American History Documents

There is an official trial record of the Boston-Massacre defendants (which also includes the indictment against them). This is a page from that trial...

Jackie Robinson's autobiography - I Never Had It Made - was published in 1972.  It allows us to hear from Jackie, first hand, on what it was like...

Image of the Court Order to close Kent State University, signed by Judge Albert L. Caris. Click on the image for a better view.

Image of a letter sent to students by Kent State University instructor, Shiela Tabakoff, describing how the University dealt with the circumstances fo...

When members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) issued their findings on the disaster's cause, those findings coincided with the conc...

This message - sent from Tokyo to Berlin one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor - was intercepted, and decoded, by the U.S. government.   ...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's two ambassadors in Washington twelve days bef...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from the Japanese emissary in Washington to Tokyo eleven days befor...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's emissaries in Washington - ten days before th...

This message was intercepted, and decoded.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's two ambassadors in Washington.   SECRETFrom: TokyoTo: Wash...

This telephone exchange, between Japan's emissary in Washington and the Head of American Division of Japanese Foreign Office, took place on the 26th...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Japan's emissaries in Washington to Tokyo, twelve days before ...