Historical Documents

This is a listing of some of the more important historical documents I have acquired thus far. All pdf files () require Adobe Acrobet Reader of at least version 4.

General Course-Related Documents

	Year	Title / Author
	1974	Cargo Cult Science           Richard Feynman
	2007	APSA References How-To           Ole J Forsberg
	2007	What is Science?           Ole J Forsberg

Historical Documents

	Year	Title / Author
	1090	The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederation           The Iroquois Confederation
	1164	The Constitutions of Clarendon           King Edward I
	1215	The Magna Carta           King John Lackland
	1494	The Letter to the King and Queen of Spain           Christopher Columbus
	1513	The Prince           Niccolo Machiavelli
	1620	The Mayflower Compact           William Bradford
	1644	A Plea for Religious Liberty           Roger Williams
	1645	On Liberty           John Winthrop
	1679	The Habeas Corpus Act           English Parliament
	1689	The English Bill of Rights           Prince William of Orange and Princess Mary
	1741	Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God           Jonathon Edwards
	1754	The Albany Plan of Union           Benjamin Franklin
	1775	The Liberty Speech           Patrick Henry
	1775	Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms           Second Continental Congress
	1776	The Crisis           Thomas Paine
	1776	The Declaration of Independence           Thomas Jefferson
	1776	The Virginia Declaration of Rights           George Mason as principal author
	1777	The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union           Second Continental Congress
	1783	The Treaty of Paris           Various Diplomats
	1786	The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom           Thomas Jefferson
	1787	Antifederalist No. 6           Centinel
	1787	Federalist No. 6           Alexander Hamilton
	1789	The US Constitution           The United States in Congress
	1789	Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen           Marquis de Lafayette
	1791	Rights of Man           Thomas Paine
	1796	The Treaty of Tripoli           Various Diplomats
	1798	The Sedition Act           An Act of the US Congress
	1823	The Monroe Doctrine           James Monroe
	1848	The Manifesto of the Communist Party           Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
	1849	On Civil Disobedience           Henry Thoreau
	1854	Slavery in Massachusetts           Henry Thoreau
	1863	The Gettysburg Address           Abraham Lincoln
	1863	The Emancipation Proclamation           Abraham Lincoln
	1918	The Fourteen Points           Woodrow Wilson
	1941	The Atlantic Charter           Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
	1945	Statements from the Yalta Conference           Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin
	1946	The Long Telegram           George F. Kennan
	1946	The Iron Curtain Speech           Winston Churchill
	1947	The Truman Doctrine           Harry S. Truman
	1961	Special Address to Congress           John F. Kennedy
	1993	The Arusha Peace Accords           Anastase Gasana and Pasteur Bizimungu
	1994	Cable Response to Roméo Dallaire           Kofi Annan
	1994	Cable to Kofi Annan           Roméo Dallaire
	1999	Constitution of the Swiss Confederation           Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation
	2001	The USA PATRIOT Act           The US Congress
	2007	Petraeus Report           Gen. David H. Petraeus

Laws And Legal Documents

	Year	Title / Author
	1090	The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederation           The Iroquois Confederation
	1164	The Constitutions of Clarendon           King Edward I
	1215	The Magna Carta           King John Lackland
	1679	The Habeas Corpus Act           English Parliament
	1776	The Declaration of Independence           Thomas Jefferson
	1777	The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union           Second Continental Congress
	1783	The Treaty of Paris           Various Diplomats
	1789	The US Constitution           The United States in Congress
	1796	The Treaty of Tripoli           Various Diplomats
	1798	The Sedition Act           An Act of the US Congress
	1863	The Emancipation Proclamation           Abraham Lincoln
	1993	The Arusha Peace Accords           Anastase Gasana and Pasteur Bizimungu
	1999	Constitution of the Swiss Confederation           Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation
	2001	The USA PATRIOT Act           The US Congress

Fictional Stories And Writings

	Year	Title / Author
	1839	The Fall of the House of Usher           Edgar Allan Poe
	1842	The Masque of the Red Death           Edgar Allan Poe
	1855	The Song of Hiawatha           Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Miscellaneous Documents

	Year	Title / Author
	2004	The 9/11 Commission Report           The 9/11 Commission