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Index
Cover
Praise
Title Page
WORDS THAT MADE HISTORY
About the Author
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Chapter 1: A NEW NATION
“Common Sense,” Tom Paine, 1776
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Chapter 2: THE LAW OF THE LAND
The Constitution of the United States, 1787
The Federalist Number Ten, James Madison, 1787
Chapter 3: FEDERALISTS VS. REPUBLICANS
On the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, 1791
Jefferson to Washington
Hamilton to Washington
Chapter 4: NEUTRALITY AND NATIONAL GROWTH
George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
Chapter 5: THE JEFFERSONIAN REVOLUTION
Alien and Sedition Acts
Sedition Act, July, 1798
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Virginia Resolutions, December, 1798
Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, 1801
Chapter 6: THE POWER OF THE COURT
Marbury v. Madison: Chief Justice John Marshall for the Supreme Court, 1803
Chapter 7: A BOLD FOREIGN POLICY
The Monroe Doctrine, James Monroe, 1823
Chapter 8: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
On Aristocracy, Letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Veto of the Bank Renewal Bill, Andrew Jackson, 1832
Chapter 9: LIBERTY OR UNION
Daniel Webster’s Second Reply to Hayne, 1830
Chapter 10: THE ABOLITIONIST CRUSADE
The First Issue of The Liberator, 1831
Chapter 11: THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT
John C. Calhoun on the Slavery Question, 1850
“The Hireling and the Slave,”William J. Grayson, 1854
Chapter 12: THE FATEFUL DECADE
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848
Dred Scott v. Sanford: Chief Justice Roger B. Taneyfor the Supreme Court, 1857
Chapter 13: WAR!
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861
Chapter 14: THE PROPHET OF DEMOCRACY
The Emancipation Proclamation,Abraham Lincoln, 1863
The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Chapter 15: THE CONFLICT OVER RECONSTRUCTION
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865
Chapter 16: THE GILDED AGE
“Democratic Vistas,” Walt Whitman, 1871
“Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie, 1889
Chapter 17: FROM FRONTIER TO FACTORY
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
Letter on Labor in Industrial Society, Samuel Gompers, 1894
Atlanta Exposition Address,Booker T. Washington, 1893
Chapter 18: GRASSROOTS REBELLION
The Populist Party Platform, 1892
“Cross of Gold” Speech,William Jennings Bryan, 1896
Chapter 19: IMPERIAL AMERICA
“The United States Looking Outward”Alfred T. Mahan, 1890
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, 1905
Chapter 20: THE PROGRESSIVE FERMENT
The New Nationalism, Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
The Old Order Changeth, Woodrow Wilson, 1912
Chapter 21: THE GREAT CRUSADE AND AFTER
War Message to Congress, Woodrow Wilson, 1917
Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson, 1918
The Pueblo Speech on the League of NationsWoodrow Wilson, 1919
Chapter 22: BOOM AND BUST
“Rugged Individualism,” Herbert C. Hoover, 1928
Chapter 23: THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, 1933
“A Rendezvous with Destiny” Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936
N.L.R.B. v. Jones & LaughlinSteel Corporation, 1937
Helvering et al. v. Davis, 1937
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 1937
Chapter 24: THE END OF ISOLATION
“Quarantine” Speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937
“Four Freedoms” Speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941
The Atlantic Charter, 1941
Chapter 25: THE COLD WAR
The Marshall Plan, George C. Marshall, 1947
“Sources of Soviet Conduct,” George F. Kennan (“X”), 1947
Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner, 1949
Chapter 26: AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY
Brown v. Board of Education: Chief Justice Earl Warrenfor the Supreme Court, 1954
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961
Chapter 27: FROM THE NEW FRONTIER TO THE GREAT SOCIETY
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 1961
The American University “Strategy of Peace”Speech, John F. Kennedy, 1963
Civil Rights Speech, John F. Kennedy, 1963
The Birmingham City Jail“Unwise and Untimely” Letter,Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
March on Washington “I Have a Dream” Speech,Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
“Great Society” Speech,Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
Chapter 28: DECADE OF TURMOIL
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN (NOW) Statement of Purpose, 1966
“Power of the Media” Speech,Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968
“Public Opinion,”Walter Lippmann, 1922
Chicago Speech to Radio andTelevision News Directors Association,Edward R. Murrow, 1958
Guildhall Speech on “Television and Politics,”Edward R. Murrow, 1959
“The Importance of Television News” Speech,Spiro T. Agnew, 1969
House Judiciary Committee Watergate Articles of Impeachment v. Richard M. Nixon, 1974
Gerald R. Ford’s Inaugural Address, 1974
Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, on Freedom of the Press, Yale Law School, 1974
Chapter 29: CONSERVATISM REVISITED
Roe v. Wade, Abortion Decision: Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun for the Supreme Court, 1973
Senator Barry Goldwater on Conservatism, Religion, and Politics, 1981
Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Addresses,1981, 1985
“A Tale of Two Cities” Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention,Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984
Chapter 30: THE END OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
Republican Contract with America, 1994
William Jefferson Clinton, State of the Union Address, January, 1998
Chapter 31: AMERICA AT THE MILLENNIUM
George W. Bush, Washington NationalCathedral Prayer Service, September 2001
George W. Bush, Joint Session of Congress,September 2001
Rudolph Giuliani’s Farewell Address, 2001
Chapter 32: THE POLITICS OF HOPE . . . WE THE PEOPLE
Vice President Cheney on PBS’ NewsHour, 2009
Vice President Cheney on CBS’ Face the Nation, 2009
“Folly’s Antidote,” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Century Association,New York Times Op Ed 1/1/07
“A More Perfect Union” Speech on Race, Senator Barack Obama, 2008
Election Night Address, Chicago’s Grant ParkPresident-Elect Barack Obama, 2008
Barack Obama’s First Inaugural Address, 2009
Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, 2013
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