American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays...

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)