An edition of An American Primer
An American primer
by Daniel J. Boorstin
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A collection of essays on American history. Each essay presents and discusses a document or speech (or song or poem) significant in American history.
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Sources, History, United States, Kultur, Histoire, Civilisation, Anthologie, United states, history, sourcesPlaces
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1985, New American Library
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Book Details
First Sentence
"We call this an American Primer because it is a book of beginnings."
Table of Contents
Introduction (Daniel J. Boorstin)
The Mayflower Compact, 1620 (Samuel Eliot Morrison)
John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630 (Lawrence W. Tower)
Mary Easty: Petition of an Accused Witch, 1692 (Edmund S. Morgan)
Gabriel Thomas: An Account of Pennsylvania, 1698 (David M Potter)
Benjamin Franklin: Father Abraham's Speech, or, The Way to Wealth, 1757 (Leonard W. Labaree)
Logan's Speech, 1774 (Wilcomb E. Washburn)
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence, 1776 (Henery Steele Commanger)
Benjamin Franklin: Address to the Federal Convention, 1787 (Ralph L. Ketcham)
The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787
The Preamble (Clarence L. Ver Steeg)
Article I (C. Herman Pritchett)
Article II (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)
Article III (David Fellman)
Article IV (J. A. C. Grant)
Article V and the Amending Process (Philip B. Kurland)
Articles VI and VII (Alfred H. Kelly)
The Bill of Rights: Amendments I-X (Milton R. Konvitz)
The Civil War Amendments: XIII-XV (Francis A. Allen)
George Washington: First Inaugural Address, 1789 (Clinton Rossiter)
Alexander Hamilton: Report on Manufactures, 1791 (Thomas C. Cochran)
George Washington: Farewell Address, 1796 (Richard B. Morris)
Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address, 1801 (Dumas Malone)
Jacob Henry: On Religion and Elective Office, 1809 (Joseph L. Blau)
John Adams: What Do We Mean by the American Revolution, 1818 (L. H. Butterfield)
John Marshall: M'Culloch v. Maryland, 1819 (Robert G. Mc Closkey)
James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 (Dexter Perkins)
Andrew Jackson: The Majority Is To Govern, 1829 (John William Ward)
William Lloyd Garrison: Prospectus for the "Liberator," 1831 (Kenneth M. Stampp)
Ralph Waldo Emmerson: The American Scholar, 1837 (Robert E. Spiller)
Lemuel Shaw: Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842 (Leonard W. Levy)
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobediance, 1846 (Frederick B. Tolles)
Horace Mann: Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1848 (Ralph H Gabriel)
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848 (Barbara M. Solomon)
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton: Address on the Divorce Bill, 1861 (Nelson M. Blake)
Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1861 (William G. Mc Loughlin)
The Homestead Act, 1862 (Paul W. Gates)
Abraham Lincoln: Second Annual Message to Congress, 1862 (Roy F. Nichols)
Abraham Lincoln: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 (John Hope Franklin)
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address, 1863 (Allan Nevins)
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865 (Paul M. Angle)
Uylsses S. Grant: Terms of Surrender for the Army of Northern Virginia, 1865 (T. Harry Williams)
The Oath of Office, 1868 (Harold M. Hyman)
The Ballad of John Henry, c. 1872 (Richard M. Dorson)
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health, 1875 (Martin E. Marty)
Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus, 1883 (John Higham)
Henry W. Grady: The New South, 1886 (Thomas D. Clark)
James Cardinal Gibbons: The Question of "Knights of Labor," 1887 (John Tracy Ellis)
Edition Notes
Vol.1: 492p.-Vol.2: 493-994p.
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Anthology of essays, laws, speeches and other writings illustrating the American way of life.
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