Records of our national life: American history at the National Archives

Essays / Michael Beschloss ; Tom Brokaw ; Ken Burns ; John Carlin ; David McCullough ; Cokie Roberts ; Allen Weinstein ; Tom Wheeler ; Don W. Wilson -- Records of our national life. ca. 1762. Annotated map of the British colonies in North America -- 1775. Deposition of John Robins regarding hostilities at Lexington -- 1775. Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against that town in 1775 -- 1775. A proclamation by the king for suppressing rebellion and sedition -- 1775. The agreement of secrecy -- 1776. Lee Resolution -- 1776. Declaration of Independence -- 1778. Oaths of allegiance -- 1781. Articles of Confederation -- 1781. Plan of the attacks of York in Virginia by the allied armies of America and France -- 1781. Sarah Benjamin's eyewitness account of the surrender at Yorktown -- ca. 1782-ca. 1835. Frakturs, proof of birth and family heritage of Revolutionary War veterans -- 1783. Treaty of Paris -- 1785. Letter from John Adams, Minister to Britain,...reporting on his audience with King George III -- 1786. Seven ranges, township No. IX, second range -- 1787. Northwest ordinance -- 1787. George Washington's annotated copy of the first printed draft of the U.S. Constitution -- 1787. Constitution of the United States -- 1789. President George Washington's first inaugural address -- 1789. The Bill of Rights as passed by the Senate -- 1790. Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, signed by Benjamin Franklin -- 1791. Memorial from Hannah Stephens requesting the release of her husband from prison in Algiers -- 1794. Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent drawing -- 1795. Design for the hulls of the USS Constellation and the USS Congress -- 1795. Treaty of Greenville, ratified Indian Treaty #23 -- 1799. Thomas Cooper's violation of the Sedition Act -- 1800. Congress moves to Washington -- 1801. Tally of electoral votes for the 1800 presidential election -- 1803. Louisiana Purchase -- 1803. Lewis and Clark Expedition -- 1804. Mediterranean passport guaranteeing safe passage for the vessel Mount Hope -- 1806. Zebulon Pike's notebook of maps, traverse tables, and meteorological observations -- 1814-1815. Defense of Fort McHenry -- 1818. Patent drawing of a raft -- 1820. Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise Bill -- 1830. Congressman Davy Crockett's resolutions to abolish West Point -- 1831. Trial of Cadet Edgar Allan Poe -- 1834. Register of Cherokee Indians who have emigrated to the west of the Mississippi -- ca. 1834. Map of lands assigned to Indians, Western Territory -- 1836-1837. Gag Rule -- 1838. Petition from the women of Brookline, Massachusetts, praying that the Gag Rule be rescinded -- 1838. Gen. Winfield Scott's General Order No. 25 -- 1838-1841. Financial account of John Ross for transporting a detachment of emigrant Cherokee -- 1839-1841. The Amistad case -- 1839. U.S. Ex. Ex. Expedition, Seagull Harbour, Gretton Bay, Wollaston Island, Tierra del Fuego -- 1847. Plan of the battle ground of Contreras and its defenses -- 1848. Electromagnetic telegraph patent -- 1848. Gold rush -- 1848-1850. Westward expansion and the debate over slavery -- ca. 1851-ca. 1860. Lighthouse plans for Minot's Ledge, Massachusetts -- 1852. Diseño of land claim of Tomas Sanchez 1857-1862. Northwest boundary survey, landscape views by James Madison Alden -- ca. 1860-ca. 1865. Mathew Brady, photographs of Civil War-era personalities -- 1861. Fort Sumter -- 1861 Ordinance of secession of the Commonwealth of Virginia -- 1861-1865. Confederate currency -- 1861. Confederate States of America court record -- ca. 1860-ca. 1865. Mathew Brady, photographs of the Civil War -- 1862. After the Battle of Fredericksburg -- 1863. Emancipation Proclamation, Presidential Proclamation 95 -- ca. 1860-ca. 1865. Contraband camps -- 1863-1864. Black soldiers in the Civil War -- ca. 1861-ca. 1865. Cipher device -- 1864-1865. President Abraham Lincoln's telegrams -- 1864-1865. The end of the Civil War -- 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- 1865-1866. Freedmen's Bureau Marriage records -- 1866. A petition for universal suffrage -- 1866. H.J.Res. 127. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States -- 1867-1869. Timothy O'Sullivan, photographs for the 40th Parallel Survey -- 1868. Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson -- 1868. Alaska Purchase -- 1869. Joining the tracks for the first trasncontinental railroad, Promontory, Utah Territory -- 1871-1874. Timothy O'Sullivan, photographs for the Wheeler Survey -- 1876. Battle of Little Bighorn -- 1876. Deadwood, Dakota Territory -- 1879-1884. Homestead application -- 1886. Family with their covered wagon during the great western migration, Loup Valley, Nebraska -- 1889-1894. Oklahoma Territory -- 1894. Hopi (Moqui) petition asking the federal government to give them title to their lands -- 1895. Death of Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham -- 1895. Patent drawing for the Duryea road vehicle -- 1896. Wong Kim Ark -- 1897. Petition against the annexation of Hawaii -- 1899. Passenger manifest of immigrants on the SS Brasilia -- ca 1900. Ellis Island -- 1900. Boxer Rebellion --

ca. 1900. Thomas Edison patent infringement case

1901-1902. Russell W. Porter Arctic paintings

1902. Holland submarine

1903. The Wright brothers' aircraft

1906. San Francisco earthquake

ca. 1906. Meatpacking

1907. "Life on the Mississippi," by Clifford Berryman

1908. "The House in Session (according to the minority point of view)," by Clifford Berryman

1908-1911. Lewis Hine, photographs for the National Child Labor Committee

1912. Sinking of the Titanic

1913. Income tax form 1040

1913. Map showing schools and saloons in the District of Columbia

1914-1916. Public markets

ca. 1917. Passport photos

ca. 1917. World War I draft cards

1917-1919. World War I panoramas

1918. Cantigny

1918. Fruit stones for gas masks

1918. Influenza epidemic

1919. Women rivet heaters at Puget Sound Navy Yard

1919. 19th Amendment

1920. Charles Ponzi

1928. Rat infestation, Miller County, Arkansas

1928. Good will cruise to South America

1929. President Herbert Hoover's State of the Union

ca. 1930. George Ackerman, photographs for the Agricultural Extension Service

1930-1932. Al Capone

1932. Bonus march

1932-1934. Construction of the National Archives Building, Washington, DC

1933. The banking crisis

1933. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address

ca. 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tackles the Great Depression

ca. 1935. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

1936-1942. Ansel Adams, photographs for the Department of the Interior

1936-1938. The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River

1940. Dorothea Lange, photographs for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics

ca. 1940. Declarations of Intention

1941. Irving Rusinow, photographs of Taos County, New Mexico, for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics

1941. Pearl Harbor

1941. Proposed message to the Congress

1942. Nazi saboteurs

1942. Denying certain enemies access to the courts of the United States

1942. Japanese internment

ca. 1943. World War II posters

1943. Wayne Miller, photographs of the USS Saratoga for the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit

1943. Navajo code talkers

1944. 332nd Fighter Group

1944. Women in wartime labor force

1944. Margie posters

1944. D-day

1945. Bridge at Remagen

1945. Iwo Jima

1945. Buchenwald Concentration Camp

1945. Holocaust-era assets

1945. End of war in Europe

1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946. Russell Lee, photographs for a medical survey of the bituminous coal industry

1947-1955. Marshall Plan

1947. The House Committee on Un-American Activities report on Ronald Reagan

1947. Capt. Charles E. Yeager, pilot's notes, 9th powered flight

1950. Korean War

1951. President Harry Truman's dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur

ca. 1951. President Harry Truman

ca. 1951. U.S. v. Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, et al

1952. Project Blue Book

1952. Dedication of the Charters of Freedom

1954. Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency

1954. Hernandez v. Texas

1955. Brown v. Board of Education

ca. 1955. Atomic testing

ca. 1955. Civil defense

1957. Little Rock

1962. Cuban Missile Crisis

1962. Eleanor Roosevelt's wallet

1963. President John F. Kennedy's visit to Berlin

1963. March on Washington

1963. Typed transcript of Lady Bird Johnson's audio diary from November 22, 1963

1964. Civil Right Act of 1964

1964. Gulf of Tonkin

1964. Letter to the U.S. Department of Labor

1965. Bond of John R. Cash

1965-1975. Vietnam War

1969. Apollo 11

1972. President Richard Nixon in China

1972-1977. DOCUMERICA

1972-1974. Watergate

1974. President Richard Nixon's resignation

1974. President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon

1975. Apollo-Soyuz test project

1976. Bicentennial of the United States

1978. Camp David summit

1980. Iranian hostage crisis

1980. Mount St. Helens

1985. Geneva summit

1987. Brandenburg Gate speech

1990. German reunification

1990-1991. 1991 Persian Gulf War

1993. North American Free Trade Agreement

1995. Oklahoma City bombing

2001. 9/11

2001. Establishing the Office of Homeland Security

2001. USA PATRIOT Act, Public Law 107-56

2009. Official tally from the joint session of Congress for the counting of the electoral votes.