The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... W. E. B. DU BOIS : Advice to a Black Schoolgirl The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles ALBERT VON TILZER AND JACK NORWORTH : Take Me Out to the Ball Game 378 379 384 JOE HILL : The Preacher and the Slave 385 JOYCE Contents xi.
Words That Moved a Nation Diane Ravitch. JOE HILL : The Preacher and the Slave 385 JOYCE KILMER : Trees 387 WOODROW WILSON : The New Freedom 388 WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER : Protest to President Wilson 394 CALVIN COOLIDGE : Statement of ...
... Sense , is it likely then they should agree about things invisible . Speak with contempt of none , from slave to king , The meanest Bee hath , and will use , a sting . Tart Words make no Friends : a spoonful of honey 10 The American Reader.
... slavery . Let us see delineated before us the true map of man . Let us hear the dignity of his nature , and the noble rank he holds among the works of God - that consent- ing to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust , as offensive ...
... SLAVES ' APPEAL TO THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS We are a freeborn Pepel and have never forfeited this Blessing ... slave trade , between nine and twelve million Africans were carried to the Americas under brutal conditions ; about ...