The American Reader: Words that Moved a NationHarper Collins, 7. 12. 2010. - 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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... mind , and of spreading and distributing far and wide , the ideas of right and the sensations of freedom . In a word , let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a- flowing . JOHN DICKINSON THE LIBERTY SONG " The Liberty Song " was ...
... minds ; that Almighty God hath created the mind free , and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all THOMAS JEFFERSON: A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in ...
... mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his almighty power to do, but to exalt it by its influence on reason alone; that the impi- ous presumption of legislature and ruler, civil as well as ecclesiasti- cal ...
... minds. Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender ...
... minds to shrink ; but he whose heart is firm , and whose conscience approves his conduct , will pursue his principles unto death . My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light . Not all the treasure of ...
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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 |