Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Mike Christian Story / John McCain --
Ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 --
Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan --
I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde --
Constitutional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787 / Benjamin Franklin --
United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony --
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee --
America / Samuel Francis Smith --
If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass --
Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Address at "I am an American" Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand --
Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 / Margaret Chase Smith.
cd 2. Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 / John F. Kennedy --
Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket --
Statement against the Writs of Assistance, Boston, 1761 / James Otis --
Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 / Abigail Adams --
Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams --
Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth --
Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes --
Feminine mystique / Betty Friedan --
Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M. Kennedy --
Road not taken / Robert Frost --
Souls of Black folk. Sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois --
Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F. Kennedy.
cd 3. Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 / Chief Joseph --
Final Emancipation Proclamation, Januarry 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln --
Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville --
Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln --
September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden --
War message to Congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt --
On the atomic bomb / J. Robert Oppenheimer --
Fateful decision / Albert Einstein --
I hear America singing / Walt Whitman --
New colossus / Emma Lazarus --
Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen --
Telegram to their father, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1903 / Orville and Wilbur Wright --
Homeless children speak / David Bright --
Gift outright / Robert Frost --
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville --
Let us now praise famous men / James Agee --
Significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner --
Wilderness idea / Wallace Stegner --