hewes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-party, 1834 | primary | other | 1834 | 1834 | educational-use | Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774, America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
| George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002) | primary | other | 2002 | 2002 | educational-use | The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
| Giacomo Balla - Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash | primary | other | 1912 | 1912 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Gloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women (1970) | primary | other | 1970 | 1970 | educational-use | Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| Gustav Klimt - The Kiss (Lovers) | primary | other | 1908 | 1908 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| H.J. Res. 75, Proposed Equal Rights Amendment (1923) | primary | other | 1923 | 1923 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 | primary | other | 1852 | 1852 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| Harriet H. Robinson Remembers a Mill Workers’ Strike, 1836 | primary | other | 1898 | 1898 | educational-use | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 |
| Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860 | primary | other | 1861 | 1861 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945) | primary | other | 1945 | 1945 | educational-use | Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945 |
| Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur Describes the American people, 1782 | primary | other | 1904 | 1904 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918) | primary | other | 1918 | 1918 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Henry David Thoreau Reflects on Nature, 1854 | primary | other | 1910 | 1910 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Selections (1879) | primary | other | 1879 | 1879 | educational-use | Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900, The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Henry Grady on the New South (1886) | primary | other | 1890 | 1890 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Herbert Hoover on the New Deal (1932) | primary | other | 1934 | 1934 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Herbert Hoover, "Statement on the National Business and Economic Situation" (1929) | primary | other | 1929 | 1929 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Hernandez v. Texas (1954) | primary | other | 1954 | 1954 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960, Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America” (1900) | primary | other | 1900 | 1900 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | primary | other | 1924 | 1924 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Industrializing America | secondary | other | 1995 | 1995 | educational-use | Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 |
| Intimidating Former Slaves (1860) | primary | other | 1868 | 1868 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) | primary | other | 1890 | 1890 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| James Madison Asks Congress to Support Internal Improvements, 1815 | primary | other | 1825 | 1825 | educational-use | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850 |
| Jerry Falwell on the “Homosexual Revolution” (1981) | primary | other | 1981 | 1981 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Jesse Jackson on the Rainbow Coalition (1984) | primary | other | 1984 | 1984 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Jimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” (1979) | primary | other | 1979 | 1979 | educational-use | Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960) | primary | other | 1960 | 1960 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| John Lawson Encounters North American Indians, 1709 | primary | other | 1709 | 1709 | educational-use | Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Excerpts) | primary | other | 1920 | 1920 | educational-use | World War I, The Early Twentieth Century |
| John O’Sullivan Declares America’s Manifest Destiny, 1845 | primary | other | 1845 | 1845 | educational-use | A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 |
| Joseph McCarthy on Communism (1950) | primary | other | 1954 | 1954 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492 | primary | other | 1893 | 1893 | educational-use | The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 |
| Juanita Garcia on Migrant Labor (1952) | primary | other | 1952 | 1952 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| "K.K.K. parade, 8/8/25" (1925) | primary | other | 1925 | 1925 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Intimidating Former Slaves | primary | other | 1868-06-04 | 1868 | public-domain | — |
| Laura C. Kellogg on Indian Education (1913) | primary | other | 1913 | 1913 | educational-use | Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
| Lester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938) The American Yawp Reader | primary | other | 1938 | 1938 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Lester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938) | primary | other | 1938 | 1938 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Letter of Cato and Petition by “the negroes who obtained freedom by the late act,” in Postscript to the Freeman’s Journal, September 21, 1781 | primary | other | 1781 | 1781 | educational-use | Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| Letters from Venezuelan General Francisco de Miranda regarding Latin American Revolution, 1805-1806 | primary | other | 1808 | 1808 | educational-use | A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 |
| Lillian Hellman Refuses to Name Names (1952) | primary | other | 1952 | 1952 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Louis XIV - Mémoires for the Instruction of the Dauphin | primary | other | 1860 | 1860 | educational-use | Absolutism |
| Lucy Parsons on Women and Revolutionary Socialism (1905) | primary | other | 1905 | 1905 | educational-use | Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
| Lutiant Van Wert describes the 1918 Flu Pandemic (1918) | primary | other | 1918 | 1918 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Making the White Man's Country White | secondary | other | 1999 | 1999 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds, "Crazy Blues" (1920) | primary | other | 1920 | 1920 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Manuel Quezon calls for Filipino Independence (1919) | primary | other | 1919 | 1919 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Marcus Garvey, "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" (1921) | primary | other | 1921 | 1921 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Margaraetta Mason and Lydia Maria Child Discuss John Brown, 1860 | primary | other | 1860 | 1860 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| Mary Polk Branch remembers plantation life, 1912 | primary | other | 1912 | 1912 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| Mary Smith Cranch comments on politics, 1786-87 | primary | other | 1787 | 1787 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| Nat Turner explains the Southampton rebellion, 1831 | primary | other | 1831 | 1831 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| National Labor Relations Act / Wagner Act (1935) | primary | other | 1935 | 1935 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966) | primary | other | 1966 | 1966 | educational-use | Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
| National Prohibition Act / Volstead Act (1919) | primary | other | 1919 | 1919 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| New Worlds for All | secondary | other | 1997 | 1997 | educational-use | Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| Nixon Announcement of China Visit (1971) | primary | other | 1971 | 1971 | educational-use | Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) | primary | other | 2015 | 2015 | educational-use | The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
| Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage, 1789 | primary | other | 1790 | 1790 | educational-use | Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 |
| Pablo Picasso - Guernica | primary | other | 1937 | 1937 | educational-use | Fascism |
| Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | primary | other | 1907 | 1907 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Pat Buchanan on the Culture War (1992) | primary | other | 1992 | 1992 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Paul Robeson’s Appearance Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1956) | primary | other | 1956 | 1956 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Phyllis Schlafly on Women’s Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981) | primary | other | 1981 | 1981 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | primary | government-document | 1896 | 1896 | public-domain | — |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | primary | other | 1896 | 1896 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| Poem about Civil War Nurses, 1866 | primary | other | 1866 | 1866 | educational-use | The Civil War, 1860–1865 |
| Pontiac Calls for War, 1763 | primary | other | 1907 | 1907 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| Powell v. Alabama (1932) | primary | other | 1932 | 1932 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 1842 | primary | other | 1842 | 1842 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| Prohibition Chiefs Testify Before Ways and Means Committee (1925) | primary | other | 1925 | 1925 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
| Radical Possibilities of the American Revolution | secondary | other | 1992 | 1992 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| Rebecca Reed accuses nuns of abuse, 1835 | primary | other | 1835 | 1835 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| Reconstructing Race | secondary | other | 2003 | 2003 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act (1932) | primary | other | 1932 | 1932 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 |
| Reconstruction in Texas | primary | other | 1906 | 1906 | educational-use | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |
| Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968) | primary | other | 1968 | 1968 | educational-use | Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
| Revivalist Charles G. Finney Emphasizes Human Choice in Salvation, 1836 | primary | other | 1834 | 1834 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| Rhode Islanders Protest Property Restrictions on Voting, 1834 | primary | other | 1834 | 1834 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959) | primary | other | 1959 | 1959 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Ruins in Richmond, Virginia | primary | photograph | 1865~ | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, 1865 | public-domain | — |
| Rose Cohen on the World Beyond her Immigrant Neighborhood (ca.1897/1918) | primary | other | 1918 | 1918 | educational-use | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 |
| Samson Occom describes his conversion and ministry, 1768 | primary | other | 1982 | 1982 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| Samuel Morse Fears a Catholic Conspiracy, 1835 | primary | other | 1835 | 1835 | educational-use | Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 |
| Sand Creek Massacre | primary | other | 1864/1865 | 1864 | public-domain | — |
| Sarah Grimké Calls for Women’s Rights, 1838 | primary | other | 1838 | 1838 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937) The American Yawp Reader | primary | other | 1937 | 1937 | educational-use | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” (1950) | primary | other | 1950 | 1950 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| Sermon on the Duties of a Christian Woman, 1851 | primary | other | 1851 | 1851 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents (Excerpts) | primary | other | 1930 | 1930 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| A Slave Auction | primary | other | 1972 | James Martin, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, 1972 | public-domain | — |
| Social Security Act (1935) | primary | other | 1935 | 1935 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) | primary | other | 1971 | 1971 | educational-use | Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980 |
| Statements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985) | primary | other | 1985 | 1985 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Statements of AIDS Patients (1983) | primary | other | 1983 | 1983 | educational-use | From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 |
| Stories from the Underground Railroad, 1855-56 | primary | other | 1872 | 1872 | educational-use | Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s |
| Susannah Rowson, Charlotte Temple, 1794 | primary | other | 1824 | 1824 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933) | primary | other | 1933 | 1933 | educational-use | Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 |
| The 9/11 Commission Report, “Reflecting On A Generational Challenge” (2004) | primary | other | 2004 | 2004 | educational-use | The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century |
| The Fears of the Jeffersonian Republicans | secondary | other | 1981 | 1981 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790, Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| The Frontier as a Place of Ethnic and Religious Conflict | secondary | other | 1987 | 1987 | educational-use | Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 |
| The Frontier as the Forefront of Capitalism | secondary | other | 1985 | 1985 | educational-use | Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 |
| The Hope of the Framers to Recruit Citizens to Enter Public Life | secondary | other | 1987 | 1987 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| The Indians' New World | secondary | other | 1984 | 1984 | educational-use | The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492, Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| The Legend of Moshup, 1830 | primary | other | 2007 | 2007 | educational-use | Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650 |
| The Port Huron Statement (1962) | primary | other | 1962 | 1962 | educational-use | Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s |
| The Pressure of the People on the Framers of the Constitution | secondary | other | 1987 | 1987 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| The story of the Virgin of Guadalupe | primary | other | 1649 | 1649 | educational-use | The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 |
| The Truman Doctrine (1947) | primary | other | 1947 | 1947 | educational-use | Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960 |
| The Unknown American Revolution | secondary | other | 2005 | 2005 | educational-use | America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
| Theodore Roosevelt on “The New Nationalism” (1910) | primary | other | 1910 | 1910 | educational-use | Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
| Thomas Jefferson’s Racism, 1788 | primary | other | 1853 | 1853 | educational-use | Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 |
| Thomas Morton Reflects on Indians in New England, 1637 | primary | other | 1883 | 1883 | educational-use | The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 |
| Thomas Paine Calls for American independence, 1776 | primary | other | 2008 | 2008 | educational-use | Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774, America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
| Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798 | primary | other | 1798 | 1798 | educational-use | Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 |
| Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own (Excerpts) | primary | other | 1929 | 1929 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Vladimir Lenin - Decree on Land | primary | other | 1917 | 1917 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Vladimir Lenin - Decree on Peace | primary | other | 1917 | 1917 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Vladimir Lenin - The April Theses | primary | other | 1917 | 1917 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| Vladimir Lenin - What Is to Be Done? (Excerpts) | primary | other | 1961 | 1961 | educational-use | The Early Twentieth Century |
| W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919) | primary | other | 1919 | 1919 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Walter LaFeber, That 'Splendid Little War' in Perspective | secondary | other | 1968 | 1968 | educational-use | Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 |
| Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) | primary | other | 1907 | 1907 | educational-use | Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 |
| William Lloyd Garrison Introduces The Liberator, 1831 | primary | other | 1886 | 1886 | educational-use | Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 |
| William Wells Brown, “Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States,” 1853 | primary | other | 1853 | 1853 | educational-use | Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 |
| Women in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 1780 | primary | other | 1819 | 1819 | educational-use | Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774, America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 |
| Woodrow Wilson on the New Freedom (1912) | primary | other | 1913 | 1913 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917) | primary | other | 1918 | 1918 | educational-use | Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 |
| Worlds of Goods in the Northern Colonies | secondary | other | 1986 | 1986 | educational-use | Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763 |
| Wyandotte woman describes tensions over slavery, 1849 | primary | other | 1849 | 1849 | educational-use | A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 |
| Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928) | primary | other | 1928 | 1928 | educational-use | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 |
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