A Patriot's Handbook: Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love
This collection was put together by Caroline Kennedy to help families understand and renew their commitment to their fundamental civic values by turning and returning to the words that defined the challenges of the past, inspired generations before us, and offer renewed insight for our own time.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- CD's
- Print Status
- In Print
- Titles
- 52
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- United States
Titles
- 1 Title/Montage
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Flags
- 4 The Mike Christian Story
- 5 The Ship of State
- 6 First Words Spoken by a Man on the Moon
- 7 Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address
- 8 I Like Americans
- 9 The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 10 Benjamin Franklin, The Constitutional Convention, Speech at the Conclussion of Its Deliberations
- 11 The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony
- 12 To Kill A Mockingbird
- 13 America
- 14 Frederick Douglas, If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot
- 15 Sympathy
- 16 Judge Learned Hand, Address at "I Am an American" Day, Central Park, New York
- 17 Margaret Chase Smith, Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience
- 18 John F. Kennedy, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
- 19 Chief Red Jacket, Speech Against Missionaries' Efforts to Baptize Members of the Seneca Tribe
- 20 James Otis, Statement Against the Writs of Assistance
- 21 Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams
- 22 John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams
- 23 Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?
- 24 Merry-Go-Round
- 25 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- 26 Martin Luther King Jr., Address at the March on Washington
- 27 Edward M. Kennedy, Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act
- 28 The Road Not Taken
- 29 The Sorrow Song
- 30 Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation
- 31 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
- 32 Chief Joseph, Surrender to the U.S. Army
- 33 Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation
- 34 Shiloh, a Requiem
- 35 Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
- 36 September 1, 1939
- 37 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War Message to Congress
- 38 J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the Atomic Bomb
- 39 Albert Einsteint, The Fateful Decision
- 40 I Hear America Singing
- 41 The New Colossus
- 42 Manny Steen, Ellis Island Interview
- 43 Orville and Wilbur Wright, Telegram to Their Father
- 44 David Bright, Homeless Children Speak
- 45 Andy Warhol, POPism
- 46 The Jungle
- 47 The Gift Outright
- 48 Moby-Dick
- 49 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 50 The Significance of the Frontier in American History
- 51 Jazz
- 52 The Wilderness Idea
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