Poor Richard's Almanack / Benjamin Franklin --
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry --
Common Sense / Thomas Paine --
Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams --
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights --
Farewell Address / George Washington --
The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key --
The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe --
Declaration of Sentiments / Seneca Falls Convention --
The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro / Frederick Douglass --
The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln
I Will Fight No More Forever /
Statement on the causes of Wounded Knee /
Twenty Years at Hull-House /
Jane Addams -- The Sixteenth Amendment --
The Fourteen Points / Woodrow Wilson --
The Nineteenth Amendment --
War Message to Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt --
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka --
Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy --
The Declaration of Indian Purpose --
Silent Spring / Rachel Carson --
Speech at the Berlin Wall / John F. Kennedy --
The March on Washington Address / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
The Ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X --
Speech to Striking Grape Workers / César Chávez --
I'd Rather Be Black Thank Female / Shirley Chisholm --
Letter of Resignation / Richard M. NIxon --
Tear Down This Wall / Ronald W. Reagan --
Speech at the United nations Conference on Women / Hillary Rodham Clinton --
Address to the Nation on the September 11 Attacks / George W. Bush --
Speech on Race / Barak Obama --