The documents provide information about various topics in American history from the 1800s to recent times. They cover things like the average alcohol consumption in the 1820s, Oberlin College being the first to admit women in 1835, a slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831, Mexico ceding land to the US after the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, and African Americans initially being rejected from the Union army during the Civil War. The documents also discuss topics like the first African American senator after the Civil War, mass European immigration from 1870 to 1916, Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in 1927, unemployment during the Great Depression, and Cuban immigration to the US from 1959 to 1962.