Table of Contents
Preface ix
I The Colonial Heritage 1
Introduction 3
Laws of Virginia 9
Two Colonial Covenants 13
The Mayflower Compact 13
The Salem Covenant 14
A Modell of Christian Charity John Winthrop 15
Speech to the General Court John Winthrop 29
Capital Lawes 33
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania 37
The Secret Diary William Byrd of Westover 47
II Awakenings and Enlightenments 61
Introduction 63
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God Jonathan Edwards 71
The Kingdom of God George Whitefield 83
On George Whitefield Benjamin Franklin 95
Advice to a Young Tradesman Benjamin Franklin 99
Autobiography Benjamin Franklin 101
III The American Founding 113
Introduction 115
Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms-Second Continental Congress 121
Declaration of Independence 127
Fast Day Proclamations-Continental Congress 133
The Meaning of the Revolution 135
America 135
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee 136
The Northwest Ordinance 137
Constitution of the United States 145
The Bill of Rights 157
Letter of Brutus 159
Federalist 1 Alexander Hamilton 165
Federalist 10 James Madison 169
Federalist 39 James Madison 177
Federalist 51 James Madison 183
Letters of Fabius John Dickinson 187
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 195
First Inaugural Address George Washington 199
Selections Edmund Burke 203
On the Principles of Political Morality Maximilien Robespierre 209
Farewell Address George Washington 215
Kentucky Resolution Thomas Jefferson 229
Counter-Resolutions 237
First Inaugural Address Thomas Jefferson 245
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Livingston 249
The Pleasures of Agriculture John M. Taylor 253
IV Democratization and Expansion 257
Introduction 259
History of Cosmopolite Lorenzo Dow 265
What a Revival of Religion Is Charles Grandison Finney 273
First Annual Message Andrew Jackson 285
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 295
Remarks on Seneca Falls Elizabeth Cady Stanton 331
Letter from the Alamo Lieutenant-Colonel William Barret Travis 337
The Great Nation of Futurity John Louis O'Sullivan 339
The Destiny of the Race Thomas Hart Benton 345
Earth's Holocaust Nathaniel Hawthorne 349
V Sectionalism and Civil War 365
Introduction 367
Disquisition on Government John C. Calhoun 373
Sociology for the South George Fitzhugh 387
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass 395
The College and the Republic Edmund Burke Fairfield 415
DredScott v. Sanford 421
Lincoln-Douglas Debates 425
King Cotton James Henry Hammond 447
Declaration of Causes-South Carolina 451
Secession Resolutions-State of Mississippi 457
Secession Ordinancess-South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida 459
Address to the People of the Slave-Holding States Robert Barnwell Rhett 463
First Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln 473
Cornerstone Speech Alexander Hamilton Stephens 483
Letter to His Wife Major Sullivan Ballou 495
Meditation on the Divine Will Abraham Lincoln 497
Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln 499
Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln 501
VI The Gilded Age 503
Introduction 505
The New South Henry Woodfin Grady 513
Wealth Andrew Carnegie 523
The Creed of the Old South Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve 533
People's Party Platform 541
The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 547
Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 555
The Fallacy of Territorial Extension William Graham Sumner 559
The March of the Flag Albert Beveridge 565
Platform American Anti-Imperialist League 573
The Eclipse of Liberalism Edwin Lawrence Godkin 577
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall William L. Riordan 581
Pragmatism William James 589
The New Nationalism Theodore Roosevelt 605
The New Freedom Woodrow Wilson 619
VII America Between the Wars 629
Introduction 631
War Message Woodrow Wilson 635
Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson 643
The Age of Play Robert L. Duffus 649
What It Means to Be A Boy Scout Calvin Coolidge 653
Ordered Liberty and World Peace Calvin Coolidge 655
The Press Under a Free Government Calvin Coolidge 659
The Reign of Law Calvin Coolidge 663
The Inspiration of the Declaration Calvin Coolidge 667
Scopes Trial 677
The Modern Temper Joseph Wood Krutch 705
Commonwealth Club Address Franklin D. Roosevelt 717
First Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt 729
The Dominant Dogma of the Age Walter Lippmann 735
VIII America Since World War II 739
Introduction 741
America First Charles A. Lindbergh 747
State of the Union Address (1942) Franklin D. Roosevelt 753
State of the Union Address (1944) Franklin D. Roosevelt 761
The Truman Doctrine Harry S. Truman 765
The Sources of Soviet Conduct George F. Kennan 769
NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security-National Security Council 775
Letter to My Children Whittaker Chambers 779
The Problem of Tradition Russell Kirk 797
Brown v. Board of Education 811
The Sharon Statement-Young Americans for Freedom 817
Farewell Address Dwight D. Eisenhower 819
Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy 825
The Port Huron Statement-Students for a Democratic Society 829
Letter from the Birmingham City Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. 835
Peace without Conquest Lyndon B. Johnson 851
The Liberal Twilight M. Stanton Evans 859
First Inaugural Address Ronald Reagan 871
Speech Before Commons Ronald Reagan 877
