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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... hired manservants aboard the Mayflower . It was signed both by separatists and non - separatists . Women were not asked to sign , since they did not have political rights . On the day after Christmas , the 102 settlers disembarked.
... women , and children , but were finally defeated by the Virginia militia in Octo- ber 1774 . After the decisive battle , Logan refused to join the other chiefs as a supplicant before the victorious whites . Instead , he sent the ...
... women and children . There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature . This called on me for revenge . I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the ...
... for barring racial segregation , for advancing the rights of women - have reminded the public that " all men are created equal . " Wherever people have fought against undemocratic regimes , they have argued , using Jefferson's words.
... women's rights , but she opposed slavery . On March 31 , 1776 , Abigail Adams wrote to her husband while the Continental Congress was deliberating independence . After describing the arrival of spring in Massachusetts , she admonished ...