Book
Words that built a nation : voices of democracy that have shaped America's history
Audience Youth 0-15 years
Published [2018] by Rodale Kids, New York
ISBN 9781635651881
Bib Id 946533
Edition Revised edition.
Description 224 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
More Details
Leader
cam a22 Ii 4500
ISBN
1635651883 (hardcover) $19.00
9781635651881 (hardcover)
Call #
J 973 M
Title
Words that built a nation : voices of democracy that have shaped America's history
Edition
Revised edition.
Publication Information
[2018] by Rodale Kids, New York :
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Note
"Portions of this book were previously published as Words that built a nation: a young person's collection of historic American documents by Stonesong Press, LLC, in September 1999"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Contents
The Mayflower Compact -- Poor Richard's Almanack / Benjamin Franklin -- Speech to the Second Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry -- Common Sense / Thomas Paine -- Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams -- The Declaration of Independence -- Federalist No. 78 / Alexander Hamilton -- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- Farewell Address / George Washington -- The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe -- Declaration of Sentiments / Seneca Falls Convention -- The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro / Frederick Douglass -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- The Fifteenth Amendment -- I Will Fight No More Forever / Chief Joseph -- Statement on the causes of Wounded Knee / Chief Red Cloud -- Twenty Years at Hull-House / Jane Addams -- The Sixteenth Amendment -- The Fourteen Points / Woodrow Wilson -- The Nineteenth Amendment -- The Immigration Act -- War Message to Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -- Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy -- The Declaration of Indian Purpose -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Speech at the Berlin Wall / John F. Kennedy -- The March on Washington Address / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Speech to Striking Grape Workers / César Chávez -- The Eagle Has Landed -- I'd Rather Be Black Thank Female / Shirley Chisholm -- Letter of Resignation / Richard M. NIxon -- Tear Down This Wall / Ronald W. Reagan -- Speech at the United nations Conference on Women / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Address to the Nation on the September 11 Attacks / George W. Bush -- Speech on Race / Barak Obama -- Obergefell v. Hodges.
Summary
From the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, the updated collection preserves the documents of the first edition and introduces the landmark statements that are impacting our nation today.
Local Note
J
Added Author
Availability
| header | Locations | header | header |
|---|