Landmark American Speeches

by Harrison, Maureen; Gilbert, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781880780176
• ISBN10: 1880780178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Excellent Books

Table of Contents

The Amistad Africans	1	(12)
John Quincy Adams
A Declaration Of Women's Rights	12	(7)
Susan B. Anthony
A Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux The Butchering At Wounded Knee	19	(3)
Black Elk
Sentenced To Death	22	(4)
John Brown
The Cross Of Gold	26	(10)
William Jennings Bryan
The Nullification Crisis	36	(7)
John C. Calhoun
The Gospel Of Wealth	43	(7)
Andrew Carnegie
The Compromise Of 1850	50	(6)
Henry Clay
Mark Twain's ``Shameful'' Speech	56	(6)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
First Inaugural Address	62	(6)
Jefferson Davis
The Suffering Insane	68	(6)
Dorothea Dix
The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate	74	(12)
Stephen Douglas
The Great Sin and Shame Of America	86	(13)
Frederick Douglass
The American Scholar	99	(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Eight-Hour Day	105	(7)
Samuel Gompers
Second Inaugural Address	112	(6)
Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address	118	(7)
Thomas Jefferson
I Will Fight No More Forever	125	(2)
Joseph
Farewell To The Confederate Army	127	(3)
Robert E. Lee
The Gettysburg Address	130	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address	130	(5)
Abraham Lincoln
The Treason Trial Of Aaron Burr	135	(5)
Luther Martin
The Monroe Doctrine	140	(12)
James Monroe
The Death Of Alexander Hamilton	152	(6)
Gouverneur Morris
The Strenuous Life	158	(13)
Theodore Roosevelt
The Irrepressible Conflict	171	(8)
William Seward
Declaration Of Sentiments	179	(5)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Broken American Promises	184	(6)
Tecumseh
Walking West	190	(4)
Henry David Thoreau
A'n't I A Woman?	194	(3)
Sojourner Truth
The Confession Of Nat Turner	197	(14)
Nat Turner
Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are	211	(7)
Booker T. Washington
The Plymouth Rock Oration	218	(5)
Daniel Webster
American Patriotism	223
Frances Wright