Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 5 --
Pledge of Allegiance, 1892 7 --
Battle Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root, c. 1861 8 --
Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900 9 --
You're a Grand Old Flag, George M. Cohan, 1906 10 --
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) 11 --
Flags, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 15 --
Mike Christian Story, John McCain, 1971 16 --
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) 18 --
U.S. Blues, Grateful Dead, 1973 21 --
God Bless the U.S.A., Lee Greenwood, 1984 22 --
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 32 --
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 34 --
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 41 --
Daniel Webster, Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825 45 --
Ship of State, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 48 --
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, April 10, 1899 49 --
Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes, July 1936 54 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937 57 --
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 61 --
Times They Are A-Changin', Bob Dylan, c. 1963 65 --
First Words Spoken by a Man on the Moon, July 20, 1969 67 --
Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989 69 --
Portraits of Americans --
Yankee Doodle, 1755 76 --
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782 78 --
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 79 --
Democracy, Henry Adams, 1880 81 --
Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1891 83 --
Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics, George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 85 --
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 88 --
On Being an American, H. L. Mencken, 1922 90 --
As Regards Patriotism, Mark Twain, c. 1900 94 --
I Like Americans, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924 96 --
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 98 --
American Names, Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927 100 --
The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930 102 --
You're the Top, Cole Porter, 1934 105 --
Story of a Novel, Thomas Wolfe, 1936 108 --
Hollywood, Truman Capote, 1950 109 --
Last Gentleman, Walker Percy, 1966 111 --
How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua, 1987 113 --
A Country and a Conundrum, Anna Quindlen, 2002 116 --
Constitution of the United States, 1787 125 --
Benjamin Franklin, The Constitutional Convention, Speech at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations, September 17, 1787 143 --
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) 145 --
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849 147 --
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 150 --
United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873 157 --
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 162 --
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 165 --
Lyndon B. Johnson, Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965 170 --
Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968) 175 --
Barbara Jordan, Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings on Impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 178 --
Gerald R. Ford, Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office, August 9, 1974 181 --
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) 183 --
Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, 1776 192 --
But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776), Sherman Edwards, 1964 197 --
America, Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 200 --
Frederick Douglass, If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot, September 24, 1847 202 --
Annie Davis, Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 204 --
Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 205 --
Freedom, E. B. White, July 1940 206 --
As freedom is a breakfastfood, E. E. Cummings, 1940 211 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941 213 --
Judge Learned Hand, Address at "I Am an American" Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 220 --
I've Got the Light of Freedom, Pete Seeger 222 --
Ronald Reagan, Address to Students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 223 --
Freedom of Speech and of the Press --
Andrew Hamilton, Statement at Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 229 --
Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919) 232 --
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) 236 --
Margaret Chase Smith, Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 240 --
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) 244 --
Amazing Grace, John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) 251 --
Chief Red Jacket, Speech Against Missionaries' Efforts to Baptize Members of the Seneca Tribe, 1805 254 --
John F. Kennedy, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 256 --
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) 259 --
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002) 264 --
James Otis, Statement Against the Writs of Assistance, Boston, 1761 269 --
Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) 271 --
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) 275 --
Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 287 --
John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 288 --
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 289 --
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?, May 1851 293 --
James Weldon Johnson, Life Every Voice and Sing, 1900 294 --
Jeannette Rankin, Speech in Congress on Women's Rights and Wartime Service, January 10, 1918 296 --
Incident, Countee Cullen, 1925 299 --
Merry-Go-Round, Langston Hughes, 1942 301 --
Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 302 --
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) 306 --
Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960 312 --
John F. Kennedy, Televised Address to the Nation, June 11, 1963 315 --
Martin Luther King Jr., Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 321 --
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 325 --
Fannie Lou Hamer, The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman, May 7, 1971 328 --
Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973) 330 --
Edward M. Kennedy, Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 332 --
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 336 --
William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks on Affirmative Action, July 19, 1995 340 --
Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999) 347 --
Simple Gifts, Joseph Brackett, 1848 355 --
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841 356 --
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 360 --
Songs of the Sacred Mysteries, Sioux, 1869 364 --
Sorrow Songs (from The Souls of Black Folk), W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 367 --
Road Not Taken, Robert Frost, 1916 370 --
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1947 371 --
William Faulkner, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 374 --
Lillian Hellman, Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and Reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 375 --
Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 379 --
Martin Luther King Jr., The Drum Major Instinct, February 4, 1968 383 --
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker, 1974 387 --
Chief Logan, Speech After Defeat by the Virginia Militia, 1774 397 --
Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 398 --
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, February 14, 1776 400 --
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 403 --
Monroe Doctrine, 1823 408 --
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, 1861 410 --
Shiloh, a Requiem, Herman Melville, April 1862 411 --
Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 412 --
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 415 --
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 418 --
Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886 420 --
Chief Joseph, Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 421 --
Marines' Song, 1891 422 --
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind, Stephen Crane, 1899 423 --
Caisson Song, Edmund L. Gruber, 1907 425 --
Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917 426 --
Over There, George M. Cohan, 1917 430 --
Unknown Soldier, Billy Rose 431 --
September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden, 1941 433 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941 436 --
Gift Outright, Robert Frost, 1942 438 --
Martial Cadenza, Wallace Stevens, 1954 440 --
Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Great Crusade, June 6, 1944 442 --
J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the Atomic Bomb, 1945 446 --
Albert Einstein, The Fateful Decision, 1948 447 --
Harry S. Truman, Address to the Nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 449 --
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 454 --
Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, 1962 458 --
John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 459 --
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, John Kerry, 1971 465 --
Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen, 1984 469 --
Tim O'Brien, On the Rainy River (from The Things They Carried), 1990 472 --
Richard M. Nixon, Remarks Upon Returning from the People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 478 --
William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 481 --
George W. Bush, Address on Terrorism Before a Joint Meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 485 --
Jimmy Carter, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 491 --
Work, Opportunity, and Invention --
New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883 499 --
Huang Zunxian, Explusion of the Immigrants, c. 1884 500 --
I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman, 1891 503 --
I've Been Working on the Railroad 505 --
Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 506 --
Florence Kelley, Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 509 --
Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906 510 --
Ellis Island, Henry James, 1907 512 --
Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy, 1971 514 --
Henry Ford, My Life and Work, 1922 517 --
Thomas Alva Edison, They Won't Think, 1921 519 --
Happy Days Are Here Again, Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 520 --
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, E. Y. Harburg and jay Gorney, 1932 521 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 523 --
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) 528 --
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 530 --
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949 534 --
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, The Kitchen Debate, Moscow, 1959 536 --
Manny Steen, Ellis Island Interview, March 22, 1991 539 --
Groucho Marx, King Leer, 1950 540 --
Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn, 1970 542 --
Mario Puzo, Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 544 --
Robert F. Kennedy, Recapturing America's Moral Vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 548 --
Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 551 --
My Hometown, Bruce Springsteen, 1984 555 --
Andy Warhol, POPism, 1975 557 --
Edward M. Kennedy, Speech to the Democratic Convention, August 12, 1980 558 --
David Bright, Homeless Children Speak, 1986 561 --
George Bush, Speech at the Republican Convention, August 18, 1988 562 --
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, 1989 564 --
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of an American, September 21, 2001 566 --
Bill Gates, Capitalizing on the "Cognitive Niche," 1999 570 --
God Bless America, Irving Berlin, 1938 577 --
Thanksgivings, Iroquois, 1891 578 --
Twelfth Song of the Thunder, Navajo, 1887 579 --
Oh! Susanna, Stephen Foster, 1848 580 --
Old Cotton Fields at Home, Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 582 --
Light in August, William Faulkner, 1932 584 --
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, 1941 586 --
Florida, Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 588 --
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884 590 --
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, 1923 593 --
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, 1851 594 --
Sidewalks of New York, James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894 596 --
New York, New York, Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 598 --
Jazz, Toni Morrison, 1992 599 --
Chicago, Carl Sandburg, 1916 601 --
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 603 --
Ballad of Davy Crockett, George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 606 --
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, 1913 608 --
Northern Utes, Response to the Breakup of Their Reservation, 1903 612 --
Home on the Range, David Guion, 1930 614 --
Old Chisholm Trail, c. 1880 618 --
Mud Below, Annie Proulx, 1999 621 --
Oklahoma, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 623 --
I Left My Heart in San Francisco, George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954 626 --
Sunset, Jack Kerouac, 1960 628 --
Surfin' U.S.A., Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 630 --
Los Angeles Notebook, Joan Didion, 1966 632 --
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, 1970 636 --
Wilderness Letter, Wallace Stegner, 1960 638 --
America, Paul Simon, 1968 640 --
America, the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 644 --
This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie, 1940 646.
