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| Preface | |
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| Founders' Dream/Dreamers Found | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Origin of the Longhouse-Seneca Legend" | |
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| The Mayflower Compact | |
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| From "A Model of Christian Charity" | |
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| "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" | |
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| Declaration of Independence | |
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| From "Common Sense" | |
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| "Letter to John Adams: Remember the Ladies" (1776) | |
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| John Adams' Response to "Remember the Ladies" (1776) | |
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| Constitution of the Iroquois Nations-The Great Binding Law (Gayanashagowa) | |
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| "The Star Spangled Banner" | |
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| "My Country 'Tis of Thee" | |
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| From "Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles" | |
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| From "Democracy in America" | |
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| "Simple Gifts" | |
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| "America the Beautiful" | |
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| "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" | |
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| "This Land is Your Land" | |
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| For Further Research and Writing | |
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| Dreams Deferred | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration | |
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| "Speech of 1851" | |
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| From "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" | |
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| From The Planter's Northern Bride | |
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| "Graduating Address at Yale College, 1887" | |
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| From How the Other Half Lives | |
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| From The Souls of Black Folk | |
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| "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" | |
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| "New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death from Factory" | |
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| "The Ballot or the Bullet" (Text through Internet Search) | |
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| From "The American Dream" | |
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| "The Ten-Point Program" | |
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| The National Organization for Women's 1966 Statement of Purpose | |
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| "Trail of Broken Treaties-20-Point Proposal" | |
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| "America" | |
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| For Further Research and Writing | |
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| Streets Paved With Gold | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From A New Home-Who'll Follow? | |
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| "The New Colossus" | |
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| From "The Road to Business Success: A Talk to Young Men" | |
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| From "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" | |
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| From I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl | |
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| From The Promised Land | |
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| From Black Boy | |
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| From Death of a Salesman | |
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| From Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | |
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| From Messages From My Father | |
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| "Stuck in Between," From I Begin My Life All Over Again | |
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| From "The Pineros" | |
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| "The Day an Immigrant Refugee Can Say, 'I'm an American'" | |
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| For Further Research and Writing | |
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| Sustaining the Dream | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Little Boxes" | |
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| "Address at Rice University on the Space Effort" | |
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| "Great Society Speech" | |
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| "On Being Asian American" | |
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| "My American Dream," From Studs Terkel, American Dreams: Lost and Found | |
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| "Take The Power Back" (Text through Internet Search) | |
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| From "Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled" | |
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| "Argument in Favor of Proposition 227" | |
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| From Nickel and Dimed | |
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| "What Sacagawea Means to Me" | |
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| "The Death of Horatio Alger" | |
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| "All Falls Down" (Text through Internet Search) | |
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| "Superman Is An Illegal" | |
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| "The Power of Our Pastime" | |
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| "Special Comment of October 18, 2006" | |
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| "I Have a Dream" (Text through Internet Search) | |
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| For Further Research and Writing | |
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| Credits | |