The American Reader

Words That Moved a Nation (Rev)

By: Diane Ravitch

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Paperback | 5 September 2000 | Edition Number 2

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The 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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"Patriotic in the best and broadest, nonpartisan, and large-spirited sense.""-- Booklist""The American Reader is a splendid collection of the words and sentiments that have shaped our nation. It belongs in every American home."-- E. D. Hirsch, author of "Cultural Literacy""This unique multicultural patchwork of political and literary American writ-ings-some famous, some virtually unknown-is a treasure." -- "USA Today""Far more than a marvelous collection of text and images, Ravitch's anthology is also a journey through the American democratic experience. And by showing us the contributions diverse Americans have made to articulating our common democratic ideals and to our efforts to live up to them, Ravitch has provided a sourcebook of unity for our 'teeming Nation of nations.'"-- Albert Shanker, former president, "American Federation of Teachers"

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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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