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
1903. The Wright brothers' aircraft
1906. San Francisco earthquake
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. Fruit stones for gas masks
1919. Women rivet heaters at Puget Sound Navy Yard
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
1932-1934. Construction of the National Archives Building, Washington, DC
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. Proposed message to the Congress
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
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. The House Committee on Un-American Activities report on Ronald Reagan
1947. Capt. Charles E. Yeager, pilot's notes, 9th powered flight
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. Dedication of the Charters of Freedom
1954. Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
1955. Brown v. Board of Education
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. Letter to the U.S. Department of Labor
1965. Bond of John R. Cash
1972. President Richard Nixon in China
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
1980. Iranian hostage crisis
1987. Brandenburg Gate speech
1990. German reunification
1990-1991. 1991 Persian Gulf War
1993. North American Free Trade Agreement
1995. Oklahoma City bombing
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.
