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- A Box Comes Home
- A Brief History of Independence
- A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement
- A Call for Unity
- A Christmas Guest
- A Christmas Visit from St. Nicholas
- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
- A Frenchman’s Estimate of Washington in 1781
- A Groundhog’s Death
- A History of Veterans Day: Its Origins and Traditions
- A Jury of Her Peers
- A Lincoln Memorial
- A Luckless Santa Claus
- A Marine’s Journey Home
- A Meaning for Monuments
- A Monument for the Soldiers
- A New Eden
- A New Pioneer
- A Night, from Hospital Sketches
- A Pretty Story
- A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
- A Short Biography of George Washington
- A Short History of the American Flag
- A Son of the Gods
- A Stepmother’s Recollection
- A Timeline of Abraham Lincoln
- A Trip to Mount Vernon
- A Very Peculiar God: Reading Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- A Village Patriot
- A Worn Path
- Abraham Lincoln on George Washington
- Abraham Lincoln’s Re-founding of the Nation
- Account of the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Account of the Vote for Independence
- Address at Arlington Cemetery
- Address at Flag Day Exercises
- Address at the Monument of the Unknown Dead
- Address at the Unveiling of the Soldiers’ Monument
- Address on Abraham Lincoln
- Address on Armistice Day, 1941
- Address on Flag Day
- Address on Lincoln’s 200th Birthday
- Address on the Newburgh Conspiracy
- Address to a Joint Session of Congress Following the 9/11 Attacks
- Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Bicentennial of Washington’s Birthday
- Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War
- Address to the 1964 National Baptist Convention
- Address to the Brooklyn 14th Regiment
- Address to the Nation, July 4, 1942
- Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference
- America
- America is Hard to See
- American Names
- American Sonnet
- Americanism
- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
- Aria: from Hunger of Memory
- Armistice Day Address
- Article Two
- Barbara Frietchie
- Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
- Becoming a Redwood
- Bivouac of the Dead
- Brave Men Lost
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Caged Bird
- Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings
- Centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- Chamberlain
- Chicago
- Chiefly About War-Matters by a Peaceable Man
- Christmas
- Christmas Day in the Morning
- Christmas Every Day
- Christmas Gift
- Christmas Trees: A Christmas Circular Letter
- Columbus (1892)
- Columbus (1903)
- Columbus (1919)
- Columbus a Heretic and a Visionary to His Contemporaries
- Columbus and His Discovery of America
- Columbus and the Egg
- Concord Hymn
- Crown His Blood-Stained Pillow
- D-Day Prayer
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
- Declaration of Causes of Secession
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
- Decoration Day
- Decoration Day Address, 1868
- Digging and Grousing
- Discovering Columbus
- Dissent from Texas v. Johnson
- Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- Duty, Honor, Country
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address
- Encouraging Patriotism through Stories
- Eulogy for Adams and Jefferson
- Eulogy for the Martyred Children
- Everyday Use
- Excerpt from Northwood
- Excerpt from The Columbiad
- Excerpt from Waiting for the Weekend
- Excerpt from the Cooper Union Address
- Excerpt from the Eulogy of Henry Clay
- Excerpt from the Peoria Speech
- Excerpt from “No Thanks to Gratitude”
- Excerpt from “The First Settlement of New England”
- Excerpt from “The President’s Policy”
- Excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation
- Excitement at the News of the Discovery
- Farewell Address
- Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States
- Farewell Address to the Continental Congress
- Farewell Address, 1861
- Federalist 10
- Fireside Chat, Labor Day 1936
- First Inaugural Address
- First Inaugural Address, 1861
- First Landing of Columbus in the New World
- Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home
- Fourth of July Ode
- Fourth of July Oration
- Frederick Douglass
- Free Time from Spheres of Justice
- Freedom and Its Obligations
- Freedom’s Plow
- From Enough
- From Halter v. Nebraska
- From Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
- From Making Patriots
- From Notes of a Native Son
- From Texas v. Johnson
- from The People, Yes
- From The Red Badge of Courage
- from Democracy in America
- From the Ashes Comes the Rebirth of Patriotism
- General Orders No. 11
- George Washington and the Modern Presidency
- George Washington as Exemplary President
- George Washington! A Funeral Oration on his Death
- George Washington, Model Executive?
- Gettysburg Address
- Gettysburg Address
- Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
- God Bless America
- Greatness and Commemoration
- Growing Up Colored
- Harrison Bergeron
- Haskell Hooked on the Northern Cheyenne
- Hero, Standing
- Historical Memorabilia of Washington
- Homage to Vietnam
- House Divided Speech
- How Can We Save the African-American Race?
- How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar
- How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown
- I Am an American
- I Have a Dream
- I Hear America Singing
- I, Too, Sing America
- In Flanders Fields
- In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire
- In the American Society
- Independence Day
- Introduction, from Founding Father
- Is There A Santa Claus?
- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
- John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving
- Labor Speaks
- Last Public Address
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Letter on the Civil Rights Movement
- Letter to Congress, 1775
- Letter to Erastus Corning and Others
- Letter to Fanny McCullough
- Letter to George Washington, 1787
- Letter to H. Niles
- Letter to Henry Lee in Congress on Shays’ Rebellion
- Letter to His Parents
- Letter to His Parents
- Letter to J. W. Fell
- Letter to Martha Washington, 1775
- Letter to Mary Cranch
- Letter to Mrs. Bixby
- Letter to President Abraham Lincoln, 1863
- Letter to Sarah
- Letter to the Orlando Sentinel
- Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island
- Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, 1784
- Letter to Walter Jones
- Letters on Washington’s Resignation
- Letters to Abigail Adams, 1776
- Liars Don’t Qualify
- Lincoln
- Lincoln at Two Hundred
- Lincoln Centennial Address
- Lincoln Monument: Washington
- Lincoln, the Man of the People
- Little Selves
- Madame Martel’s Christmas Eve
- Making an American
- Martinez’ Treasure
- Martyr
- Mayflower Compact
- Memorial Rain: For Kenneth MacLeish
- Memorials: On the Slain at Chickamauga
- Mending Wall
- Message to Congress in Special Session
- Modern Thanksgiving Proclamations
- My Dead Brother Comes to America
- My Kinsman, Major Molineux
- My View of Segregation Laws
- Neighbors
- Night on the Line from Citizen Soldiers
- No Alternative than Independence
- Not to Keep
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Oath of Enlistment
- Ode
- Ode for Washington’s Birthday
- Of the Coming of John
- Old Esther Dudley
- Old Folks’ Christmas
- Old Folks’ Christmas
- Old Ironsides
- Old War-Dreams
- On Being Crazy
- On the Situation in Little Rock
- One Friday Morning
- Open Letter to Horace Greeley
- Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
- Oration on the Advantages of American Independence
- Order of the Day: 6 June 1944
- Our Christmas Tree
- Our National Thanksgiving
- Pandora
- Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District
- Paul Revere’s Ride
- Pioneers! O Pioneers!
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Prayer of Columbus
- Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
- Proclamation 1335 – Flag Day, 1916
- Proclamation 2614 – Flag Day, 1944
- Proclamation 7573 – Flag Day, 2002
- Proclamation on the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America by Columbus
- Project for Moral Perfection
- Race Holding
- Radio Address on Washington’s Birthday
- Raising the Flag
- Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- Reconciliation
- Remarks at a Flag Day Ceremony
- Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony, 1986
- Remarks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dedication
- Remarks on Memorial Day
- Remarks on Memorial Day
- Remarks on Signing the Bill Making the Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a National Holiday
- Remarks on Signing the Columbus Day Proclamation, 1988
- Remarks on Signing the King Holiday and Service Act
- Rouge Bouquet
- Roy’s Decoration Day
- Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
- Sacred Ground
- Second Inaugural Address, 1865
- Sestina
- Shiloh: A Requiem
- Soldier’s Home
- Solve for X
- Sonnet
- Speech at Independence Hall
- Speech on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day
- Speech on the Fourth of July, 1872
- Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
- Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment
- Speech to the Third Army
- Stars of the US Flag: A Timeline
- Statement on Columbus Day, 1940
- Stories from the Front
- Stranger in the Village
- Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
- Thanksgiving at the Polls
- Thanksgiving Day (1984)
- Thanksgiving Day Proclamations 1789–Present
- Thanksgiving on Slav Creek
- Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
- Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
- Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863
- Thanksgiving, 1917
- The American Dream
- The Answer
- The Antiquity of Freedom
- The Apostate: A Child Labor Parable
- The Appointment of General Washington
- The Artilleryman’s Vision
- The Ballot or the Bullet
- The Battle Royal
- The Black Table, the Empty Suit, and the Tie
- The Blue and the Gray
- The Burglar’s Christmas
- The Centenarian’s Story
- The Character of Washington
- The Choice of Hercules
- The Christmas Banquet
- The Civil Rights Cases
- The Color Guard
- The Crisis, No. 1
- The Day the Civil War Ended
- The Dead Comrade
- The Declaration of Sentiments
- The Emancipation Group
- The Fable of George Washington and the Cherry Tree
- The First Continental Congress
- The Flag Goes By
- The Fourth in Salvador
- The Fourth of July
- The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
- The Genius of Washington
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Great Seal of the United States
- The Greatest Gift
- The Greatness of George Washington
- The High Place of Labor
- The Joker
- The Kentucky Home
- The Labor Movement in America
- The Last Flogging
- The Last of the Sacred Army
- The Little Red Hen
- The Lost Turkey
- The Loudest Voice
- The Luck of Roaring Camp
- The Man Born to Farming
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- The Man without a Country
- The March of the Mill Children
- The Mason: Carl Murray Bates from Working
- The Master
- The May-Pole of Merry Mount
- The Meaning of Flag Day
- The Meaning of Liberty
- The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society
- The Mystic’s Christmas
- The Namesake
- The Namesake
- The Negro Family: The Case for National Action
- The New Colossus
- The Night Before Thanksgiving
- 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
- The Peacemaker
- The Perfect Tribute
- The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions
- The Pledge of Allegiance at the Hanoi Hilton
- The Power of Nonviolence
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- The Republic
- The Rise of Washington
- The Romance of a Christmas Card
- The Siege at Yorktown
- The Significance of Columbus Day to New Americans
- The Significance of Labor Day
- The Soldier of the Revolution
- The Song of the Banner at Day-Break
- The Story of a Year
- The Story of the Other Wise Man
- The Trials and Triumphs of Presiding
- The Veteran
- The Veteran (1905)
- The Village Blacksmith
- The Vow of Washington
- The War Prayer
- The Welcome Table
- The Wisdom of George Washington
- Those Who Have No Turkey
- Three Wise Guys
- To Be of Use
- To Build a Fire
- To Fulfill These Rights
- To His Excellency General Washington
- Triangle Memorial Speech
- True Americanism
- Turkey Red
- Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- United States Constitution
- US Flag Code
- Valley Forge
- Veterans Day Remarks, 1961
- Veteran’s Day Speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis
- Visitors, 1965
- Voluntaries
- Was America a Mistake?
- Washington and Our Schools and Colleges
- Washington and the Constitutional Convention
- Washington Monument by Night
- Washington the Nation Builder
- Washington’s Inauguration
- We Shall Keep the Faith
- What a Veteran Knows
- What Columbus Day Really Means
- What Does the Working Man Want?
- What July Fourth Means to Me
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
- When George Washington Became Great
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d
- Whitewashing the Fence from Tom Sawyer
- Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?
- Wise Guy
- Working as Meaningful Fulfillment
- Young Washington and Cato
Study Guides
- Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address
- 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
- Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 1): Chamberlain
- Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 2): Speech to the Third Army
- Enterprise and Commerce: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Equality: Harrison Bergeron
- Freedom and Individuality: To Build a Fire
- Freedom and Religion: The May-Pole of Merry Mount
- Guide for Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
- Guide for “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”: O. Henry’s “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”
- Law-Abidingness: A Jury of Her Peers
- Lincoln and the Reframing of America: Lincoln and the Reframing of America
- Making One Out of Many: The Namesake
- National Identity and Why It Matters: The Man without a Country
- Self-Command: Project for Moral Perfection
Songs
- America the Beautiful
- Anchors Aweigh
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Chester
- Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
- For an Autumn Festival
- Freedom Songs
- God Bless America
- Hail, Columbia
- Happy Birthday
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
- Jingle Bells
- Joy to the World
- Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
- Liberty Tree
- Lift Every Voice and Sing
- Marching Song of the First Arkansas Regiment
- My Country, ’Tis of Thee
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Ode to Columbia
- Oh, Freedom
- Onward, Christian Soldiers
- Over There
- Ragged Old Flag
- Soldier’s Memorial Day
- Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground
- Thanksgiving Day
- The American Hero: A Sapphick Ode
- The Army Goes Rolling Along
- The Ballad of John Henry
- The Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Battle Cry of Freedom (Southern Version)
- The Corn Song
- The Liberty Song
- The Marines’ Hymn
- The Rebels
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- The Stars and Stripes Forever
- The US Air Force
- The Volunteer Boys
- This Land Is Your Land
- This Little Light of Mine
- Up on the Housetop
- We Are Coming, Father Abraham
- We Shall Overcome
- White Christmas
- Yankee Doodle
- You’re a Grand Old Flag
Art
- 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