The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

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This revised historical anthology of Americans speaking their minds contains more than 200 poems, speeches, songs, letters, and other expressions arranged in chronological order. From Woody Guthrie to Thomas Jefferson, the nation's most notable spokespersons pay tribute to the nation's character and values.

Introduction

xvii

COLONIAL DAYS AND THE REVOLUTION

The Mayflower Compact

(2)

The Landing

(2)

William Bradford

Poor Richard's Almanack

(5)

Benjamin Franklin

List of Virtues

(2)

Benjamin Franklin

Defense of Freedom of the Press

(5)

Andrew Hamilton

A Demand to Limit Search and Seizure

(3)

James Otis

Yankee Doodle

(2)

Liberty and Knowledge

(4)

John Adams

The Liberty Song

(2)

John Dickinson

Chief Logan's Lament

(1)

The Slaves' Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts

(2)

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention

(4)

Patrick Henry

The Declaration of Independence

(5)

Thomas Jefferson

A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia

(3)

Thomas Jefferson

Common Sense

(5)

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis

(4)

Thomas Paine

Liberty Tree

(1)

Thomas Paine

Correspondence with John

(3)

Abigail Adams

Letters from an American Farmer

(5)

J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

The Federalist, No. 1

(8)

Alexander Hamilton

THE NEW NATION

Farewell Address

(6)

George Washington

Hail, Columbia

(2)

Joseph Hopkinson

First Inaugural Address

(4)

Thomas Jefferson

The Star-Spangled Banner

(2)

Francis Scott Key

The Old Oaken Bucket

(2)

Samuel Woodworth

Home, Sweet Home

(1)

John Howard Payne

A Visit from St. Nicholas

(2)

Clement Clarke Moore

The Meaning of patriotism in America

(3)

Frances Wright

Against Nullification

(3)

Daniel Webster

Woodman, Spare That Tree

(2)

George Perkins Morris

The Height of the Ridiculous

(1)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Ironsides

(1)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

America

100

(5)

Samuel F. Smith

ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: REFORM AND EXPANSION

Concord Hymn

105

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

106

(5)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Top of Old Smoky

111

(1)

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

112

(2)

The Raven

114

(4)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Psalm of Life

118

(2)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Village Blacksmith

120

(1)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Paul Revere's Ride

121

(4)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Civil Disobedience

125

(9)

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

134

(6)

Henry David Thoreau

The Barefoot Boy

140

(3)

John Greenleaf Whittier

Against the Mexican War

143

(5)

Thomas Corwin

The Case for Public Schools

148

(5)

Horace Mann

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

153

(6)

Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention

159

(2)

Sojourner Truth

Oh! Susanna

161

(1)

Stephen Foster

Old Folks at Home

162

(1)

Stephen Foster

Address to the Legislature of New York on Women's Rights

163

(6)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A Disappointed Woman

169

(2)

Lucy Stone

Success

171

(4)

Emily Dickinson

PRELUDE TO War

Walker's Appeal

175

(4)

David Walker

Prospectus for The Liberator

179

(2)

William Lloyd Garrison

Stanzas for the Times

181

(3)

John Greenleaf Whittier

Predjudice Against the Colored Man

184

(4)

Theodore S. Wright

Bearing Witness Against Slavery

188

(4)

Angelina Grimke

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

192

(6)

Henry Highland Garnet

The Present Crisis

198

(4)

James Russell Lowell

Independence Day Speech at Rochester

202

(6)

Frederick Douglass

The House Divided Speech

208

(8)

Abraham Lincoln

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

216

(8)

Last Statement to the Court

224

(3)

John Brown

The Cooper Union Speech

227

(11)

Abraham Lincoln

Go Down, Moses

238

(5)

THE CIVIL WAR

Dixie

243

(1)

Daniel Decatur Emmett

First Inaugural Address

244

(6)

Abraham Lincoln

The Bonnie Blue Flag

250

(2)

Harry Macarthy

Maryland, My Maryland

252

(2)

James Ryder Randall

Battle Cry of Freedom

254

(2)

George F. Root

The John Brown Song

256

(1)

Battle Hymn of the Republic

257

(2)

Julia Ward Howe

Barbara Frietchie

259

(2)

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Gettysburg Address

261

(2)

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address

263

(2)

Abraham Lincoln

I Hear America Singing

265

(1)

Walt Whitman

O Captain! My Captain!

266

(1)

Walt Whitman

Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society

267

(8)

Frederick Douglass

AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

The Blue and the Gray

275

(2)

Francis Miles Finch

Women's Right to Vote

277

(8)

Susan B. Anthony

The Ballad of John Henry

285

(2)

Home on the Range

287

(1)

I've Been Working on the Railroad

288

(2)

A Century of Dishonor

290

(5)

Helen Hunt Jackson

Speech at the National Convention of Colored Men

295

(6)

Frederick Douglass

The New Colossus

301

(1)

Emma Lazarus

Clementine

302

(2)

Casey at the Bat

304

(2)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

When the Frost Is on the Punkin

306

(2)

James Whitcomb Riley

When de Co'n Pone's Hot

308

(2)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

What Does the Working Man Want?

310

(5)

Samuel Gompers

The Pledge of Allegiance

315

(1)

The Mountains of California

316

(4)

John Muir

Solitude

320

(1)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

America the Beautiful

321

(1)

Katharine Lee Bates

Little Boy Blue

322

(1)

Eugene Field

The Atlanta Exposition Address

323

(6)

Booker T. Washington

Reply to Booker T. Washington

329

(1)

John Hope

Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson

330

(3)

John Marshall Harlan

In Praise of the Strenuous Life

333

(4)

Theodore Roosevelt

Against Imperialism

337

(5)

George Frisbie Hoar

342

(5)

Jose De Diego

THE PROGRESSIVE AGE

The Solitude of Self

347

(7)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women and Economics

354

(3)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Man with the Hoe

357

(2)

Edwin Markham

Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

359

(1)

James Weldon Johnson

J. Rosamond Johnson

Should Higher Education for Women Differ?

360

(5)

M. Carey Thomas

The Battle with the Slum

365

(4)

Jacob A. Riis

Prejudice Against Women

369

(4)

Carrie Chapman Catt

The Talented Tenth

373

(5)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Advice to a Black Schoolgirl

378

(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

379

(5)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

384

(1)

Albert Von Tilzer

Jack Norworth

Preacher and the Slave

385

(2)

Joe Hill

Trees

387

(1)

Joyce Kilmer

The New Freedom

388

(6)

Woodrow Wilson

Protest to President Wilson

394

(4)

William Monroe Trotter

Statement of Principles

398

(3)

Calvin Coolidge

Anne Rutledge

401

(1)

Edgar Lee Masters

Mending Wall

402

(2)

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

404

(1)

Robert Frost

Fire and Ice

405

(1)

Robert Frost

Evolution

405

(1)

Alice Duer Miller

Chicago

406

(2)

Carl Sandburg

Solidarity Forever

408

(5)

Ralph Chaplin

WORLD WAR I AND AFTER

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

413

(1)

Vachel Lindsay

The Leaden-Eyed

414

(1)

Vachel Lindsay

I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

415

(1)

Alfred Bryan

Al Piantadosi

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

416

(1)

Alan Seeger

War Message to Congress

417

(5)

Woodrow Wilson

Against Entry into the War

422

(4)

George Norris

Over There

426

(1)

George M. Cohan

Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

427

(2)

Irving Berlin

The Marines' Hymn

429

(1)

The Field Artillery Song

430

(1)

Edmund L. Gruber

Grass

431

(1)

Carl Sandburg

Statement to the Court

432

(3)

Eugene Victor Debs

The Right to One's Body

435

(4)

Margaret Sanger

First Fig

439

(1)

Edna Vincent Millay

Poems of Angel Island

440

(1)

A Korean Discovers New York

441

(3)

Younghill Kang

American Names

444

(1)

Stephen Vincent Benet

America

445

(1)

Claude Mckay

Yet Do I Marvel

446

(1)

Countee Cullen

O Black and Unknown Bards

447

(2)

James Weldon Johnson

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

449

(1)

Langston Hughes

I, Too

450

(1)

Langston Hughes

The America System of Self-Government

451

(8)

Herbert Hoover

THE DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II

Happy Days Are Here Again

459

(1)

Milton Ager

Jack Yellen

First Inaugural Address

460

(4)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address

464

(3)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

467

(2)

E. Y. Harburg

Jay Gorney

Union Maid

469

(1)

Woody Guthrie

So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust)

470

(1)

Woody Guthrie

Which Side Are You On?

471

(1)

Florence Reece

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night

472

(2)

Alfred Hayes

FDR at the DAR

474

(2)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

God Bless America

476

(1)

Irving Berlin

This Is the Army, Mr. Jones

477

(1)

Irving Berlin

This Land Is Your Land

478

(1)

Woody Guthrie

Freedom

479

(6)

E. B. White

High Flight

485

(2)

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Anchors Aweigh

487

(1)

Charles A. Zimmerman

The Four Freedoms

488

(4)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

War Message to Congress

492

(2)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Poems of the Issei

494

(2)

The Army Air Corps

496

(1)

Robert Crawford

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

497

(1)

Frank Loesser

The Spirit of Liberty

498

(2)

Learned Hand

Elegy for a Dead Soldier

500

(7)

Karl Shapiro

AFTER WORLD WAR II

The Baruch Plan for Control of Atomic Energy

507

(3)

Bernard Baruch

Confirmation Hearings

510

(3)

David Lilienthal

A Plea for Civil Rights

513

(3)

Hubert Humphrey

Inaugural Address

516

(6)

Harry S. Truman

Declaration of Conscience

522

(5)

Margaret Chase Smith

Nobel Acceptance Speech

527

(2)

William Faulkner

The Silent Generation

529

(1)

Louis Simpson

Refugee in America

530

(1)

Langston Hughes

Harlem

531

(1)

Langston Hughes

Brown v. Board of Education

531

(4)

Farewell Address

535

(4)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It Could Be a Wonderful World

539

(1)

Hy Zaret

Lou Singer

Duty, Honor, Country

540

(9)

Douglas Macarthur

THE `60s

Inaugural Address

549

(4)

John F. Kennedy

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

553

(2)

Pete Seeger

Address to the Broadcasting Industry

555

(5)

Newton Minow

The Port Huron Statement

560

(4)

Tom Hayden

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

564

(1)

Ed Mccurdy

Silent Spring

565

(3)

Rachel Carson

Letter from Birmingham City Jail

568

(8)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speech at the Berlin Wall

576

(2)

John F. Kennedy

The March on Washington

578

(5)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We Shall Overcome

583

(1)

O Freedom

584

(1)

If I Had a Hammer

585

(1)

Lee Hayes

Pete Seeger

Blowin' in the Wind

586

(1)

Bob Dylan

Ballad of Birmingham

587

(2)

Dudley Randall

The Feminine Mystique

589

(3)

Betty Friedan

Little Boxes

592

(1)

Malvina Reynolds

Howard University Address

593

(4)

Lyndon B. Johnson

On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

597

(3)

Robert F. Kennedy

Stupid America

600

(3)

Abelardo Delgado

AMERICAN IDEAS

The Wilderness Idea

603

(2)

Wallace Stegner

Speech at Moscow State University

605

(5)

Ronald Reagan

The American Idea

610

(3)

Theodore H. White

Bibliography

613

(6)

Author Index

619

(6)

625

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