Our American Heritage features the texts of famous US documents including the US Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the Articles of Capitulation at Yorktown, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Federalist Papers, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Mayflower Compact, the Monroe Doctrine, the Gettysburg Address, and Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address. Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, American Crisis, Common Sense, and Rights of Man are also featured. Henry David Thoreau's tract, Civil Disobedience, is included as well.