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The American reader : words that moved a nation /

Title:
The American reader : words that moved a nation /
Published:
New York, NY : 2000.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
The Mayflower Compact -- The Landing / William Bradford -- Poor Richard's Almanack / Benjamin Franklin -- List of Virtues / Benjamin Franklin -- Defense of 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 -- Liberty Tree / Thomas Paine -- Correspondence with John / Abigail Adams -- Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur -- The Federalist, No. 1 / Alexander Hamilton -- 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 / Samuel F. Smith -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-Reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- On Top of Old Smoky -- Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean -- The Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- A Psalm of Life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Village Blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth 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 Pubic 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 -- A Disappointed Woman / Lucy Stone -- Success / Emily Dickinson -- Walker's Appeal / David Walker -- Prospectus for The Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison -- Stanzas for the Times / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Predjudice 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 Present 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 MacArthy -- 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 -- Clementine -- 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 -- Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates -- Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field -- The Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington -- Reply to Booker T. Washington / John Hope -- 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 A. Riis -- Prejudice Against Women / Carrie Chapman Catt -- The Talented Tenth / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Advice to a Black Schoolgril / W.E.B. De 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 -- Statement of Principles / Calvin Coolidge -- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- Mending Wall / Robert Frost -- The Road Not Taken / Robert Frost -- Fire and Ice / 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 Marines' Hymn -- The Field Artillery Song / Edmund 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 Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen -- O Black and Unknown Bards / James Weldon Johnson -- The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes -- I, Too / Langston Hughes -- The America System of Self-Government / Herbert Hoover -- Happy Days Are Here Again / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen -- First Inaugural Address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Second Inaugural Address / Franklin Delano 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 -- FDR at the DAR / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- 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 Delano Roosevelt -- War Message to Congress / Franklin Delano 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 -- Nobel Acceptance Speech / William Faulkner -- The Silent Generation / Louis Simpson -- Refugee in America / Langston Hughes -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Brown v. Board of Eduction -- Farewell Address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- It Could Be a Wonderful World / Hy Zaret and Lou Singer -- Duty, Honor, Country / Douglas MaCarthur -- Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy.
Online access:
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Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
E173 .A753 2000 – Available