Documents
Founding and historic documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and other primary documents — preserved as catalog records with their texts.
This collection holds 363 of the library's 2,557,923 catalog records. Counted 2026-11-10; the catalog grows as new holdings are added.
Works in this collection
A selection of real works from the Documents collection — the selection rotates daily. Every link opens that work's own catalog page; the full collection is searchable in the library.
- A Study of Siouan Cults — James Owen Dorsey (1894)
- Act of Settlement — Parliament of England (1701)
- Animal Magnetism: Report of Dr. Franklin and Other Commissioners — Benjamin Franklin, Bailly et al. (1837)
- Antarctic Treaty — International (1959)
- Argentine Constitution (1853) — Argentina (1853)
- Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union — Continental Congress (1777)
- Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS Treaty) — Australia/NZ/US (1951)
- Bracton's Note Book, Vol. I: Introduction and Apparatus — Henry de Bracton (F. W. Maitland, ed.) (1887)
- Bracton's Note Book, Vol. II: Text — Henry de Bracton (F. W. Maitland, ed.) (1887)
- Bracton's Note Book, Vol. III: Text — Henry de Bracton (F. W. Maitland, ed.) (1887)
- Chinese Exclusion Act — US Congress (1882)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 — 88th US Congress (1964)
- Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 — Australia/UK Parliament (1900)
- Constitution Act 1867 — United Kingdom/Parliament (1867)
- Constitution of 1791 — French National Constituent Assembly (1791)
- Constitution of the Bolivian Republic of 1826 — Bolivia (1826)
- Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic (1920) — Czechoslovakia (1920)
- Constitution of the Empire of Brazil — Empire of Brazil (1824)
- Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil — Brazil (1988)
- Constitution of the Fifth French Republic (unamended) — French Republic (1958)
- Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (1949) — GDR (1949)
- Constitution of the Year III — National Convention (1795)
- Dawes Act — US Congress (1887)
- Day of Infamy speech (8 Dec 1941) — Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
- Declaration of Human and Civic Rights of 26 August 1789 — French National Assembly (1789)
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms — Continental Congress (1775)
- Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (The Ninety-Five Theses) — Martin Luther (1517)
- Documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Inquisition dans le Languedoc — Célestin Douais (ed.) (1900)
- Edit de Nantes (1598) — Edict of Nantes — Henri IV of France (1598)
- Eisenhower's Farewell Address — Dwight D. Eisenhower (1961)
- Emancipation Proclamation (final 1 Jan 1863; preliminary 22 Sep 1862) — Abraham Lincoln (1863)
- English Bill of Rights (1689) — Parliament of England (1689)
- European Convention on Human Rights — Council of Europe (1950)
- Final Act of the Congress of Vienna — Europe (1815)
- French Constitution of 1793 — National Convention (1793)
- French Constitution of 1848 — French Second Republic (1848)
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut — Connecticut (1639)
- Geneva Convention I (1949) — Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field — International (1949)
- Omaha Sociology — James Owen Dorsey (1884)
- The Anti-Federalist Papers: The Brutus Essays — Brutus (attributed to Robert Yates) (1787)
- The Atlantic Charter — Roosevelt & Churchill (1941)
- The Code Napoleon; or, The French Civil Code — France (Commission of the Code Napoleon) (1827)
- The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1787)
- The Four Freedoms (State of the Union, 6 Jan 1941) — Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
- The Great Airship Wave of 1896-1897: Contemporary American Press Accounts — Various newspapers (1897)
- Treaty Ceding Alaska (Alaska Purchase) — US / Russia (1867)
- Tsimshian Mythology — Franz Boas (1916)
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? — Frederick Douglass (1852)