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 319 U.S. 624
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
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
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 --