The Patriots Handbook A Citizenship Primer for A New Generation of Americans By George Grant TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Part I – A City On a Hill • Apologia by Christopher Columbus • America by Arthur Cleveland Coxe • Flawless His Heart by James Russell Lowell • The Mayflower Compact • A Model of Charity by John Winthrop • The First Proclamation by Margaret Preston • Thanksgiving in Boston by Hezekiah Butterworth • Essays to Do Good by Cotton Mather • Pocahontas by William Makepeace Thackeray • Five Kernels of Corn by Hezekiah Butterworth • The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Ned Braddock by John Williamson Palmer Part II – An Experiment in Liberty • The Method of Grace by George Whitefield • Awaken by Lawrence Tribble • A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party by Oliver Wendell Holmes • The Divine Source of Liberty by Samuel Adams • Liberty or Death by Patrick Henry • Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men by John Witherspoon • Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine • The Declaration of Independence • On the Right to Rebel by Samuel West • Lexington by John Greenleaf Whittier • Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch • Valley Forge by Thomas Buchanan Read • The Articles of Confederation • The Vow of Washington by John Greenleaf Whittier • The Northwest Ordinance • In Favor of the Federal Constitution by James Madison • The Federalist: Number 30 by Alexander Hamilton • The Federalist: Number 47 by James Madison • The Constitution • The Bill of Rights • Washington’s Inaugural by George Washington • Farewell Address by George Washington • The Bunker Hill Oration by Daniel Webster • Signers of the Declaration • Signers of the Constitution • The Forgotten Presidents • The Founding Fathers • Presidential Fathers Part III – Manifest Destiny • Farewell Pace by Joseph Hopkinson • First Fruits in 1812 by Wallace Rice • The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key • The Missouri Compromise by Henry Clay • The Monroe Doctrine by James Monroe • National Bank Veto by Andrew Jackson • The Defense of the Alamo by Joaquin Miller • Liberty for All by William Lloyd Garrison • The Slavery Question by John C. Calhoun • Dred Scott v. Sanford by Roger B. Taney • A House Divided by Abraham Lincoln • Inaugural Address by Jefferson Davis • Constitution of the Confederate States • The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe • The Volunteer by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler • Stonewall Jackson’s Way by John Williamson Palmer • Stonewall’s Dying Words by Sidney Lanier • Dreaming in the Trenches by William Gordon McCabe • Christmas Night or ’62 by William Gordon McCabe • The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln • John Burns of Gettysburg by Bret Harte • The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln • Music in Camp by John Reuben Thompson • Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman • Reconstruction Oration by Senator Benjamin Hill • Ode to the Confederate Dead by Alan Tate • My country ‘Tis of Thee by Samuel Smith • Amendments to the Constitution • Foundations’ Sons Part IV – The American Dream • Seneca Falls Declaration by Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy • Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington • Cross of Gold by William Jennings Bryan • Cuba to Columbia by Will Carleton • The Men of the Maine by Clinton Scollard • Battle Song by Robert Burns Wilson • Dewey in Manila Bay by R. V. Risley • The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus • Panama by James Roche • The Man with the Muck-Rake by Theodore Roosevelt • Have Faith in Massachusetts by Calvin Coolidge • The American Language by H. L. Mencken • War message by Woodrow Wilson • Fourteen Points by Woodrow Wilson • Victory Bells by Grace Conkling • League of Nations by Mary Siegrist • The New Crusade by Katherine Lee Bates • Marching Song by Dana Burnet • The First Three by Clinton Scollard • League of Nations Speech by Henry Cabot Lodge • Pear Harbor Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt • The Marshall Plan by George C. Marshall • Nobel Prize Acceptance by William Faulkner • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Earl Warren • Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy • Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. • Roe v. Wade by Harry A. Blackmun • Inaugural Address by Ronald Reagan • Amendments to the Constitution • Fathers of the Future • The Message of Freedom by Alan Keyes • September 11 by George W. Bush Index .