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Sourcebook and index : documents that shaped the American nation

Contains source documents for American history, and the series index.
Print Book, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
328 Seiten ; 24 cm.
9780195153392, 9780195153408, 0195153391, 0195153405
249670213
Introduction9(1)
How to Use This Book10(1)
Magna Carta (1215)
11(1)
``Of the Island of Hispanola,'' in Very Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542)
12(1)
Bartolome de Las Casas
From an anonymous Aztec chronicler in Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, General History of Things in New Spain (1582)
13(3)
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
16(1)
Massachusetts School Lams (1642 and 1647)
17(2)
Letter to Providence (1655)
19(1)
Roger Williams
Resolution of the Germantown Quakers (1688)
20(2)
From The English Bill of Rights (1689)
22(2)
Poor Richard's Almanack (1733)
24(2)
Benjamin Franklin
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
26(2)
``Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!'': Speech to the Virginia Convention (1775)
28(2)
Patrick Henry
Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover (1776)
30(1)
Common Sense (1776)
31(6)
Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
37(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams (1776)
41(1)
Abigail Adams
Articles of Confederation (1778)
42(9)
Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
51(1)
Thomas Jefferson
``What is an American?'': Letters from an American Farmer, Letter III (1782)
52(4)
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
56(2)
Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
58(22)
From The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
80(2)
The Federalist, Nos. 1, 10, and 51 (1788)
82(6)
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
Inaugural Address (1789)
88(4)
George Washington
Letter to Moses Seixas (1790)
92(1)
George Washington
Letter to the New Church in Baltimore (1793)
93(1)
George Washington
Farewell Address (1796)
94(3)
George Washington
First Inaugural Address (1801)
97(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Danbury Baptist Association (1802)
101(1)
Thomas Jefferson
opinion in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
102(2)
John Marshall
Address to the of the Iroquois Confederacy and Missionary Cram (1805)
104(1)
Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)
Report to Thomas Jefferson (1806)
105(3)
Meriwether Lewis
opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
108(2)
John Marshall
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
110(3)
James Monroe
From Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
113(1)
The Liberator, vol. 1, no. 1 (1831)
114(2)
William Lloyd Garrison
From A North Carolina Lam Forbidding the Teaching of Slaves to Read and Write (1831)
116(1)
Proclamation to the People of South Carolina (1832)
117(5)
Andrew Jackson
Democracy in America (1835)
122(2)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Self-Reliance (1841)
124(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Editorial on Manifest Destiny (1845)
127(4)
John L. O'Sullivan
12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education (1848)
131(2)
Horace Mann
``Let Us Consider Man's Superiority'': Address to the Seneca Falls Conference (1848)
133(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
136(2)
Civil Disobedience (1849)
138(4)
Henry David Thoreau
``Proposal to Preserve the Union'': Speech on the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
142(2)
John C. Calhoun
``A'n't I a Woman'': Address to the Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851)
144(2)
Sojourner Truth
Fourth of July Oration (1852)
146(3)
Frederick Douglass
Opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1852)
149(6)
Roger Taney
`A House Divided': Address to the Illinois Republican Convention (1858)
155(3)
Abraham Lincoln
Debate with Stephen Douglas (1858)
158(3)
Abraham Lincoln
Last Statement to the Court (1859)
161(2)
John Brown
From The Homestead Act (1862)
163(1)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
163(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
165(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address (1865)
167(2)
Abraham Lincoln
Letters Setting Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox (1865)
169(1)
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Farewell to His Army (1865)
170(1)
Robert E. Lee
``Are Women Persons?'': Address after Her Arrest for Illegal Voting (1873)
171(2)
Susan B. Anthony
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)
173(2)
Report on the Arid Region of the West (1878)
175(2)
John Wesley Powell
``I Will Fight No More Forever'': Speech to the U.S. Army (1877)
177(1)
Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat)
Address in Washington (1879)
178(2)
Chief Joseph (Inmutooyahlatlat)
Opinion on Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Sheriff, etc. (1886)
180(2)
Stanley Matthews
Wealth (1889)
182(3)
Andrew Carnegie
From Preamble to the Platform of the Populist Party (1892)
185(2)
The Pledge of Allegiance (1892, revised 1923 and 1954)
187(1)
Address at the Atlanta Exposition (1895)
188(4)
Booker T. Washington
dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
192(4)
John Marshall Harlan
War Message (1898)
196(2)
William McKinley
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
198(3)
Theodore Roosevelt
From Declaration of the Conservation Conference (1908)
201(2)
First Inaugural Address (1913)
203(4)
Woodrow Wilson
War Message (1917)
207(4)
Woodrow Wilson
``The Fourteen Points'': Address to Congress (1918)
211(3)
Woodrow Wilson
``Rugged Individualism'': Campaign Speech in New York City (1928)
214(5)
Herbert Hoover
``The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself'': First Inaugural Address (1933)
219(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Colossus (1935)
223(1)
Emma Lazarus
dissenting opinion in Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
223(3)
Harlan F. Stone
Message Asking for War against Japan (1941)
226(2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Declaration of War on Germany and Italy (1941)
228(1)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
``The Four Freedoms'': Message to Congress (1941)
229(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
233(2)
Robert Jackson
``The Spirit of Liberty'': Address on ``I Am American Day'' (1944)
235(2)
Learned Hand
``The Truman Doctrine'': Message to Congress (1947)
237(3)
Harry S. Truman
Statement on the Atomic Bomb (1950)
240(1)
Harry S. Truman
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
241(4)
Margaret Chase Smith
Farewell Address to the American People (1961)
245(4)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
``Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You'': Inaugural Address (1961)
249(3)
John F. Kennedy
``I Have a Dream'': Address at the March on Washington (1963)
252(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Why We Can't Wait'': Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963)
257(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964)
264(1)
From the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1965)
265(2)
Opinion in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
267(1)
Hugo L. Black
Speech at Moscow State University (1988)
268(5)
Ronald Reagan
Presidents of the United States
273(2)
Glossary275(14)
Document Sources289(2)
Series Index291