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  1. "A Know Nothing" (Anonymous)
  2. "An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers' Association"
  3. "Arsenal of Democracy"
  4. "Axis of Evil" (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
  5. "Bloodsafety Resolution—August 1997"
  6. "Campaign Address of Governor Alfred E. Smith Oklahoma City, September 20, 1928"
  7. "Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment"
  8. "Easter, 1916" (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
  9. "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"
  10. "Foreign Affairs: The Need for Leadership"
  11. "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
  12. "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
  13. "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
  14. "Implementing Decisions of the Geneva Summit (C)"
  15. "Industrial Education for the Negro"
  16. "Memoranda Accompanying the Vetoes of the Lusk Laws"
  17. "Old Soldiers Never Die"
  18. "On Social Security"
  19. "Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results"
  20. "Preliminary Report of the Committee on Organization"
  21. "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
  22. "President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection"
  23. "Presidential Speech Announcing Acceptance of an Invitation to Visit the People's Republic of China"
  24. "Press Conference of the President on North Korea"
  25. "Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters Helen Thomas and Jim Gerstenzang on the President's Recovery Period"
  26. "Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers' Strike"
  27. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy"
  28. "Republican Contract with America"
  29. "Southern Manifesto"
  30. "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs"
  31. "Statement on First Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines"
  32. "Text of Address by McGovern Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination"
  33. "Text of Truman Plea for Public Health Program"
  34. "The Army-McCarthy Hearings"
  35. "The Checkers Speech"
  36. "The Four Freedoms"
  37. "The Great Society"
  38. "The Kitchen Debate"
  39. "The New Nationalism"
  40. "Women's Rights Are Human Rights"
  41. 60 by Rabindranath Tagore
  42. 9/11 Commission Report (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
  43. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  44. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  45. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  46. A Drink of Water by Seamus Heaney
  47. A Far Cry from Africa by Derek Walcott
  48. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  49. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
  50. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
  51. A National Malaise
  52. A Poison Tree by William Blake
  53. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  54. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  55. A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  56. A Rebirth by Faroogh Farrokhzaad
  57. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
  58. A Report to the President: The Committee for the White House Conference on Education—Full Report.
  59. A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  60. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
  61. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  62. A Thaw in the Cold War
  63. A Thirst Against by Linda Gregg
  64. A True Story by Mark Twain
  65. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  66. Abrams v. U.S
  67. Accounting by Claribel Alegria
  68. Acquiring the Panama Canal
  69. Act of March 26, 1790
  70. Adair v. U.S
  71. Adam Smith
  72. Adams Act
  73. Adams, John
  74. Adler v. Board of Education
  75. Adolf Hitler
  76. Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  77. Aeneid by Virgil
  78. After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
  79. Agreements Between the United States and Japan
  80. Air for Mercury by Brenda Hillman
  81. Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
  82. Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
  83. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  84. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
  85. Allegory by Mary Jo Bang
  86. Always by Guillaume Apollinaire
  87. American Industry in War: A Report of the War Industries Board
  88. An Acre of Grass by William Butler Yeats
  89. An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities
  90. An African Elegy by Robert Duncan
  91. An Anthem by Sonia Sanchez
  92. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
  93. Anasazi by Gary Snyder
  94. And What If I Spoke of Despair? by Ellen Bass
  95. Andrew Carnegie
  96. Andrew Ure
  97. Anna Comnena
  98. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  99. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  100. Anniversary by Joy Harjo
  101. Another Night in the Ruins by Galway Kinnell
  102. Answers to Letters by Thomas Transtromer
  103. Anti-Lynching Publicity Program
  104. Antigone by Sophocles
  105. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
  106. Apis (Dragutin T. Dimitrijevic)
  107. Apology by Plato
  108. Araby by James Joyce
  109. Aristotle
  110. Arizona v. Fulminante
  111. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  112. Art Thou the Thing I Wanted by Alice Fulton
  113. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
  114. Ashbridge, Elizabeth
  115. At Castle Boterel by Thomas Hardy
  116. At the Bomb Testing Site by William Stafford
  117. At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  118. Augustine
  119. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
  120. Avarice by George Herbert
  121. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  122. Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935
  123. Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
  124. Barbot, James
  125. Barter by Sara Teasdale
  126. Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street by Herman Melville
  127. Beauharnais v. Illinois
  128. Bedtime Story by George MacBeth
  129. Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
  130. Benavides, Alonso de
  131. Benjamin Franklin
  132. Beowulf by Richard Wilbur
  133. Beowulf by Anonymous, Unknown
  134. Beverley, Robert
  135. Beware of Ruins by A. D. Hope
  136. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  137. Bidwell Ghost by Louise Erdrich
  138. Birches by Robert Frost
  139. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  140. Blood Oranges by Lisel Mueller
  141. Bonnard's Garden by Rickt Barot
  142. Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
  143. Bowers v. Hardwick
  144. Bradford, William
  145. Bradstreet, Anne Dudley
  146. Brandenburg v. Ohio
  147. Braunfeld v. Brown
  148. Bright Star! Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art by John Keats
  149. Brown v. Board of Education
  150. Bryan, William Jennings
  151. Buchanan v. Warley
  152. Buckley v. Valeo
  153. Bullock, Rufus B.
  154. Bunting v. Oregon
  155. But Perhaps God Needs the Longing by Nelly Sachs
  156. Bylaws of the Organization: Union or Death (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
  157. California Proposition 187
  158. Camella Teoli
  159. Candide by Voltaire
  160. Cavalry Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman
  161. Champion v. Ames
  162. Childhood by Maria Rainer Rilke
  163. China
  164. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
  165. Chocolates by Louis Simpson
  166. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
  167. Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings
  168. Climbing by Lucille Clifton
  169. Closing Arguments in the O.J. Simpson Trial
  170. College Opportunity Act of 1978
  171. Columbus, Christopher
  172. Comminiqué No. 1 of the Intifada
  173. Commission on the Status of Women
  174. Coolidge, Calvin
  175. Cooper v. Aaron
  176. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
  177. Cotton Gin Petition
  178. Count That Day Lost by George Eliot
  179. Courage by Anne Sexton
  180. Creation of NASA
  181. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  182. Crito by Plato
  183. Curse by Frank Bidart
  184. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
  185. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  186. Daisy Miller by Henry James
  187. Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  188. Dark Side of Wartime Patriotism
  189. Darrow, Clarence
  190. Darwin in 1881 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  191. Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani
  192. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  193. Daylights by Rosanna Warren
  194. Debs v. U.S
  195. Declaration of Independence
  196. Deep Woods by Howard Nemerov
  197. Defining "Equal" in Higher Education
  198. Dennis v. U.S
  199. Department of Defense USS Cole Commission Report (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
  200. Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

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