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The history of the United States is chronicled in these excerpts from documents and speeches. The author provides a brief introduction and some margin notes to place each excerpt in its historical context. After the excerpt, there's a brief biography of the author(s) and the response to the document or speech.
Excerpts
The Mayflower Compact
Poor Richard's Almanack, Benjamin Franklin
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Letter to John Adams, Abigail Adams
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution and The Bill of Rights
Farewell Address, George Washington
The Star-Spangled-Banner, Francis Scott Key
The Monroe Doctrine, James Monroe
Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment
I Will Fight No More Forever, Chief Joseph
Statement on the Causes of Wounded Knee, Red Cloud
Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams
The Sixteenth Amendment
The Fourteen Points, Woodrow Wilson
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Immigration Act
War Message to Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy
The Declaration of Indian Purpose
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Speech at the Berlin Wall, John F. Kennedy
The March on Washington Address, Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot or The Bullet, Malcolm X
Speech to Striking Grape Workers, César Chávez
The Eagle Has Landed
I'd Rather Be Black Than Female, Shirley Chisholm
Letter of Resignation, Richard M. Nixon
Farewell Address, Ronald Reagan
Speech at the United Nations Conference on Women, Hillary Rodham Clinton
