| 1800
|
|
1818
|
Hezekiah
Niles, "About the Banks" |
| 1830 |
Andrew Jackson,
"Second Annual Message" |
| 1831 |
Lyman Beecher,
"The Necessity of Revivals" |
| 1831 |
Nat Turner,
Confessions |
| 1833 |
Thomas Grimke,
"Address on the Patriot Character" |
| 1836 |
"Memorial
and Protest of the Cherokee Nation" |
| 1836 |
Harriet Robinson,
"Loom and Spindle" |
| 1836 |
Texas Declaration
of Independence |
| 1837 |
John Calhoun,
"Slavery a Positive Good" |
| 1838 |
Sarah Grimke,
"Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" |
| 1841 |
J.W. Goodrich,
"A Second Declaration of Independence" |
| 1842 |
Catherine
Beecher, "Domestic Economy" |
| 1842 |
Abraham Lincoln,
"Address Before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society"
|
| 1845 |
Henry W. Bellows,
"Influence of the Trading Spirit" |
| 1846 |
James Polk, "Message
on War with Mexico" |
| 1848 |
Seneca Falls,
"Declaration of Sentiments" |
| 1849 |
Henry
David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" |
| 1850 |
|
| 1852 |
Frederick Douglass,
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" |
| 1853 |
Solomon Northup,
"Twelve Years a Slave" |
| 1855 |
DeBow's Review, "Managing
Slaves..." |
| 1856 |
Charles G. Finney,
"What a Revival of Religion Is" |
| 1857 |
Peter Cartwright,
"Autobiography" |
| 1857 |
George Fitzhugh,
"Cannibals All!" |
| 1858 |
William Seward,
"The Irrepressible Conflict" |
| 1860 |
Juan Nepomuceno
Cortina, "Mexicans!" |
| 1861 |
Harriet Jacobs,
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" |
| 1863 |
Abraham Lincoln,
"Gettysburg Address" |
| 1865 |
William Lloyd
Garrison, "The Governing Passion of My Soul," |
| 1865 |
Abraham Lincoln,
"Second Inaugural Address" |
| 1865 |
State of Mississippi,
"Black Codes" |
| 1866 |
Anon, "Three
Months Among the Reconstructionists" |
| 1867 |
Thomas W. Higginson,
"Negro Spirituals" |
| 1869 |
P.T. Barnum, "Struggles
and Triumphs" |
| 1870 |
Frederick Law
Olmsted, "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"
|
| 1861-65 |
Songs of Civil War |
| 1881 |
George Beard, "American
Nervousness" |
| 1885 |
Richard Ely, "Pullman:
A Social Study" |
| 1885 |
Gerhard Lizius,
"Dynamite" |
| 1885 |
Josiah Strong,
"Perils -- The City" |
| 1886 |
Henry Grady, "The
New South" |
| 1888 |
George N. McLean,
"The Rise and Fall of Anarchy" |
| 1889 |
Andrew Carnegie,
"Wealth" |
| 1892 |
Jane Addams, "The
Subjective Necessity For Social Settlements" |
| 1892 |
People's Party,
"Omaha Platform" |
| 1894 |
James Bryce, "Why
the Best Men Do Not Go Into Politics" |
| 1894 |
William Graham
Sumner, "The Absurd Effort to Make The World Over"
|
| 1895 |
Eugene V. Debs,
"Liberty" |
| 1895 |
Hamlin Garland,
"Under the Lion's Paw" |
| 1895 |
Booker T.
Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Address" |
| 1895 |
Ida B. Wells, "A
Red Record" |
| 1896 |
Jane Addams, "A
Modern Lear" |
| 1896 |
William Jennings
Bryan, "Cross of Gold," |
| 1898 |
Jane Addams, "Why
the Ward Boss Rules" |
| 1898 |
Theodore Roosevelt,
"The Strenuous Life" |
| 1900 |
|
| 1901 |
W.E.B. DuBois,
"The Freedman's Bureau" |
| 1901 |
Mark Twain, "To
The Person Sitting in Darkness" |
| 1902 |
W.E.B.
DuBois, "Of the Training of Black Men" |
| 1903 |
W.E.B. DuBois,
"The Talented Tenth" |
| 1903 |
Booker T.
Washington, "Industrial Education for the Negro" |
| 1903 |
William Graham
Sumner, "What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other |
| 1905 |
W.E.B. DuBois,
"The Niagara Movement" |
| 1905 |
Theodore
Roosevelt, "Inaugural Address" |
| 1905 |
Theodore
Roosevelt, "Lincoln and the Race Problem" |
| 1906 |
John Spargo, The
Bitter Cry of the Children |
| 1908 |
Eugene V. Debs,
"The Issue" |
| 1909 |
Emily P. Bissell,
"A Talk to Women on the Suffrage Question" |
| 1910 |
Jane
Addams, "Why Women Should Vote" |
| 1914 |
William
Graham Sumner, "The Challenge of Facts" |
| 1915 |
Russell Conwell,
"Acres of Diamonds" |
| 1915 |
Carrie
Chapman Catt, "Do You Know?" |
| 1915 |
Woodrow
Wilson "Americanism and the Foreign Born" |
| 1917 |
Woodrow Wilson,
"Speech for Declaration of War Against Germany" |
| 1917 |
Randolph Bourne,
"A War Diary" |
| 1918 |
Woodrow Wilson,
"Bases of a General Peace: Fourteen Points" |
| 1918 |
Randolph Bourne,
"The State" |
| 1918 |
Eugene V. Debs,
"Speech at Canton" |
| 1932 |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" |
| 1941 |
Franklin D.
Roosevelt, "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy" |
| 1942 |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt, "A Call for Sacrifice" |
| 1946 |
Winston
Churchill, "The Iron Curtain Speech" |
| 1946 |
George
F. Kennan, "The Long Telegram" |
| 1947 |
Harry
S. Truman, "The Truman Doctrine" |
| 1950 |
|
| 1947 |
George C. Marshall,
"Commencement Address, Harvard University" |
| 1950 |
National
Security Council, "NSC-68" |
| 1950 |
"Homosexuals
in Government" |
| 1951 |
Joseph
McCarthy, "The History of George Catlett Marshall" |
| 1954 |
Brown v. Board
of Education of Topeka |
| 1960 |
Barry Goldwater,
"The Conscience of a Conservative" |
| 1960 |
John
F. Kennedy, "Address to Southern Baptist Leaders" |
| 1961 |
Dwight Eisenhower,
"Farewell Address" |
| 1962 |
John
F. Kennedy, "Address on the Cuban Crisis" |
| 1962 |
Students
for a Democratic Society, "Port Huron Statement" |
| 1963 |
James
Baldwin, "My Dungeon Shook" |
| 1963 |
Martin Luther King.,
Jr., "I Have a Dream" |
| 1963 |
Martin Luther King,
Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" |
| 1963 |
Virginia
Commission on Constitutional Government, "Civil Rights and Civil
Wrongs" |
| 1964 |
Ronald
W. Reagan, "A Time for Choosing Speech" |
| 1964 |
George Wallace,
"The Civil Rights Movement" |
| 1964 |
Tonkin
Bay Resolution |
| 1965 |
Lyndon
B. Johnson, "The American Promise" |
| 1966 |
Black Panther
Party, "The Black Panther Party Platform" |
| 1966 |
National
Organization of Women, "Statement of Purpose" |
| 1969 |
David
Hilliard, "The Ideology of the Black Panther Party" |
| 1969 |
Stonewall
Riot (News Account) |
| 1974 |
United
States v. Nixon |
| 1978 |
Andrew MacDonald
(William L. Pierce) The Turner Diaries |
| 1979 |
Jimmy Carter, "Crisis
of Confidence" |
| 1981 |
Ronald W. Reagan,
"First Inaugural Address" |
| 1982 |
Ronald
W. Reagan, "The Evil Empire" |
| 1987 |
Andrea
Dworkin, "Intercourse" |
| 1996 |
Theodore
Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and its Future" |
| 1998 |
Clarence
Thomas, "I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American" |
| 2000 |
|
| 2000 |
Bill Joy, "Why the
Future Doesn't Need Us" |
