The American Reader: Words that Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2010 M12 7 - 656 páginas The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... Congress . He opposed the Declaration of Independence , hoping to avert war , but nonetheless served in the militia . He was also a delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention , which drafted the Constitution , and he worked for its ...
... Congress made significant changes in Jefferson's draft , in particular , removing - at the insistence of delegates from Georgia and South Carolina - his vigorous condemnation of King George III for permitting slavery and the slave trade ...
... CONGRESS , JULY 4 , 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events , it becomes necessary When for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with ...
... Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are ...
... Congress from establishing a religion or interfering with the free exercise of religion . The epitaph that Jefferson wrote for his tombstone reads : " Here was buried Thomas Jefferson , author of the Declaration of American indepen ...
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The Federalist No 1 | 63 |
Farewell Address | 71 |
Against Imperialism | 337 |
THE PROGRESSIVE | 345 |
Women and Economics | 354 |
Should Higher Education for Women | 360 |
Prejudice Against Women | 369 |
Advice to a Black Schoolgirl | 378 |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 384 |
The Preacher and the Slave | 385 |
Hail Columbia | 77 |
The StarSpangled Banner | 83 |
The Meaning of Patriotism in America | 90 |
Woodman Spare That Tree | 96 |
REFORM AND EXPANSION | 103 |
On Top of Old Smoky | 111 |
A Psalm of Life | 118 |
Civil Disobedience | 125 |
Walden | 134 |
The Barefoot Boy | 140 |
The Case for Public Schools | 148 |
Address to the Ohio | 159 |
A Disappointed Woman | 169 |
Walkers Appeal | 175 |
Stanzas for the Times | 181 |
Bearing Witness Against Slavery | 188 |
The Present Crisis | 198 |
The House Divided Speech | 208 |
The LincolnDouglas Debates | 216 |
Last Statement to the Court | 224 |
Go Down Moses | 238 |
Dixie | 243 |
The Bonnie Blue Flag | 250 |
The John Brown Song | 256 |
Second Inaugural Address | 263 |
The Blue and the Gray | 275 |
The Ballad of John Henry | 285 |
Speech at the National | 295 |
The New Colossus | 301 |
When de Con Pones Hot | 308 |
The Pledge of Allegiance | 315 |
America the Beautiful | 321 |
Reply to Booker T Washington | 329 |
Protest to President Wilson | 394 |
Anne Rutledge | 401 |
Solidarity Forever | 408 |
The LeadenEyed | 414 |
Against Entry into the War | 422 |
The Marines Hymn | 429 |
The Right to Ones Body | 435 |
A Korean Discovers New York | 441 |
O Black and Unknown Bards | 447 |
THE DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II | 457 |
Second Inaugural | 464 |
So Long Its Been Good to Know Yuh | 470 |
God Bless America | 476 |
High Flight | 485 |
War Message to | 492 |
The Spirit of Liberty | 498 |
The Baruch Plan for Control of | 507 |
A Plea for Civil Rights | 513 |
Declaration of Conscience | 522 |
The Silent Generation | 529 |
Farewell Address | 535 |
Inaugural Address | 549 |
Address to the Broadcasting Industry | 555 |
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | 564 |
Speech at the Berlin Wall | 576 |
We Shall Overcome | 583 |
The Feminine Mystique | 589 |
On the Death of | 597 |
The Wilderness Idea | 603 |
The American Idea | 610 |
Author Index | 619 |
Copyright Acknowledgments | 625 |