The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith

The pledge of allegiance

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 319 U.S. 624

Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mike Christian story / John McCain

Texas v. Johnson 491 U.S. 397

U.S. Blues / Grateful Dead

God bless the U.S.A. / Lee Greenwood

A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop

Farewell address, September 19, 1796 / George Washington

First inaugural address, March 4, 1801 / Thomas Jefferson

Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825 / Daniel Webster

The ship of state, 1849 / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strenuous life, April 10, 1899 / Theodore Roosevelt

Let America be America again, July 1936 / Langston Hughes

Second inaugural address, January 20, 1937 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 / John F. Kennedy

The times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan

First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969

Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan

Yankee Doodle

Letters from an American farmer, 1782 / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Democracy in American, 1835 / Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy, 1880 / Henry Adams

The picture of Dorian Gray : [excerpt], 1891 / Oscar Wilde

Dangers of the dress suit in politics, 1905 / George Washington Plunkitt

Take me out to the ball game, 1908 / Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth

On being an American, 1922 / H.L. Mencken

As regards patriotism / Mark Twain

I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay

The great Gatsby : [excerpt] / 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, 1787

The Constitutional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787 / Benjamin Franklin

Marbury v. Madison 5 U.S. 137, 1803

Civil disobedience : [excerpt] / Henry David Thoreau

First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 / Abraham Lincoln

The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873

To kill a mockingbird : [excerpt], 1960 / Harper Lee

Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr.

Special message to the Congress : The American promise, March 15, 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson

Duncan v. Louisiana 391 U.S. 145, 1968

Opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee, proceedings of impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 / Barbara Jordan

Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974 / Gerald R. Ford

Bush v. Gore 531 U.S. 98, 2000

The Declaration of Independence, 1776 / 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, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass

Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 / Annie Davis

Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Freedom, July 1940 / E. B. White

As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings

State of the Union address, January 6, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Address at I am an American Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand

I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger

Address to students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 / Ronald Reagan

Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 / Andrew Hamilton

Abrams v. U.S. 250 U.S. 616, 1919

Whitney v. California 274 U.S. 357, 1927

Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 376 U.S. 254, 1964

Amazing grace / John Newton

Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca Tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket

Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 / John F. Kennedy

Engel v. Vitale 370 U.S. 421, 1962

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris 122 S. Ct. 2460, 2002

Statement against the writs of assistance, Boston, 1761 / James Otis

Olmstead v. U.S. 277 U.S. 438, 1928

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 505 U.S. 833, 1992

Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 / Abigail Adams

Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams

Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Ain't I a woman?, May 1851 / Sojourner Truth

Lift every voice and sing, 1900 / James Weldon Johnson

Speech in Congress on women's rights and wartime service, January 10, 1918 / Jeannette Rankin

Incident, 1925 / Countee Cullen

Merry-go-round, 1942 / Langston Hughes

Can a woman ever be President of the United States?, 1935 / by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483, 1954

Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483, 1954

The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, fall 1957, 1960 / Gwendolyn Brooks

Televised address to the nation, June 11, 1963 / John F. Kennedy

Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr.

The feminine mystique, 1963 / Betty Friedan

The special plight and the role of the Black woman, May 7, 1971 / Fannie Lou Hamer

Frontiero v. Richardson 411 U.S. 677, 1973

Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M. Kennedy

Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 / Hillary Rodham Clinton

Remarks on Affirmative Action, July 19, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton

Baker v. State 170 Vt. 194, 1999

Simple gifts, 1848 / Joseph Brackett

Self-reliance, 1841 / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walden : [excerpt], 1854 / Henry David Thoreau

Sioux songs of the sacred mysteries, 1869

The sorrow songs (from The souls of Black folk), 1903 / W.E.B. Du Bois

The road not taken, 1916 / Robert Frost

Invisible man [excerpt], 1947 / Ralph Ellison

Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 / William Faulkner

Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and reply (from Scoundrel Time) / Lillian Hellman

Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F. Kennedy

The drum major instinct, February 4, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr.

In search of our mothers' gardens, 1974 / Alice Walker

Speech after defeat by the Virginia Militia, 1774 / Chief Logan

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry

Common sense, February 14, 1776 / Thomas Paine

Paul Revere's ride, 1863 / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Monroe Doctrine, 1823

The battle hymn of the Republic, 1861 / Julia Ward Howe

Shiloh, a requiem, April 1862 / Herman Melville

Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln

Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 / Abraham Lincoln

Memoirs, 1885-1886 / Ulysses S. Grant

Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 / Chief Joseph

The Marines' song

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind, 1899 / Stephen Crane

The caisson song, 1907 / Edmund L. Gruber

War message to Congress, April 2, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson

Over there / George M. Cohan, 1917

The unknown soldier / Billy Rose

September 1, 1939, 1941 / W.H. Auden

War message to Congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The gift outright, 1942 / Robert Frost

Martial cadenza, 1954 / Wallace Stevens

The great crusade, June 6, 1944 / Dwight D. Eisenhower

On the atomic bomb, 1945 / J. Robert Oppenheimer

The fateful decision, 1948 / Albert Einstein

Address to the nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 / Harry S Truman

Farewell address, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D. Einsenhower

Blowin' in the wind, 1962 / Bob Dylan

Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963 / John F. Kennedy

Vietnam veterans against the war, 1971 / John Kerry

Born in the U.S.A., 1984 / Bruce Springsteen

On the rainy river (from the things they carried), 1990 / Tim O'Brien

Remarks upon returning from The People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 / Richard M. Nixon

Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton

Address on terrorism before a joint meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 / George W. Bush

Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 / Jimmy Carter

The new colossus, 1883 / Emma Lazarus

Expulsion of the immigrants, c. 1884 / Huang Zunxian

I hear America singing, 1891 / Walt Whitman

I've been working on the railroad

Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 / Wilbur Wright

Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 / Florence Kelley

The jungle : [excerpt], 1906 / Upton Sinclair

Ellis Island : [excerpt], 1907 / Henry James

Barrio boy : [excerpt], 1971 / Ernesto Galarza

My life and work, 1922 / Henry Ford

They won't think, 1921 / Thomas Alva Edison

Happy days are here again, 1929 / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen

Brother, can you spare a dime?, 1932 / E.Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney

First inaugural address, 1933 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379, 1937

The grapes of wrath : [excerpt], 1939 / John Steinbeck

Death of a salesman : [excerpt], 1949 / Arthur Miller

The kitchen debate, Moscow, 1959 / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev

Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen

King Leer, 1950 / Groucho Marx

Coal miner's daughter, 1970 / Loretta Lynn

Choosing a dream : Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 / Mario Puzo

Recapturing America's moral vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 / Robert F. Kennedy/.

Adress to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 / Cesar Chavez -- My hometown, 1984 / Bruce Springsteen -- POPism, 1975 / Andy Warhol -- Speech to the Democratic Convention, August 12, 1980 / Edward M. Kennedy -- Homeless children speak, 1986 / David Bright -- Speech at the Republic Convention, August 18, 1988 / George Bush -- The Joy Luck Club : [excerpt], 1989 / Amy Tan -- The education of an American, September 21, 2001 / Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Capitalizing on the cognitive niche, 1999 / Bill Gates -- God bless America, 1938 / Irving Berlin -- The Thanksgivings : Iroquois, 1891 -- Twelfth song of the thunder : Navajo, 1887 -- Oh! Susanna, 1848 / Stephen Foster -- Old cotton fields at home, 1936 / Huddie Ledbetter -- Light in August : [excerpt], 1932 / William Faulkner -- Let us now praise famous men, 1941 / James Agee -- Florida, 1946 / Elizabeth Bishop -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : [excerpt], 1884 / Mark Twain -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, 1923 / Robert Frost -- Moby-Dick : [excerpt], 1851 / Herman Melville -- The sidewalks of New York, 1894 / James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor -- New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander -- Jazz : [excerpt], 1992 / Toni Morrison -- Chicago, 1916 / Carl Sandburg -- The significance of the frontier in American history : [excerpt], 1893 / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The ballad of Davy Crockett / George Burns and Tom Blackburn -- O pioneers! : [excerpt], 1913 / Willa Cather -- Response to the breakup of their reservation : Northern Utes, 1903 -- Home on the range, 1930 / David Guion -- The Old Chisholm Trail, c. 1880 -- The mud below : [excerpt], 1999 / Annie Proulx -- Oklahoma, 1943 / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- I left my heart in San Francisco, 1954 / George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross -- Sunset, 1960 / Jack Kerouac -- Surfin' U.S.A., 1963 / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson -- Los Angeles notebook, 1966 / Joan Didion -- Big yellow taxi, 1970 / Joni Mitchell -- The wilderness letter, 1960 / Wallace Stegner -- America, 1968 / Paul Simon -- America, the beautiful, 1893 / Katharine Lee Bates -- This land is your land, 1940 / Woody Guthrie --