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• Abigail Adams
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• Ambrose Bierce
• Amy A. Kass
• Ana Menendez
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Anthony Grooms
• Archibald MacLeish
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Barack Obama
• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Hanby
• Benjamin Harrison
• Bill D. Ross
• Billy Collins
• Booker T. Washington
• Bret Harte
• Bruce Catton
• Caitrin Keiper
• Calvin Coolidge
• Carl Sandburg
• Charles W. Eliot
• Charles W. Harwood
• Christopher G. Memminger
• Claude C. Robin
• Clement Clarke Moore
• Cornel West
• Dana Gioia
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Daniel Webster
• David Ramsay
• Diana Schaub
• Diane Oliver
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Douglas MacArthur
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• E. B. Sledge
• Earl Warren
• Edgar Guest
• Edith Wharton
• Edward Everett Hale
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
• Edwin Markham
• Edwin P. Whipple
• Elias Lieberman
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Emily Dickinson
• Emma Lazarus
• Ernest Hemingway
• Ernie Pyle
• Eudora Welty
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Florence White Williams
• Frances Gilchrist Wood
• Francis Bellamy
• Francis Hopkinson
• Francis Miles Finch
• Francis Scott Key
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Frederick Douglass
• George F. Root
• George III
• George M. Cohan
• George S. Patton Jr.
• George W. Bush
• George Washington
• Gerald Early
• Gish Jen
• Gordon S. Wood
• Gordon Weaver
• Gouverneur Morris
• Grace Paley
• H. B. Carrington
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harry S. Truman
• Harvey Mansfield
• Henry Archer
• Henry Armitt Brown
• Henry Brooks Adams
• Henry Holcomb Bennett
• Henry James
• Henry Lee
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Henry Van Dyke
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Henry Ward Beecher
• Herbert B. Adams
• Herbert Hoover
• Herman Melville
• Horace Mann
• Irving Berlin
• Jack Conroy
• Jack London
• James A. Garfield
• James Baldwin
• James Baldwin
• James Bradley
• James Freeman Clarke
• James Madison
• James McHenry
• James P. Collins
• James Pierpont
• James Russell Lowell
• James Sloan Gibbons
• James Thacher
• James W. Ceaser
• James Whitcomb Riley
• Jane Addams
• Joaquin Miller
• Joe Carter
• Joel Barlow
• John A. Logan
• John Adams
• John Ciardi
• John Dickinson
• John F. Kelly
• John F. Kennedy
• John Fiske
• John G. Roberts
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• John M. Harlan
• John Marshall
• John McCain
• John McCrae
• John McWhorter
• John Noble Wilford
• John O. Killens
• John Philip Sousa
• John Updike
• Johnny Cash
• Joseph B. Foraker
• Joseph Bottum
• Joseph H. Jackson
• Joseph Hopkinson
• Joyce Kilmer
• Juan Williams
• Julia Ward Howe
• Junius Edwards
• Kate Chopin
• Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Katharine Lee Bates
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Langston Hughes
• Lee Martin
• Leon R. Kass
• Lindley Hoffman Miller
• Louisa May Alcott
• Lowell Mason
• Lucretia Mott
• Lydia Maria Child
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Maeve Brennan
• Malcolm X
• Manuela Crosno
• Marge Piercy
• Mark Twain
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Mary Antin
• Mary B. C. Slade
• Mary Lerner
• Mary Raymond Shipman
• Mason Locke Weems
• Maya Angelou
• Michael R. Strobl
• Michael Shaara
• Michael Walzer
• Moina Michael
• Mother Jones
• Myron Magnet
• Nancy Byrd Turner
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nathaniel Niles
• Ninette M. Lowater
• Noemie Emery
• O. Henry
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• Omar N. Bradley
• Oscar Hijuelos
• Pat C. Hoy II
• Patrick Henry
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Pearl S. Buck
• Philip Van Doren Stern
• Phillips Brooks
• Phillis Wheatley
• Ralph Ellison
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Richard Brookhiser
• Richard Rodriguez
• Richard Watson Gilder
• Ring Lardner
• Robert Frost
• Robert Hayden
• Robert Penn Warren
• Ronald Reagan
• Rose Schneiderman
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Samuel Adams
• Samuel Francis Smith
• Samuel Gompers
• Samuel Shaw
• Sandra Cisneros
• Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Shelby Steele
• Stephen Crane
• Stephen E. Ambrose
• Stephen L. Carter
• Stephen Vincent Benet
• Steven F. Hayward
• Stevie Wonder
• Studs Terkel
• Sullivan Ballou
• Susan Glaspell
• Susan Minot
• Theodore O’Hara
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• Timothy Dwight IV
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Walt Whitman
• Walter Berns
• Walter Kittredge
• Washington Irving
• Wendell Berry
• Willa Cather
• William Billings
• William Bradford
• William Brennan
• William Carlos Williams
• William Cullen Bryant
• William Dean Howells
• William H. Barnes
• William H. Herndon
• William H. Rehnquist
• William Hubbard
• William J. Connell
• William Jefferson Clinton
• Witold Rybczynski
• Woodrow Wilson
• Woody Guthrie
• Zachary Gold
• Zora Neale Hurston

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• A Jury of Her Peers Guest Host: Christopher DeMuth
• Chamberlain Guest Host: Eliot A. Cohen
• Gettysburg Address Guest Host: Walter Berns
• Harrison Bergeron Guest Host: James W. Ceaser
• Project for Moral Perfection Guest Host: Wilfred McClay
• Speech to the Third Army Guest Host: Eliot A. Cohen
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Guest Host: David Brooks
• The Man without a Country Guest Host: Wilfred McClay
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount Guest Host: Yuval Levin
• The Namesake Guest Host: William Schambra
• To Build a Fire Guest Host: William Schambra
• True Americanism Guest Host: Leon R. Kass
• Veterans Day Speech Guest Host: Eliot and Raphael Cohen

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• A Box Comes Home John Ciardi
• A Brief History of Independence
• A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement
• A Call for Unity
• A Christmas Guest Sarah Orne Jewett
• A Christmas Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• A Frenchman’s Estimate of Washington in 1781 Claude C. Robin
• A Groundhog’s Death Jack Conroy
• A History of Veterans Day: Its Origins and Traditions
• A Jury of Her Peers Susan Glaspell
• A Lincoln Memorial Mark Twain
• A Luckless Santa Claus F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Marine’s Journey Home Michael R. Strobl
• A Meaning for Monuments William Hubbard
• A Monument for the Soldiers James Whitcomb Riley
• A New Eden Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• A New Pioneer Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• A Night, from Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott
• A Pretty Story Francis Hopkinson
• A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition George III
• A Short Biography of George Washington
• A Short History of the American Flag
• A Son of the Gods Ambrose Bierce
• A Stepmother’s Recollection
• A Timeline of Abraham Lincoln
• A Trip to Mount Vernon Henry Brooks Adams
• A Very Peculiar God: Reading Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Caitrin Keiper
• A Village Patriot Sarah Orne Jewett
• A Worn Path Eudora Welty
• Abraham Lincoln on George Washington Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln’s Re-founding of the Nation Leon R. Kass
• Account of the Battle of Kings Mountain James P. Collins
• Account of the Vote for Independence John Adams
• Address at Arlington Cemetery Joseph B. Foraker
• Address at Flag Day Exercises Woodrow Wilson
• Address at the Monument of the Unknown Dead Frederick Douglass
• Address at the Unveiling of the Soldiers’ Monument Rutherford B. Hayes
• Address on Abraham Lincoln Booker T. Washington
• Address on Armistice Day, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Address on Flag Day Woodrow Wilson
• Address on Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Barack Obama
• Address on the Newburgh Conspiracy George Washington
• Address to a Joint Session of Congress Following the 9/11 Attacks George W. Bush
• Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Bicentennial of Washington’s Birthday Herbert Hoover
• Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Woodrow Wilson
• Address to the 1964 National Baptist Convention Joseph H. Jackson
• Address to the Brooklyn 14th Regiment Henry Ward Beecher
• Address to the Nation, July 4, 1942 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference Shelby Steele
• America Walt Whitman
• America is Hard to See Robert Frost
• American Names Stephen Vincent Benet
• American Sonnet Billy Collins
• Americanism Theodore Roosevelt
• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Louisa May Alcott
• Aria: from Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez
• Armistice Day Address Omar N. Bradley
• Article Two
• Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier
• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Herman Melville
• Becoming a Redwood Dana Gioia
• Bivouac of the Dead Theodore O’Hara
• Brave Men Lost E. B. Sledge
• Brown v. Board of Education Earl Warren
• Caged Bird Maya Angelou
• Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings Ana Menendez
• Centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Chamberlain Michael Shaara
• Chicago Carl Sandburg
• Chiefly About War-Matters by a Peaceable Man Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Christmas Washington Irving
• Christmas Day in the Morning Pearl S. Buck
• Christmas Every Day William Dean Howells
• Christmas Gift Robert Penn Warren
• Christmas Trees: A Christmas Circular Letter Robert Frost
• Columbus (1892) Joaquin Miller
• Columbus (1903) Edward Everett Hale
• Columbus (1919) Nancy Byrd Turner
• Columbus a Heretic and a Visionary to His Contemporaries James Freeman Clarke
• Columbus and His Discovery of America Herbert B. Adams
• Columbus and the Egg James Baldwin
• Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Crown His Blood-Stained Pillow Julia Ward Howe
• D-Day Prayer Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
• Declaration of Causes of Secession Christopher G. Memminger
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
• Decoration Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Decoration Day Address, 1868 James A. Garfield
• Digging and Grousing Ernie Pyle
• Discovering Columbus John Noble Wilford
• Dissent from Texas v. Johnson William H. Rehnquist
• Dreaming of a Black Christmas Gerald Early
• Duty, Honor, Country Douglas MacArthur
• Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address Martin Luther King Jr.
• Encouraging Patriotism through Stories Amy A. Kass
• Eulogy for Adams and Jefferson Daniel Webster
• Eulogy for the Martyred Children Martin Luther King Jr.
• Everyday Use Alice Walker
• Excerpt from Northwood Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
• Excerpt from The Columbiad Joel Barlow
• Excerpt from Waiting for the Weekend Witold Rybczynski
• Excerpt from the Cooper Union Address Abraham Lincoln
• Excerpt from the Eulogy of Henry Clay Abraham Lincoln
• Excerpt from the Peoria Speech Abraham Lincoln
• Excerpt from “No Thanks to Gratitude” James W. Ceaser
• Excerpt from “The First Settlement of New England” Daniel Webster
• Excerpt from “The President’s Policy” James Russell Lowell
• Excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford
• Excitement at the News of the Discovery John Fiske
• Farewell Address George Washington
• Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States George Washington
• Farewell Address to the Continental Congress George Washington
• Farewell Address, 1861 Abraham Lincoln
• Federalist 10 James Madison
• Fireside Chat, Labor Day 1936 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• First Inaugural Address George Washington
• First Inaugural Address, 1861 Abraham Lincoln
• First Landing of Columbus in the New World Washington Irving
• Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home Anthony Grooms
• Fourth of July Ode James Russell Lowell
• Fourth of July Oration Horace Mann
• Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden
• Free Time from Spheres of Justice Michael Walzer
• Freedom and Its Obligations Calvin Coolidge
• Freedom’s Plow Langston Hughes
• From Enough Juan Williams
• From Halter v. Nebraska John M. Harlan
• From Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories Alexander McClure
• From Making Patriots Walter Berns
• From Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
• From Texas v. Johnson William Brennan
• from The People, Yes Carl Sandburg
• From The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
• from Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
• From the Ashes Comes the Rebirth of Patriotism Walter Berns
• General Orders No. 11 John A. Logan
• George Washington and the Modern Presidency Steven F. Hayward
• George Washington as Exemplary President Richard Brookhiser
• George Washington! A Funeral Oration on his Death Henry Lee
• George Washington, Model Executive? Harvey Mansfield
• Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
• Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
• Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death Patrick Henry
• God Bless America John O. Killens
• Greatness and Commemoration Jane Addams
• Growing Up Colored Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Haskell Hooked on the Northern Cheyenne Gordon Weaver
• Hero, Standing Allen C. Guelzo
• Historical Memorabilia of Washington H. B. Carrington
• Homage to Vietnam Pat C. Hoy II
• House Divided Speech Abraham Lincoln
• How Can We Save the African-American Race? John McWhorter
• How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston
• How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar Bret Harte
• How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown Harriet Beecher Stowe
• I Am an American Elias Lieberman
• I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr.
• I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman
• I, Too, Sing America Langston Hughes
• In Flanders Fields John McCrae
• In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• In the American Society Gish Jen
• Independence Day Wendell Berry
• Introduction, from Founding Father Richard Brookhiser
• Is There A Santa Claus?
• I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr.
• John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Labor Speaks
• Last Public Address Abraham Lincoln
• Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.
• Letter on the Civil Rights Movement Leon R. Kass
• Letter to Congress, 1775 George Washington
• Letter to Erastus Corning and Others Abraham Lincoln
• Letter to Fanny McCullough Abraham Lincoln
• Letter to George Washington, 1787 Gouverneur Morris
• Letter to H. Niles John Adams
• Letter to Henry Lee in Congress on Shays’ Rebellion George Washington
• Letter to His Parents John F. Kennedy
• Letter to His Parents Samuel Shaw
• Letter to J. W. Fell Abraham Lincoln
• Letter to Martha Washington, 1775 George Washington
• Letter to Mary Cranch Abigail Adams
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby Abraham Lincoln
• Letter to President Abraham Lincoln, 1863 Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
• Letter to Sarah Sullivan Ballou
• Letter to the Orlando Sentinel Zora Neale Hurston
• Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island George Washington
• Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, 1784 George Washington
• Letter to Walter Jones Thomas Jefferson
• Letters on Washington’s Resignation
• Letters to Abigail Adams, 1776 John Adams
• Liars Don’t Qualify Junius Edwards
• Lincoln Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Lincoln at Two Hundred Walter Berns
• Lincoln Centennial Address Theodore Roosevelt
• Lincoln Monument: Washington Langston Hughes
• Lincoln, the Man of the People Edwin Markham
• Little Selves Mary Lerner
• Madame Martel’s Christmas Eve Kate Chopin
• Making an American Mary Antin
• Martinez’ Treasure Manuela Crosno
• Martyr Herman Melville
• Mayflower Compact
• Memorial Rain: For Kenneth MacLeish Archibald MacLeish
• Memorials: On the Slain at Chickamauga Herman Melville
• Mending Wall Robert Frost
• Message to Congress in Special Session Abraham Lincoln
• Modern Thanksgiving Proclamations
• My Dead Brother Comes to America Alexander Godin
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne
• My View of Segregation Laws Booker T. Washington
• Neighbors Diane Oliver
• Night on the Line from Citizen Soldiers Stephen E. Ambrose
• No Alternative than Independence Samuel Adams
• Not to Keep Robert Frost
• O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
• Oath of Enlistment
• Ode Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ode for Washington’s Birthday Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• Of the Coming of John W. E. B. Du Bois
• Old Esther Dudley Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Old Folks’ Christmas Ring Lardner
• Old Folks’ Christmas Ring Lardner
• Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• Old War-Dreams Walt Whitman
• On Being Crazy W. E. B. Du Bois
• On the Situation in Little Rock Dwight D. Eisenhower
• One Friday Morning Langston Hughes
• Open Letter to Horace Greeley Abraham Lincoln
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass
• Oration on the Advantages of American Independence David Ramsay
• Order of the Day: 6 June 1944 Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Our Christmas Tree Wendell Berry
• Our National Thanksgiving Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
• Pandora Henry James
• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District John G. Roberts
• Paul Revere’s Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Pioneers! O Pioneers! Walt Whitman
• Pledge of Allegiance Francis Bellamy
• Prayer of Columbus Walt Whitman
• Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account John McCain
• Proclamation 1335 – Flag Day, 1916 Woodrow Wilson
• Proclamation 2614 – Flag Day, 1944 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Proclamation 7573 – Flag Day, 2002 George W. Bush
• Proclamation on the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America by Columbus Benjamin Harrison
• Project for Moral Perfection Benjamin Franklin
• Race Holding Shelby Steele
• Radio Address on Washington’s Birthday Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Raising the Flag
• Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Bill D. Ross
• Reconciliation Walt Whitman
• Remarks at a Flag Day Ceremony Ronald Reagan
• Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony, 1986 Ronald Reagan
• Remarks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dedication Barack Obama
• Remarks on Memorial Day Amy A. Kass
• Remarks on Memorial Day John McCain
• Remarks on Signing the Bill Making the Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a National Holiday Ronald Reagan
• Remarks on Signing the Columbus Day Proclamation, 1988 Ronald Reagan
• Remarks on Signing the King Holiday and Service Act William Jefferson Clinton
• Rouge Bouquet Joyce Kilmer
• Roy’s Decoration Day Ninette M. Lowater
• Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation George Washington
• Sacred Ground James Bradley
• Second Inaugural Address, 1865 Abraham Lincoln
• Sestina Elizabeth Bishop
• Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville
• Soldier’s Home Ernest Hemingway
• Solve for X Diana Schaub
• Sonnet
• Speech at Independence Hall Abraham Lincoln
• Speech on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day Ronald Reagan
• Speech on the Fourth of July, 1872 Mark Twain
• Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Calvin Coolidge
• Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment Abraham Lincoln
• Speech to the Third Army George S. Patton Jr.
• Stars of the US Flag: A Timeline
• Statement on Columbus Day, 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Stories from the Front Ernie Pyle
• Stranger in the Village James Baldwin
• Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant Emily Dickinson
• Thanksgiving at the Polls Edward Everett Hale
• Thanksgiving Day (1984) Susan Minot
• Thanksgiving Day Proclamations 1789–Present
• Thanksgiving on Slav Creek Jack London
• Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789 George Washington
• Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789 George Washington
• Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863 Abraham Lincoln
• Thanksgiving, 1917 Edgar Guest
• The American Dream Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Answer Zachary Gold
• The Antiquity of Freedom William Cullen Bryant
• The Apostate: A Child Labor Parable Jack London
• The Appointment of General Washington Washington Irving
• The Artilleryman’s Vision Walt Whitman
• The Ballot or the Bullet Malcolm X
• The Battle Royal Ralph Ellison
• The Black Table, the Empty Suit, and the Tie Stephen L. Carter
• The Blue and the Gray Francis Miles Finch
• The Burglar’s Christmas Willa Cather
• The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
• The Character of Washington Daniel Webster
• The Choice of Hercules James Baldwin
• The Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Civil Rights Cases Frederick Douglass
• The Color Guard Charles W. Harwood
• The Crisis, No. 1 Thomas Paine
• The Day the Civil War Ended Bruce Catton
• The Dead Comrade Richard Watson Gilder
• The Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The Emancipation Group John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Fable of George Washington and the Cherry Tree Mason Locke Weems
• The First Continental Congress Washington Irving
• The Flag Goes By Henry Holcomb Bennett
• The Fourth in Salvador O. Henry
• The Fourth of July John Updike
• The Fundamental Principle of a Republic Anna Howard Shaw
• The Genius of Washington Edwin P. Whipple
• The Gift of the Magi O. Henry
• The Great Seal of the United States
• The Greatest Gift Philip Van Doren Stern
• The Greatness of George Washington Gordon S. Wood
• The High Place of Labor Calvin Coolidge
• The Joker Maeve Brennan
• The Kentucky Home James Baldwin
• The Labor Movement in America
• The Last Flogging Frederick Douglass
• The Last of the Sacred Army Walt Whitman
• The Little Red Hen Florence White Williams
• The Lost Turkey Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Loudest Voice Grace Paley
• The Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte
• The Man Born to Farming Wendell Berry
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain
• The Man without a Country Edward Everett Hale
• The March of the Mill Children Mother Jones
• The Mason: Carl Murray Bates from Working Studs Terkel
• The Master Edwin Arlington Robinson
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Meaning of Flag Day Amy A. Kass
• The Meaning of Liberty Woodrow Wilson
• The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society Cornel West
• The Mystic’s Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Namesake Willa Cather
• The Namesake Willa Cather
• The Negro Family: The Case for National Action Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• The New Colossus Emma Lazarus
• The Night Before Thanksgiving Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Origins and Traditions of Columbus Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Flag Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Independence Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Labor Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Lincoln’s Birthday Holiday
• The Origins and Traditions of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Memorial Day
• The Origins and Traditions of Thanksgiving
• The Origins and Traditions of Washington’s Birthday Holiday
• The Passionate Bedrock of Genius Noemie Emery
• The Peacemaker Joyce Kilmer
• The Perfect Tribute Mary Raymond Shipman
• The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions Abraham Lincoln
• The Pledge of Allegiance at the Hanoi Hilton John McCain
• The Power of Nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams
• The Republic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Rise of Washington Myron Magnet
• The Romance of a Christmas Card Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Siege at Yorktown James Thacher
• The Significance of Columbus Day to New Americans
• The Significance of Labor Day Samuel Gompers
• The Soldier of the Revolution Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
• The Song of the Banner at Day-Break Walt Whitman
• The Story of a Year Henry James
• The Story of the Other Wise Man Henry Van Dyke
• The Trials and Triumphs of Presiding Myron Magnet
• The Veteran Stephen Crane
• The Veteran (1905) Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Vow of Washington John Greenleaf Whittier
• The War Prayer Mark Twain
• The Welcome Table Lee Martin
• The Wisdom of George Washington Diana Schaub
• Those Who Have No Turkey Langston Hughes
• Three Wise Guys Sandra Cisneros
• To Be of Use Marge Piercy
• To Build a Fire Jack London
• To Fulfill These Rights Lyndon B. Johnson
• To His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley
• Triangle Memorial Speech Rose Schneiderman
• True Americanism Theodore Roosevelt
• Turkey Red Frances Gilchrist Wood
• Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen O. Henry
• United States Constitution
• US Flag Code
• Valley Forge Henry Armitt Brown
• Veterans Day Remarks, 1961 John F. Kennedy
• Veteran’s Day Speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis John F. Kelly
• Visitors, 1965 Oscar Hijuelos
• Voluntaries Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Was America a Mistake? Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Washington and Our Schools and Colleges Charles W. Eliot
• Washington and the Constitutional Convention Myron Magnet
• Washington Monument by Night Carl Sandburg
• Washington the Nation Builder Edwin Markham
• Washington’s Inauguration Edward Everett Hale
• We Shall Keep the Faith Moina Michael
• What a Veteran Knows Joe Carter
• What Columbus Day Really Means William J. Connell
• What Does the Working Man Want? Samuel Gompers
• What July Fourth Means to Me Ronald Reagan
• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass
• When George Washington Became Great Myron Magnet
• When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman
• Whitewashing the Fence from Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
• Why Should a Colored Man Enlist? Frederick Douglass
• Wise Guy Joseph Bottum
• Working as Meaningful Fulfillment Leon R. Kass
• Young Washington and Cato Noemie Emery

Study Guides

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• Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln and the Slavery Question: Abraham Lincoln and the Slavery Question
• Abraham Lincoln, Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief: Abraham Lincoln, Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief
• Compassion: Toward Neighbors: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Herman Melville
• Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 1): Chamberlain Michael Shaara
• Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 2): Speech to the Third Army George S. Patton Jr.
• Enterprise and Commerce: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain
• Equality: Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Freedom and Individuality: To Build a Fire Jack London
• Freedom and Religion: The May-Pole of Merry Mount Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Guide for Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation George Washington
• Guide for “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”: O. Henry’s “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” O. Henry
• Law-Abidingness: A Jury of Her Peers Susan Glaspell
• Lincoln and the Reframing of America: Lincoln and the Reframing of America
• Making One Out of Many: The Namesake Willa Cather
• National Identity and Why It Matters: The Man without a Country Edward Everett Hale
• Self-Command: Project for Moral Perfection Benjamin Franklin

 

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• America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates
• Anchors Aweigh
• Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe
• Chester William Billings
• Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
• For an Autumn Festival John Greenleaf Whittier
• Freedom Songs
• God Bless America Irving Berlin
• Hail, Columbia Joseph Hopkinson
• Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Jingle Bells James Pierpont
• Joy to the World Lowell Mason
• Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
• Liberty Tree Thomas Paine
• Lift Every Voice and Sing
• Marching Song of the First Arkansas Regiment Lindley Hoffman Miller
• My Country, ’Tis of Thee Samuel Francis Smith
• O Little Town of Bethlehem Phillips Brooks
• Ode to Columbia Timothy Dwight IV
• Oh, Freedom
• Onward, Christian Soldiers
• Over There George M. Cohan
• Ragged Old Flag Johnny Cash
• Soldier’s Memorial Day Mary B. C. Slade
• Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground Walter Kittredge
• Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child
• The American Hero: A Sapphick Ode Nathaniel Niles
• The Army Goes Rolling Along
• The Ballad of John Henry
• The Battle Cry of Freedom George F. Root
• The Battle Cry of Freedom (Southern Version) William H. Barnes
• The Corn Song John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Liberty Song John Dickinson
• The Marines’ Hymn
• The Rebels
• The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key
• The Stars and Stripes Forever John Philip Sousa
• The US Air Force
• The Volunteer Boys Henry Archer
• This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
• This Little Light of Mine
• Up on the Housetop Benjamin Hanby
• We Are Coming, Father Abraham James Sloan Gibbons
• We Shall Overcome
• White Christmas Irving Berlin
• Yankee Doodle
• You’re a Grand Old Flag George M. Cohan

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• Abraham Lincoln by George Henry Story
• Automobile Industry by William Gropper
• Christmas in America
• George Washington by Rembrandt Peale
• Liberty Loan Parade by Arthur Clifton Goodwin
• Our Flag by Frederic Edwin Church
• Planting 20,000 Flags on Memorial Day by Ellen White
• Selma-to-Montgomery March by James Karales
• The Ships of Columbus by Ivan Aivazovsky
• Unveiling the Statue of Liberty by Edward Moran