The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

Read the Constitution of the United States.

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Internet archive page

• Article 1 – 00:12:58
• Article 2 – 00:05:51
• Article 3 – 00:02:37
• Article 4 – 00:02:14
• Article 5 – 00:01:08
• Article 6 – 00:01:18
• Article 7 – 00:02:04

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The Bill of Rights

Click here to listen to The Bill of Rights: The ten original amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

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The Bill of Rights can also be streamed on Free Audio.

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The Virginia Declaration of Rights

The Virginia Declaration of Rights was the forerunner of the Bill of Rights.  Thomas Jefferson also drew heavily on this document when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

You can hear read more about the Virginia Declaration of Rights and listen to more audio like this one at Free Audio.

The Declaration of Independence

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To listen to The Declaration of Independence, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg, go to Monticello Podcasts. You’ll need to page most of the way down the page, to the podcast titled Jefferson’s Words: Two Declarations.

Read along by clicking here.

To see a video of the reading of the Declaration of Independence from Colonial Williamsburg, go to the Colonial Williamsburg Video page. This video is titled We Hold These Truths. You’ll need to page down to find it.  This video is archived  on June 29, 2009.

For more excellent audio and video podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg, go to History.org.

Page down to the April 27, 2009 podcast to hear Thomas Jefferson on religious freedom, and the April 20, 2009 podcast to hear Patrick Henry on religious freedom.

Abraham Lincoln, speeches and documents

The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln

To download this to MP3, click here.

Lincoln’s address at Cooper Union

Click here to read the text of Lincoln’s address at Cooper Union, along with several of his other early speeches. Click on the pages of this virtual book to turn them.  If the pages appear blank, give it a few moments to load.

Free Audio.org has 4 Abraham Lincoln speeches that you can stream.  Click here to listen to The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and The Emancipation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln’s poem Memory

Read the text of Memory here

Click here to see a selection of downloadable CurrClick resources which could be used to enhance the study of Abraham Lincoln.

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