American History – Pre-Civil War
- “The Starving Time”: John Smith Recounts the Early History of Jamestown (1609)
- The Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
- Witchcraft
(Note: This is not a primary source.) - Articles of Confederation (1777)
- George Washington, by Parson Weems
(Note: This is not a primary source. It is, however, an example of bad history writing.) - Virginia’s Recommendations for a Bill of Rights (1788)
American History – Post-Civil War
- Jourdon Anderson letter to P. H. Anderson (1865)
- Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868)
- Hannah Irwin Describes Ku Klux Klan Ride (Late 1860s)
- Henry Blake Talks About Sharecropping after the Civil War
- Sharecrop Contract (1882)
- “I Am Obliged to Reside in America”: A Gay Immigrant Tells His Story (1882)
- “The Only One Barred Out”: Criticism of Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy (1882)
- William Graham Sumner: The Challenge of Facts (Social Darwinism)
- Populist Party Platform (1892)
- “I Will Kill Frick”: Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the Homestead Strike (1892)
- Beyond Bed Pans: The Life of a Late 19th-century Young Nurse (1893)
- Broken Spirits: Letters on the Pullman Strike (1894)
- Albert Beveridge “In Support of an American Empire” – “America’s Destiny” (1900)
- Gender Bender: Mary Masquerades as Murray (1901)
- Voting Rights: Blacks or Women? (1903)
- Mary Antin, “Russian Jews” (1916)
- Woodrow Wilson: “Safe for Democracy” (1916)
- Rubie Bond: The Great Migration
- The Immigration Act of 1924
- Meridel Le Sueur: Women on the Breadlines (1932)
- FDR’s Speech to Democratic National Convention, (1936)
- Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms (1941)
- Jackson’s Dissent in Korematsu v United States
- The Falling Sun: Hiroshima
- Hiroshima, by John Hersey, (1946)
- McCarthy: Lincoln Day Address (1950)
- Smith: Declaration of Conscience (1950)
- Brown v Board of Education, (1954)
- Dr. Martin Luther King: Montgomery Bus Boycott speech
- Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, (1963)
- Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech. (1964)
- LBJ, Message to Congress on the Gulf of Tonkin, 1964
- Paul Potter’s Anti-War Speech, (1965)
- National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose
- Jimmy Carter on Human Rights
- Jerry Falwell, Listen America (1980)
- Phyllis Schaffly: The Fraud of ERA
- Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address, 1981
- Coretta Scott King: Black Rights – Gay Rights
- Pat Buchanan: 1992 Republican National Convention Speech
- Byrd’s Speech on Iraq War (2003)
- Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court’s Opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges