Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-377) and index.

A collection of speeches, documents, poems, songs, photographs, and illustrations that capture the American spirit.

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Young Adult.

Booklist

The Mayflower Compact -- Poor Richard's almanack, Benjamin Franklin -- Defense of the freedom of the press, Andrew Hamilton -- A demand to limit search and seizure, James Otis -- Yankee Doodle -- Liberty and knowledge, John Adams -- The liberty song, John Dickinson -- Chief Logan's lament -- The slaves appeal to the royal governor of Massachusetts -- Speech to the second Virginia convention, Patrick Henry -- The declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson -- A bill for establishing religious freedom in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson -- Common sense, Thomas Paine -- The American crisis, Thomas Paine -- Correspondence with John, Abigail Adams -- Letters from an American farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- Farewell address, George Washington -- Hail, Columbia, Joseph Hopkinson -- First inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson -- The star-spangled banner, Francis Scott Key -- The old oaken bucket, Samuel Woodworth -- Home, sweet home, John Howard Payne -- A visit from St. Nicholas, Clement Clarke Moore -- The meaning of patriotism in America, Frances Wright -- Against nullification, Daniel Webster -- Woodman, spare that tree, George Perkins Morris -- The height of the ridiculous, Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Old ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes -- America, Samulel F. Smith -- Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emeroson -- On top of old smoky -- Columbia, the gem of the ocean -- A psalm of Life, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- The village blacksmith, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere's ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau -- Walden, Henry David Thoreau -- The barefoot boy, John Greenleaf Whittier -- Against the Mexican War, Thomas Corwin -- The case for public schools, Horace Mann -- Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions -- Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, Sojourner Truth -- Oh! Susanna, Stephen Foster -- Old folks at home, Stephen Foster -- Address to the legislature of New York on Women's rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Chief Seattle's oration -- A disappointed woman, Lucy Stone -- Success, Emily Dickinson -- Walker's appeal, David Walker -- Prospectus for "The liberator", William Lloyd Garrison -- Prejudice against the colored man, Theodore S. Wright -- Bearing witness against slavery, Angelina Grimke -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America, Henry Highland Garnet -- The president crisis, James Russell Lowell -- Independence day speech at Rochester, Frederick Douglass -- The house divided speech, Abraham Lincoln -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- Last statement to the court, John Brown -- The Cooper Union speech, Abraham Lincoln -- Go down, Moses -- Dixie, Daniel Decatur Emmett -- First inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln -- The bonnie blue flag, Harry McCarthy -- Maryland, my Maryland, James Ryder Randall -- Battle cry of freedom, George F. Root -- The John Brown song -- Battle hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe -- Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier -- The Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln -- I hear America singing, Walt Whitman -- O captain! My captain!, Walt Whitman -- Speech to the American anti-slavery society, Frederick Douglass -- The blue and the gray, Francis Miles Finch -- Women's right to vote, Susan B. Anthony -- The ballad of John Henry -- Home on the range -- I've been working on the railroad -- A century of dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson -- Speech at the National convention of colored men, Frederick Douglass -- The new colossus, Emma Lazarus -- Casey at the bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- When the frost is on the punkin, James Whitcomb Riley -- When de co'n pone's hot, Paul Laurence Dunbar -- What does the working man want?, Samuel Gompers -- The pledge of allegiance -- The mountains of California, John Muir -- America the beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates -- The Atlanta exposition address, Booker T. Washington -- Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan -- In praise of the strenuous life, Theodore Roosevelt -- Against imperialism, George Frisbie Hoar -- No, Jose de Diego -- The solitude of self, Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Women and economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The man with the hoe, Edwin Markham -- Lift ev'ry voice and sing, James Weldon JOhnson and J. Rosamond Johnson -- Should higher education for women differ, M. Carey Thomas -- The battle with the slum, Jacob Riis -- Prejudice against women, Carrie Chapman Catt -- The talented tenth, W.E.B. Du Bois -- Advice to a black schoolgirl, W.E.B. Du Bois -- The Niagara movement declaration of principles -- Take me out to the ball game, Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth -- The preacher and the slave, Joe HIll -- Trees, Joyce Kilmer -- The new freedom, Woodrow Wilson -- Protest to President Wilson, William Monroe Trotter -- Edgar Lee Masters, Anne Rutledge -- The road not taken, Robert Frost -- Evolution, Alice Duer Miller -- Chicago, Carl Sandburg -- Solidarity forever, Ralph Chaplin -- Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight, Vachel Lindsay -- The leaden-eyed, Vachel Lindsay -- I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier, Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi -- I have a rendezvous with death, Alan Seeger -- War message to Congress, Woodrow Wilson -- Against entry into the war, George Norris -- Over there, George M. Cohan -- Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning, Irving Berlin -- The Marine's hymn -- The field artillery song, Edmind L. Gruber -- Grass, Carl Sandburg -- Statement to the court, Eugene Victor Debs -- The right to one's body, Margaret Sanger -- First fig, Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poems of Angel Island -- A Korean discovers New York, Younghill Kang -- American names, Stephen Vincent Benet -- America, Claude McKay -- Yet I do marvel, Countee Cullen -- O black and unknown bards, James Weldon Johnson -- The negro speaks of rivers, Langston Hughes -- I, too, Langston Hughes -- The American system of self-government, Herbert Hoover -- Happy days are here again, Milton Ager and Jack Yellen -- First inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Second inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Brother, can you spare a dime?, E.Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney -- Union maid, Woody Guthrie -- So long, it's been good to know yuh (dusty old dust), Woody Guthrie -- Which side are you on?, Florence Reece -- I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alfred Hayes -- God bless America, Irving Berlin -- This is the army, Mr. Jones, Irving Berlin -- This land is your land, Woody Guthrie -- Freedom, E.B. White -- High flight, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. -- Anchors aweigh, Charles A. Zimmerman -- The four freedoms, Franklin D. Roosevelt -- War message to Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Poems of the Issei -- The Army Air Corps, Robert Crawford -- Praise the lord and pass the ammunition, Frank Loesser -- The spirit of liberty, Learned hand -- Elegy for a dead soldier, Karl Shapiro --The Baruch plan for control of atomic energy, Bernard Baruch -- Confirmation hearings, David Lilienthal -- A plea for Civil Rights, Hubert Humphrey --Inaugural address, Harry S. Truman -- Declaration of conscience, Margaret Chase Smith -- The silent generation, Louis Simpson -- Refugee in America, Langston Hughes -- Harlem, Langston Hughes -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Farewell address, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The mother, Gwendolyn Brooks -- It could be a wonderful world, Hy Zaret and Lou Singer -- Inaugural address, John F. Kennedy -- Where have all the flowers gone?, Pete Seeger -- Address to the broadcasting ndustry, Newton Minow -- The Port Huron statement, Tom Hayden -- Last night I had the strangest dream, Ed McCurdy -- Silent spring, Rachel Carson -- Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech at the Berlin Wall, John F. Kennedy -- The March on Washington address, Martin Luther King, Jr. -- We shall overcome -- O freedom -- If I had a hammer, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger -- Blowin' in the wind, Bob Dylan -- Ballad of Birmingham, Dudley Randall -- The feminine mystique, Betty Friedan -- Little boxes, Malvina Reynolds -- The Howard University address, Lyndon B. Johnson -- I am Joaquin, Rodolfo Gonzales -- Against the war in Vietnam, Robert F. Kennedy -- On the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F.

Kennedy -- Stupid America, Abelardo Delgado -- The wilderness idea, Wallace Stegner -- Refugee ship, Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Nadine, resting on her neighbor's stop, Judy Grahn -- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning, Alice Walker -- A city of neighborhoods, Harvey Milk -- Free to choose, Milton and Rose Friedman -- A nation at risk -- The Iran-Contra Hearings, George J. Mitchell -- Speech at Moscow State University, Ronald Reagan -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention, Jesse Jackson -- AmerRican, Tato Laviera -- The American idea, Theodore H. White.