Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
1 A New Nation 1
"Common Sense," Tom Paine 5
The Declaration of Independence 7
2 The Law of The Land 12
The Constitution of the United States 16
The Federalist Number Ten, James Madison 39
3 Federalists V. Republicans 45
On the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington 49
Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington 52
4 Neutrality and National Growth 56
George Washington's Farewell Address 59
5 The Jeffersonian Revolution 67
Alien and Sedition Acts 69
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 72
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address 77
6 The Power of The Court 81
Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall for the Supreme Court 84
7 A Bold Foreign Policy 90
The Monroe Doctrine, James Monroe 93
8 Jacksonian Democracy 95
On Aristocracy, Letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson 98
Veto of the Bank Renewal Bill, Andrew Jackson 106
9 Liberty or Union 113
Daniel Webster's Second Reply to Hayne 116
10 The Abolitionist Crusade 122
The First Issue of The Liberator 125
11 The Sectional Conflict 128
John C. Calhoun on the Slavery Question 131
"The Hireling and the Slave", William J. Grayson 142
12 The Fateful Decade 150
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 153
Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney for the Supreme Court 157
13 WAR! 167
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address 169
14 The Prophet of Democracy 177
The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln 180
The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln 182
15 The Conflict over Reconstruction 183
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address 187
16 The Gilded Age 189
Democratic Vistas, Walt Whitman 193
"Wealth", Andrew Carnegie 198
17 From Frontier to Factory 205
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History", Frederick Jackson Turner 209
Letter on Labor in Industrial Society, Samuel Gompers 218
Atlanta Exposition Address, Booker T. Washington 222
18 Grassroots Rebellion 226
The Populist Party Platform 231
"Cross of Gold" Speech, William Jennings Bryan 236
19 Imperial America 243
"The United States Looking Outward", Alfred T. Mahan 248
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Theodore Roosevelt 254
20 The Progressive Ferment 257
The New Nationalism, Theodore Roosevelt 264
The Old Order Changeth, Woodrow Wilson 270
21 The Great Crusade and After 277
War Message to Congress, Woodrow Wilson 284
Fourteen Points, Woodrow Wilson 289
The Pueblo Speech on the League of Nations, Woodrow Wilson 292
22 Boom and Bust 298
"Rugged Individualism", Herbert C. Hoover 303
23 The Roosevelt Revolution 310
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address 317
"A Rendezvous with Destiny" Speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt 322
N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation 326
Helvering et al. v. Davis 329
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish 331
24 The End of Isolation 334
"Quarantine" Speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt 338
"Four Freedoms" Speech, Franklin D, Roosevelt 343
The Atlantic Charter 350
25 The Cold War 351
The Marshall Plan, George C. Marshall 354
"Sources of Soviet Conduct," George F. Kennan ("X") 357
Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner 367
26 America at Midcentury 368
Brown v. Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren for the Supreme Court 372
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address 377
27 From the New Frontier to the Great Society 380
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address 385
The American University "Strategy of Peace" Speech, John F. Kennedy 388
Civil Rights Speech, John F. Kennedy 395
The Birmingham City Jail "Unwise and Untimely" Letter, Martin Luther King, Jr. 400
March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. 409
"Great Society" Speech, Lyndon B. Johnson 412
28 Decade of Turmoil 416
The National Organization for Women (NOW) Statement of Purpose 418
"Power of the Media" Speech, Lyndon B. Johnson 423
Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann 428
"Radio and Television News" Speech, Edward R. Murrow 432
"Television and Politics" Speech, Edward R. Murrow 439
"The Importance of Television News" Speech, Spiro T. Agnew 447
House Judiciary Committee Watergate Articles of Impeachment v. Richard M. Nixon 454
Gerald R. Ford's Inaugural Address 458
Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, on Freedom of the Press, Yale Law School 460
29 Conservatism Revisited 466
Roe v. Wade, Abortion Decision, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun for the Supreme Court 469
Senator Barry Goldwater on Conservatism, Religion, and Politics 474
Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Addresses 477
"A Tale of Two Cities" Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, Governor Mario M. Cuomo 486
30 The End of the American Century 495
31 Republican Contract with America 497
William Jefferson Clinton, State of the Union Address 500
31 America at the Millennium 510
George W. Bush, Washington National Cathedral Prayer Service 515
George W. Bush, Joint Session of Congress 518
Rudolph Giuliani's Farewell Address 525
32 The Politics of Hope … We the People 530
Vice-President Cheney on PBS' NewsHour 539
Vice-President Cheney on CBS' Face the Nation 551
"Folly's Antidote," Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Century Association, New York Times Op-Ed 559
"A More Perfect Union" Speech on Race, Senator Barack Obama 561
Election Night Address, Chicago's Grant Park, President-Elect Barack Obama 572
Barack Obama's First Inaugural Address 576
Barack Obama's Second Inaugural Address 582
33 Populists Revolt … Democracy Under Duress 587
@realDonaldTrump Tweets 591
Senator Bernie Sanders, New Hampshire Primary Victory Speech 593
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Posts 597
Donald J. Trump's Inaugural Address 600
"My Dad Predicted the Rise of Trump-in 1985," Andrew Postman 604
Senator Jeff Flake's Retirement Announcement 608
Excerpts from the Senate Select Intelligence Hearing on Social Media Influence in the 2016 Election 613