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Cover
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"The Documents on the Freedom Train" -
sponsored by The American Heritage Foundation
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Inset
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The American Heritage Program - sponsored by the
Attorney General of the United States
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Letter by Christopher Columbus on the Discovery
of America (1493)
Thirteenth Century Manuscript of Magna Carta
The
Mayflower Compact
Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges of 1701
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Declaration of the Nine Colonies (1765)
Thomas
Jefferson's Statement on Rights of Colonists (1774)
Declaration
of the People against Governor Berkeley
Letter of Caesar Rodney
dated July 4, 1776, describing the Voting of Independence
Manuscript
Essay of James Iredell stating the Rights of the Colonists
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Jefferson's Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
(June 11-28, 1776)
Original Letter of Ben Franklin & Silas
Deane...copies...Declaration of Independence...Articles of Confederation...King
of Prussia (Feb. 14, 1777)
Contemporary Manuscript Copy of the
Declaration of Independence attested and Signed by Benjamin Franklin
and Silas Deane
A Contemporary Manuscript Copy of the Articles
of Confederation attested and Signed by Benjamin Franklin and Silas
Deane
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776)
Thomas
Pain's The Crisis (1776)
Paul Revere's Commission as Official
Messenger
Original Orders of the Continental Congress Increasing
the Powers of General Washington
Letter of George Washington
to Gouverneur Morris describing conditions at Winter Headquarters
in 1780
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First Account of the Battle of Lexington
"Glorious
News" from Yorktown
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
President
Washington's "To Bigotry No Sanction" Letter
Roger
Williams' Statement on Religious Freedom
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Jefferson's Bill for Religious Freedom (1784)
The
Bay Psalm Book: The First Book Printed in the North American Colonies
The
Federalist (1788)
John Jay's Original Corrected Manuscript
Draft of Federalist Paper No. 5
The Virginia Plan of the Constitution
of the United States (1787)
Washington's Own Copy of the Constitution
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Journal of the Constitutional Convention (August
20, 1787, entry), when the Habeas Corpus clause was suggested for
Inclusion in the Constitution
Draft Report...of the Constitutional
Convention showing earliest provisions for Trial by Jury as part
of the U. S. Constitution (August 1787)
Pennsylvania's Ratification
of the Federal Constitution (1789)
The Bill of Rights (1789)
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George Mason's Draft of the Declaration of Rights
to be proposed by the Virginia Convention as Amendments to the U.
S. Constitution (June 1788)
Official Manuscript List of proposed
Amendments protecting Civil Rights submitted by Virginia with Her
Ratification of the Constitution (1789)
Congress' Working Drafts
of the First Amendments to the Constitution - The Bill of Rights
(1789)
Congressional Resolution that President submit First Proposed
Amendments to States (1789)
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Virginia's Ratification of the Bill of Rights (1791)
Thomas
Jefferson's Letter to James Madison...on the proposed U. S. Constitution
& his regret at the omission of a Bill of Rights (Dec. 20, 1787)
James
Madison's Letter to Thomas Jefferson...Madison...introduced...for
the Amendment...Guarantee Basic Personal Rights (June 13, 1789)
Alexander
Hamilton's Original Manuscript Outline of subjects of part of The
Federalist (1788)
Alexander Hamilton's Original Manuscript
Draft of his report on the Public Credit (1790)
Alexander Hamilton's
Original Manuscript Draft of George Washington's Farewell Address
(July 1796)
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William Colbreath's Manuscript Account of the First
Known Military Raising of the American Flag (August 3, 1777)
Original
Manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner"
Washington's
Revolutionary War Account Book Written in His Own Hand (1775-83)
President
Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
Abraham Lincoln's Draft
of the Emancipation Proclamation (July 14, 1862)
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Senate Version
of Joint Resolution proposing Amendment to Abolish Slavery (1864)
Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
Letter of Henry
Laurens of South Carolina Attacking Slavery (August 14, 1776)
General
Robert E. Lee's Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College
(August 24, 1865)
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Abraham Lincoln's Baltimore Address (April 18, 1864)
Petition
of the National Woman Suffrage Association to Congress (1873)
Petition
of Matilda Hindman asking Congress not to Disenfranchise Utah Women
(1874)
The Nineteenth Amendment - The Joint Resolution of Congress
proposing an Amendment...extending the Right of Suffrage to Women
(1919)
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The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Original Letter
from President McKinley to William Howard Taft, President of the
Philippine Commission (1900)
Proclamation of Independence of
the Philippines, signed by President Harry S. Truman (1946)
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Original Letter of President Theodore Roosevelt
to Secretary of War William Howard Taft...keeping...promise to Get
Out of Cuba (1907)
Proclamation of Richard P. Leary, Naval Governor
of the Isle of Guam, abolishing Slavery and Peonage (1900)
Original
Letter of the Marquis de Lafayette to General Washington (1788)
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Original Letter of Thaddeus Kosciuszko to General
Nathanael Greene (1786)
Original Letter from Thomas Paine to
Benjamin Rush written from Paris (March 16, 1790)
Miranda, the
Father of South American Freedom, appeals to President John Adams
for Aid from the United States (1798)
Original Letter of Louis
Kossuth to President Fillmore (1852)
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Deborah Gannett's Deposition in Her Claim for a
Pension for Revolutionary War Service (1818)
Patrick Henry's
Instructions to George Rogers Clark on Defense of the Northwest
Frontier
Letter from John Paul Jones to Gouverneur Morris
Claim
for Pension for Service on Submarine in the American Revolution
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American-Canadian Friendship
Benjamin Franklin's Own Epitaph
in His Own Hand
The Tribute of France to the Memory of Dr. Franklin
The
Thanks of the Congress of the United States to the French Nation
(March 2, 1791)
Jefferson's Letter of June 17, 1785, from Paris
to James Monroe praising America
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Letter of John Jay to John Trumbull in which is coined the word
"Americanize" (October 1797)
Original Letter in Siamese
from King Mongkut of Siam offering to send a Gift of Elephants to
the President of the United States (1861)
Andrew Jackson's Letter
to the Secretary of War describing the Battle of New Orleans (1815)
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Logbook of the U. S. Frigate "Constitution" (1815)
Eleven
Treasury Bonds dating from 1779 through 1947, each symbolizing the
Financial Support of the American People for...Freedom
Letter
(Dec. 28, 1908), Secretary of State Elihu Root to Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt...President's Message (Jan. 4, 1909)...Boxer Indemnity
Funds
Land Scrip issued to New York for the Establishment of
a College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1862)
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John Peter Zenger's New York Weekly Journal, Issue No.
48 (September 1734)
John Peter Zenger's New York Weekly Journal
No. 55 (November 25, 1734)
John Peter Zenger's New York Weekly
Journal No. 93 (August 18, 1735)
Benjamin Franklin's Editorial
on Zenger Printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1737
The
North Briton, No. 45 (April 23, 1763)
Alton Trials (New York,
1838)
An Essay on the Liberty of the Press by George Hay (1799)
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John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)
Thomas Jefferson's
Letter to Thomas Seymour (February 11, 1807)
Letter from Thomas
Jefferson to Edward Carrington (January 16, 1787)
Original Typescript
Draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations (1918)
Declaration
by the United Nations (1942)
The United Nations Charter (1945)
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Proclamation of an Unlimited National Emergency (May 27, 1941)
The
Selection of General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Allied
Invasion of Western Europe
Agreement for the Invasion of Western
Europe
Congratulations from the Secretary of War to the Supreme
Commander
Last Message from Corregidor
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"Merry Christmas" from Bastogne
Admiral Spruance
Reports on Operations at Iwo Jima
Admiral Halsey's Report on
Naval Action in Philippine Waters
Admiral Nimitz's Battle Report
of Midway
Secretary of the Navy Knox Praises the United States
Marine Corps
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Personal Report of General Stilwell to General Marshall (January
28, 1944)
President Roosevelt's Tribute to Captain Colin Kelly
General
Clark's Victory Message
Instrument of Surrender of Japanese Forces
in the Philippine Islands
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Surrender of Japanese Forces on Truk
Germany Surrenders Unconditionally
Surrender
of Japanese Forces on Wake Island
Surrender of Japanese Forces
in the Ryukyus
Log of the USS "Missouri" - Japanese
Surrender
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General Eisenhower's Personal Flag
Commodore Perry's Flag
Iwo
Jima Flag
Geruma Shima Flag
Flag Flown from USS "Missouri"
when the Japanese Surrendered
SHAEF Flag
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Publications of The American Heritage Foundation:
"Good
Citizen" - A Handbook of American Citizenship
"Our
American Heritage" - Showing major Freedom Train Documents
"Heritage
of Freedom" - All the documents on the Freedom Train
"The
Documents on the Freedom Train" - A Guidebook and Catalog
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Last
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The American Heritage Foundation [names of officers & board
of trustees]
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Back Inset
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The Freedom Pledge
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Back Cover
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The Nine Promises of a Good Citizen
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