• Edward Winslow & William Bradford: The "First Thanksgiving" at Plymouth (1621)

  • Anne Hutchinson: Trial Excerpt (1637)

  • The Trial of John Peter Zenger: Andrew Hamilton's Summation (1735)

  • Jonathan Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Sermon (1741)

  • Olaudah Equiano: The Middle Passage (c. 1756)

  • James Madison: The Federalist, No. 10 (1787)

  • George Washington: Farewell Address (1796)

  • Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address (1801)

  • James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine (1823)

  • David Crockett: Advice to Politicians (1833) & Comments on Martin Van Buren (1835)

  • John L. O'Sullivan: "To Overspread the Continent" (1845)

  • The Antebellum South: The "Slave Narratives" (1835-58)

  • Jefferson Davis: Second Inaugural Address, Confederate States of America (1862)

  • Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)

  • Chief Joseph: "I Will Fight No More" Surrender Speech (1877) & Plea for Justice (1879)

  • Russell Conwell: "Acres of Diamonds" Sermon (c. 1880)

  • The Image of the Octopus: Six Political Cartoons (1882-1909)

  • Henry Grady: "New South" Speech (1886)

  • Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (1890)

  • Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)

  • Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities (1904)

  • John Spargo: The Bitter Cry of Children (1906)

  • Herbert Hoover: "Rugged Individualism" Speech (1928)

  • The Great Depression & FDR's New Deal: Ten Political Cartoons (1930s)

  • Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" Program (1935)

  • Joseph McCarthy: "Card Carrying Communists" Speech at Wheeling, W. Virginia (1950)

  • John F. Kennedy: "Quarantine" Speech (1962) & "Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech (1963)

  • Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (1962)

  • The Counterculture Movement: Five Protest Songs (1965-70)

  • Ronald Reagan: "Evil Empire" Speech (1983) & "Tear Down This Wall" Speech (1987)

  • William Jefferson Clinton: Articles of Impeachment (1998)

  • Herbert Block: Greatest Hits (1947-1998)