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American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History [SCM]

by Ray Notgrass Author

(From Amazon): From John Smith's 1616 description of the New World to George W. Bush's address to the American people after 9/11; from the poems of the seventeenth century to the hymns of the twentieth; from John Winthrop to Martin Luther King Jr. American Voices takes you on a fascinating journey through history in the words of Americans whose voices still speak today.

Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
9781933410616
Print Status
In Print
Selections
121
Pages
414
Suggested Grades
10th - 12th
Historical Setting
1616 - 2007
Publisher
Notgrass Company
Copyright
2007
URL
http://www.notgrass.com/american-history-high-s...

Selections

  • 1 A Description of New England ( John Smith, 1616)
  • 2 Mayflower Compact (1620)
  • 3 A Model of Christian Charity (John Winthrop, 1630)
  • 4 Preamble to The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  • 5 Bay Psalm Book excerpts (1640)
  • 6 Poems by Anne Bradstreet (1650)
  • 7 New England Primer excerpts (1687)
  • 8 Sayings from Poor Richard's Almanack (1732-1757)
  • 9 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Jonathan Edwards, 1741)
  • 10 Albany Plan of Union (1754)
  • 11 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (John Dickinson 1767-1768)
  • 12 Poems by Phillis Wheatley (1773)
  • 13 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (Patrick Henry, 1775)
  • 14 Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776)
  • 15 Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • 16 The Crisis (Thomas Paine, 1776)
  • 17 Articles of Confederation (1777)
  • 18 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
  • 19 Constitution of the United States (1787)
  • 20 The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison, 1787)
  • 21 George Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789)
  • 22 George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
  • 23 George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
  • 24 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798, 1799)
  • 25 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord (Timothy Dwight, 1800)
  • 26 Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
  • 27 Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court Decision (1803)
  • 28 Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery (1804)
  • 29 Letters from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1813)
  • 30 The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, 1812)
  • 31 Poems by William Cullen Bryant (1814, 1815)
  • 32 The Legend of Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving, 1819)
  • 33 The Monroe Doctrine (James Monroe, 1823)
  • 34 Second Reply to Robert Hayne (Daniel Webster, 1830)
  • 35 My Faith Looks Up to Thee (Ray Palmer, 1830)
  • 36 Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1830, 1848)
  • 37 To the Public, from the first issue of The Liberator (William Lloyd Garrison, 1831)
  • 38 America (Samuel Smith, 1831)
  • 39 Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835-1840)
  • 40 Concord Hymn (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837)
  • 41 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845, 1860)
  • 42 Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
  • 43 Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau, 1849)
  • 44 The Great Stone Face (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
  • 45 Excerpts from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 (Clay, Webster, Calhoun)
  • 46 Poems by Emily Dickinson
  • 47 The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (Frederick Douglass, 1852)
  • 48 Poems by Frances E. W. Harper (1854, 1895)
  • 49 O Holy Night (John Dwight, 1855)
  • 50 Poems by Walt Whitman (1855, 1865)
  • 51 Crime Against Kansas (Charles Sumner, 1856)
  • 52 House Divided Speech (Abraham Lincoln, 1858)
  • 53 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)
  • 54 Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
  • 55 Cornerstone Speech (Alexander H. Stephens, 1861)
  • 56 Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe, 1862)
  • 57 Goober Peas
  • 58 Emancipation Proclamation (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)
  • 59 The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale, 1863)
  • 60 Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)
  • 61 Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation (1864)
  • 62 Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
  • 63 O Little Town of Bethlehem (Phillips Brooks, 1865)
  • 64 Hymns by Philip P. Bliss (1871-1875)
  • 65 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872)
  • 66 It Is Well With My Soul (Horatio Spafford, 1873)
  • 67 Hymns by Fanny J. Crosby (1873-1885)
  • 68 God of Our Fathers (Daniel Roberts, 1876)
  • 69 O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee (Washington Gladden, 1879)
  • 70 Softly and Tenderly (Will L. Thompson, 1880)
  • 71 The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus, 1883)
  • 72 Give Me the Bible (Priscilla Owens, 1883)
  • 73 Standing on the Promises (R. Kelso Carter, 1886)
  • 74 Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (Elisha Hoffman, 1887)
  • 75 Anywhere with Jesus (Jessie Brown Pounds, 1887)
  • 76 Casey at the Bat (Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1888)
  • 77 Faith Is the Victory (John Henry Yates, Ira D. Sankey, 1891)
  • 78 Populist Party Platform (1892)
  • 79 The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893)
  • 80 America, the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates, 1893)
  • 81 Speech Before the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition (Booker T. Washington, 1895)
  • 82 Cross of Gold Speech (William Jennings Bryan, 1896)
  • 83 Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1899)
  • 84 This Is My Father's World (Maltbie Babcock, 1901)
  • 85 Of Booker T. Washington and Others (W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903)
  • 86 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (Theodore Roosevelt, 1904)
  • 87 His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Civilla Martin, Charles Gabriel, 1905)
  • 88 I Stand Amazed (Charles Gabriel, 1905)
  • 89 Love Lifted Me (James Rowe, 1912)
  • 90 War Message to Congress (Woodrow Wilson, 1917)
  • 91 Over There (George M. Cohan, 1917)
  • 92 A Beautiful Life (William Golden, 1918)
  • 93 Fourteen Points Speech (Woodrow Wilson, 1918)
  • 94 Wonderful Grace of Jesus (Haldor Lillenas, 1918)
  • 95 The Destiny of America (Calvin Coolidge, 1923)
  • 96 Hymns by Tillit S. Tedlie (1932)
  • 97 Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)
  • 98 Atlantic Charter (1941)
  • 99 Declaration of War Speech (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941)
  • 100 Old Soldiers Never Die (General Douglas MacArthur, 1951)
  • 101 Harry S. Truman's Farewell Address (1953)
  • 102 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision (1954)
  • 103 Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
  • 104 John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
  • 105 Letter From a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963)
  • 106 I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963)
  • 107 Our God, He Is Alive (A. W. Dicus, 1966)
  • 108 A Day in July (Ray Notgrass, 1969)
  • 109 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision (1973)
  • 110 Gerald R. Ford's Remarks at His Swearing-In (1974)
  • 111 Praise Songs (Late Twentieth Century)
  • 112 Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address (1981)
  • 113 Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address (1989)
  • 114 Republican Contract With America (1994)
  • 115 Defense of Conservatism (Clarence Thomas, 1998)
  • 116 National Day of Prayer and Remembrance Speech (George W. Bush, 2001)
  • 117 Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (George W. Bush, 2001)
  • 118 In America (John Notgrass, 2005)
  • 119 Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are (David McCullough, 2005)
  • 120 A Man Worth Knowing (David McCullough, 2006)
  • 121 Confessions of a Baby Boomer (Ray Notgrass, 2007)

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