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• American Civil War
• Fenian Raids
• Spanish-American War
• Puerto Rico
• Mexican-American War
• World War I
• World War II
  • Nuremberg
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Invasion of Iraq
• Guantanamo

Works

Poetry

• Americanisation, poem by Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• An American, poem by Author:Rudyard Kipling

Federal historical documents

• Mayflower Compact (1620)
• Navigation Acts (1651)
• East-Hampton Pattent of Thomas Dongan (1686)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists (1765)
• Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)
• Letter to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec (1774)
• Letter to the oppressed inhabitants of Canada (1775)
• Declaration of the causes and necessities of taking up arms (1775)
• The Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
• Declaration of Rebellion (23 August 1775)
• Letter to the Inhabitants of the Province of Canada (1776)
• United States Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
• Treaty of Tripoli (7 June 1779)
• Memorial and Remonstrance (20 June 1785)
• Constitution of the United States of America (17 September 1787)
• The Federalist Papers, 1788
• Residence Act of 1790
• Saint Petersburg Convention (1824)
• Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
• Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854)
• Know-Nothing Platform 1856
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Morrill Act (1862)
• Portal:Quantrill's Raid into Kansas (1863)
• Report of Col. Abel D. Streight (1864)
• Annexation Bill (1866)
• U.S. Patent 268503 (1882)
• Dawes Act (1887)
• Confederate Military History, Vol. III (Confederate Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899)
• Lodge Committee testimony from the New York Times (1902)
• The Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World (1920)
• Treaty of Peace between Germany and the United States of America (1921)
• Daniel Inouye's Medal of Honor Citation (1945)
• The Long Telegram (1946)
• Memo PPS23 by George Kennan (24 February 1948)
• Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus (1953)
• Southern Manifesto (1956)
• Explanation and History of Venona Project Information (1956)
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• President's Daily Brief, June 9, 1967
• Alternative Materials for One Cent Coinage (Treasury Dept, 1973)
• Belmont Report (1979)
• Current Crisis in South Africa Desmond Tutu's testimony before U.S. Congress (1984)
• Report to the President for the White House Conference On Hate Crimes by the Metropolitan Community Churches (November 1, 1997)
• 1997 Special Investigation in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns
• Grand Jury indictment of Osama bin Laden (1998)
• August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief ("Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US")
• Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations (4 April 2003)
• 9/11 Commission Report (July 26, 2004)
• White House Press Releases:March 17 2005
• Hurricane Katrina state of emergency declaration (August 27, 2005)

Revolution & Independence

• Declaration of Independence & "Original Rough Draught" of the Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris (1783), in which the United Kingdom recognizes the United States

Confederate documents

• Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Federal Government of the United States

Executive Branch

United States Department of State

Albania

• Consular Information Sheet - Albania

Austria

• International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 2005 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 2004 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 2003 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 2002 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 2000 - Austria
• International Religious Freedom Report 1999 - Austria

Czechoslovakia

• American Recognition for the Czechoslovaks (3 September 1918)

Germany

• International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 2005 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 2004 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 2003 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 2002 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 2000 - Germany
• International Religious Freedom Report 1999 - Germany

India

• Consular Information Sheet - India

Israel

• Jerusalem 1500
• Jerusalem 3239
• Jerusalem A-19
• Letter to Ariel Sharon from George W. Bush supporting disengagement plan (14 April 2004)

United States National Security Council

• NSC-68

United States Department of Justice

• Justice Department Memo on Torture
• Letter of Deputy Attorney General appointing Patrick Fitzgerald Special Counsel for investigating Plame leak (December 30, 2003)
• Letter of Deputy Attorney General clarifying powers of Special Counsel for investigating Plame leak (February 6, 2004)
• Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2005
• Memorandum of Deputy Attorney General delegating authority for investigating Plame leak (August 12, 2005)
• Medical Malpractice Insurance Claims in Seven States, 2000-2004 (2007)
• Report Regarding the Criminal Investigation into the Shooting Death of Michael Brown (March 4, 2015)
• Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (March 4, 2015)

FBI documents

• FBI Memo Morgan to Clegg, January 14, 1947
• Memorandum for the Attorney General, January 27, 1947
• FBI Memorandum identifying Harry Dexter White as agent Jurist (1950)
• FBI Memo Brent to Hennrich, October 30, 1950
• Letter from William L. Borden to J. Edgar Hoover, November 7, 1953
• Explanation and History of Venona Project Information
• FBI Synopsis on "Operations of the MGB Residency at New York, 1944-45" (1957)
• Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War (May 20, 1970)
• A Review of Allegations of a Double Standard of Discipline at the FBI, 2002

United States Department of the Interior

National Monuments

• Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument - (Michael Welsh April 1995)

National Parks

• 2004 Visitor Study
• Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent's Report - July – September, 2004

United States Department of Defense

• Portal:United States Department of Defense

U.S. Army documents

• German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)
• US Army Operator's Manual for the AK-47
• US Army 15-6 Report of Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq (Taguba Report, 2004)
• US Army Directive removing authority for discharges from battalion commander level (May, 2005)
• Calipari Report

U.S. Navy documents

• SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 (31 May 2002) - display of the first navy Jack during the Global War on Terrorism

Other military documents

• Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer

Intelligence agency documents

CIA documents

• MJ-12 Document (18 November 1952)
• CIA and Guatemala Assassination Proposals: CIA History Staff Analysis (June, 1995)
• CIA Adds Four Stars to Memorial Wall, 2007
• Message to Cyrus Vance about CIA Agents
• Statement of CIA Inspector General to The House Committee On Intelligence - March 16, 1998
• The World Factbook, 1982
• The World Factbook, 1990
• The World Factbook, 2004
• CIA Report on NGOs With Terror Links, 1996

Documents of other intelligence agencies

• Venona 687 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944, Perlo group (13 May 1944)
• Venona 79 KGB New York to Moscow, 18 January 1945, KGB in Treasury (18 January 1945)
• Documents Seized from the US Embassy in Tehran, 1979

United States Department of Commerce

• Portal:U. S. patents
• Portal:National Weather Service
• Census Bureau
  • U.S International Trade in Goods and Services - February 2007
• Summary of the Africa Investment Incentive Act of 2006 (2006)

Other

• ICD-10-CM (2010)
• American Red Cross 1917
• Economic and Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States and the Government of the People's Republic of China (2020)
• Portal:Presidents of the United States

Legislative branch

United States Congress

United States Senate

• Letter to Mark P. Mays from Senator Harry Reid (2 October 2007) - (Author: Senator Harry M. Reid D-NV)
• Statement of Richard A. Clarke to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, October 22, 2003
• Statement by Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona on October 24, 2017

United States House of Representatives

• Brecht HUAC hearing (1947-10-30) transcript

United States Congressional Research Service

• The Cultic Phenomena: New and Emerging Religious Movements in America

Judicial branch

Supreme Court of the United States

• Portal:Supreme Court of the United States

Encyclopedias

• "United States of America," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "United States," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "United States," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "United States, The," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "United States of America," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "United States of America, The," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "United States of America," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "United States," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "United States," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "United States," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

Other

• Canada, England and the United States, 1899 speech by Wilfrid Laurier
• The History of New England 1630 to 1649, 1908 by James Kendall Hosmer
• Dramatic Moments in American Diplomacy, 1918 by Ralph Page
• Human Rights Record of United States in 2007, printed by the Chinese information office
• American Convention on Human Rights, adopted at the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, 1969
• A History of Banking in the United States (1896) by William Graham Sumner
• "American Interests and Bohemian Question" by Jaroslav František Smetánka in The Czechoslovak Review, vol. 1, no. 11–12 (1917)

See also

History

• Portal:States of the United States
• Portal:Puerto Rico, a protectorate of the United States
• Portal:Philippines, a former protectorate of the United States
• Portal:American History

Locations

• Portal:New Orleans

Projects

• Wikisource:WikiProject NARA
• Wikisource:WikiProject United States Executive Orders
• Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases

Science

• Portal:Paleontology in the United States