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By Title Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln and the Slavery Question Abraham Lincoln, Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief Lincoln and the Reframing of America America the Beautiful Battle Hymn of the Republic God Bless America My Country, ’Tis of Thee The Star-Spangled Banner This Land Is Your Land Guide for Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation Guide for “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” Compassion: Toward Neighbors Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 1) Courage and Self-Sacrifice (Part 2) Enterprise and Commerce Equality Freedom and Individuality Freedom and Religion Law-Abidingness Making One Out of Many National Identity and Why It Matters Self-Command American Names American Sonnet Becoming a Redwood Caged Bird Chicago Frederick Douglass I, Too, Sing America Mending Wall Old Ironsides Sestina Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant The Man Born to Farming The New Colossus The Red Wheelbarrow A Lincoln Memorial A Stepmother’s Recollection A Timeline of Abraham Lincoln A Very Peculiar God: Reading Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln by George Henry Story Abraham Lincoln’s Re-founding of the Nation Address on Abraham Lincoln Address on Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Article Two Centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Chiefly About War-Matters by a Peaceable Man Crown His Blood-Stained Pillow Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address Excerpt from the Cooper Union Address Excerpt from the Eulogy of Henry Clay Excerpt from the Peoria Speech Excerpt from “The President’s Policy” Farewell Address, 1861 First Inaugural Address, 1861 From Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories from The People, Yes Gettysburg Address House Divided Speech Last Public Address Letter to Erastus Corning and Others Letter to J. W. Fell Lincoln Lincoln at Two Hundred Lincoln Centennial Address Lincoln Monument: Washington Lincoln, the Man of the People Martyr Message to Congress in Special Session O Captain! My Captain! Open Letter to Horace Greeley Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Sonnet Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment The Answer The Emancipation Group The Kentucky Home The Master The Origins and Traditions of Lincoln’s Birthday Holiday The Perfect Tribute The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d A Christmas Guest A Christmas Visit from St. Nicholas A Luckless Santa Claus A Worn Path Christmas Christmas Day in the Morning Christmas Every Day Christmas Gift Christmas in America Christmas Trees: A Christmas Circular Letter Haskell Hooked on the Northern Cheyenne How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Is There A Santa Claus? Jingle Bells Joy to the World Madame Martel’s Christmas Eve O Little Town of Bethlehem Old Folks’ Christmas Our Christmas Tree The Burglar’s Christmas The Christmas Banquet The Gift of the Magi The Greatest Gift The Joker The Loudest Voice The Mystic’s Christmas The Romance of a Christmas Card The Story of the Other Wise Man Three Wise Guys Up on the Housetop White Christmas Wise Guy America is Hard to See Americanism Aria: from Hunger of Memory Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean 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 Discovering Columbus Excerpt from The Columbiad Excitement at the News of the Discovery First Landing of Columbus in the New World from Democracy in America Hail, Columbia In the American Society Little Selves My Dead Brother Comes to America Ode to Columbia Pioneers! O Pioneers! Prayer of Columbus Proclamation on the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America by Columbus Remarks on Signing the Columbus Day Proclamation, 1988 Statement on Columbus Day, 1940 The Luck of Roaring Camp The Origins and Traditions of Columbus Day The Ships of Columbus by Ivan Aivazovsky The Significance of Columbus Day to New Americans Turkey Red Visitors, 1965 Was America a Mistake? What Columbus Day Really Means A Short History of the American Flag Address at Flag Day Exercises Address on Flag Day Address to the Brooklyn 14th Regiment Barbara Frietchie Dissent from Texas v. Johnson From Halter v. Nebraska From Making Patriots From Texas v. Johnson From The Red Badge of Courage From the Ashes Comes the Rebirth of Patriotism I Am an American Our Flag by Frederic Edwin Church Pledge of Allegiance Proclamation 1335 – Flag Day, 1916 Proclamation 2614 – Flag Day, 1944 Proclamation 7573 – Flag Day, 2002 Ragged Old Flag Raising the Flag Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Remarks at a Flag Day Ceremony Stars of the US Flag: A Timeline The Color Guard The Flag Goes By The Meaning of Flag Day The Namesake The Origins and Traditions of Flag Day The Pledge of Allegiance at the Hanoi Hilton The Song of the Banner at Day-Break The Star-Spangled Banner The Stars and Stripes Forever US Flag Code You’re a Grand Old Flag A Frenchman’s Estimate of Washington in 1781 A Short Biography of George Washington A Trip to Mount Vernon Abraham Lincoln on George Washington Address on the Newburgh Conspiracy Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Bicentennial of Washington’s Birthday Farewell Address Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States Farewell Address to the Continental Congress First Inaugural Address George Washington and the Modern Presidency George Washington as Exemplary President George Washington by Rembrandt Peale George Washington! A Funeral Oration on his Death George Washington, Model Executive? Greatness and Commemoration Hero, Standing Historical Memorabilia of Washington Introduction, from Founding Father Letter to George Washington, 1787 Letter to Henry Lee in Congress on Shays’ Rebellion Letter to Martha Washington, 1775 Letter to Mary Cranch 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 Making an American Ode for Washington’s Birthday Radio Address on Washington’s Birthday Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789 The Appointment of General Washington The Character of Washington The Crisis, No. 1 The Fable of George Washington and the Cherry Tree The First Continental Congress The Genius of Washington The Greatness of George Washington The Origins and Traditions of Washington’s Birthday Holiday The Passionate Bedrock of Genius The Rise of Washington The Trials and Triumphs of Presiding The Vow of Washington The Wisdom of George Washington To His Excellency General Washington Valley Forge Washington and Our Schools and Colleges Washington and the Constitutional Convention Washington Monument by Night Washington the Nation Builder Washington’s Inauguration When George Washington Became Great Young Washington and Cato A Brief History of Independence A New Eden A Pretty Story A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition A Village Patriot Account of the Battle of Kings Mountain Account of the Vote for Independence Address to the Nation, July 4, 1942 America Chester Concord Hymn Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress Declaration of Independence Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms Eulogy for Adams and Jefferson Fourth of July Ode Fourth of July Oration Freedom’s Plow Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death Independence Day Letter to Congress, 1775 Letter to H. Niles Letter to His Parents Letters to Abigail Adams, 1776 Liberty Tree My Kinsman, Major Molineux No Alternative than Independence Ode Old Esther Dudley Oration on the Advantages of American Independence Paul Revere’s Ride Speech at Independence Hall Speech on the Fourth of July, 1872 Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence The American Dream The American Hero: A Sapphick Ode The Antiquity of Freedom The Centenarian’s Story The Declaration of Sentiments The Fourth in Salvador The Fourth of July The Fundamental Principle of a Republic The Last of the Sacred Army The Liberty Song The Meaning of Liberty The Origins and Traditions of Independence Day The Rebels The Republic The Siege at Yorktown The Soldier of the Revolution The Volunteer Boys Unveiling the Statue of Liberty by Edward Moran What July Fourth Means to Me What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Yankee Doodle A Groundhog’s Death Automobile Industry by William Gropper Excerpt from Waiting for the Weekend Fireside Chat, Labor Day 1936 Free Time from Spheres of Justice I Hear America Singing Labor Speaks Martinez’ Treasure The Apostate: A Child Labor Parable The Ballad of John Henry The Choice of Hercules The High Place of Labor The Labor Movement in America The Little Red Hen The March of the Mill Children The Mason: Carl Murray Bates from Working The Origins and Traditions of Labor Day The Significance of Labor Day The Village Blacksmith To Be of Use Triangle Memorial Speech What Does the Working Man Want? Whitewashing the Fence from Tom Sawyer Working as Meaningful Fulfillment A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement A Call for Unity Address to the 1964 National Baptist Convention Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference Brown v. Board of Education Dreaming of a Black Christmas Eulogy for the Martyred Children Everyday Use Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home Freedom Songs From Enough From Notes of a Native Son God Bless America Growing Up Colored Happy Birthday How Can We Save the African-American Race? How It Feels to Be Colored Me I Have a Dream I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Keep Your Eyes on the Prize Letter from Birmingham Jail Letter on the Civil Rights Movement Letter to the Orlando Sentinel Liars Don’t Qualify Lift Every Voice and Sing My View of Segregation Laws Neighbors Of the Coming of John Oh, Freedom On Being Crazy On the Situation in Little Rock One Friday Morning Onward, Christian Soldiers Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District Race Holding Remarks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dedication Remarks on Signing the Bill Making the Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a National Holiday Remarks on Signing the King Holiday and Service Act Selma-to-Montgomery March by James Karales Solve for X Stranger in the Village The Ballot or the Bullet The Battle Royal The Black Table, the Empty Suit, and the Tie The Civil Rights Cases The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society The Negro Family: The Case for National Action The Origins and Traditions of Martin Luther King Jr. Day The Power of Nonviolence The Welcome Table This Little Light of Mine To Fulfill These Rights We Shall Overcome A Box Comes Home A Date Which Will Live in Infamy A Marine’s Journey Home A Meaning for Monuments A Monument for the Soldiers A Night, from Hospital Sketches Address at Arlington Cemetery Address at the Monument of the Unknown Dead Address at the Unveiling of the Soldiers’ Monument Address to a Joint Session of Congress Following the 9/11 Attacks Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Bivouac of the Dead Brave Men Lost D-Day Prayer Declaration of Causes of Secession Decoration Day Decoration Day Address, 1868 Freedom and Its Obligations General Orders No. 11 Gettysburg Address Homage to Vietnam In Flanders Fields In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire Letter to Fanny McCullough Letter to Mrs. Bixby Letter to Sarah Marching Song of the First Arkansas Regiment Memorial Rain: For Kenneth MacLeish Memorials: On the Slain at Chickamauga Night on the Line from Citizen Soldiers Order of the Day: 6 June 1944 Planting 20,000 Flags on Memorial Day by Ellen White Remarks at a Memorial Day Ceremony, 1986 Remarks on Memorial Day Remarks on Memorial Day Rouge Bouquet Roy’s Decoration Day Second Inaugural Address, 1865 Shiloh: A Requiem Soldier’s Memorial Day Stories from the Front Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground The Battle Cry of Freedom The Battle Cry of Freedom (Southern Version) The Blue and the Gray The Dead Comrade The Origins and Traditions of Memorial Day The Peacemaker The Story of a Year Voluntaries We Are Coming, Father Abraham We Shall Keep the Faith Why Should a Colored Man Enlist? A New Pioneer An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings Excerpt from Northwood Excerpt from “No Thanks to Gratitude” Excerpt from “The First Settlement of New England” Excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation For an Autumn Festival How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving Letter to President Abraham Lincoln, 1863 Modern Thanksgiving Proclamations Our National Thanksgiving Thanksgiving at the Polls Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day (1984) Thanksgiving Day Proclamations 1789–Present Thanksgiving on Slav Creek Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863 Thanksgiving, 1917 The Corn Song The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie Brownscombe The Lost Turkey The Night Before Thanksgiving The Origins and Traditions of Thanksgiving Those Who Have No Turkey Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen A History of Veterans Day: Its Origins and Traditions A Son of the Gods Address on Armistice Day, 1941 Anchors Aweigh Armistice Day Address Digging and Grousing Duty, Honor, Country Letter to His Parents Liberty Loan Parade by Arthur Clifton Goodwin Not to Keep Oath of Enlistment Old War-Dreams Over There Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account Reconciliation Sacred Ground Soldier’s Home Speech on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day The Army Goes Rolling Along The Artilleryman’s Vision The Day the Civil War Ended The Marines’ Hymn The US Air Force The Veteran The Veteran (1905) The War Prayer Veterans Day Remarks, 1961 Veteran’s Day Speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis What a Veteran Knows A Jury of Her Peers Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Chamberlain Declaration of Independence Encouraging Patriotism through Stories Federalist 10 Harrison Bergeron Mayflower Compact Old Folks’ Christmas Pandora Project for Moral Perfection Speech to the Third Army The Great Seal of the United States The Last Flogging The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Man without a Country The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Namesake To Build a Fire True Americanism United States Constitution

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