Text: Foner, Eric, Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History Volumes I & II, Fourth Edition New York: Norton 2014
1: Reading: Adam Smith, The Results of Colonization, 1776
2: Reading: Thomas Morton, The Native Americans of New England, 1637
3: Reading: Bartolome de las Casas, Spanish Treatment of the Indians, 1528
4: Reading: The Pueblo Revolt, 1680
5: Reading: Father Jean de Brebeuf on the Customs and Beliefs of the Hurons, 1635
6: Reading: Jewish Petition to the Dutch West India Company, 1655
7: Reading: Exchange between John Smith and Powhatan, 1608
8: Reading: Sending Women to Virginia, 1622
9: Reading: Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644
10: Reading: John Winthrop, Speech to the MAssachusetts General Court, 1645
11: Reading: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637
12: Reading: Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of Providence, 1655
13: Reading: The Levellers, The Agreement of the People Presented to the Council of the Army, 1647
14: Reading: William Penn, Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges and Liberties, 1701
15: Reading: Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676
16: Reading: Letter by an Immigrant to Pennsylvania, 1769
17: Reading: An Apprentice's Indenture Contract, 1718
18: Reading: Memorial against Non-English Immigration, 1727
19: Reading: Complaint of an Indentured Servant, 1756
20: Reading: Women in the Household Economy, 1709
21: Reading: Olaudah Equiano, Slavery, 1789
22: Reading: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and Servants, 1738
23: Reading: The Independent Reflector, Limited Monarchy and Liberty, 1752
24: Reading: The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735
25: Reading: The Great Awakening Comes to Connecticut, 1740
26: Reading: Pontiac, Two Speeches, 1762 & 1763
27: Reading: Virginia Resolutions on the Stamp Act, 1765
28: Reading: New York Workingmen Demand a Voice in the Revolutionary Struggle, 1770
29: Reading: Association of the New York Sons of Liberty, 1773
30: Reading: Farmington, Connecticut, Resolutions on the Intolerable Acts, 1774
31: Reading: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
32: Reading: Jonathan Boucher's Argument against Independence, 1775
33: Reading: Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779
34: Reading: The Right of "Free Suffrage", 1776
35: Reading: Noah Webster on Equality, 1787
36: Reading: Liberating Indentured Servants, 1784
37: Reading: Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777
38: Reading: Benjamin Rush, Thought upon Female Education, 1787
39: Reading: Petition of Inhabitants West of the Ohio River, 1785
40: Reading: James Madison, The Federalist, No. 51, 1787
41: Reading: Patrick Henry's Anti-Federalist Argument, 1788
42: Reading: A July Fourth Oration, 1800
43: Reading: Thomas Jefferson on Race and Slavery, 1781
44: Reading: J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur, "What, Then is the American?", 1782
45: Reading: Benjamin F. Bache, A Defense of the French Revolution, 1792-1793
46: Reading: Address of the Demoractic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania, 1794
47: Reading: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes", 1790
48: Reading: George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
49: Reading: George Tucker on Gabriel's Rebellion, 1801
50: Reading: Tecumseh on Indians and Land, 1801
51: Reading: Felix Grundy, Battle Cry of the War Hawks, 1811
52: Reading: Mercy Otis Warren on Religion and Virtue, 1805
53: Reading: Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker, 1845
54: Reading: Joseph Smith, The Wentworth Letter, 1842
55: Reading: A Woman n the Westward Movement, 1824
56: Reading: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar", 1837
57: Reading: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
58: Reading: Charles G. Finney, "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts, 1836
59: Reading: The Monroe Doctrine 1823
60: Reading: John Quincy Adams on the Role of the National Government, 1825
61: Reading: John Calhoun, The Concurrent Majority, ca. 1845
62: Reading: Chief Sharitarish on Changes in Indian Life, 1822
63: Reading: Appeal of the Cherokee Nation, 1830
64: Reading: Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, 1838
65: Reading: Frederick Douglass on the Desire for Freedom, 1845
66: Reading: Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, 1836
67: Reading: William Sewall, The Results of the British Emancipation, 1860
68: Reading: Rules of Highland Plantation, 1838
69: Reading: Slavery and the Bible, 1850
70: Reading: Letter by a Fugitive Slave, 1840
71: Reading: Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
72: Reading: Robert Owen, "The First Discourse on a New System of Society", 1825
73: Reading: Philip Schaff on Freedom as Self-Restraint, 1855
74: Reading: David Walker's Appeal, 1829
75: Reading: Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July, 1852
76: Reading: Catherine Beecher on the "Duty of American Females:, 1837
77: Reading: Angelina Grimke on Women's Rights, 1837
78: Reading: Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
79: Reading: John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny, 1845
80: Reading: A Protest against Anti-Chinese Prejudice, 1852
81: Reading: Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government", 1849
82: Reading: William Henry Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict", 1858
83: Reading: Hinton Helper, The Impending Crisis, 1857
84: Reading: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
85: Reading: South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, 1860
86: Reading: Letter of Thomas Drayton, 1861
87: Reading: Marcus Spiegel, Letter of a Civil War Soldier, 1864
88: Reading: Samuel Cox Condemns Emancipation, 1862
89: Reading: Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863
90: Reading: Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers, 1863
91: Reading: Letter by the Mother of a Black Soldier, 1863
92: Reading: Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, 1864
93: Reading: Mary Livermore on Women and the War, 1883
*Chapter 15 is printed in Volume I & II.
94: Reading: Petition of Black Residents of Nashville, 1865
95: Reading: Petition of Committee on Behalf of he Freedom to Andrew Johnson, 1865
96: Reading: Mississippi Black Code, 1865
97: Reading: A Sharecropping Contract, 1866
98: Reading: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Home Life, ca. 1875
99: Reading: Frederick Douglass, The Composite Nation, 1869
100: Reading: Robert Elliott on Civil Rights, 1874
101: Reading: Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
102: Reading: William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism, ca. 1880
103: Reading: A Second Declaration of Independence, 1879
104: Reading: Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
105: Reading: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888
106: Reading: Walter Rauschenbusch and the the Social Gospel, 1912
107: Reading: The Populist Platform, 1892
108: Reading: John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
109: Reading: Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice, ca. 1892
110: Reading: Frances Willard, Women and Temperance, 1883
111: Reading: Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1885
112: Reading: Emilio Aguinaldo on American Imperialism in the Philippines, 1899
113: Reading:Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
114: Reading: Manuel Gamio on a Mexican- American Family and American Freedom, ca. 1926
115: Reading: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics, 1898
116: Reading: John A Ryan, A Living Wage, 1912
117: Reading: The Industrial Workers of the World and the Free Speech Fights, 1909
118: Reading: Margaret Sanger on "Free Motherhood," from Woman and the New Race, 1920
119: Reading: Carlos Montezuma, What Indians Must Do", 1914
120: Reading: Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom, 1912
121: Reading: RG Ashley, Unions and "The Cause of Liberty", 1910
122: Reading: Woodrow Wilson, A World Safe for Democracy, 1917
123: Reading: A Critique of the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919
124: Reading: Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage, 1917
125: Reading: Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury, 1918
126: Reading: Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America", 1916
127: Reading: Rubie Bond, The Great Migration, 1917
128: Reading: Marcus Garvey on Africa for the Africans, 1921
129: Reading: John Fitch on the Great Steel Strike, 1919
130: Reading: Andre Siegfried on the "New Society," from the Atlantic Monthly, 1928
131: Reading: The Fight for Civil Liberties, 1921
132: Reading: Bartolomeo Vanzetti's Last Statement in Court, 1927
133: Reading: Congress Debates Immigration, 1921
134: Reading: Meyer v. Nebraska and the Meaning of Liberty, 1923
135: Reading: Alain Locke, The New Negro, 1925
136: Reading: Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley Debate the Equal Rights Amendment, 1922
137: Reading: Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, 1937
138: Reading: John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies, 1936
139: Reading: Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a New Declaration of Independence, 1936
140: Reading: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech to the Democratic National Convention, 1936
141: Reading: Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty, 1936
142: Reading: Norman Cousins, "Will Women Lose their Jobs," 1939
143: Reading: Frank Hill on the Indian New Deal, 1935
144: Reading: WEB DuBois, "A Negro Nation Within a Nation", 1935
145: Reading: Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Four Freedoms, 1941
146: Reading: Will Durant, Freedom of Worship, 1943
147: Reading: Henry Luce, The American Century, 1941
148: Reading: Henry Wallace on "The Century of the Common Man", 1942
149: Reading: FA Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944
150: Reading: World War II and Mexican-Americans, 1945
151: Reading: African Americans and the Four Freedoms, 1944
152: Reading: Justice Robert A Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States, 1944
153: Reading: Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945
154: Reading: The Truman Doctrine, 1947
155: Reading: NSC 68 and the Ideological Cold War, 1950
156: Reading: Walter Lippmann, A Critique of Containment, 1947
157: Reading: The Universal Declaration of Rights, 1948
158: Reading: President's Commission on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights, 1947
159: Reading: Joseph McCarthy on the Attack, 1950
160: Reading: Henry Steele Commager, "Who is Loyal to America?", 1947
161: Reading: Will Herberg, The American Way of Life, 1955
162: Reading: Richard Nixon, "What Freedom Means to Us", 1959
163: Reading: Clark Kerr, Industrialization and Industrial Man, 1960
164: Reading: The Southern Manifesto, 1956
165: Reading: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962
166: Reading: C. Wright Mills on "Cheerful Robots", 1959
167: Reading: Allen Ginsberg, "Howl", 1955
168: Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
169: Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
170: Reading: The Sharon Statement, 1960
171: Reading: Barry Goldwater on "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty", 1964
172: Reading: Lyndon Johnson, Commencement Address at Harvard University, 1965
173: Reading: The Port Huron Statement, 1962
174: Reading: Paul Potter on the Antiwar Movement, 1965
175: Reading: The National Organization for Women, 1966
176: Reading: Cesar Chavez, "Letter from Delano", 1969
177: Reading: The International 1968, 1968
178: Reading: Brochure on the Equal RIghts Amendment, 1970s
179: Reading: Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, 1971
180: Reading: Jimmy Carter on Human Rights, 1977
181: Reading: Jerry Falwell, Listen America!, 1980
182: Reading: Phyllis Schlafly, "The Fraud of the Equal Rights Amendment", 1972
183: Reading: James Watt, "Environmentalists: A Threat to the Ecology of the West", 1978
184: Reading: Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address, 1981
185: Reading: Pat Buchanan, Speech to the Republican National Convention, 1992
186: Reading: Bill Clinton, Speech on Signing of NAFTA, 1993
187: Reading: Declaration for Global Democarcy, 1999
188: Reading: The Beijing Declaration on Women, 1995
189: Reading: Puwat Charukamnoetkanok, "Triple Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in America", 1990
190: Reading: The National Security Strategy of the United States, 2002
191: Reading: Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq, 2003
192: Reading: Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush, 2005
193: Reading: Archbishop Roger Mahoney, "Called by God to Help", 2006
194: Reading: Anthony Kennedy, Opinion of the Court in Lawrence v. Texas, 2003
195: Reading: Security, Liberty, and the War on Terror, 2008
196: Reading: Barack Obama, Speech on the Middle East, 2011