Historical Documents

The Treaty with Tripoli
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U.S. Constitution
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
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Stamp Act
Stamp Act of 1765
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The document on permanent display in the Rotunda is the enrolled original Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, proposing 12-not 10-amendments to the Constitution.
U.S. Bill of Rights
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"Keep Off!" cartoon
Monroe Doctrine
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Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
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Franklin Letter
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to the Committee of Secret Correspondence
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Data on the Framers of the Constitution
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Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
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Alexander Hamilton
Quotations of Alexander Hamilton
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James Madison by Glibert Stuart
Federalist No. 46
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Image of the first page of Declaration of Independance
Declaration of Independence
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Copley Medal
Copley Medal
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John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
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Gun Violence
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First Bank of the United States
Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
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Articles

Benjamin Rush: the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father (Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Volume: 64, Issue: 5)
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The Power of Objects in 18th-Century America (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 2)
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America's Divorce from England (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)
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What Would the Founders Do Today? (June/July 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 3)
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Private Flohr’s America (December 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 8)
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Making Sense of the Fourth of July (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
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Franklin Charms Paris (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
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How History Made the Constitution (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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Liberté, Egalité, Animosité (July/August 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 5)
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How Benedict Arnold's Treason Was Discovered (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
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The Turning Point in the Revolutionary War (October 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 6)
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Property of the Nation: Washington's Tomb (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
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Fatal Sunday (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 4)
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Introduction: A Special Issue on the Right to Bear Arms (September/October 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 4)
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The Rattle-Snake as a Symbol Of America (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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Boston's Freedom Trail (July/August 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 4)
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Home of John Glover Threatened with Demolition (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
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Amending America (May/June 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 3)
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A Moose for the Misinformed: Jefferson and Natural History (Summer 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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The Magnificent Fraud (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
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Revolution Song (Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Volume: 64, Issue: 5)
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Jefferson on the Bible (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)
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In A World of Trouble (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
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George Washington on September 11, 1776 (September/October 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 6)
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The Organized President (July/August 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 4)
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McCullough's "The Pioneers" (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
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The Imperial Congress (Fall 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 3)
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America’s Constitution Inspired the World (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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March on Quebec (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
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Getting a Life (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
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“Boston Harbor a Tea-pot This Night!”  (Spring 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 2)
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Historical Images

Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
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HMS Jersey
HMS Jersey Prison Ship
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Collections

Signing the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta Comes to America, by A.E. Dick Howard
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