American History Documents

Wyatt Earp resigned his position as Sheriff of Pima County (Arizona Territory) on the 9th of November, 1880.  The original document had been stor...

Richard Henry Lee's Resolution, declaring that the American Colonies were no longer subject to British control, is one of America's most-treasured doc...

This image depicts the original resolution, put before the Second Continental Congress by Henry Lee, to break America’s ties with Great Britain:...

This Resolution, made by Richard Henry Lee and seconded by John Adams in the Second Continental Congress, brought the colonies a step closer to indepe...

The U.S. government allowed slave owners to seek-and-find runaways.  This text image depicts an example of advertisements, which owners published...

Two years to the day before he died of a gunshot wound in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a major speech in South Africa.  On t...

This is a facsimile of the Amnesty Oath signed by Robert E. Lee, swearing loyalty to the United States. 

Resignation of Robert E. Lee in which he left the United States Army in favor of supporting his state of Virginia in the American Civil War.

When Jackie Robinson was called-up from the Montreal Royals (the Dodgers' farm club) to the Brooklyn Dodgers (a Major-League team), the news quickly t...

This article was the first in a series of articles written in July, 1947 about the "flying disc" recovered near Roswell.  It reports that Major J...

These rules were adopted on the 13th of May, 1858, for Town Ball (a successor to the British game of "rounders") by the Massachusetts Association of B...