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Sourcebook and index : documents that shaped the American nation
Item details
- ISBN: 0195127714
- ISBN: 9780195127713
- ISBN: 0195127722
- ISBN: 9780195127720
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Physical Description:
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318 pages ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Magna Carta -- Bartoleme de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispanola" -- From an anonymous Aztec chronicler -- The Mayflower Compact -- Massachusetts School Laws (1642 and 1647) -- From Roger Williams, Letter to Providence -- Resolution of the Germantown Quakers -- From The English Bill of Rights -- From Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack -- Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress -- From Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" -- Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover -- From Thomas Paine, Common Sense -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence -- From Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams -- Articles of Confederation -- From Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia -- From J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "What is an American?" -- From Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom -- The Constitution of the United States -- From The Northwest Ordinance -- From Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Federalist, Nos. 1, 10, and 51 -- George Washington, Inaugural Address / Letter to Moses Seixas / Letter to the New Church in Baltimore -- From George Washington, Farewell Address -- From Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address -- From Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptist Association -- From John Marshall, Opinion in Marbury v. Madison -- From Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), Address to the Chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy and Missionary Cram -- From Meriwether Lewis, Report to Thomas Jefferson -- From John Marshall, opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland -- James Monroe, The Monroe Doctrine -- From Memorial of the Cherokee Nation -- From William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator -- From A North Carolina Law Forbidding the Teaching of Slaves to Read and Write -- From Andrew Jackson, Proclamation to the People of South Carolina -- From Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America -- From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance -- From John L. O'Sullivan, Editorial on Manifest Destiny -- From Horace Mann, 12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education -- From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Let Us Consider Man's Superiority" -- From Declaration of Sentiments -- From Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience -- From John C. Calhoun, "Proposal to Preserve the Union" -- From Sojourner Truth, "Aren't I a Woman?" -- From Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Oration -- From Roger Taney, Opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford -- From Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" -- From Abraham Lincoln, Debate with Stephen Douglas -- John Brown, Last Statement to the Court -- From The Homestead Act -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address -- Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation -- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address -- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Letters Setting Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox -- Robert E. Lee, Farewell to His Army -- From Susan B. Anthony, "Are Women Persons? -- Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor -- From John Wesley Powell, Report on the Arid Region of the West -- Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat), "I Will Fight No More Forever" -- From Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat), Address in Washington -- From Stanley Matthews, Opinion on Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Sheriff, etc. -- From Andrew Carnegie, Wealth -- From Preamble to the Platform of the Populist Party -- The Pledge of Allegiance -- From Booker T. Washington, Address at the Atlanta Exposition -- From John Marshall Harlan, dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson -- William McKinley, War Message -- From Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -- From Declaration of the Conservation Conference -- From Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address / War Message / "The Fourteen Points" -- Herbert Hoover, "Rugged Individualism" -- From Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself" -- Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus -- From Harlan F. Stone, dissenting opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message Asking for War Against Japan -- / Declaration of War on Germany and Italy / "The Four Freedoms" -- From Robert Jackson, Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette -- Learned Hand, "The Spirit of Liberty" -- From Harry S. Truman, Statement on the Atomic Bomb -- Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience -- From Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address to the American People -- John F. Kennedy, "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You" -- Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" -- From Martin Luther King, Jr., "Why We Can't Wait" -- From the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- From the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- From Hugo L. Black, Opinion in New York Times Co. v. United States -- From Ronald Reagan, Speech at Moscow State University. |
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