The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница 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 Then in the Course of human events , it becomes necessary Whe 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 ...
... 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 ...