The American Reader: Words that Moved a NationThe 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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... Born in Scotland , he had migrated to Virginia as an indentured servant shortly before 1700. He taught school , studied for admission to the bar , and served in the Maryland Assem- bly . After studying law in London , he settled in ...
... born; the seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain.” Although Otis lost the case, the British government withdrew ...
... Born in Massachusetts , John Adams ( 1735-1826 ) graduated from Harvard College , studied law , taught grammar school , and was admitted to the bar . Adams became active in colonial politics in 1765 , when he published articles in the ...
... born and in Freedom we'll live , Our purses are ready , Steady , Friends , Steady . Not as slaves , but as Freemen our money we'll give . Our worthy Forefathers - Let's give them a cheer To Climates unknown did courageously steer ; Thro ...
... Born in a free Countrey. We therfor Bage your Excellency and Hon- ours will give this its deer weight and consideration and that you will accordingly cause an act of the legislative to be pessed that we may obtain our Natural right our ...
Contents
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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 |