Our nation's archive : the history of the United States in documents
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New York : Black Dog & Leventhal :, c1999.
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Table of Contents
How the world was made: Cherokee Nation --
This is the wisdom of the great spirit: Iroquois Federation Constitution --
With fifty men all can be kept in subjection / Christopher Columbus --
Spanish explorers in Florida / Alver Nunez Cabeza De Vaca --
De Orbe Novo / Peter Martry and Richard Eden --
Seven cities are seven little villages / Francisco Vasquez de Coronado --
Francis Drake stakes a claim for California / Francis Fletcher --
We give grant to our trustie: charter to Sir Walter Raleigh --
Struggling to settle Jamestown / John Smith --
What can you get by war? / Chief Powhatan --
Lost in the woods / Samuel de Champlain --
Coercing children to Virginia / Sir Edwin Sandys --
Wives for the people of Virginia: Virginia Company --
Combine ourselves into a civil Body Politick: the Mayflower Compact --
Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority / John Winthrop --
Patroon Charter of New Netherlands: Dutch East India Company --
Shelter for the poor and persecuted / Roger Williams --
What breach of law is that Sir / Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson --
That old deluder Satan: First Massachusetts School Law --
Maryland Act of Treason: Maryland Assembly --
Said persons shall enjoy exemptions: tax relief for children in New Netherlands --
This indenture made: a typical indenture contract --
Execution of Mary Dyer --
Massachusetts declaration of liberties --
God's controversy with New England / Michael Wigglesworth --
Act concerning Negroes and other slaves --
Thus we were butchered / Mary Rowlandson --
Adversity doth still our joyes attend / Anne Bradstreet --
We may always live together as neighbors and friends / William Penn --
France claims Louisiana / Jacques De La Metairie --
We are against this traffic of men --
Plan of union / William Penn --
I will honor my father and mother --
Indictment v. George Jacobs, Sr.: a Salem witch trial --
Act for the encouragement of the importation of white servants: South Carolina --
Help Lord / Cotton Mather --
Smallpox innoculation / Zabdiel Boylston --
School of good manners / Eleazer Moody --
Few lines behind me / William Battin --
Thirteen virtues / Benjamin Franklin --
Advice to a young tradesman / Benjamin Franklin --
Dangerous upon several political accounts, especially self-preservation: a Virginia clergyman --
Harmless little beast / William Byrd --
Bering explores Alaska for Russia / Georg Stellar --
Be upon our guard against power / John Peter Zenger --
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards --
We are not well used / Chief Cannassatego --
Invading Florida / Edward Kimber --
Account shewing the progress of the colony of Georgia: trustees of Georgia --
Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia / John Martin Blozius --
I have the business of three plantations to transact / Eliza Lucas Pinckney --
Prohibiting education to slaves: South Carolina --
New refinement in cruelty / Olaudah Esquiano --
Punishing their secret plots: Virginia assembly --
Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief / Jonathan Mayhew --
I cannot say it without tears / Fray Carlos Jose Delgado --
Plan of union / Benjamin Franklin --
Sorrow was again my lot / Elizabeth Ashbridge --
Man's house is his castle / James Otis --
Course in midwifery / Pennsylvania Gazette --
Two parties were fixed upon each other rebellion in New York --
Poverty is almost an entire stranger --
Rules of civility / George Washington --
Taxation without representation: the Stamp Act --
Liberty song / John Dickinson --
Regulators of North Carolina: petition of the inhabitants of Anson County, North Carolina --
I heard the word 'fire': the Boston Massacre --
Rally, Mohawks! bring out axes: Boston Tea Party --
Every American are sharers in the insult: resolutions on the Boston Port Act --
Common cause of America: Pennsylvania resolutions --
Attack on one colony is an attack on all: Virginia calls for Continental Congress --
Life, liberty, and prosperity: declaration and resolves of the First Congress --
Who is there to mourn for Logan?: no one / Chief Logan --
Give me liberty or give me death / Patrick Henry --
Fire! by God, fire! / Reverend Jonas Clark --
Day on which the fate of America depends / Abigail Adams --
I do not think myself equal to the command / George Washington --
I was great and you were little / Stockbridge Indian --
Common sense / Thomas Paine --
All men are by nature equally free and independent: Virginia declaration --
All inhabitants shall be entitled to vote: New Jersey Constitution --
When in the course of human events: Declaration of Independence --
I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory / John Adams to Abigail Adams --
Remember the ladies / Abigail Adams --
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country / Nathan Hale --
Betty Zane / Thomas Dunn English --
Further depreciations must ensue / Robert Morris --
These are the times that try men's souls / Thomas Paine --
Yankee Doodle: traditional folk song --
Let tyrants shake their iron rod / William Billings --
Rebels / Captain Smith --
Perpetual union between the states: Articles of Confederation --
Nothing but virtue has kept our army together / Colonel John Brooks --
I have not yet begun to fight / Captain John Paul Jones --
One more step to universal civilization: emancipation in Pennsylvania --
This is to us a most glorious day: Cornwallis --
What is an American? / J. Hector St. John De Craevecoeur --
One more distinguished proof of unexampled patriotism / George Washington --
Free, sovereign,and independent states: the Paris Peace Treaty --
There never was a good war or a bad peace / Benjamin Franklin --
On religion / Thomas Jefferson --
Act for establishing religious freedom / Thomas Jefferson --
There are important defects in the system: the Annapolis Convention --
Late rising of the people: Shay's rebellion --
Northwest Ordinace --
We the people --
Address in favor of the Constitution / Benjamin Franklin --
Tree of liberty must be refreshed / Thomas Jefferson --
Debating the need for a Bill of Rights / James Wilson and John Smilie --
Federalist I: on the purpose of the writer / Alexander Hamilton --
Federalist LI: on the safety of multiple interests / James Madison --
Observers on the Constitution / John Dickinson --
There is no alternative / George Washington --
Wrong step now and the Republic will be lost forever / Patrick Henry --
Raising: a new song for federal mechanics / Francis Hopkinson --
First Inaugural Address / George Washington --
Judiciary Act of 1789 --
On public credit / Alexander Hamilton --
On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray --
Rights of the people: the Bill of Rights --
Hasty pudding / Joel Barlow --
Charlotte Temple / Susanna Haswell Rowson --
Whiskey Rebellion / William Findley --
Modern chivalry / Hugh Henry Brackenridge --
American cooking / Amelia Simmons --
Anglican monarchical aristocratical party has sprung up / Thomas Jefferson --
Counsels of an old and affectionate friend: Washington's farewell address --
Hail, Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson --
Alien and Sedition Acts --
First in the hearts of his countrymen / Henry Lee --
Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson --
Contemptible hypocrite / Alexander Hamilton --
Madison v. Marbury: it is ... the duty of the judicial department to say what the law is / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall --
French Republic...doth hereby cede: the Louisiana Purchase --
His information fell far short of my expectation or wishes / Meriwether Clark --
Jerks cannot be easily described / Barton Warren Stone --
We also have a religion / Chief Red Jacket --
Burr Conspiracy / Thomas Jefferson --
Embargo on all ships and vessels: the Embargo Act --
I prefer war to submission / Felix Grundy --
Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key --
Acting on behalf of the children / Pennsylvania Supreme Court --
Report and resolution of the Hartford Convention: Harford Convention --
Hunters of Kentucky: celebrating the Battle of New Orleans --
McCulloch v. Maryland: the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are supreme / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall --
Civilization of the Indian tribes --
Florida treaty --
Missouri Compromise --
Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe --
This was all burlesque on me / Davy Crockett --
Greatest inland trade ever witnessed / De Witt Clinton --
Internal improvements / John Quincy Adams --
Palladium of human liberty / Frances Wright --
What is the profession of a woman? / Catherine Beecher --
Appeals to the colored citizens of the world / David Walker --
Woodman, spare that tree / George Perkins Morris --
I will be heard / William Lloyd Garrison --
To live in comfort / Gjert Gregoriussen Hovland --
Last should be first: confessions of Nat Turner --
Free Enquirer / New Harmony Gazette --
America / Samuel Smith --
Reply to Jackson's bank veto / Daniel Webster --
Compared to disunion all other evils are light / Andrew Jackson --
Sending many a redskin to his long home / Kit Carson --
We are menaced by our old enemies, avarice, and ambition / William Leggett.
Dangers from Popery / Samuel A. Morse --
Spirit of God breathes through the combined intelligence of the people / George Bancroft --
Power of the people are disseminated / Alexis De Tocqueville --
Compulsory school attendance / Massachusetts Legislature --
California beachcombers / Richard Henry Dana --
Check this spirit of monopoly / Andrew Jackson --
Pure, unmixed, personal idolatry / John Calhoun --
Victory or death / William Barret Travis --
Trail of tears: native of Maine --
I have wept in the land of my birth over slavery / Angelina Grimkae --
Guilty of excusable homicide / Philip Hone --
Looks the world in the face / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Man is born to be a reformer / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
We cannot perceive, that it is criminal for men to agree together to exercise their rights / Lemard Shaw --
Individual accumulation will be seen in its naked selfishness Elizabeth Peabody --
I beg, I implore, I demand pity / Dorothea Dix --
Annexation of Texas to the United States / Sam Houston --
Expanding westward / James K. Polk --
Christian defense of slavery / Reverend Richard Fuller --
Cotton and negroes are the constant theme / J.H. Ingram --
Baseball's original rules / Alexander Cartwright --
We are destined to be a great manufacturing people / Henry A. Miles --
Real picture of factory life: Lowell woman's protest --
Manifest Destiny / John L. O'Sullivan --
Oregon Treaty / James K. Polk --
On our way to Rio Grande / George Washington Dixon --
Peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic: Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo --
Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau --
My master was my father / Frederick Douglass --
Let me make you a present of this little nigger / William Wells Brown --
Trials of girlhood / Harriet Jacobs --
Halleluiah! halleluiah! / Frederika Bremer --
All men are created equal, Seneca Falls Declaration --
Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth --
Sexual love is not naturally restricted to pairs / John Noyes --
Act to limit hours / Pennsylvania Legislature --
Education is the great equalizer of the condition of man / Horace Mann --
Compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay --
[South] has little left to surrender / John C. Calhoun --
Let us not be pigmies in a case that calls for men / Daniel Webster --
It was a new world to them / New York Daily Times --
We have our five points / George Templeton Strong --
Rich men of Massachusetts / A. Forbes and J.W. Greene --
Precious depravity of San Francisco / William Kelly --
Spectacle unequaled in past history: Andrews Report --
McGuffey's electric first reader / William H. McGuffey --
Kansas Emigrants / John Greenleaf --
We may be brothers after all / Chief Seattle --
Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act / Massachusetts Legislature --
Walden / Henry David Thoreau --
Americans must rule America: American Party 1856 Platform --
On the Oregon Trail / Helen Carpenter --
Handbook for overland exeditions / Randolph Marcy --
Dred Scott v. Sandford: the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution / Roger B. Taney --
Plea for southern cities / Hilton B. Helper --
House divided against itself cannot stand / Abraham Lincoln --
This government can exist / Stephen Douglas --
To rouse the south / Edmund Ruffin --
Mingle my blood with the blood of my children / John Brown --
We denounce those threats of disunion: Republican Party Platform --
Die is cast / Mary Chestnut --
Separate and equal among the nations: South Carolina Declaration of causes of secession --
Negro slavery shall be recognized and protected: Constitution of the Confederate states of America --
We must not be enemies: Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address --
Cornerstone speech / Alexander Stephens --
Confederate States can no longer delay: Fort Sumter bombing --
I have endeavored to do what I thought right / Robert E. Lee --
I will not dwell upon the awful scene / Philip Powers --
This imbecile, pro-slavery government does try me so / Lydia Maria Child --
Tide is against us / Jefferson Davis --
South only asked to be let alone: Confederate textbook --
Civil War legislation --
Aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line...to the Pacific Ocean: Pacific Railway Act, July 1, 1862 --
Provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts: Morrill Act, July 2, 1862 --
If we are regarded as an evil here / Reverend Henry M. Turner --
Prayer of twenty millions: Greeley's appeal to Lincoln ; Lincoln's response --
Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln --
To the working-men of Manchester / Abraham Lincoln --
Gettysburg diary / Elisah Hunt Rhodes --
Attacked by an armed mob / U.S. Army Record --
Charleston / Henry Timrod --
Are we soldiers, or are labourers? / Corporal James Henry Gooding, Captain James W. Grace --
Gettysgurg Address / Abraham Lincoln --
Let us live to make men free: Civil War songs --
Real war will never get into the books / Walt Whitman --
Doings in Nebraska / Mark Twain --
Oh, if it could all end, and this terrible turmoil cease / Captain Philip Powers --
Union assault at Cold Harbor / Ulysses S. Grant --
Life on the Sea Islands / Charlotte Forten --
Letter to Mrs. Bixby / Abraham Lincoln --
Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians / John Smith --
Oh, what a horrible thing war is / Eliza Frances Andrews --
With malice toward none: Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address --
We did not want to exult over their downfall / Ulysses S. Grant --
Farewell to his army / Robert E. Lee --
I am lost in amazement that the struggle could have been so prolonged / Judah Benjamin --
They are everywhere, these Yankees / Mary Chestnut --
Assassination of Mr. Lincoln / Edwin Bates --
Prominent citizens became piesellers / Myrta Lockett Avary --
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist / Thirteenth Amendment --
Blue and the Gray / Francis Miles Finch --
Rebel states shall be divided into military districs: First Reconstruction Act --
Purchase of Alaska / Seward's Folly --
Ragged Dick / Horatio Alger --
End of the white man's government / New Orleans Tribune --
Masculine element / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
Multitudes bitterly opposed the schools: Congressional Report on the Freedman's Bureau --
Full pardon / Andrew Jackson --
Guilty or not guilty as charged in this article of impeachment? / George Julian --
Equal protection of the laws / Fourteenth Amendment --
I do solemnly swear: oath of office --
Right to vote shall not be denied on account of race / Fifteenth Amendment --
Wild Bill, then, as now the most famous scout on the Plains / George Custer --
Buffalo-killing match / Buffalo Bill Cody --
Atlantic and Pacific were joined together / Grenville M. Dodge --
Gonna be a steel-drivin' man / Ballad of John Henry --
Public park movement / Frederick Law Olmsted --
Descriptions of the Ku Klux Klans / Frankfort, Kentucky Congressional petition --
No Indian nation shall be recognized as an independent nation --
All of my sex are dommed to political subjection / Susan B. Anthony --
Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam: Home on the Range --
Very few become Americanized: Anti-Chinese testimony --
Success of the Standard Oil Company / John D. Rockefeller --
All the soldiers are now killed / Two Moon --
Invention of the telephone / Alexander Graham Bell --
Certain combination of men against law exist / Ulysses S. Grant --
Mistakes have been made / Ulysses S. Grant --
Uneducated negro was too weak / Daniel Chamberlain --
General reestablishment of order / Rutherford B. Hayes --
We had only our ignorance / Anonymous African-American --
I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph --
Silent General / Walt Whitman --
Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman --
Century of dishonor / Helen Hunt Jackson --
Wanted: Jesse James / Missouri Governor Thomas T. Crittenden --
I was christened Calamity Jane / Calamity Jane --
Red hand of murder / James Blaine --
New colossus / Emma Lazarus --
People of both races will have equal accommodation / J.A. Scott --
Giving the Negro fair play / Frederick Douglass --
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain --
New South / Henry W. Grady --
To arms, we call you, to arms! / August Spies --
Dives of New York are hot-bes of crime / George W. Walling --
Dawes Act / Congres --
My ambition is to build a great indudtrial works / Thomas Edison --
Lady's guide to perfect gentillity / Emily Thornwell --
Typical day's work / Illinois farmer's wife --
Plain surroundings, like plain lilving, might be conducive to high thinking / India Harris Simmons --
Society as I have found it / Ward Mcallister --
Looking backward / Edward Bellamy --
Forty years of Hull House / Jane Addams --
True gospel concerning wealth / Andrew Carnegie --
How the other half lives / Jacob A. Riis --
Luck is not chance / Emily Dickinson --
Labor movement is a fixed fact / Samuel Gompers --
Sherman Anti-trust Act / Congress --
It was one long grave of butchered women and children and babies / Black Elk recalls Wounded Knee --
Interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical / Populist Party platform --
Frontier has gone / Frederick Jackson Turner --
My sister...forgot, and talked, and just that minute her finger was off / Helen Campbell --
I pledge allegiance / Francis Bellamy --
America the Beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates.
To Eugene V. Debs and the American Railway Union / Grover Cleveland --
Give employment to any idle man applying for work / Jacob S. Coxey --
Influence of machinery on labor / Carroll D. Wright --
Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington --
Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equal / Supreme Court Justice Henry Bililngs Brown, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan --
Cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan --
Tall office building / Louis Sulilvan --
Overwhelming victory / William McKinley --
To the charge / Stephen Bonsal --
Cessation is accepted, ratified,and confirmed / Annexation of Hawaii --
Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba / Treaty of Paris --
Strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt --
Open door policy / William W. Rockhill --
Nation should assume power of regulation over all corporations / Theodore Roosevelt --
As regards patriotism / Mark Twain --
If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you / Jack London --
Oil War of 1872 / Uda M. Tarbull --
United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of Panama / Panama Canal Treaty --
It was my dream to come [to the United States] / Jesasus Garcia --
Machine started off with its ups and downs / Orville Wright --
I seen my opportunities and I took 'em / George Washington Plunkitt --
Jungle / Upton Sinclair --
Beginning in forest preservation / Theodore Roosevelt --
Take me out to the ballgame / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth --
Pittsburgh cannot afford to have over 500 workingmen killed every year / Paul Kellogg --
Ship ride to America was miserable / Jake Kreider --
I will do my best / Boy Scouts and Girl scouts --
Results of equal suffrage in California / National Woman Suffrage Association --
Titanic went under / James B. McGough --
Experiment of an assembly line / Henry Ford --
Power to lay and collect taxes on income / Sixteenth Amendment --
Senators elected by the people / Seventeenth Amendment --
Establishment of Federaal reserve banks / Federal Reserve Act --
It shall be unlawful...to create a monopoly in any line of commerce / Clayton Anti-trust Act --
There is a class struggle in society / William Big Bill Haywood --
In Puerto Rico no blood will be shed / Luis Muanoz Rivera --
Rights due political prisoners: suffragist prisoners --
There is nothing here for the colored man / African-American job seeker --
We propose an alliance...with Mexico / Zimmerman Note --
Neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable / Wilson's declaration of war against Germany --
Over there / George M. Cohan --
We kept the Germans from getting into Paris / Wililam Brown --
Wilson's address to Congress January 8, 1981: Fourteen points --
While there is a lower class, I am in it / Eugene Debs --
I must think of the United States first / Henry Cabot Lodge --
Working class and the employing class have nothing in common / Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World --
Any person who displays a red flag...is guilty of a felony / California Red Flag Law --
Abrams v. United States: the best test of the truth is the power of thought / Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. --
Schenck v. United States: a clear and present danger / Volstead Act --
No person shall possess any intoxicating liquor / Volstead Act --
Hallmarks of American / H.L. Mencken --
Meyer v. Nebraska: the knowledge of German cannot reasonable be regarded as harmful / Supreme Court Justice James C. Macreynolds --
Suffrage prevails / Nineteenth Amendment --
Woman must not accept; she must challenge / Margaret Sanger --
Revolution in manners and morals / Frederick Lewis Allen --
To keep eternally ablaze the sacred fire of a fervent devotion to a pure American / Ku Klux Klan declaration --
He had seen four of his six brothers die by violence, three of killed by white men / Malcolm X --
Immigration Act of 1924 / Congress --
Highest possible moral and artistic standards / Hays Formula --
Teapot Dome: joint resolution of Congress respecting prosecution for cancellation of oil, February 8, 1924 --
Among the believers / H.L. Mencken --
Mother to son / Langston Hughes --
American investments and business interests will be very seriously affected / Coolidge explains American intervention in Nicaragua --
I have suffered because I am a radical / Bartolomeo Vanzetti's last statement in court --
Which way to Ireland? / Charles Lindbergh --
Future of women in the air / Amelia Earhart --
You ain't heard nothing yet / George Groves --
Matters of public concern should be freely expresed / American Civil Liberties Union --
Something distinctly different from our former experience is taking place ; New Discovery of America --
True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom / Herbert Hoover --
Demoralization was unprecedented / Wall Street Journal --
Brother, can you spare a dime? / E.Y. Harburg --
Pretty boy Floyd / Woody Guthrie --
Fathers had killed themselves, so the family could have insurance: recalling the depression --
Bonus army / Herbert Hoover --
Only thing we have to fear is fear itself / Franklin Roosevelt --
People will turn out all right if you give them a proper chance / John Dos Passos --
To encourage national industrial recovery: National Recovery Act --
My nation, behold it in kindness / Black Elk --
Economics of man-made weather / Willis H. Carrier --
Woolworth's $250,000 trick / Fortune Magazine --
Successful analysis requires a national atmosphere / Benjamin Graham and David Dodd --
To protect the national banking system: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 --
Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck --
Every man a king / Huey Long --
To diminish the causes of labor disputes: the National Labor Relations Act --
Law that will take care of human needs: Social Security Act of 1933 --
Commonplace / Norman Rockwell --
I might have had a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for / Lou Gehrig --
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows / John L. Lewis --
Sit down! sit down!: a how-to guide to sit-down strikes --
They had no right to sit down there / Charles Stewart Mott --
Peacable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime / De Jonge V. Oregon --
Pioneers in the industry / David Packard --
City is the great playground and the great battlefield of the nation: reports of the Urbanism committee of the National Resources Committee --
South represents right now the nation's no. 1 problem: economic Conditions of the South --
All of us are descendents from immigrants and revolutionists / Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Neutrality Act of 1937 --
Extremely powerful bombs may thus be constructed / Albert Einstein --
I am in love with freedom / E.B. White --
This is London / Edward R. Murrow --
Four freedoms speech / Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Act to promote the defense of the United States: Lend-lease Act --
We are on the verge of war, but it is not yet too late to stay out / Charles Lindbergh --
Date which will live in infamy / Franklin Roosevelt --
Every possible protection against espionage and sabatoge: Japanese Relocation Order --
Even if a person had a fraction of Japanese blood in him, he must leave on demand / Monica Stone --
Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace / Teheran Conference --
Never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow / Ernie Pyle --
Landing on Omaha Beach / Bob Slaughter --
G.I. Bill --
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women / Judge Learned Hand --
United Nations conference on the proposed world organization should be summoned / Yalta (Crimea) Conference --
I think this is the end of the war / Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. --
Total victory / Harry S. Truman --
We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics / Bernard Baruch --
United States policy must be patient but firm and vigilant containment / George Kennan --
We find ourselves, our nation, in a world position of vast responsibility: the Marshall Plan --
Collective defense for the preservation of peace: the North Atlantic Treaty --
Trust yourself / Dr. Benjamin Spock --
Financing studies, research, instruction and other educational activities: the Fulbright Act --
There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services: executive order 9981 eliminates military segregation --
Six thousand houses that Levitt built / Harper's Weekly --
Time has arrived for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights / Hubert Humphrey --
Eightieth 'do-nothing' Congress / Harry Truman --
Christmas message / James Folsom --
Attack upon Korea makes it plain that Communism will now use armed invastion / Truman --
Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith --
I decline to accept the end of man / William Faulkner --
City of the big shoulders / Carl Sandburg --
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away / Douglas MacArthur --
Our little girl named it Checkers... we are going to keep it / Richard M. Nixon --
Patriotism is not the fear of something; it is the love of something / Adlai E. Stevenson --
We may not now relax our guard / Dwight D. Eisenhower --
Have you no sense of decency, sir? / Joseph Welch, Senator Joe McCarthy --
Brown v. Board of Education: separate but equal has no place / Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren --
Cooper v. Aaron: equal justice under the law is thus made a living truth / Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren --
There are no rules for our kind of show, so we'll make up our own / Lucille Ball --
Half of the sexual outlet of the total male population is being secured from sources which are socially disapproved: Kinsey report.
Roll over, Beethoven / Chuck Berry --
This land is your land / Woody Guthrie --
Refrain from riding buses owned and operated by the city of Montgomery: citizens' mass meeting --
Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate: student nonviolent Coordinating Committee --
Private foreign investments advanced to a high: United States Foreign Investment --
Highway Act of 1958 / Congress --
Three minutes and twenty seconds for each candidate: Nixon-Kennedy debate --
Guard against the military industrial complex / Dwight Eisenhower --
Trumpet summons us again / John F. Kennedy --
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee --
When television is bad, nothing is worse / Newton Minow --
Silent spring / Rachel Carson --
Port Huron Statement / Students for a Democratic Society --
Other Americans are those who live at a level of life beneath moral choice / Michael Harrington --
Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy --
Hurst took his gun out again, pointed it at Lee and shot him ... Hurst was acquitted / Robert Moses --
Segregation now, segregration tomorrow, segregration forever / George Wallace --
Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean? / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Shots which killed President Kennedy were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald / Warren Commission Report --
Clay comes out to meet Liston / Cassius Clay --
Great Society / Lyndon B. Johnson --
War on poverty / Lyndon B. Johnson --
Extremism in the defense of liberty is not vice / Barry Goldwater --
Serious threat to international peace: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution --
Recommendation of additional deployments to Vietnam / Robert McNamara --
Tinker v. Des Moines: schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism / Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas --
Things they carried / Timothy O/Brien --
To enforce the fifteenth Amendment / Voting Rights Act of 1965 --
One of the greatest acts of industrial irresponsibility in the present century / Ralph Nader --
It is hard to call the Hell's Angels anything but mutants / Hunter S. Thompson --
Learning from Las Vegas / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour --
My day: July 5, 1962 / Eleanor Roosevelt --
That problem that has no name / Betty Friedan --
Hippity-hop, I'm a bunny / loria Steinem --
We hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women / National Organization for Women --
Miranda v. Arizona: the right to remain silent / Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren --
Dissent is the great problem of American today / Daniel J. Boorstin --
We will protect ourselves ... by whatever means necessary / Black Panther Party --
What is the spirit of 1967? / Eugene McCarthy --
What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness but love and wisdom, and compassion / Robert Kennedy --
Mostly women and children were killed / Peers Report: the My Lai Massacre --
Largest antiwar action this country has ever seen: march on Washington --
Best story ever written / Sesame Street --
In a hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence: the Peter Principle --
We demand to be busted by policewomen only: no more Miss America --
I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman / Helen Reddy --
Right stuff / Tom Wolfe --
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind / Neil Armstrong --
Hey, we're going to change everything / David Crosby --
To you, the silent majority of Americans, I ask for your support / Richard Nixon --
New York Times v. United States: the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do / Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black --
Condition of the Indian people ranks at the bottom / Richard Nixon --
Go ahead and make your stand at Wounded Knee / Mary Crow Dog --
To protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources: clean Air Act of 1970 --
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from...any education programs: title IX --
Roe v. Wade: personal privacy includes the abortion decision / Supreme Court Harry A. Blackman --
President shall consult with Congress: War Powers Resolution --
Richard M. Nixon warrants impeachment and trial, and removed from office: articles of Impeachment --
My faith in the Constitution is whole / Barbara Jordan --
Letter of resignation / Richard Nixon --
Our long national nightmare if over / Gerald Ford --
I am somebody / Rev. Jesse Jackson --
What we need is a neighborhood where peole can walk to work, raise their kids, enjoy life / Harvey Milk --
Born to run / Bruce Springsteen --
City people don't think anything important happens in a place like Dime Box / William Least Heat Moon --
Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem / Ronald Reagan --
hy rights: why not pretty soon? / Garrison Keillor --
We have been committing an act of unthinking unilateral educational disarmament: Nation at Risk --
Deterioration of what once a vibrant and viable community: confronting racial isolation in Miami --
Growing up Puerto Rican in New York / Mario Diaz --
Tale of two cities / Mario Cuomo --
Texas v. Johnson; we do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration / Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. --
Aggressive impulses of an evil empire / Ronald Reagan --
Liar's poker / Michael Lewis --
Microsoft will probably turn out to be the initial public offering of the year / Wall Street Journal --
I came to tell the truth, the good, the bad, and the ugly / Iran-Contra hearings --
We came home from this summit with everything we'd hoped to accomplish / Ronald Reagan --
It is grievously hurtful when vilification becomes an accepted form of political debate / Jim Wright --
He is not an artist, he is a jerk / Jesse Helms --
In a free society ideas, even difficult ones, are not dangerous / Andres Serrano --
Bird's-eye view of American plutographics / Kevin Philips --
Mandate for the elimination of discrimination against people with disabilites: American with Disabilities Act --
Significant prison term is required to deter others / Kimba Wood --
Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait / George Bush --
I had spent my whole life building a dream that was destroyed in one night / Sun Soon Kim --
Farm / Wendell Berry.
Human rights for all people / Madeleine Albright --
Contract with America / Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and the House Republicans --
I call it a fundamental break in the history of technology / George Gilder --
William Jefferson Clinton is acquitted / Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist.
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New York : Black Dog & Leventhal :, c1999.
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Includes index.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bruun, E. A., & Crosby, J. (1999). Our nation's archive: the history of the United States in documents . Black Dog & Leventhal :.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bruun, Erik A., 1961- and Jay. Crosby. 1999. Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents. Black Dog & Leventhal.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bruun, Erik A., 1961- and Jay. Crosby. Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bruun, Erik A., and Jay Crosby. Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents Black Dog & Leventhal :, 1999.
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