| Introduction | |
| The Mayflower Compact | p. 3 |
| The Landing | p. 5 |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | p. 7 |
| List of Virtues | p. 12 |
| Defense of Freedom of the Press | p. 14 |
| A Demand to Limit Search and Seizure | p. 19 |
| Yankee Doodle | p. 22 |
| Liberty and Knowledge | p. 24 |
| The Liberty Song | p. 28 |
| Chief Logan's Lament | p. 30 |
| The Slaves' Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts | p. 31 |
| Speech to the Second Virginia Convention | p. 33 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 37 |
| A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia | p. 42 |
| Common Sense | p. 45 |
| The American Crisis | p. 50 |
| Liberty Tree | p. 54 |
| Correspondence with John | p. 55 |
| Letters from an American Farmer | p. 58 |
| The Federalist, No. 1 | p. 63 |
| Farewell Address | p. 71 |
| Hail, Columbia | p. 77 |
| First Inaugural Address | p. 79 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | p. 83 |
| The Old Oaken Bucket | p. 85 |
| Home, Sweet Home | p. 87 |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas | p. 88 |
| The Meaning of Patriotism in America | p. 90 |
| Against Nullification | p. 93 |
| Woodman, Spare That Tree | p. 96 |
| The Height of the Ridiculous | p. 98 |
| Old Ironsides | p. 99 |
| America | p. 100 |
| Concord Hymn | p. 105 |
| Self-Reliance | p. 106 |
| On Top of Old Smoky | p. 111 |
| Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean | p. 112 |
| The Raven | p. 114 |
| A Psalm of Life | p. 118 |
| The Village Blacksmith | p. 120 |
| Paul Revere's Ride | p. 121 |
| Civil Disobedience | p. 125 |
| Walden | p. 134 |
| The Barefoot Boy | p. 140 |
| Against the Mexican War | p. 143 |
| The Case for Pubic Schools | p. 148 |
| Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | p. 153 |
| Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention | p. 159 |
| Oh! Susanna | p. 161 |
| Old Folks at Home | p. 162 |
| Address to the Legislature of New York on Women's Rights | p. 163 |
| A Disappointed Woman | p. 169 |
| Success | p. 171 |
| Walker's Appeal | p. 175 |
| Prospectus for The Liberator | p. 179 |
| Stanzas for the Times | p. 181 |
| Predjudice Against the Colored Man | p. 184 |
| Bearing Witness Against Slavery | p. 188 |
| An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America | p. 192 |
| The Present Crisis | p. 198 |
| Independence Day Speech at Rochester | p. 202 |
| The House Divided Speech | p. 208 |
| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | p. 216 |
| Last Statement to the Court | p. 224 |
| The Cooper Union Speech | p. 227 |
| Go Down, Moses | p. 238 |
| Dixie | p. 243 |
| First Inaugural Address | p. 244 |
| The Bonnie Blue Flag | p. 250 |
| Maryland, My Maryland | p. 252 |
| Battle Cry of Freedom | p. 254 |
| The John Brown Song | p. 256 |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | p. 257 |
| Barbara Frietchie | p. 259 |
| The Gettysburg Address | p. 261 |
| Second Inaugural Address | p. 263 |
| I Hear America Singing | p. 265 |
| O Captain! My Captain! | p. 266 |
| Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society | p. 267 |
| The Blue and the Gray | p. 275 |
| Women's Right to Vote | p. 277 |
| The Ballad of John Henry | p. 285 |
| Home on the Range | p. 287 |
| I've Been Working on the Railroad | p. 288 |
| A Century of Dishonor | p. 290 |
| Speech at the National Convention of Colored Men | p. 295 |
| The New Colossus | p. 301 |
| Clementine | p. 302 |
| Casey at the Bat | p. 304 |
| When the Frost Is on the Punkin | p. 306 |
| When de Co'n Pone's Hot | p. 308 |
| What Does the Working Man Want? | p. 310 |
| The Pledge of Allegiance | p. 315 |
| The Mountains of California | p. 316 |
| Solitude | p. 320 |
| America the Beautiful | p. 321 |
| Little Boy Blue | p. 322 |
| The Atlanta Exposition Address | p. 323 |
| Reply to Booker T. Washington | p. 329 |
| Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson | p. 330 |
| In Praise of the Strenuous Life | p. 333 |
| Against Imperialism | p. 337 |
| No | p. 342 |
| The Solitude of Self | p. 347 |
| Women and Economics | p. 354 |
| The Man with the Hoe | p. 357 |
| Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing | p. 359 |
| Should Higher Education for Women Differ? | p. 360 |
| The Battle with the Slum | p. 365 |
| Prejudice Against Women | p. 369 |
| The Talented Tenth | p. 373 |
| Advice to a Black Schoolgril | p. 378 |
| The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles | p. 379 |
| Take Me Out to the Ball Game | p. 384 |
| The Preacher and the Slave | p. 385 |
| Trees | p. 387 |
| The New Freedom | p. 388 |
| Protest to President Wilson | p. 394 |
| Statement of Principles | p. 398 |
| Anne Rutledge | p. 401 |
| Mending Wall | p. 402 |
| The Road Not Taken | p. 404 |
| Fire and Ice | p. 405 |
| Evolution | p. 405 |
| Chicago | p. 406 |
| Solidarity Forever | p. 408 |
| Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight | p. 413 |
| The Leaden-Eyed | p. 414 |
| I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier | p. 415 |
| I Have a Rendezvous with Death | p. 416 |
| War Message to Congress | p. 417 |
| Against Entry into the War | p. 422 |
| Over There | p. 426 |
| Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | p. 427 |
| The Marines' Hymn | p. 429 |
| The Field Artillery Song | p. 430 |
| Grass | p. 431 |
| Statement to the Court | p. 432 |
| The Right to One's Body | p. 435 |
| First Fig | p. 439 |
| Poems of Angel Island | p. 440 |
| A Korean Discovers New York | p. 441 |
| American Names | p. 444 |
| America | p. 445 |
| Yet Do I Marvel | p. 446 |
| O Black and Unknown Bards | p. 447 |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | p. 449 |
| I, Too | p. 450 |
| The America System of Self-Government | p. 451 |
| Happy Days Are Here Again | p. 459 |
| First Inaugural Address | p. 460 |
| Second Inaugural Address | p. 464 |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | p. 467 |
| Union Maid | p. 469 |
| So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) | p. 470 |
| Which Side Are You On? | p. 471 |
| I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night | p. 472 |
| FDR at the DAR | p. 474 |
| God Bless America | p. 476 |
| This Is the Army, Mr. Jones | p. 477 |
| This Land Is Your Land | p. 478 |
| Freedom | p. 479 |
| High Flight | p. 485 |
| Anchors Aweigh | p. 487 |
| The Four Freedoms | p. 488 |
| War Message to Congress | p. 492 |
| Poems of the Issei | p. 494 |
| The Army Air Corps | p. 496 |
| Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition | p. 497 |
| The Spirit of Liberty | p. 498 |
| Elegy for a Dead Soldier | p. 500 |
| The Baruch Plan for Control of Atomic Energy | p. 507 |
| Confirmation Hearings | p. 510 |
| A Plea for Civil Rights | p. 513 |
| Inaugural Address | p. 516 |
| Declaration of Conscience | p. 522 |
| Nobel Acceptance Speech | p. 527 |
| The Silent Generation | p. 529 |
| Refugee in America | p. 530 |
| Harlem | p. 531 |
| Brown v. Board of Eduction | p. 531 |
| Farewell Address | p. 535 |
| It Could Be a Wonderful World | p. 539 |
| Duty, Honor, Country | p. 540 |
| Inaugural Address | p. 549 |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | p. 553 |
| Address to the Broadcasting Industry | p. 555 |
| The Port Huron Statement | p. 560 |
| Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | p. 564 |
| Silent Spring | p. 565 |
| Letter from Birmingham City Jail | p. 568 |
| Speech at the Berlin Wall | p. 576 |
| The March on Washington | p. 578 |
| We Shall Overcome | p. 583 |
| O Freedom | p. 584 |
| If I Had a Hammer | p. 585 |
| Blowin' in the Wind | p. 586 |
| Ballad of Birmingham | p. 587 |
| The Feminine Mystique | p. 589 |
| Little Boxes | p. 592 |
| Howard University Address | p. 593 |
| On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. | p. 597 |
| Stupid America | p. 600 |
| The Wilderness Idea | p. 603 |
| Speech at Moscow State University | p. 605 |
| The American Idea | p. 610 |
| Bibliography | p. 613 |
| Author Index | p. 619 |
| Copyright Acknowledgments | p. 625 |
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