American History Documents

Page 8 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 9, the last page, of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, honored the memory of John Brown (an abolitionist) with a lecture about him.  This image depicts a page from ...

On the 7th of June, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed a resolution to assert the independence of Britain's "United Colonies" in America.

On the 19th of May, 1900, Wilbur Wright sent a letter to Octave Chanute.  In it, he discusses a serious "illness" which he has.  The cure, f...

This is the second page of Wilbur Wright's May 13th, 1900, letter to Octave Chanute.  He wrote the letter on Wright Cycle Company stationery. Th...

This image depicts the third page of Wilbur Wright's 13 May 1900 letter to Octave Chanute.  Wright is sharing his ideas about the problems he and...

Seeking help in thinking through the best way to approach the concept of powered flight, Wilbur Wright wrote to Octave Chanute on the 13th of May, 190...

This image depicts the final page of Wilbur Wright's letter dated May 13, 1900 which he sent to Octave Chanute.  Wilbur is asking for help as he ...

Image of a letter from Bobby Jones to Walter Hagen, dated October 11, 1939. Click on the image for a better view.

When Bobbie Lou Pendergrass lost her brother, who was an unarmed adviser in Vietnam, she wrote to President Kennedy asking why America was in Vietnam ...

Image of the signature page of the Bobbie Lou Pendergrass Letter (handwritten) to President Kennedy February 18, 1963. Click on the image for an expa...