A Patriot's handbook: songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Flag -- Star-spangled banner/ Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 -- Pledge of allegiance, 1892 -- Battle cry of freedom / George Frederick Root,c 1861 -- Flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett, c 1900 -- You're a grand old flag / George M Cohan, 1906 -- West Virginia State board of education v Barnette, 319 US 624 (1943) -- Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 -- Mike Christian story / John McCain, 1971 -- Texas v Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989) -- US blues / Grateful Dead, 1973 -- God bless the USA / Lee Greenwood, 1984 -- Visions Of America -- Model of Christian charity/ John Winthrop, 1630 -- Farewell address, September 19, 1796 / George Washington -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1801 / Thomas Jefferson -- Dedication of the Bunker Hill monument, June 17, 1825 / Daniel Webster -- Ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 -- Strenuous life, April 10, 1899 / Theodore Roosevelt -- Let America be America Again / Langston Hughes, 1936 -- Second inaugural address, January 20, 1937 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 / John F Kennedy -- Times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan, c1963 -- First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 -- Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan -- Portraits Of Americans -- Yankee Doodle, 1755 -- Letters from an American farmer / J Hector St John de Crevecoeur, 1782 -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 -- Democracy / Henry Adams, 1880 -- Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde, 1891 -- Dangers of the dress suit in politics / George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 -- Take me out to the ball game / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 -- On being an American / H L Mencken, 1922 -- As regards patriotism / Mark Twain, c 1900 -- I like Americans / Edna St Vincent Millay, 1924 -- Great Gatsby / F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927 -- 42nd parallel / John Dos Passos, 1930 -- You're the top / Cole Porter, 1934 -- Story of a novel / Thomas Wolfe, 1936 -- Hollywood / Truman Capote, 1950 -- Last gentleman / Walker Percy, 1966 -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua, 1987 -- Country and a conundrum / Anna Quindlen, 2002 -- Rule Of Law -- Constitution of the United States, 1787 -- Constitutional convention, speech at the conclusion of it deliberations, September 17, 1787 / Benjamin Franklin -- Marbury v Madison, 5 US 137 (1803) -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau, 1849 -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 / Abraham Lincoln -- United States of America v Susan B Anthony, 1873 -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee, 1960 -- Letter from Birmingham City jail, April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr -- Special message to the congress: the American promise, March 15, 1965 / Lyndon B Johnson -- Duncan v Louisiana, 391 US 145 (1968) -- Opening statement to the House judiciary committee, proceedings on impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 / Barbara Jordan -- Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974 / Gerald R Ford -- Bush v Gore, 531 US 98 (2000) --

Freedom -- Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson, 1776 -- But, Mister Adams (From the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards, 1964 -- America / Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 -- If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass -- Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 / Annie Davis -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 -- Freedom / E B White, July 1940 -- As freedom is a breakfast food / E E Cumming, 1940 -- State of the Union address, January 6, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Address at "I am an American" day, Central park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand -- I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger -- Address to students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 / Ronald Reagan -- Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press -- Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 / Andrew Hamilton -- Abrams v US., 250 616 (1919) -- Whitney v California, 274 US 357 (1927) -- Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of conscience, June 1, 1950 / Margaret Chase Smith -- New York Times Co v Sullivan, 376 US 254 (1964) -- Freedom Of Religion -- Amazing Grace / John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) -- Speech against missionaries; efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket -- Speech to the greater Houston ministerial association, September 12, 1960 / John F Kennedy -- Engel v Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962) -- Zelman v Simmons-Harris, 122 S Ct 2460 (2002) -- Right To Be Let Alone -- Statement against the Writs of assistance, Boston, 1761 / James Otis -- Olmstead v US, 277 438 (1928) -- Planned parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey, 505 US 833 (1992) -- Equality -- Letter to John Adam, March 31, 1776 / Abigail Adams -- Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Seneca Falls convention, 1848 -- Ain't I a woman?, May 1851 / Sojourner Truth -- Lift every voice and sing, 1900 / James Weldon Johnson -- Speech in congress on women's rights and wartime service, January 10, 1918 / Jeannette Rankin -- Incident / Countee Cullen, 1925 -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes, 1942 -- Can a woman ever be president of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 -- Brown v Board of eduction, 347 US 483 (1954) -- Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks / 1960 -- Televised address to the nation, June 11, 1963 / John F Kennedy -- Address at the march on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr -- Feminine mystique, 1963 / Betty Friedan -- Special plight and the role of the black woman, May 7, 1971 / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Frontiero v Richardson, 411 US 677 (1973) -- Statement on Americans with disabilities act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M Kennedy -- Address to the fourth UN world conference on women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Remarks on affirmative action, July 19, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton -- Baker v State, 170 Vt 194 (1999) -- Individual -- Simple gifts / Joseph Brackett, 1848 -- Self-reliance, 1841 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Walden, 1854 / Henry David Thoreau -- Songs of the sacred mysteries / Sioux, 1869 -- Sorrow songs (from the Souls of black folk) / W E B Du Bois, 1903 -- Road not taken / Robert Frost, 1916 -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison, 1947 -- Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 / William Faulkner -- Letter to the House committee on un-American activities, and reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 / Lillian Hellman -- Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F Kennedy -- Drum major instinct, February 4, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr -- In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker, 1974 --

War And Peace

Speech after defeat by the Virginia militia, 1774 / Chief Logan

Speech to the second Virginia convention, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry

Common sense, February 14, 1776 / Thomas Paine

Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863

Monroe doctrine, 1823

Battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe, 1861

Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville, April 1862

Final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln

Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 / Abraham Lincoln

Memoirs / Ulysses S Grant, 1885-1886

Surrender to the U S army, 1877 / Chief Joseph

Marines' song, 1891

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane, 1899

Caisson song / Edmund L Gruber, 1907

War message to congress, April 2, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson

Over there / George M Cohan, 1917

Unknown soldier / Billy Rose

September 1, 1939 / W H Auden, 1941

War message to congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Gift outright / Robert Frost, 1942

Martial Cadenza / Wallace Stevens, 1954

Great crusade, June 6, 1944 / Dwight D Eisenhower

On the atomic bomb, 1945 / H Robert Oppenheimer

Fateful decision, 1948 / Albert Einstein

Address to the nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 / Harry S Truman

Farewell address, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D Eisenhower

Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan, 1962

Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963 / John F Kennedy

Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry, 1971

Born in the USA / Bruce Springsteen, 1984

On the rainy river (from the Things they carried), 1990 / Tim O'Brien

Remarks upon returning from the people's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 / Richard M Nixon

Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton

Address on terrorism before a Joint meeting of congress, September 20, 2001 / George W Bush

Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 / Jimmy Carter

Work, Opportunity, And Invention

New Colossus / Emma Lazarus, 1883

Explusion of he immigrants, c1884 / Huang Zunxian

I hear America singing / Walt Whitman, 1891

I've been working on the railroad

Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 / Wilbur Wright

Speech at the convention of the National American woman suffrage association, July 22, 1905 / Florence Kelley

Jungle / Upton Sinclair, 1906

Ellis Island / Henry James, 1907

Barrio boy, 1971 / Ernesto Galarza

My life and owrk, 1922 / Henry Ford

They won't think, 1921 / Thomas Alva Edison

Happy days are here again, / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929

Brother, can you spare a dime? / E Y Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932

First inaugural address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

West Coast Hotel Co v Parrish, 300 US 379 (1937)

Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck, 1939

Death of a salesman, 1949 / Arthur Miller

Kitchen debate, Moscow, 1959 / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev

Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen

King Leer, 1950 / Groucho Marx

Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, 1970

Choosing a dream: Italians in Hell's kitchen. 1971 / Mario Puzo

Recapturing America's moral vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 / Robert F Kennedy

Address to the Commonwealth club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 / Cesar Chavez

My hometown/ Bruce Springsteen, 1984

POPism, 1975 / Andy Warhol

Speech to the Democratic convention, August 12, 1980 / Edward M Kennedy

Homeless children speak, 1986 / David Bright

Speech at the Republican convention, August 18, 1988 / George Bush

Joy luck club / Amy Tan, 1989

Education of an American, September 21, 2001 / Arnold Schwarzenegger

Capitalizing on the "cognitive niche", 1999 / Bill Gates

Our Land

God bless America / Irving Berlin, 1938

Thanksgivings / Iroquois, 1891

Twelfth song of the thunder / Navajo, 1887

Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster, 1848

Old cotton fields at home / Huddie Ledbetter, 1936

Light in August / William Faulkner, 1932

Let us now praise famous men / James Agee, 1941

Florida / Elizabeth Bishop, 1946

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain, 1884

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost, 1923

Moby-Dick / Herman Melville, 1851

Sidewalks of New York / James W Blake and Charles B Lawlor, 1894

New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977

Jazz / Toni Morrison, 1992

Chicago / Carl Sandburg, 1916

Significance of the frontier in American history, 1893 / Frederick Jackson Turner

Ballad of Davy Crockett / George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954

O Pioneers! / Willa Cather, 1913

Response to the breakup of their reservation, 1903 / Northern Utes

Home on the range / David Guion, 1930

Old Chisholm trail, c1880

Mud below / Annie Proulx, 1999

Oklahoma / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943

I left my heart in San Fransciso / George C Cory, Jr and Douglass Cross, 1954

Sunset / Jack Kerouac, 1960

Surfin' USA / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963

Los Angele notebook / Joan Didion, 1966

Big yellow taxi / Joni Mitchell, 1970

Wilderness letter / Wallace Stegner, 1960

America / Paul Simon, 1968

America, the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates. 1893

Land is your land / Woody Guthrie, 1940

Permissions and photo credits

Index.

The flag (The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814

The Pledge of Allegiance, 1892

The Battle Cry of Freedom / George Frederick Root, c. 1861

The Flag Goes By / Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900

You're a Grand Old Flag / George M. Cohan, 1906

West Virginia State Board of Education v.Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)

Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944

The Mike Christian Story / John McCain, 1971

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)

U.S. Blues / Grateful Dead, 1973

God Bless the U.S.A. / Lee Greenwood, 1984)

Visions of America (A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop, 1630

Farewell address / George Washington, September 19, 1796

First Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801

Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument / Daniel Webster, June 17, 1825

The Ship of State / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849

The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt, April 10, 1899

Let America be America Again / Langston Hughes, July 1936

Second Inaugural Address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 20, 1937

Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961

Bhe Times They are A-changin' / Bob Dylan, c.1963

First Words Spoken by a Man on the Moon, July 20, 1969

Farewell Address / Ronald Reagan, January 11, 1989)

Portraits of Americans (Yankee Doodle, 1755

Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782

Democracy in America / Alexis de tocqueville, 1835

Democracy / Henry Adams, 1880

The picture of the Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde, 1891

Dangers of the dress suit in politics / George Washington Plunkitt, 1905

Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908

On being an American / H.L. Mencken, 1922

As regards patriotism / Mark Twain, c.1900

I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924

The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

American names / Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927

The 42nd parallel / John dos Passos, 1930

You're the top / cole Porter, 1934

The story of a novel / Thomas Wolfe, 1936

Hollywood / Truman Capote, 1950

The last gentleman / Walker Percy, 1966

How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua, 1987

A country and a conundrum / Anna Quindlen, 2002)

Rule of law (The Constitution of the United States, 1787

The Constitutional Convention, Speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)

Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau, 1849

First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861

The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873

To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee, 1960

Letter from Birmingham City jail / Martin Luther King Jr., April 16, 1963

Special message to the congress : the American promise / Lyndon B. Johnson, March 15, 1965

Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968)

Opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings on Impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974

Remarks on taking the oath of office / Gerald R. Ford, August 9, 1974

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000))

Freedom (The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson, 1776

But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards, 1964

America / Samuel Francis Smith, 1832

If I had a country, I should be a patriot / Frederick Douglass, September 24, 1847

Letter to President Lincoln / Annie Davis, August 25, 1864

Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893

Freedom / E.B. White, July 1940

as freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. cummings, 1940

State of the Union Address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

Address at "I am an American" Day, Central Park, New York / Judge Learned Hand, May 21, 1944

I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger

Address to students, Moscow State University / Ronald Reagan, May 31, 1988)

Freedom of speech and of the press (Statement at trial of John Peter Aneger / Andrew Hamilton, 1735

Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919)

Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

Remarks to the Senate in support of a declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith, June 1, 1950

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964))

Freedom of religion (Amazing Grace / John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza)

Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca Tribe / Chief Red Jacket, 1805

Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association / John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1960

Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002))

The right to be let alone (Statement against the Writs of Assistance / James Otis, Boston, 1761

Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992))

Equality (Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776

Letter to Abigail Adams / John Adams, April 14, 1776

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth, May 1851

Lift every voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson, 1900

Speech in Congress on women's rights and wartime service / Jeannette Rankin, January 10, 1918

Incident / Countee Cullen, 1925

Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes, 1942

Can a woman ever be president of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935

Brown V. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)

The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, fall 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960

Televised address to the nation / John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1963

Address at the march on Washington / Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963

The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan, 1963

The special plight and the role of the Black Woman / Fannie Lou Hamer, May 7, 1971

Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973)

Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act / Edward M. Kennedy, May 9, 1989

Address to the Fourth UN World conference on women, Beijing, China / Hillary Rodham Clinton, September 5, 1993

Remarks on affirmative action / William Jefferson Clinton, July 19, 1995

Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999))

The individual (Simple gifts / Joseph Brackett, 1848

Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Walden / Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Songs of the sacred mysteries / Sioux, 1869

The sorrow songs (from 'The souls of Black folk') / W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903

The road not taken / Robert Frost, 1916

Invisible man / Ralph Ellison, 1947

Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner, December 10, 1950

Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and reply (from 'Scoundrel Time) / Lillian Hellman, 1952

Day of affirmation / Robert F. Kennedy, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966

The drum major instinct / Martin Luther King Jr., February 4, 1968

In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker, 1974)

War and peace (Speech after defeat by the Virginia Militia, / Chief Logan, 1774

Speech ot the Second Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Common sense / Thomas Paine, Februrary 14, 1776

Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863

The Monroe Doctrine, 1823

The battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe, 1861

Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville, April 1862

Final emancipation proclamation / Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863

Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865

Memoirs / Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886

Surrender to the U.S. Army / Chief Joseph, 1877

The Marines' song, 1891

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane, 1899

The Caisson song / Edmund L. Gruber, 1907

War message to Congress / Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917

Over there / George M. Cohan, 1917

The unknown soldier / Billy Rose

September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden, 1941

War message to Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt, December 8 1941

The gift outright / Robert Frost, 1942

Martial cadenza / Wallace Stevens, 1954

The great crusade / Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 6, 1944

On the atomic bomb / J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1945

The fateful decision / Albert Einstein, 1948

Address to the nation on Korea / Harry S. Truman, April 11, 1951

Farewell address / Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961

Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan, 1962

Commencement address at American University / John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963

Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry, 1971

Born in the U.S.A. / Bruce Springsteen, 1984

On the rainy river (from "the things they carried) / Tim O'Brien, 1990

Remarks upon returning from the People's Republic of China / Richard M. Nixon, February 28, 1972

Remarks at Michigan State University / William Jefferson Clinton, May 5, 1995

Address on terrorism before a joint meeting of Congress / George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize / Jimmy Carter, December 10, 2002)

Work, opportunity, and invention (The new colossus / Emma Lazarus, 1883

Explusion of the immigrants / Huang Zunxian, c. 1884

I hear America singing / Walt Whitman, 1891

I've been working on the railroad

Letter to Octave Chanute / Wilbur Wright, May 13, 1900

Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association / Florence Kelley, July 22, 1905

The jungle / Upton Sinclair, 1906

Ellis Island / Henry James, 1907

Barrio Boy / Ernesto Galarza, 1971

My life and work / Henry Ford, 1922

They won't think / Thomas Alva Edison, 1921

Happy days are here again / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929

Brother, can you spare a dime? / E.Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932

First inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937)

The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck, 1939

Death of a saleman / Arthur Miller, 1949

The kitchen debate / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow, 1959

Ellis Island interview / Manny Steen, March 22, 1991

King Leer / Groucho Marx, 1950

Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, 1970

Choosing a dream : Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Mario Puzo, 1971

Recapturing America's moral vision / Robert F. Kennedy, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968

Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco / Cesar Chavez, November 9, 1984

My hometown / Bruce Springsteen, 1984

POPism / Andy Warhol, 1975

Speech to the Democratic convention / Edward M. Kennedy / August 12, 1980

Homeless children speak / David Bright, 1986

Speech at the Republican convention / George Bush, August 18, 1988

The joy luck club / Amy Tan, 1989

The education of an American / Arnold Schwarzenegger / September 21, 2001

Capitalizing on the 'cognitive niche' / Bill Gates, 1999

God Bless America / Irving Berlin, 1938

The Thanksgivings / Iroquois, 1891

Twelfth song of the thunder / Navajo, 1887

Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster, 1848

Old cotton fields at home / Huddie Ledbetter, 1936

Light in August / William Faulkner, 1932

Let us now praise famous men / James Agee, 1941

Florida / Elizabeth Bishop, 1946

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain, 1884

Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost, 1923

Moby-Dick / Herman Melville, 1851

The sidewalks of New York / James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894

New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977

Jazz / Toni Morrison, 1992

Chicago / Carl Sandburg, 1916

The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893

The ballad of Davy Crockett / George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954

O pioneers! / Willa Cather, 1913

Response to the breakup of their reservation / Northern Utes, 1903

Home on the range / David Guion, 1930

The Old Chisholm Trail, c. 1800

The mud below / Annie Proulx, 1999

Oklahoma / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943

I left my heart in San Francisco / George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954

Sunset / Jack Kerouac, 1960

Surfin' U.S.A. / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963

Los Angeles Notebook / Joan Didion, 1966

Big yellow taxi / Joni Mitchell, 1970

The wilderness letter / Wallace Stegner, 1960

America / Paul Simon, 1968

America, the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, 1893

This land is your land / Woody Guthrie, 1940).