Portal:American History

American History

Pre-Columbian America

• The Iroquois Constitution aka The Great Law of Peace

Discovery of America and early explorations

• Pre-Columbian Discovery of America in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
• Amerigo Vespucci in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

British America

• An address to the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, on the present important crisis of affairs (1775) by Catharine Macaulay

Canada

See also: Portal: Canada

• Portal:Hudson's Bay Company
• Portal:Fenian Raids

Thirteen Colonies of North America

• Nanfan Treaty (1726)
• Glorious News, Boston, Friday 11 o'Clock, 16th May 1766, on the Repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765
• Samuel W. Pennypacker, Historical and biographical sketches (1883)
• The Birthplace of American Independence, 1687 (1915)

Dutch America

• Portal:Dutch America

Latin America

• Portal:Mexican-American War
• Portal:Spanish-American War
• Portal:Chilean Coup
• Portal:United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala
• Inter Caetera, 1493 by Alexander VI, translated by Frances Gardiner Davenport
• Brazilian and United States Slavery Compared, 1922 by Herbert B. Alexander

United States of America

See also: Portal: United States and Portal:States of the United States

Early United States of America

• Portal:American Revolution, the war between Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, 1775–1783.
  • Portal:Intolerable Acts, punitive acts that contributed to the escalation of war
• Portal:Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in favor of states' rights.

 

• "A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America" (1765) by John Morgan - Discourse that led to the creation of the nation's first medical school, now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Treaty of Greenville (1795)
• Announcement of Launch of USS Constitution (1791) by George Claghorn. The Constitution was the third of six original frigates constructed for the United States Navy.

Nineteenth century

• Portal:Lewis and Clark Expedition, overland expedition to the Pacific coast
• Portal:War of 1812, the war between the United States of America and the British Empire, 1812 to 1815.
• Portal:Slavery in the United States, a legal institution prior to the country's foundation until the passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
• Portal:World's Columbian Exposition
• Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association, 1836
• Danite Manifesto, 1838
• "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1852
• Medicine as a Profession for Women, 1860 by Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell
• Address on the Medical Education of Women, 1864 by Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell
• A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1869 by Joseph Carson - History of the first medical school and hospitals in the United States
• Boots and Saddles, 1885 by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
• Butler Brothers, 1888
• History of the United States 1801-09, 1890 by Henry Brooks Adams
• Buffalo Commercial/Buffalo Men at the Execution, October 29, 1901
• Anti-Chinese Riots At Seattle, 1911 by George Kinnear
• "Ephemeral Labor Movements, 1866-1889" by Frank Tracy Carlton in Popular Science Monthly, 85 (November 1914)
• Historical Catechism of American Unionism, c. 1923 by the Educational Bureau of the Industrial Workers of the World

American Civil War

• Portal:American Civil War, the war between the secessionist Confederate States of America and the Union, 1861–1865.
  • Portal:Confederate States of America, the secessionist nation formed out of the southern United States of America.
  • Portal:Quantrill's Raid into Kansas, reports concerning incidents perpetrated by William Quantrill and his forces during the American Civil War.
  • Portal:Samuel Mudd Documents, documents relating to Dr Samuel Mudd who was convicted for involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Portal:Southern Historical Society, a society and publisher devoted to the history of the South in the civil war.

Native Americans

• Portal:Aboriginals
• Author:Tecumseh
• A Treaty Between the Government of New Jersey and the Indians (1756)
• Appeal of the Cherokee Nation
• Treaty with the Ottawa, etc., 1816
• Treaty of the Foot of the Rapids, 1817
• Treaty of Neah Bay, 1825
• Treaty of Fond du Lac, 1826
• Treaty of Mississinwas, 1826
• Memorial of the Cherokees, 1829
• Indian Removal Act, 1830
• Memorial from the ladies of Steubenville, Ohio, protesting Indian removal, 1830
• Constitution of the Cherokee Nation, 1839
• Quinault Treaty, 1855
• Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855
• Bear River conflicts:
  • Bear River Expedition - Letter August 27, 1859
  • Bear River Expedition - Letter and accompanying papers September 3, 1859
  • Bear River Expedition - Letter September 10, 1859
  • The Late Massacre near Fort Hall, September 12, 1859
  • Bear River Expedition - Letter September 22, 1859
  • Affidavits September 23, and October 25, 1859
  • Bear River Expedition - Letter October 24, 1859
  • Letter of Introduction of Zacheus Van Ornum, August 11th, 1862
  • Official Report - Battle of Bear River, February 6, 1863
  • Alta California Report of the Bear River Massacre, February 7, 1863
  • Diary of Hiram Tuttle - January-Febuary 1867
• Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868
• Interview between E. W. Wynkoop and Little Rock, 1868
• A Plea for the Indians, 1881 by Carl Schurz, Nelson Appleton Miles, Richard Henry Pratt, and others
• Aspects of the Indian Problem, 1883 by Carl Schurz
• Boots and Saddles, 1885 by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
• Dawes Act, 1887
• "The Future of the American Indian" in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (May 1888)
• Some Experiences with Indians, 1897 by Carl Schurz
• The Indian Dispossessed, 1906 by Seth K. Humphrey

Twentieth century

• Portal:American Youth Congress
• Portal:Panama Canal
• Portal:Philippine-American War
• Ballad of the Gruesome Twosome
• The Education of Henry Adams (1918) by Henry Brooks Adams
• Walter R. Taliaferro, WWI aviator

The Great Depression

• Where Is Our Money? by Edwin Percy Chase (1934)

America in World War II

• US Army Campaigns of World War II Series by Charles R. Anderson
• World War II―Global Conflict in A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force (1997) by Stephen L. McFarland
• Welles declaration (1940) by Sumner Welles
• Pearl Harbor speech (1941) by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security (1943)

America in the 1960s

• An Appeal for Human Rights

Twenty-first century

• Portal:Guantanamo, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay established in 2002.

See also

• Class C: Sciences of History
• Class D: World History
• Class E: States of the United States
• Class I: Texts by Country

External links

• Class E on Project Gutenberg
• Class F on Project Gutenberg
• Class E on the Online Books Page
• Class F on the Online Books Page