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- "A Know Nothing" (Anonymous)
- "An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers' Association"
- "Arsenal of Democracy"
- "Axis of Evil" (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- "Bloodsafety Resolution—August 1997"
- "Campaign Address of Governor Alfred E. Smith Oklahoma City, September 20, 1928"
- "Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment"
- "Easter, 1916" (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"
- "Foreign Affairs: The Need for Leadership"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Implementing Decisions of the Geneva Summit (C)"
- "Industrial Education for the Negro"
- "Memoranda Accompanying the Vetoes of the Lusk Laws"
- "Old Soldiers Never Die"
- "On Social Security"
- "Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results"
- "Preliminary Report of the Committee on Organization"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- "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"
- "Presidential Speech Announcing Acceptance of an Invitation to Visit the People's Republic of China"
- "Press Conference of the President on North Korea"
- "Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters Helen Thomas and Jim Gerstenzang on the President's Recovery Period"
- "Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers' Strike"
- "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy"
- "Republican Contract with America"
- "Southern Manifesto"
- "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs"
- "Statement on First Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines"
- "Text of Address by McGovern Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination"
- "Text of Truman Plea for Public Health Program"
- "The Army-McCarthy Hearings"
- "The Checkers Speech"
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "The Great Society"
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- "The New Nationalism"
- "Women's Rights Are Human Rights"
- 9/11 Commission Report (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- A Drink of Water by Seamus Heaney
- A Far Cry from Africa by Derek Walcott
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- A National Malaise
- A Rebirth by Faroogh Farrokhzaad
- A Report to the President: The Committee for the White House Conference on Education—Full Report.
- A Thaw in the Cold War
- A Thirst Against by Linda Gregg
- Abrams v. U.S
- Accounting by Claribel Alegria
- Acquiring the Panama Canal
- Act of March 26, 1790
- Adair v. U.S
- Adam Smith
- Adams Act
- Adams, John
- Adler v. Board of Education
- Adolf Hitler
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- Air for Mercury by Brenda Hillman
- Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
- Allegory by Mary Jo Bang
- American Industry in War: A Report of the War Industries Board
- An Acre of Grass by William Butler Yeats
- An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities
- An African Elegy by Robert Duncan
- An Anthem by Sonia Sanchez
- Anasazi by Gary Snyder
- And What If I Spoke of Despair? by Ellen Bass
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Ure
- Anna Comnena
- Anniversary by Joy Harjo
- Another Night in the Ruins by Galway Kinnell
- Answers to Letters by Thomas Transtromer
- Anti-Lynching Publicity Program
- Apis (Dragutin T. Dimitrijevic)
- Aristotle
- Arizona v. Fulminante
- Art Thou the Thing I Wanted by Alice Fulton
- Ashbridge, Elizabeth
- At the Bomb Testing Site by William Stafford
- Augustine
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
- Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935
- Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
- Barbot, James
- Beauharnais v. Illinois
- Bedtime Story by George MacBeth
- Benavides, Alonso de
- Benjamin Franklin
- Beowulf by Richard Wilbur
- Beverley, Robert
- Beware of Ruins by A. D. Hope
- Bidwell Ghost by Louise Erdrich
- Birches by Robert Frost
- Blood Oranges by Lisel Mueller
- Bonnard's Garden by Rickt Barot
- Bowers v. Hardwick
- Bradford, William
- Bradstreet, Anne Dudley
- Brandenburg v. Ohio
- Braunfeld v. Brown
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Bryan, William Jennings
- Buchanan v. Warley
- Buckley v. Valeo
- Bullock, Rufus B.
- Bunting v. Oregon
- But Perhaps God Needs the Longing by Nelly Sachs
- Bylaws of the Organization: Union or Death (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- California Proposition 187
- Camella Teoli
- Champion v. Ames
- China
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- Chocolates by Louis Simpson
- Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings
- Climbing by Lucille Clifton
- Closing Arguments in the O.J. Simpson Trial
- College Opportunity Act of 1978
- Columbus, Christopher
- Comminiqué No. 1 of the Intifada
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Cooper v. Aaron
- Cotton Gin Petition
- Courage by Anne Sexton
- Creation of NASA
- Curse by Frank Bidart
- Dark Side of Wartime Patriotism
- Darrow, Clarence
- Darwin in 1881 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani
- Daylights by Rosanna Warren
- Debs v. U.S
- Declaration of Independence
- Deep Woods by Howard Nemerov
- Defining "Equal" in Higher Education
- Dennis v. U.S
- Department of Defense USS Cole Commission Report (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- Deus Volt—God Wills It!
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
- Douglas Macarthur
- Douglass, Frederick
- Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
- Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly
- Drought Year by Judith Wright
- Duration by Octavio Paz
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.N. Speech "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy"
- Early in the Morning by Li-Young Lee
- Easton, John
- Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
- Ecoterrorism (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- Education of Mentally Retarded Children Act
- Edward M. Kennedy's Speech on Economic Issues, 1980 Democratic Convention
- Edwards v. Aguillard
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead by Andrew Hudgins
- Elise Amalie Wærenskjold
- Elizabeth
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII
- Engel v. Vitale
- Establishment of the State of Israel
- Ethics by Linda Pastan
- Everyman by Anonymous, Unknown
- Evolution and the Kansas State School System
- Executive Order 12291
- Executive Order 13099 (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- Executive Order 13231 (Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources)
- Executive Order 9835
- Fable by Octavio Paz
- Fading Light by Robert Creeley
- Falconbridge, Alexander
- Fanny Kelly
- Fassoulas v. Ramey
- FDA-Federal Meat Inspection Act
- Federal Antitrust Legislation
- Federal Farm Policy
- Federal Role in Traffic Safety: Hearings Before the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations
- Fireside Chat on the Cost of Living and the Progress of the War
- First Reconstruction Act of 1867
- For a Citizen of These United States by Li-Young Lee
- For an Assyrian Frieze by Peter Viereck
- For Jennifer, 6, on The Teton by Richard Hugo
- For the White poets who would be Indian by Wendy Rose
- Four Mountain Wolves by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Frances Perkins
- Frank Holsinger
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Excerpt from "Annual Message to Congress, January 3, 1938"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Excerpt From "Recommendation for Legislation to Provide Assistance"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Excerpt From 1933 Inaugural Address (Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself Speech)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Fireside Chat
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Second Inaugural Address
- Frederick Douglass
- Freedmen's Bureau Act