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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
America is Hard to See
Americanism
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
Hail, Columbia
Ode to Columbia
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 Origins and Traditions of Columbus Day
The Ships of Columbus by Ivan Aivazovsky
The Significance of Columbus Day to New Americans
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 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
A Very Peculiar God: Reading Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
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 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
Armistice Day Address
Digging and Grousing
Duty, Honor, Country
Letter to His Parents
Liberty Loan Parade by Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Not to Keep
Old War-Dreams
Over There
Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
Reconciliation
Soldier’s Home
Speech on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day
The Artilleryman’s Vision
The Day the Civil War Ended
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
Abraham Lincoln’s Re-founding of the Nation
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Chamberlain
Declaration of Independence
Encouraging Patriotism through Stories
Federalist 10
First Inaugural Address, 1861
Gettysburg Address
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
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions
To Build a Fire
True Americanism
United States Constitution
By Video
A Jury of Her Peers
Chamberlain
Gettysburg Address
Harrison Bergeron
Project for Moral Perfection
Speech to the Third Army
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Man without a Country
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The Namesake
To Build a Fire
True Americanism
Veterans Day Speech
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