The American reader : words that moved a nation / edited by Diane Ravitch.

Includes author index.

Bibliography: p. 375-377.

The Mayflower compact -- Defense of freedom of the press / Andrew Hamilton -- A demand to limit search and seizure / James Otis --The slaves' appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts -- The meaning of patriotism in America / France Wright -- The case for public schools / Horace Mann -- Address to the Ohio Women's rights convention / Sojourner Truth -- Address to the legislature of New York on Womens' rights / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Chief Seattle's oration -- A disappointed woman / Lucy Stone -- Walker's appeal / David Walker -- Bearing witness against slavery / Angelina Grimké -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Independence Day speech at Rochester / Frederick Douglass -- A century of dishonor / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The Atlanta Exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women and economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Should higher education for women differ? / M. Carey Thomas -- Prejudice against women / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Advice to a Black schoolgirl / W.E.B. DuBois -- The right to one's body / Margaret Sanger -- Freedom / E.B. White --Confirmation hearings / David Lilienthal -- A plea for civil rights / Hubert Humphrey -- The Port Huron statement / Tom Hayden -- Free to choose / Milton and Rose Friedman -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Jesse Jackson -- AmeRícan / Tato Laviera -- The American idea / Theodore H. White.