The American Reader: Words that Moved a NationHarper Collins, 07.12.2010 - 656 Seiten 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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... Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty ... father's cattle. And every time they fired it off It took a horn of powder, And made a noise like father's gun, Only a ...
Words that Moved a Nation Diane Ravitch. And made a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. I can't tell you half I saw, They kept up such a smother, So I took my hat off, made a bow And scampered home to mother. Yankee Doodle is ...
... father of the University of Virginia.” SECTION I. Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free ...
... father and an Anglican mother and left school at the age of 13 to work with his father as a corset maker. He tried a variety of occupations (including collecting excise duties on liquor and tobacco), none successfully. After meeting ...
... father, friend, or lover; and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward, and the spirit of a sycophant. . . . Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with ...
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The Federalist No 1 | 63 |
Reply to Booker T Washington | 329 |
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 |
The Preacher and the Slave | 385 |
Farewell Address | 71 |
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 |
AFTER THE CIVIL | 273 |
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 |
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 |
Which Side Are You On? | 471 |
This Is the Army Mr Jones | 477 |
High Flight | 485 |
War Message to | 492 |
The Spirit of Liberty | 498 |
AFTER WORLD WAR II | 505 |
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 |