Words that made American history : selected readings / edited by Richard N. Current [and] John A. Garraty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Current, Richard Nelson, editor.

Garraty, John A. (John Arthur), 1920-2007, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

Local Subjects:

United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes 22 cm

Edition:

2d ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Little, Brown [1965]

Summary:

[1] Colonial times to the 1870's.--[2] Since the Civil War.

Contents:

[1] Colonial times to the 1870's.

[2] Since the Civil War.

A progress to the mines (1732) William Bird

Sinners in the hands of an angry God Jonathan Edwards

An account of the new-invented Pennsylvanian fire-places (1744); Experiments and observations on electricity (1751); The way to wealth (1763) Benjamin Franklin

A plea for the poor (1763) John Woolman

Second treatise on civil government (1689) John Locke

The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved (1764) James Otis

Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania (1768) John Dickinson

Taxation no tyranny (1775) Samuel Johnson

On civil liberty, passive obedience, and non-resistance (1775) Jonathan Boucher (An American Tory's view)

Thoughts on the present state of American affairs (1776) Thomas Paine (Common Sense)

A summary view of the rights of British America (1774) ; The Declaration of Independence (1776) ; Notes on Virginia (1785) Thomas Jefferson

Defence of the Constitutions (1787) John Adams

Journal of the Federal Convention (1787) James Madison

The Federalist Papers 1, 10, 21 (1787-1788) Alexander Hamilton James Madison

Antifederalist arguments (1788) Patrick Henry George Mason Richard Henry Lee Luther Martin "Centinel" James Winthrop

Sketches of American policy (1785) ; The reforming of spelling (1789) Noah Webster

The implied powers of Congress (Jefferson to Washington; Washington to Hamilton; Hamilton to Washington) (1791) Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton

Manufactures Alexander Hamilton

Farewell address to the people of the United States (1796) George Washington

Free trade and seamen's rights (1813) Henry Clay

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) John Marshall

Annual message (1823) James Monroe

Jackson's first inaugural address; Veto message

-Bank of the United States (1829-1832) Andrew Jackson

South Carolina Exposition (The nullification theory) (1828) John C. Calhoun

Second speech of Foot's resolution (Liberty and Union) (1830) Daniel Webster

The real advantages (1835); Aristocracy and manufactures (1840) (Democracy in America) Alexis de Tocqueville

The church must take the right ground (1835) Charles G. Ginney

The American scholar (The transcendentalist outlook) (1837) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrative of Mr. Caulkins (American slavery as it is) (1839) Theodore D. Weld

Tenth annual report (Free Public Schools) (1846) Horace Mann

Annexation (1845) John L. O'Sullivan

Freedom in the new territories (1850) William H. Seward

Slavery justified (1854) George Fitzhugh

Comparison between the free and slave states (1857) Hinton R. Helper

Senator Douglas' speech; Mr. Lincoln's reply; Mr. Douglas' reply (Lincoln

Douglas debates) (1858) Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas

Resolutions (Republican Party Platform, 1860) Republican Party

Message to congress (1861); Gettysburg Address (1863); Second Inaugural Address (1865) Abraham Lincoln

Colloquies XII (1868); Colloquies (1870) Alexander H. Stephens

Report on the condition of the South (1865) (Unrepentant Southerners) Carl Schurz

Equal rights (1872) (Justice for the former slave) Charles Sumner

The prostrate state (1873) James S. Pike

Wisdom and folly meet together (1879) (Role of the carpetbagger) Albion W. Tourgée.

Message to congress (1861); Gettysburg Address (1863); Second Inaugural Address (1865) Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom and folly meet together (1879) (Role of the carpetbagger) Albion W. Tourgée

The saga of Stone's Landing (1873) (The Gilded Age) Mark Twain

The new South (1886) Henry Grady

Civil Rights cases (1883) William Bradley John M. Harlan

Speech at Lewiston, Maine (1880) Robert G. Ingersoll

The absurd effort to make the world over (1894) William G. Sumner

The Anglo-Saxon and the world's future (1885) Josiah Strong

The United States looking outward (1890) (Sea power and imperialism) Alfred Thayer Mahan

Speech in the Senate (1900) Albert J. Beveridge

To the person sitting in darkness (1901) (The case against imperialism)

Mark Twain

Progress and poverty (1879) Henry George

Looking backward (1888) Edward Bellamy

Recent economic changes (1889) David A. Wells

The gospel of wealth (1889) Andrew Carnegie

The platform of the Populist Party (1892) Omaha Convention

Coin's financial school (1894) W.H. Harvey

The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) Booker T. Washington

The shame of the cities (1904) Lincoln Steffens

Message to Congress (1905) Theodore Roosevelt

The Jungle (1906) Upton Sinclair

The promise of American life (1909) Herbert Croly

The new nationalism (1909) Theodore Roosevelt

The new freedom Woodrow Wilson

Our financial oligarchy (1913) Louis D. Brandeis

Message to Congress (1917-1918) Woodrow Wilson

Speech in the senate (1919) Henry Cabot Lodge

The economic consequences of the peace (1920) John Maynard Keynes

Illegal practices of the Department of Justice (1920) National Popular Government League

The man nobody knows (1925) Bruce Barton

American individualism (1922) Herbert Hoover

The future of democracy (1926) H.L. Mencken

The shorter workday; Collective bargaining (1920) Samuel Gompers

Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee (1933) Marriner S. Eccles

Inaugural address; The first "Fireside Chat" (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt

America must choose (1934) Henry Wallace

Letter to President Roosevelt (1938) John Maynard Keynes

The grapes of wrath (1939) John Steinbeck

The pact of Paris (1932) Henry L. Stimson

Letter to President Roosevelt (1939) Albert Einstein

Fireside chat on national security (1940); Annual message to Congress (1941) Franklin D. Roosevelt

One world (1943) Wendell Wilkie

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Earl Warren

Pilgrimage to nonviolence (1958) Martin Luther King

Inaugural address (1961) John F. Kennedy

Message to Congress (1964;) Radio address (1964) Lyndon B. Johnson

Reynolds vs. Sims; Lucas v. Colorado General Assembly (1964) Earl Warren

The sources of Soviet conduct (1947) George F. Kennan

Radio address (1954) (Russian missiles in Cuba) John F. Kennedy

Speech at Chapel Hill, N.C. (1964) J. William Fulbright.

Local Notes:

HSP only has volume 2: Since the

Other Format:

Online version: Current, Richard Nelson. Words that made American history.

OCLC:

421372