Grade 8--Required Primary Sources
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Constitution of the U.S. (1787)
Bill of Rights of the U.S. (1791)
Massachusetts Constitution (1780)
Grade 9--Required Primary Sources
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes and Other Slaves in this Province--Slave Codes of South Carolina (1740)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams (31 March-5 April 1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Constitution of the U.S. (1787)
Bill of Rights of the U.S. (1791)
George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
Tecumseh, Call for Pan-Indian Resistance (1810)
Olaudah Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (1789)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (primary author), The Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Conference (1848)
Frederick Douglass, Independence Day speech (1852), "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism" speech (1910)
Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points" speech (1918)
Grade 10--REQUIRED Primary Sources
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" speech (1941)
Harry S. Truman, "Address Before the Joint Session of Congress (The Truman Doctrine) (1947)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech (1963)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson, "And We Shall Overcome" speech (1965)
Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union" speech (2008)
Grade 10--SUGGESTED Primary Sources
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "First Annotated Typed Draft of War Address" ("A Day of Infamy") (1941)
Gordon Parks, Photographs of Ella Watson (1942)
Robert M. Jackson, Opinion for the Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Winston Churchill, (excerpts from) "The Iron Curtain" speech (1946)
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
Margaret Chase Smith, "Declaration of Conscience" speech (1950)
Lyndon B. Johnson, "Great Society" speech (1964)
American Experience: Stonewall Uprising Trailer (event 1969, video 2010)
Ed Roberts, "504 Sit-In Victory Rally" speech (1977)
CĂ©sar Chavez, "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California" (1984)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" video series (2013)
Elizabeth Maurer, "Legislating History: 100 Years of Women in Congress" exhibit (2017)
Lacey Schwartz and Mehret Mandefro, "The Loving Generation" video series (2018)
George W. Bush, "Address to the Joint Session of the 107th Congress (September 2001)