1801-1824
- First Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1801)
- Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists (January 1, 1802)
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty: Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson (1803)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1805)
- First Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1809)
- Second Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1813)
- Star Spangled Banner (September 20, 1814)
- Treaty of Ghent (December 24, 1814)
- First Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1817)
- Missouri Compromise (March 6, 1820)
- Plymouth Speech: Daniel Webster (December 22, 1820)
- Second Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1821)
- Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823)
1825-1849
- Inaugural Address of President John Quincy Adams (1825)
- First Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1829)
- President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1833)
- Inaugural Address of President Martin Van Buren (1837)
- "Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (July 4, 1837)
- Constitutional Debate over the Impeachment Process by James Madison (1840)
- Inaugural Address of President William Henry Harrison (1841)
- A Call to Rebellion by Henry Garnet (1843)
- Inaugural Address of President James K. Polk (1845)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)
- Inaugural Address of President Zachary Taylor (1849)
1850-1874
- Compromise of 1850 (January 29, 1850)
- Fugutive Slave Law of 1850 (December 18 1850)
- Inaugural Address of President Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30, 1854)
- Inaugural Address of President James Buchanan (March 4, 1857)
- Dred Scott v. Sanford (March 6, 1857)
- First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861)
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America (March 11, 1861)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (November 1861)
- Homestead Act (May 20, 1862)
- McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
- National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer: Abraham Lincoln (March 30, 1863)
- Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 (President Lincoln) -- The First National Thanksgiving
- Gettysburg Address (Thursday, November 19, 1863)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1865)
- Photographic Timeline of the Civil War (Library of Congress)
- Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (April 10, 1865)
- Diary of Gideon Welles: Abraham Lincoln's Death (April 15, 1865)
- Abolition of Slavery (1865)
- Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass (January 19, 1867)
- Articles of Impeachment Against President Andrew Johnson (February 24, 1868)
- 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (July 9, 1868)
- First Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S Grant (March 4, 1869)
- 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (February 3, 1870)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S Grant (March 4, 1873)
- Christmas Becomes a National Holiday: Ulysses S Grant (June 28, 1870)
1875-1900
- Inaugural Address of President Rutherford B. Hayes (March 5, 1877)
- Inaugural Address of President James Garfield (March 4, 1881)
- First Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1885)
- Dawes Act (February 8, 1887)
- Inaugural Address of President Benjamin Harrison (March 4, 1889)
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (July 2, 1890)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893)
- First Inaugural Address of President William McKinley (March 4, 1897)
- Treaty for the Annexation of Hawaii (July 7, 1898)
