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British philosopher G. K. Chesterton once quipped that America is the only nation ever founded on a creed. While other nations find their identity in geography, culture, ideology, or ethnic origin, America was founded on certain ideas about freedom, human dignity, and social responsibility. Early in the nineteenth century, American educators began to realize that if this great experiment in liberty was to be maintained, then an informed patriotism would have to be instilled in the young. The ideals that produced the nation needed to pass from one generation to the next; thus, these educators presented rising new citizens with a small handbook containing the essential elements of the American creed. The Patriot's Handbookis a twenty-first century version of that tradition. A concise introduction to the ideas, events, and personalities of American freedom, it is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to understand the nation's identity as it has developed from its founding until now. Included are key documents:The Mayflower CompactThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Federalist PapersSpeeches, poems, song lyrics, and profiles of the presidents and many of the leaders who have shaped the nation's history… (more)
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Apologia / Christopher Columbus --
The Mayflower compact --
Thanksgiving in Boston / Hezekiah Butterworth --
Essays to do good / Cotton Mather --
Pocahontas / William Makepeace Thackeray --
The Courtship of Miles Standish / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Liberty or death / Patrick Henry --
Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The Dominion of providence over the passions of men / John Witherspoon --
Liberty tree / Thomas Paine --
Valley Forge / Thomas Buchanan Read --
The Articles of Confederation --
The Vow of Washington / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The Northwest ordinance --
Washington's inaugural / George Washington --
Farewell address / George Washington --
Signers of the Declaration --
Signers of the Constitution --
The Forgotten presidents --
The Founding fathers --
Presidential fathers. The Missouri compromise / Henry Clay --
National Bank Veto / Andrew Jackson --
The defense of the Alamo / Joaquin Miller --
The Slavery question / John C. Calhoun --
Dred Scott v. Sanford / Roger B. Taney --
A House divided / Abraham Lincoln --
Inaugural address / Jefferson Davis --
Constitution of the Confederate States --Stonewall Jackson's Way / John Williamson Palmer --
Stonewall's dying words / Sidney Lanier --
The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln --
The Emancipation proclamation / Abraham Lincoln --
O Captain! My Captain / Walt Whitman --
Ode to the Confederate dead / Alan Tate. Seneca Falls declaration / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
Atlanta Exposition address / Booker T. Washington --
The American language / H.L. Mencken --
Fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson --
League of Nations / Mary Siegrist --
League of Nations speech / Henry Cabot Lodge --
Pearl Harbor address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt --
The Marshall Plan / George C. Marshall --
Nobel Prize acceptance / William Faulkner --
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka / Earl Warren --
Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy --
Letter from the Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Roe v. Wade / Harry A. Blackmum.