The Constitution of the United States and other patriotic documents
Book - 2023
"Gregg Jarrett provides commentary for the documents and speeches that shaped America"--
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New York, NY :
Broadside Books
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- ix, 532 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780063275386
- Introduction
- Liberty or Death
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" Speech
- March 23, 1775
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense Pamphlet, Excerpt
- January 10, 1776
- John Adams's Thoughts on Government Pamphlet
- April 1776
- The Lee Resolution Proposing Independence
- June 7, 1776
- The Declaration of Independence
- July 4, 1776
- Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis, " Number 1
- December 19, 1776
- Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
- November 15, 1777
- Treaty of Paris
- September 3, 1783
- The Virginia Plan for a New Government
- May 29, 1787
- A More Perfect Union
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- September 17, 1787
- The Federalist Papers, Excerpts
- 1787-88
- George Washington's First Inaugural Address
- April 30, 1789
- The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments
- Passed 1789, Ratified 1791
- George Washington's Farewell Address
- September 19, 1796
- Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
- March 4, 1801
- Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress on the Lewis & Clark Expedition
- January 18, 1803
- "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- September 14, 1814
- The Monroe Doctrine
- December 2, 1823
- A House Divided
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments"
- July 1848
- Frederick Douglass's "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" Speech
- July 4, 1852
- Frederick Douglass's Address on the Dred Scott Decision
- May 14, 1857
- Abraham Lincoln's "A House Divided" Speech
- June 16, 1858
- The Homestead Act
- May 20, 1862
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- January 1, 1863
- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- November 19, 1863
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- March 4, 1865
- Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
- Victoria C. Woodhull's Address on Women's Suffrage
- January 11, 1871
- Susan B. Anthony's "Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" Speech
- 1873
- Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech
- September 18, 1895
- Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address
- March 4, 1905
- Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal" Speech
- August 31, 1910
- America Steps onto the World Stage
- Woodrow Wilson's War with Germany Address
- April 2, 1917
- Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" Speech
- January 8, 1918
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes the New Deal
- July 2, 1932
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
- March 4, 1933
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis
- March 12, 1933
- Albert Einstein's Letter to Roosevelt on the Atomic Bomb
- August 2, 1939
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on the War in Europe
- December 29, 1940
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Essential Freedoms" Address
- January 6, 1941
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" Address to Congress
- December 8, 1941
- Harry S. Truman's Statement on Dropping the Atomic Bomb
- August 6, 1945
- The American Superpower
- Harry S. Truman Introduces the "Truman Doctrine"
- March 12, 1947
- The Marshall Plan Speech
- June 5, 1947
- Harry S. Truman's Inaugural Address
- January 20, 1949
- Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" Farewell
- April 19, 1951
- Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech
- April 16, 1953
- Brown v. Board of Education Decision
- May 17, 1954
- Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
- January 17, 1961
- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
- January 20, 1961
- John F. Kennedy's Address During the Cuban Missile Crisis
- October 22, 1962
- John F. Kennedy's Address to the Nation on Civil Rights
- June 11, 1963
- John F. Kennedy's Speech in West Berlin
- June 26, 1963
- The Civil Rights Act
- July 2, 1964
- Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech
- October 27, 1964
- Lyndon Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" Address on Voting Rights
- March 15, 1965
- Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address
- January 20, 1981
- Geraldine Ferraro's Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Excerpt
- July 19, 1984
- Ronald Reagan's Address on the Challenger Disaster
- January 28, 1986
- Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech
- June 12, 1987
- The Twenty-First Century
- George W. Bush's Speech on the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
- September 11, 2001
- George W. Bush's Remarks on "The True Faith of Islam"
- September 17, 2001
- Barack Obama's Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention
- July 27, 2004
- Barack Obama's First Inaugural Address
- January 20, 2009
- Barack Obama's Announcement of the Death of Osama bin Laden
- May 2, 2011
- Donald J. Trump's Speech on the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of D-Day
- June 6, 2019