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| Introduction | |
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| The Mayflower Compact | |
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| The Landing | |
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| Poor Richard's Almanack | |
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| List of Virtues | |
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| Defense of Freedom of the Press | |
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| A Demand to Limit Search and Seizure | |
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| Yankee Doodle | |
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| Liberty and Knowledge | |
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| The Liberty Song | |
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| Chief Logan's Lament | |
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| The Slaves' Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts | |
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| Speech to the Second Virginia Convention | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia | |
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| Common Sense | |
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| The American Crisis | |
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| Liberty Tree | |
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| Correspondence with John | |
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| Letters from an American Farmer | |
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| The Federalist, No. 1 | |
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| Farewell Address | |
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| Hail, Columbia | |
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| First Inaugural Address | |
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| The Star-Spangled Banner | |
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| The Old Oaken Bucket | |
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| Home, Sweet Home | |
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| A Visit from St. Nicholas | |
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| The Meaning of Patriotism in America | |
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| Against Nullification | |
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| Woodman, Spare That Tree | |
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| The Height of the Ridiculous | |
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| Old Ironsides | |
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| America | |
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| Concord Hymn | |
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| Self-Reliance | |
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| On Top of Old Smoky | |
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| Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean | |
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| The Raven | |
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| A Psalm of Life | |
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| The Village Blacksmith | |
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| Paul Revere's Ride | |
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| Civil Disobedience | |
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| Walden | |
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| The Barefoot Boy | |
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| Against the Mexican War | |
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| The Case for Pubic Schools | |
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| Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
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| Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention | |
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| Oh! Susanna | |
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| Old Folks at Home | |
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| Address to the Legislature of New York on Women's Rights | |
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| A Disappointed Woman | |
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| Success | |
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| Walker's Appeal | |
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| Prospectus for The Liberator | |
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| Stanzas for the Times | |
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| Predjudice Against the Colored Man | |
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| Bearing Witness Against Slavery | |
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| An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America | |
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| The Present Crisis | |
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| Independence Day Speech at Rochester | |
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| The House Divided Speech | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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| Last Statement to the Court | |
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| The Cooper Union Speech | |
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| Go Down, Moses | |
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| Dixie | |
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| First Inaugural Address | |
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| The Bonnie Blue Flag | |
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| Maryland, My Maryland | |
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| Battle Cry of Freedom | |
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| The John Brown Song | |
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| Battle Hymn of the Republic | |
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| Barbara Frietchie | |
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| The Gettysburg Address | |
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| Second Inaugural Address | |
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| I Hear America Singing | |
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| O Captain! My Captain! | |
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| Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society | |
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| The Blue and the Gray | |
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| Women's Right to Vote | |
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| The Ballad of John Henry | |
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| Home on the Range | |
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| I've Been Working on the Railroad | |
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| A Century of Dishonor | |
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| Speech at the National Convention of Colored Men | |
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| The New Colossus | |
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| Clementine | |
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| Casey at the Bat | |
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| When the Frost Is on the Punkin | |
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| When de Co'n Pone's Hot | |
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| What Does the Working Man Want? | |
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| The Pledge of Allegiance | |
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| The Mountains of California | |
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| Solitude | |
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| America the Beautiful | |
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| Little Boy Blue | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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| Reply to Booker T. Washington | |
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| Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson | |
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| In Praise of the Strenuous Life | |
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| Against Imperialism | |
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| No | |
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| The Solitude of Self | |
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| Women and Economics | |
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| The Man with the Hoe | |
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| Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing | |
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| Should Higher Education for Women Differ? | |
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| The Battle with the Slum | |
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| Prejudice Against Women | |
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| The Talented Tenth | |
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| Advice to a Black Schoolgril | |
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| The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles | |
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| Take Me Out to the Ball Game | |
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| The Preacher and the Slave | |
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| Trees | |
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| The New Freedom | |
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| Protest to President Wilson | |
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| Statement of Principles | |
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| Anne Rutledge | |
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| Mending Wall | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| Fire and Ice | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Chicago | |
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| Solidarity Forever | |
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| Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight | |
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| The Leaden-Eyed | |
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| I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier | |
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| I Have a Rendezvous with Death | |
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| War Message to Congress | |
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| Against Entry into the War | |
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| Over There | |
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| Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | |
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| The Marines' Hymn | |
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| The Field Artillery Song | |
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| Grass | |
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| Statement to the Court | |
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| The Right to One's Body | |
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| First Fig | |
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| Poems of Angel Island | |
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| A Korean Discovers New York | |
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| American Names | |
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| America | |
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| Yet Do I Marvel | |
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| O Black and Unknown Bards | |
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| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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| I, Too | |
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| The America System of Self-Government | |
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| Happy Days Are Here Again | |
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| First Inaugural Address | |
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| Second Inaugural Address | |
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| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | |
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| Union Maid | |
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| So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) | |
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| Which Side Are You On? | |
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| I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night | |
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| FDR at the DAR | |
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| God Bless America | |
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| This Is the Army, Mr. Jones | |
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| This Land Is Your Land | |
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| Freedom | |
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| High Flight | |
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| Anchors Aweigh | |
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| The Four Freedoms | |
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| War Message to Congress | |
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| Poems of the Issei | |
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| The Army Air Corps | |
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| Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition | |
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| The Spirit of Liberty | |
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| Elegy for a Dead Soldier | |
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| The Baruch Plan for Control of Atomic Energy | |
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| Confirmation Hearings | |
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| A Plea for Civil Rights | |
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| Inaugural Address | |
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| Declaration of Conscience | |
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| Nobel Acceptance Speech | |
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| The Silent Generation | |
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| Refugee in America | |
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| Harlem | |
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| Brown v. Board of Eduction | |
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| Farewell Address | |
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| It Could Be a Wonderful World | |
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| Duty, Honor, Country | |
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| Inaugural Address | |
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| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | |
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| Address to the Broadcasting Industry | |
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| The Port Huron Statement | |
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| Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | |
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| Silent Spring | |
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| Letter from Birmingham City Jail | |
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| Speech at the Berlin Wall | |
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| The March on Washington | |
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| We Shall Overcome | |
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| O Freedom | |
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| If I Had a Hammer | |
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| Blowin' in the Wind | |
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| Ballad of Birmingham | |
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| The Feminine Mystique | |
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| Little Boxes | |
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| Howard University Address | |
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| On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Stupid America | |
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| The Wilderness Idea | |
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| Speech at Moscow State University | |
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| The American Idea | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |