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Author Heffner, Richard D.

Title A documentary history of the United States / Richard D. Heffner.

Publication Info. New York : Signet Classic, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973 H461D    Check Shelf
Edition Expanded and updated seventh edition.
Description x, 533 pages ; 18 cm
Contents A new nation -- "Common sense" / Tom Paine -- Declaration of independence -- The law of the land -- Constitution of the United States -- Federalist number ten / James Madison -- Federalists vs. Republicans -- On the constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S.: letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington -- Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington -- Neutrality and national growth -- George Washington's farewell address -- The Jeffersonian revolution -- Alien and sedition acts -- Kentucky and Virginia resolutions -- Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address -- The power of the court -- Marbury vs. Madison / John Marshall -- A bold foreign policy -- The Monroe doctrine / James Monroe -- Jacksonian democracy -- On aristocracy: letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -- Veto of the Bank Renewal Bill / Andrew Jackson -- Liberty or union -- Second reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster -- The abolitionist crusade -- First issue of The liberator -- The sectional conflict -- John C. Calhoun on the slavery question -- "The hireling and the slave" / William J. Grayson -- The fateful decade -- Seneca Falls declaration of sentiments and resolutions -- Dred Scott vs. Sanford / Roger B. Taney -- War! -- Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address -- The prophet of democracy -- The emancipation proclamation ; The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- The conflict over reconstruction -- Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address -- The gilded age -- "Democratic vistas" / Walt Whitman -- "Wealth" / Andrew Carnegie -- From frontier to factory -- "The significance of the frontier in American history" / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Letter on labor in industrial society / Samuel Gompers -- Atlanta Exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Grass-roots rebellion -- Populist Party platform -- "Cross of gold" speech / William Jennings Bryan -- Imperial America -- "The United States looking outward" / Alfred T. Mahan -- Corollary to the Monroe doctrine / Theodore Roosevelt -- The progressive ferment -- The new nationalism / Theodore Roosevelt -- The old order changeth / Woodrow Wilson -- The great crusade and after -- War message to Congress ; Fourteen points ; Pueblo speech on the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Boom and bust -- "Rugged individualism" / Herbert Hoover -- The Roosevelt revolution -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address -- N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation -- Helvering et al. v. Davis -- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish -- The end of isolation -- "Quarantine" speech ; "Four freedoms" speech / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The Atlantic charter -- The Cold War -- The Marshall plan / George C. Marshall -- "Sources of Soviet conduct" / George F. Kennan ("X") -- Acceptance prize for Nobel prize for literature, 1949 / William Faulkner -- America at mid-century -- Brown v. Board of Education / Earl Warren -- Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address -- From the new frontier to the great society -- John F. Kennedy's inaugural address -- "Strategy of peace" speech ; Civil rights speech / John F. Kennedy -- Birmingham City jail "Unwise and untimely" letter ; "I have a dream" speech / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The "Great society" speech / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Decade of turmoil -- National Organization for Women (NOW) "Statement of purpose," 1966 -- "Power of the media" speech / Lyndon B. Johnson -- "Public opinion" / Walter Lippmann -- "Radio and television news" speech, 1958 ; "Television and politics" speech, 1959 / Edward R. Murrow -- "The importance of television news" speech / Spiro T. Agnew -- House Judiciary Committee Articles of impeachment v. Richard M. Nixon -- Gerald R. Ford's inaugural address -- On freedom of the press / Potter Stewart -- Conservatism revisited -- Roe v. Wade / Harry A. Blackmun -- On conservatism, religion, and politics / Barry Goldwater -- Inaugural addresses (1981 and 1985) / Ronald Reagan -- "A tale of two cities" keynote address Democratic Convention, 1984 / Mario Cuomo -- The end of the American century -- Republican Contract with America, 1994 -- State of the Union address, 1998 / William Jefferson Clinton -- America at the millennium -- Washington National Cathedral Prayer service, September 2001 ; Joint session of Congress, September 2001 / George W. Bush -- Farewell address, 2001 / Rudolph Giuliani.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary This expanded and revised seventh edition of the single volume containing the complete texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and many other significant documents and speeches in American history features a new chapter covering major events of the 21st century, including documents related to the events of September 11, 2001.
Subject United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Historia -- Fuentes.
ISBN 0451207483 paperback alkaline paper
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