Preface -- Table of contents -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Introductory Remarks, Congress of African Peoples -- A -- Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Tension Between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Women's Sexuality Denied -- Abigail Adams and Republican Motherhood -- Women and War: Abigail Adams -- From The Education of Henry Adams -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Appointment of George Washington to Command the Continental Army -- The Massachusetts Circular Letter -- Washington's Birthday -- The Problem of Urban Pollution: Jane Addams -- Resignation Address -- Address on the Media -- The Responsibilities of Television -- The Power of the Press -- Little Women: Louisa May Alcott -- Strangers at the Gates -- Americans Invade the Spanish Frontier -- An Antenuptial Agreement -- Artisan Entrepreneurship in the New Republic -- The Situation with Respect to the Negro: Sidney Andrews -- Attempted Slave Insurrections and Revolutionary Rhetoric -- Attitudes Toward Female Employment After the War -- Copperheads: The Peace Democrats of the North -- Kiowa Legend of the Buffalo -- Are Women Persons? -- 'It Was We the People, Not We the White Male Citizens': Demanding the Right to Vote -- The Eagle Has Landed -- Letters Showing the Treachery of Benedict Arnold -- The Fur Trade in the Northeast: John Jacob Center -- B -- Bacon's 'Manifesto and Declaration of the People' -- A Description of Roanoke Island -- From 'The Hasty Pudding' -- The New York City Draft Riots -- Address on Nuclear Weapons Control -- 'America the Beautiful' -- American Nervousness: George M Beard -- Teaching: A Woman's Profession -- The Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women -- The Murder of Elijah Lovejoy -- Visions -- Looking Backward -- On Henry James -- Getting Used to Decadence.

The Sand Creek Massacre -- Thomas Hart Benton on The Indian and Manifest Destiny -- Native Americans and the War of 1812 -- The Republic That Never Retreats -- An Account of Bacon's Rebellion -- Indian-White Relations During the Civil War -- Gold Discovered in California -- Sectional Reunion in Racism: The Spanish-American War -- Women's Sexuality Confirmed -- From An Indian Teacher among Indians -- School Days of an Indian Girl -- Dissent and the Sense of Responsibility -- On the League of Nations -- A Sermon Giving the Tory Perspective -- Convention Keynote Address -- Account of the Starving Time at Plymouth Colony -- The Pilgrims' Landing at Plymouth Rock -- 'Before the Birth of One of Her Children' -- 'To My Dear and Loving Husband' -- 'In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old' -- The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet: 'Contemplations' -- An 18th-Century Missionary to the Indians -- I Feel No Consciousness of Guilt -- Southern Women and the Opportunities of War: 'Our Girls' -- 'The Prairies' -- 'Abraham Lincoln' -- From Thanatopsis -- Cross of Gold Speech -- Naboth's Vineyard -- General Burgoyne's Plan to Defeat the Americans -- 'Speech for Conciliation with America': Edmund Burke Supports the Colonists -- Governor Burnet's Letter on the Virtues of Paper Currency -- Commencement Address, Hebrew University -- Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days -- Lost and Runaway Property - Horses and Slaves -- Choices and Change -- Nomination Acceptance Address -- War with Iraq -- The Women of New Orleans and General Order No. 28 -- John C Calhoun's New Defense of Slavery -- C -- Black Power -- Wealth -- Colonial Feme Sole Trader Acts -- Nomination Acceptance Speech -- Tribute to Hubert Humphrey -- Address to the Citizens of the World -- Energy and National Goals.

The Growth and Strength of the Soviet Union -- The Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty -- 'Lending a Hand to a Dying Nation': George Catlin -- Address to the United States Congress -- Living through the Depression of 1893 -- A New Society -- Champlain's Account of the Founding of Quebec -- The Wright Brothers' Flights -- The Assault on Charles Sumner -- Journal of a Voyage to North America -- 'Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England': The Dangers of Religious 'Enthusiasm' -- A Confederate Considers Slavery -- A Confederate Questions Slavery: Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The Story of a Chinese Immigrant -- Surrender to US Army -- Personal Liberty Laws -- Time to Reassess Our National Priorities -- For the Equal Rights Amendment -- The Bench and the Bar -- From The Awakening -- Chinese Accounts of the Killings at Rock Springs -- Sex in Education, or, A Fair Chance for Girls: Edward Clarke -- The Journey of Lewis and Clark: At the Falls of the Missouri -- On the Compromise of 1850 -- Henry Clay and the Compromise of 1850 -- Henry Clay's Speech on Domestic Manufactures -- First Inaugural Address -- Address to the American Medical Association -- The New Covenant -- Inaugural Address -- US Health Care System -- Reply to Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech -- The Stamp Act Riot in New York City -- A Letter of Christopher Columbus: The First Description of the New World -- Violence and Discrimination on the Texas Frontier -- The 'Lost Cause' -- The Reconstruction Amendments -- The Dawes Severalty Act -- Colonial Connecticut's Liberal Divorce Law -- On Stephen Crane -- Acres of Diamonds -- 'Acres of Diamonds': Russell H Conwell -- Sharecropping -- Have Faith in Massachusetts -- A Voice from the South -- The Last of the Mohicans -- A Third Party -- The Grimké Sisters Condemned for Speaking Against Slavery.

Worcester v. Georgia: The Removal of the Cherokee People -- The Dred Scott Decision -- Tench Cox's Speech on the Advancement of Manufactures -- A War with Hunger, Wretchedness, and Despair: Coxey's Army -- From 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky' -- From 'The Open Boat' -- 'I saw a man pursuing the horizon' -- 'War is Kind' -- Is the Free Press in America Under Attack? -- Convention Keynote Address -- John Paul Jones and the Defeat of the Serapis -- D -- Women and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Remarks on Capital Punishment -- Appeal for Henry Sweet -- To the Jury: Self-Defense -- On the Secession of Mississippi -- Inaugural Address -- Jefferson Davis on Slavery and White Equality -- Jefferson Davis's Second Inaugural Address -- Women and the Fifteenth Amendment -- The Idealized Southern Woman -- While There Is a Lower Class, I Am in It -- How I Became a Socialist -- Southern White Expectations from Emancipation -- The Columbian Oration -- Woman -- Liberty Enlightening the World -- Birthday of General Grant -- Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences Between the Sexes -- Defeatism Must Go -- John Dickinson's Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer -- Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress -- The Articles of Confederation -- The Demand for Legislation to Aid the Helpless -- Birth of a Nation: Reconstruction, Women, and the Popular Imagination -- Populist Party Platform -- Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln -- The Nature of Slavery -- I Hear the Mournful Wail of Millions -- Who Would Be Free, Themselves Must Strike the Blow -- Frederick Douglass on Christianity and Slavery -- Reply to Lincoln at Freeport -- Opening Statement at Ottawa (First Lincoln-Douglas Debate) -- Statement at Alton (Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate) -- Arguments Against Inoculation for Smallpox -- One Freedwoman's Memory of Slavery.

Address to the Convention of the National Women's Suffrage Association -- The Souls of Black Folk -- From The Souls of Black Folk -- Daniel Dulany Makes a Distinction between Virtual and Actual Representation: -- The Issues at Geneva -- The Peace We Seek -- The Effects of Mechanization on Shoe Industry Workers -- E -- From Personal Narrative -- From 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' -- 'A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God...'.: The Great Awakening -- 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God': A Sermon by Jonathon Edwards -- 'Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England': The Benefits of Religion's 'Enthusiasm' -- Peace in the Atomic Era -- Farewell Address -- Nomination Acceptance Address -- First Inaugural Address -- The Order of the Day -- Reflections on the End of the War -- Peace in the World -- An Atomic Stockpile for Peace -- The Serious Situation in Little Rock -- Harvard and Yale -- A Puritan Missionary Among New England Indians -- On Edgar Allen Poe -- Seneca Falls Convention -- Reactions to Mexican Immigration -- From Nature -- From 'Experience' -- 'The Snow-Storm' -- 'Brahma' -- 'Concord Hymn' -- Tribute to Robert Burns -- Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Address at Gettysburg -- Discrimination and Science -- New England Mill Girls -- F -- The Ten-Hour Movement at Lowell -- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech -- White House Sermon -- Revivals of the Second Great Awakening -- Education on the Carter Plantation -- Slavery as a Positive Good: George Fitzhugh -- Christmas Message -- Female Friends Share Contraceptive Advice -- First Presidential Address -- Dwight D Eisenhower: A Remembrance and Rededication -- Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention -- From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin Comments on George Whitefield.

Benjamin Franklin's Views on Religion and Moral Perfection.