The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe 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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... Civil Disobedience 125 HENRY DAVID THOREAU : Walden 134 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER : The Barefoot Boy 140 THOMAS CORWIN : Against the Mexican War 143 HORACE MANN : The Case for Public Schools 148 Seneca viii ☆ Contents.
... The Lincoln - Douglas Debates 216 JOHN BROWN : Last Statement to the Court 224 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The Cooper Union Speech Go Down , Moses 227 238 THE CIVIL WAR DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT : Dixie ABRAHAM LINCOLN Contents ix.
... CIVIL WAR FRANCIS MILES FINCH : The Blue and the Gray 275 SUSAN B. ANTHONY : Women's Right to Vote 277 The Ballad of John Henry 285 Home on the Range 287 I've Been Working on the Railroad 288 HELEN HUNT JACKSON : A Century of Dishonor ...
... Civil Rights 513 HARRY S. TRUMAN : Inaugural Address 516 MARGARET CHASE SMITH : Declaration of Conscience WILLIAM FAULKNER : Nobel Acceptance Speech 522 527 LOUIS SIMPSON : The Silent Generation 529 LANGSTON HUGHES : Refugee in America ...
... civil parts of the world . If it be said they had a ship to sucour them , it is trew ; but what heard they daly from the master and company ? but that with speede they should looke out a place with their shallop , wher they would be at ...