The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith
The battle cry of freedom / George Frederick Root
The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett
You're a grand old flag / George M. Cohan
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
The Mike Christian story / John McCain
U.S. Blues / Grateful Dead
God bless the U.S.A. / Lee Greenwood
A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop
Farewell address / George Washington
First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson
Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument / Daniel Webster
The ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt
Let America be America again / Langston Hughes
Second inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy
The times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan
First words spoken by a man on the moon
Farewell address / Ronald Reagan
Letters from an American farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
Dangers of the dress suit in politics / George Washington Plunkitt
Take me out to the ballgame / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth
On being an American / H. L. Mencken
As regards patriotism / Mark Twain
I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
American names / Stephen Vincent Benet
The 42nd parallel / John Dos Passos
You're the top / Cole Porter
The story of a novel / Thomas Wolfe
Hollywood / Truman Capote
The last gentleman / Walker Percy
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua
A country and a conundrum / Anna Quindlen
The Constitution of the United States
The Constituional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations / Benjamin Franklin
Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau
First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King Jr.
Special message to the Congress: the American promise / Lyndon B. Johnson
Opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee, proceedings on impeachment of Richard Nixon / Barbara Jordan
Remarks on taking the Oath of Office / Gerald R. Ford
The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson
But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards
America / Samuel Francis Smith
If I had a country, I should be a patriot / Frederick Douglass
Letter to President Lincoln / Annie Davis
Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
As freedom is a breakfastfood / E. E. Cummings
State of the Union address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Address at "I Am an American" Day, Central Park, New York / Judge Learned Hand
I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger
Address to students, Moscow State University / Ronald Reagan
Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger / Andrew Hamilton
Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of Conscience / Margaret Chase Smith
Amazing grace (last stanza) / John Newton
Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca Tribe / Chief Red Jacket
Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association / John F. Kennedy
Statement against the Writs of Assistance / James Otis
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams
Letter to Abigail Adams / John Adams
Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Seneca Falls Convention
Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth
Lift every voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson
Speech in Congress on women's rights and wartime service / Jeannette Rankin
Incident / Countee Cullen
Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes
Can a woman ever be President of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt
Brown v. Board of Education
The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock, fall 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks
Televised address to the nation / John F. Kennedy
Address at the march on Washington / Martin Luther King Jr.
The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan
The special plight and the role of the black woman / Fannie Lou Hamer
Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act / Edward M. Kennedy
Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China / Hillary Rodham Clinton
Remarks on Affirmative Action / William Jefferson Clinton
Simple gifts / Joseph Brackett
Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden / Henry David Thoreau
Songs of the Sacred Mysteries / Sioux
The sorrow songs (from The souls of black folk) / W. E. B. Du Bois
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Invisible man / Ralph Ellison
Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner
Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and reply / Lillian Hellman
Day of Affirmation / Robert F. Kennedy
The drum major instinct / Martin Luther King Jr.
In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker
Speech after defeat by the Virginia Militia / Chief Logan
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry
Common sense / Thomas Paine
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe
Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville
Final Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln
Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
Memoirs / Ulysses S. Grant
Surrender to the U.S. Army / Chief Joseph
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane
The Caisson song / Edmund L. Gruber
War message to Congress / Woodrow Wilson
Over there / George M. Cohan
The unknown soldier / Billy Rose
September 1, 1939 / W. H. Auden
War message to Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The gift outright / Robert Frost
Martial cadenza / Wallace Stevens
The great crusade / Dwight D. Eisenhower
On the atomic bomb / J. Robert Oppenheimer
The fateful decision / Albert Einstein
Address to the nation on Korea / Harry S. Truman
Farewell address / Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan
Commencement address at American University / John F. Kennedy
Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry
Born in the U.S.A. / Bruce Springsteen
On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien
Remarks upon returning from the People's Republic of China / Richard M. Nixon
Remarks at Michigan State University / William Jefferson Clinton
Address on terrorism before a joint meeting of Congress / George W. Bush
Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize / Jimmy Carter
The new colossus / Emma Lazarus
Expulsion of the immigrants / Huang Zunxian
I hear America singing / Walt Whitman
I've been working on the railroad
Letter to Octave Chanute / Wilbur Wright
Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association / Florence Kelley
The jungle / Upton Sinclair
Ellis Island / Henry James
Barrio boy / Ernesto Galarza
My life and work / Henry Ford
They won't think / Thomas Alva Edison
Happy days are here again / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen
Brother, can you spare a dime? / E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney
First inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller
The kitchen debate / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev
Ellis Island interview / Manny Steen
Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn
Choosing a dream: Italian's in hell's kitchen / Mario Puzo
Recapturing America's moral vision / Robert F. Kennedy
Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco / Cesar Chavez
My hometown / Bruce Springsteen
Speech to the Democratic Convention / George Bush
The joy luck club / Amy Tan
The education of an American / Arnold Schwarzenegger
Captializing on the "cognitive niche" / Bill Gates
God bless America / Irving Berlin
The thanksgivings / Iroquois
Twelfth song of the thunder / Navajo
Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster
Old cotton fields at home / Huddie Ledbetter
Light in August / William Faulkner
Let us now praise famous men / James Agee
Florida / Elizabeth Bishop
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
The sidewalks of New York / James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor
New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander
The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner
The ballad of Davy Crockett / George Bruns and Tom Blackburn
O Pioneers! / Willa Cather
Response to the breakup of their reservation / Northern Utes
Home on the range / David Guion
The mud below / Annie Proulx
Oklahoma / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
I left my heart in San Francisco / George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross
Surfin' U.S.A. / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson
Los Angeles notebook / Joan Didion
Big yellow taxi / Joni Mitchell
The wilderness letters / Wallace Stegner
America, the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates
This land is your land / Woody Guthrie.
