Milestone documents of American leaders. v. 2 : exploring the primary sources of notable Americans

The second title in the groundbreaking "Milestone Documents" series, "Milestone Documents of American Leaders" offers a unique biographical approach to the study of primary source documents. Plus free online access to the full content of this great reference set is available. "Milestone Documents of American Leaders" is the highly anticipated follow up to 2008's critically acclaimed "Milestone Documents in American History". This new, four-volume set continues the "Milestone Documents" tradition of pairing primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Here, the lives of notable Americans are illuminated through an in-depth study of the primary source texts they produced during their lifetimes. From presidents, jurists, and legislators to influential private citizens both past and present, "American Leaders" features important full-text sources written by the people who shaped the nation - and crucial scholarly analysis to help the documents come alive. The subjects and documents covered include the following - Abraham Lincoln: "Gettysburg Address", "Emancipation Proclamation", and second inaugural address; Sandra Day O'Connor: "Bush v. Gore", "United States v. Lopez", and "McConnell v. FEC"; Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream", "A Time to Break the Silence" speeches, and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"; Abigail Adams: "Letters to John and John Quincy Adams"; Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing speech and Evil Empire speech; Thomas Jefferson: "Declaration of Independence", Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, and first inaugural address. Organization and format: Essays are arranged alphabetically by last name of author, and include several sections, including the full text of the primary document; a summary overview of the person's place in history and their role as a producer of documents; a timeline of key events; a detailed explanation and analysis of the selected primary documents; the impact and legacy of the person's writings on American history; a selection of quotes; an annotated bibliography; and a comprehensive glossary. Customers who purchase this set will receive at no extra charge an additional online entry: "Barack Obama", featuring in-depth analysis of the speeches that catapulted Obama to the presidency, including his 2008 speech on race, and his acceptance speech at the 2008 convention. At a glance: This title contains 4 Volumes; 2,100 pages; and 124 entries. It features a standard structure; general introduction; full text of over 500 Primary Source Documents; 8 Original Teacher Activity Guides; Bibliography; Subject Index and Study Questions. Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Editorial and Production Staff......Page 10 Publisher’s Note......Page 11 Advisers and Contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Reader’s Guide......Page 15 Introduction......Page 16 Teachers’ Activity Guides......Page 18 Entries......Page 33 Abigail Adams 1744–1818......Page 34 Letter to John Adams (1774)......Page 41 Letter to John Adams (1776)......Page 43 Letter to John Quincy Adams (1780)......Page 45 Letter to Lucy Cranch (1784)......Page 47 Letter to Thomas Boylston Adams (1796)......Page 49 John Adams 1735–1826......Page 52 “Letters of Novanglus” (1775)......Page 62 THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT (1776)......Page 64 THE REPORT OF A CONSTITUTION, OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT, FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (1779)......Page 67 A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1787–1788)......Page 69 Inaugural Address (1797)......Page 72 John Quincy Adams 1767–1848......Page 76 Diary Entries on the Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)......Page 84 Diary Entries on the Monroe Doctrine (1823)......Page 86 First Annual Message to Congress (1825)......Page 87 Jubilee of the Constitution Address (1839)......Page 90 Congressional Debate over Motion for Censure (1842)......Page 93 Address to Constituents at Braintree (1842)......Page 94 Samuel Adams 1722–1803......Page 98 Instructions to Boston’s Representatives (1764)......Page 106 “CANDIDUS” (1771)......Page 108 Letter to James Warren (1776)......Page 110 Letter to Noah Webster (1784)......Page 111 Letter to Richard Henry Lee (1787)......Page 113 Massachusetts Ratifying Convention Speeches (1788)......Page 115 Address to the Massachusetts Legislature (1795)......Page 116 Jane Addams 1860–1935......Page 120 “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892)......Page 128 “A Modern Lear” (1896)......Page 130 “Passing of the War Virtues” (1907)......Page 133 “Why Women Should Vote” (1910)......Page 136 Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906......Page 140 Letters concerning Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election (1872–1873)......Page 149 “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” (1873)......Page 151 “The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future” (1897)......Page 156 Nineteenth Amendment (1920)......Page 160 Ella Baker 1903–1986......Page 162 “Bigger than a Hamburger” (1960)......Page 169 “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle” (1969)......Page 171 “Developing Community Leadership” (1970)......Page 173 “Ella Baker: Organizing for Civil Rights” (1980)......Page 175 Hugo Black 1886–1971......Page 178 KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES (1944)......Page 186 ADAMSON V. CALIFORNIA (1947)......Page 189 YOUNGSTOWN SHEET & TUBE CO. V. SAWYER (1952)......Page 193 GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT (1963)......Page 195 GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT (1965)......Page 197 Harry Blackmun 1908–1999......Page 202 ROE V. WADE (1973)......Page 210 BEAL V. DOE (1977)......Page 216 BOWERS V. HARDWICK (1986)......Page 217 DESHANEY V. WINNEBAGO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (1989)......Page 219 CALLINS V. COLLINS (1994)......Page 220 Louis D. Brandeis 1856–1941......Page 222 “The Opportunity in the Law” (1905)......Page 231 “The Greatest Life Insurance Wrong” (1906)......Page 233 “The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It” (1915)......Page 236 WHITNEY V. CALIFORNIA (1927)......Page 238 OLMSTEAD V. UNITED STATES (1928)......Page 240 William J. Brennan, Jr. 1906–1997......Page 244 BAKER V. CARR (1962)......Page 252 NEW YORK TIMES CO. V. SULLIVAN (1964)......Page 254 CRAIG V. BOREN (1976)......Page 256 TEXAS V. JOHNSON (1989)......Page 258 William Jennings Bryan 1860–1925......Page 264 Speech to Congress on Tariff Reform (1892)......Page 272 “Cross of Gold” Speech (1896)......Page 274 Speech at the Scopes Trial (1925)......Page 277 James Buchanan 1791–1868......Page 282 Remarks to Congress on Slavery (1836)......Page 289 Inaugural Address (1857)......Page 291 Fourth Annual Message to Congress (1860)......Page 293 Warren E. Burger 1907–1995......Page 298 Unknown......Page 0 BIVENS V. SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS (1971)......Page 305 UNITED STATES V. NIXON (1974)......Page 307 MILLIKEN V. BRADLEY (1974)......Page 310 Aaron Burr 1756–1836......Page 314 Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate (1805)......Page 321 Deciphered Letter to General James Wilkinson (1806)......Page 323 Address to the Court on Innocence of Treason (1807)......Page 325 Motion to the Court to Limit Prosecution Evidence (1807)......Page 327 THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR (1808–1812)......Page 330 George W. Bush 1946–......Page 334 Remarks on Signing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (2001)......Page 342 Address on the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 (2001)......Page 344 Second State of the Union Address (2002)......Page 346 Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq (2003)......Page 348 Second Inaugural Address (2005)......Page 349 Robert C. Byrd 1917–......Page 352 Line-Item Veto Speech XIV (1993)......Page 359 “We Stand Passively Mute” Speech (2003)......Page 364 “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech (2003)......Page 366 John C. Calhoun 1782–1850......Page 370 “On the Second Resolution Reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations” (1811)......Page 379 “On the Relation Which the States and General Government Bear to Each Other” (1831)......Page 381 “To the People of the United States” (1832)......Page 383 “On the Reception of Abolition Petitions” (1837)......Page 385 “On His Resolutions in Reference to the War with Mexico” (1848)......Page 387 “On the Slavery Question” (1850)......Page 389 Salmon P. Chase 1808–1873......Page 392 RECLAMATION OF FUGITIVES FROM SERVICE (1847)......Page 400 “Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States” (1854)......Page 403 TEXAS V. WHITE (1869)......Page 406 César Chávez 1927–1993......Page 410 The Plan of Delano (1966)......Page 418 Address to the Seventh Constitutional Convention of the United Farm Workers of America (1984)......Page 421 Wrath of Grapes Speech (1986)......Page 424 Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005......Page 428 Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)......Page 435 Announcement of Candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President (1972)......Page 437 “The Black Woman in Contemporary America” (1974)......Page 439 Henry Clay 1777–1852......Page 444 Speech on the Bill to Raise an Additional Military Force (1813)......Page 452 Speech on South American Independence (1818)......Page 456 Letter to the Editors of the WASHINGTON NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER on Texas Annexation (1844)......Page 458 Remarks on the Compromise of 1850 Resolutions (1850)......Page 460 Grover Cleveland 1837–1908......Page 464 First Inaugural Address (1885)......Page 471 “Principles above Spoils” Letter (1890)......Page 473 Special Session Message to Congress on the Economic Crisis (1893)......Page 474 Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty (1893)......Page 476 Fourth Annual Message to Congress (1896)......Page 478 Bill Clinton 1946–......Page 482 First Inaugural Address (1993)......Page 491 Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993)......Page 493 Remarks on Signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)......Page 495 Remarks at Annual Prayer Breakfast (1998)......Page 497 Farewell Address (2001)......Page 498 Jefferson Davis 1808–1889......Page 502 Resolutions to the U.S. Senate on the Relations of States (1860)......Page 509 Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate (1861)......Page 511 Preface to THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT (1881)......Page 514 Eugene V. Debs 1855–1926......Page 518 “Liberty” (1895)......Page 525 “How I Became a Socialist” (1902)......Page 527 Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)......Page 529 Antiwar Speech (1918)......Page 531 Everett Dirksen 1896–1969......Page 536 Observations on His Sixty-eighth Birth Anniversary (1964)......Page 543 Good Government Award Acceptance Speech (1964)......Page 545 “An Idea Whose Time Has Come” Speech (1964)......Page 547 Definition of Freedom (ca. 1965)......Page 550 Final Spring Address (1969)......Page 551 Stephen A. Douglas 1813–1861......Page 554 Speech Defending the Compromise of 1850 (1850)......Page 562 First Speech of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)......Page 566 William O. Douglas 1898–1980......Page 570 DENNIS V. UNITED STATES (1951)......Page 579 MAPP V. OHIO (1961)......Page 582 GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT (1965)......Page 584 SIERRA CLUB V. MORTON (1972)......Page 586 FURMAN V. GEORGIA (1972)......Page 588 Frederick Douglass 1818–1895......Page 594 NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1845)......Page 604 Letter “To My Old Master” (1848)......Page 607 “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Speech (1852)......Page 610 “Our National Capital” Lecture (1877)......Page 612 W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963......Page 616 “Strivings of the Negro People” (1897)......Page 624 “The Parting of the Ways” (1904)......Page 627 “Agitation” (1910)......Page 629 “Returning Soldiers” (1919)......Page 630 “Marxism and the Negro Problem” (1933)......Page 631 Allen Dulles 1893–1969......Page 634 “The Present Situation in Germany” (1945)......Page 642 Television Interview on the Soviets’ Intentions (1956)......Page 645 Address on the Soviet Military Threat (1959)......Page 647 John Foster Dulles 1888–1959......Page 652 Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala (1954)......Page 661 Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis (1956)......Page 664 Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China (1957)......Page 666 News Conference on U.S. Relations with Latin American Nations (1958)......Page 668 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969......Page 672 First Inaugural Address (1953)......Page 682 “Cross of Iron” Speech (1953)......Page 684 Atoms for Peace Speech (1953)......Page 686 Special Address to Congress on the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)......Page 688 Second Inaugural Address (1957)......Page 690 Farewell Address (1961)......Page 692 Stephen J. Field 1816–1899......Page 694 CUMMINGS V. MISSOURI (1867)......Page 701 MUNN V. ILLINOIS (1876)......Page 704 HO AH KOW V. NUNAN (1879)......Page 706 “The Centenary of the Supreme Court of the United States” (1890)......Page 709 Felix Frankfurter 1882–1965......Page 712 MINERSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT V. GOBITIS (1940)......Page 721 COLEGROVE V. GREEN (1946)......Page 725 COOPER V. AARON (1958)......Page 727 GOMILLION V. LIGHTFOOT (1960)......Page 729 Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790......Page 734 “A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America” (1743)......Page 744 “Exporting of Felons to the Colonies” (1751)......Page 746 “The Way to Wealth” (1758)......Page 748 “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One” (1773)......Page 750 “The Sale of the Hessians” (1777)......Page 752 Speech at the Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention (1787)......Page 754 “An Address to the Public” (1789)......Page 756 AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1771–1790)......Page 757 Margaret Fuller 1810–1850......Page 760 “A Short Essay on Critics” (1840)......Page 767 SUMMER ON THE LAKES, IN 1843 (1844)......Page 769 WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1845)......Page 771 William Lloyd Garrison 1805–1879......Page 776 “To the Public” (1831)......Page 784 “The Triumph of Mobocracy in Boston” (1835)......Page 786 “Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention” (1838)......Page 788 “Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States” (1844)......Page 789 Speech Relating to the Execution of John Brown (1859)......Page 791 Valedictory Editorial (1865)......Page 793 Elbridge Gerry 1744–1814......Page 796 Letter to the Massachusetts Legislature on the U.S. Constitution (1787)......Page 805 First Reply to “A Landholder” (1788)......Page 807 Second Reply to “A Landholder” (1788)......Page 808 Letter to the Electors of Middlesex (1788)......Page 811 Speech on Paying Revolutionary War Debts (1790)......Page 812 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933–......Page 816 UNITED STATES V. VIRGINIA (1996)......Page 823 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, INC. ET AL. V. LAIDLAW ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. (2000)......Page 826 STENBERG, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEBRASKA, ET AL. V. CARHART (2000)......Page 829 ELDRED V. ASHCROFT (2003)......Page 830 Emma Goldman 1869–1940......Page 834 “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For” (1917)......Page 842 “The Psychology of Political Violence” (1917)......Page 844 “Marriage and Love” (1917)......Page 847 Speech against Conscription and War (1917)......Page 849 Barry Goldwater 1909–1998......Page 852 Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party (1964)......Page 860 Address to the Republican National Convention (1984)......Page 865 Samuel Gompers 1850–1924......Page 868 Address to Workers in Louisville, Kentucky (1890)......Page 876 Editorial on the Pullman Strike (1894)......Page 878 Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters’ Case (1908)......Page 880 Circular to the Organizers of the American Federation of Labor (1915)......Page 882 Address to the Annual Meeting of the National Civic Federation (1916)......Page 884 Al Gore 1948–......Page 888 High-Performance Computing Act of 1991......Page 896 “From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less” (1993)......Page 898 Address to the 1996 Democratic National Convention......Page 899 2000 Concession Speech......Page 903 Billy Graham 1918–......Page 906 “The Flame of Political Dilemma” (1965)......Page 913 “The Coming Storm” (1981)......Page 915 “The Winds of Change” (1992)......Page 918 “When Life Turns against Us” (2006)......Page 920 “A Final Word from Billy Graham” (2006)......Page 922 Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885......Page 924 Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman (1864)......Page 933 Final Report of Military Operations (1865)......Page 935 First Inaugural Address (1869)......Page 936 Special Message to Congress Announcing Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870)......Page 937 Sixth Annual Message to Congress (1874)......Page 938 Special Message to the Senate on Unrest in Louisiana (1875)......Page 940 Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain (1876)......Page 944 Alexander Hamilton ca. 1755–1804......Page 946 Federalist 84 (1788)......Page 953 “First Report on Public Credit” (1790)......Page 956 “Against an Alliance with France” (1794)......Page 959 Letter to Harrison Gray Otis on Westward Expansion (1799)......Page 961 John Hancock 1737–1793......Page 964 Boston Massacre Oration (1774)......Page 971 Address to the Ratification Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1788)......Page 977 Address to the General Court of Boston (1788)......Page 979 John Marshall Harlan 1833–1911......Page 982 Civil Rights Cases (1883)......Page 990 HURTADO V. CALIFORNIA (1884)......Page 994 POLLOCK V. FARMERS’ LOAN & TRUST CO. (1895)......Page 996 PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896)......Page 998 Patrick Henry 1736–1799......Page 1002 Resolutions in Opposition to the Stamp Act (1765)......Page 1010 Letter to Robert Pleasants, a Quaker, Concerning Slavery (1773)......Page 1011 Speech to the First Continental Congress (1774)......Page 1012 Speech to the Virginia Revolutionary Convention in Opposition to the Intolerable Acts (1775)......Page 1013 Speech to the Virginia Convention Opposing the Constitution (1788)......Page 1015 Election Speech at Charlotte Court House (1799)......Page 1018 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1841–1935......Page 1020 “Early Forms of Liability” (1881)......Page 1029 LOCHNER V. NEW YORK (1905)......Page 1033 SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES (1919)......Page 1034 ABRAMS V. UNITED STATES (1919)......Page 1036 BUCK V. BELL (1927)......Page 1038 Herbert Hoover 1874–1964......Page 1042 “Rugged Individualism” Campaign Speech (1928)......Page 1051 Inaugural Address (1929)......Page 1054 Kellogg-Briand Pact Proclamation (1929)......Page 1056 Annual Message to Congress (1931)......Page 1058 “The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal” (1932)......Page 1060 J. Edgar Hoover 1885–1972......Page 1064 Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947)......Page 1072 Letter to Harry Truman’s Special Consultant, Sidney Souers (1950)......Page 1075 Memo on the Leak of Vietnam War Information (1965)......Page 1077 Memo on Martin Luther King (1965)......Page 1078 Memo on Abbott Howard Hoffman (1970)......Page 1079 Charles Hamilton Houston 1895–1950......Page 1082 “Educational Inequalities Must Go!” (1935)......Page 1089 MISSOURI EX REL GAINES V. CANADA (1938)......Page 1093 HURD V. HODGE (1948)......Page 1095 Sam Houston 1793–1863......Page 1100 Inaugural Address as President of the Republic of Texas (1836)......Page 1107 Speech Supporting the Compromise of 1850 (1850)......Page 1108 Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)......Page 1110 Speech on Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy (1861)......Page 1113 Andrew Jackson 1767–1845......Page 1116 Proclamation Regarding the Opening of U.S. Ports to British Vessels (1830)......Page 1125 Second Annual Message to Congress (1830)......Page 1126 Veto of the Bill to Limit the Power of the Bank of the United States (1832)......Page 1128 Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Regarding Nullification (1832)......Page 1131 Jesse Jackson 1941–......Page 1136 “The Struggle Continues” (1988)......Page 1143 “The Fight for Civil Rights Continues” (2005)......Page 1146 Robert H. Jackson 1892–1954......Page 1150 “The Federal Prosecutor” (1940)......Page 1158 WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION V. BARNETTE (1943)......Page 1160 Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany (1945)......Page 1162 Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany (1946)......Page 1164 John Jay 1745–1829......Page 1168 Letter to George Washington (1779)......Page 1175 “Circular-Letter from Congress to Their Constituents” (1779)......Page 1176 Federalist 2–5 and 64 (1787–1788)......Page 1177 “Charge to the Grand Juries” (1790)......Page 1181 Draft of the Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)......Page 1182 Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826......Page 1186 Declaration of Independence (1776)......Page 1196 The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786)......Page 1199 First Inaugural Address (1801)......Page 1201 Second Inaugural Address (1805)......Page 1204 Andrew Johnson 1808-1875......Page 1208 First Annual Message to Congress......Page 1215 Veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill......Page 1218 Veto of the Civil Rights Act......Page 1220 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908–1973......Page 1224 Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Assuming the Presidency (1963)......Page 1232 Commencement Address at the University of Michigan (1964)......Page 1235 Remarks on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)......Page 1238 Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Civil Rights (1965)......Page 1240 Barbara Jordan 1936–1996......Page 1244 “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment”......Page 1252 “Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?” (1976)......Page 1255 “Change: From What to What?” (1992)......Page 1258 George F. Kennan 1904–2005......Page 1262 The “Long Telegram” (1946)......Page 1270 “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947)......Page 1272 “PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy” (1948)......Page 1274 “Introducing Eugene McCarthy” (1968)......Page 1276 “A Modest Proposal” (1981)......Page 1278 John F. Kennedy 1917–1963......Page 1282 Inaugural Address (1961)......Page 1290 Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba (1962)......Page 1292 Report to the American People on Civil Rights (1963)......Page 1295 Robert F. Kennedy 1925–1968......Page 1300 Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention (1964)......Page 1307 Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Cape Town (1966)......Page 1309 Address at the University of California, Berkeley (1966)......Page 1312 Remarks on the Death of Martin Luther King (1968)......Page 1314 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929–1968......Page 1316 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)......Page 1326 “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963)......Page 1330 Speech in Opposition to the Vietnam War (1967)......Page 1333 Robert La Follette 1855–1925......Page 1338 Speech on the Amendment of National Banking Laws (1908)......Page 1346 Speech Opposing War with Germany (1917)......Page 1349 Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (1924)......Page 1352 Robert E. Lee 1807–1870......Page 1356 Letter to Mary Lee (1856)......Page 1364 Letter to Custis Lee (1861)......Page 1365 Letter to Jefferson Davis (1862)......Page 1366 Letter to Jefferson Davis (1863)......Page 1367 Letter to Jefferson Davis (1864)......Page 1369 Letter to Andrew Hunter (1865)......Page 1371 General Order No. 9 (1865)......Page 1373 Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865......Page 1376 “House Divided” Speech (1858)......Page 1385 First Inaugural Address (1861)......Page 1390 Gettysburg Address (1863)......Page 1395 Second Inaugural Address (1865)......Page 1396 Henry Cabot Lodge 1850–1924......Page 1398 Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands (1900)......Page 1406 Speech on Mexico (1915)......Page 1408 Speech on President Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for a World Peace (1917)......Page 1410 Speech Opposing the League of Nations (1919)......Page 1412 Huey Long 1893–1935......Page 1416 “Every Man a King” Address (1934)......Page 1423 “Share Our Wealth” Address (1935)......Page 1426 “Our Growing Calamity” Address (1935)......Page 1429 James Madison 1751–1836......Page 1434 “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments” (1785)......Page 1445 Speech on the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention (1787)......Page 1448 Federalist 10 (1787)......Page 1450 Speech to the House of Representatives Proposing a Bill of Rights (1789)......Page 1452 Virginia Resolutions (1798)......Page 1455 “Advice to My Country” (1834)......Page 1456 Malcolm X 1925–1965......Page 1458 “Message to the Grass Roots” (1963)......Page 1466 “The Ballot or the Bullet” Speech (1964)......Page 1470 George Marshall 1880–1959......Page 1476 Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War (1939)......Page 1483 Speech to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy (1942)......Page 1485 Washington’s Birthday Remarks at Princeton University (1947)......Page 1487 Marshall Plan Speech (1947)......Page 1489 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (1953)......Page 1491 John Marshall 1755–1835......Page 1494 MARBURY V. MADISON (1803)......Page 1504 MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND (1819)......Page 1508 GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824)......Page 1511 Thurgood Marshall 1908–1993......Page 1516 GRAYNED V. CITY OF ROCKFORD (1972)......Page 1524 FURMAN V. GEORGIA (1972)......Page 1526 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA V. BAKKE (1978)......Page 1528 George Mason 1725–1792......Page 1534 Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London (1766)......Page 1542 Fairfax County Resolves (1774)......Page 1545 Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)......Page 1547 “Objections to This Constitution of Government” (1787)......Page 1549 Joseph McCarthy 1908–1957......Page 1552 “Enemies from Within” Speech (1950)......Page 1560 Telegram to President Harry S. Truman (1950)......Page 1562 Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower (1953)......Page 1563 William McKinley 1843–1901......Page 1566 Message to Congress about Intervention in Cuba (1898)......Page 1574 “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation (1898)......Page 1577 Home Market Club Speech (1899)......Page 1579 Last Speech (1901)......Page 1581 James Monroe 1758–1831......Page 1584 Address to the National Convention of France (1794)......Page 1592 Second Annual Message to Congress (1818)......Page 1593 Second Inaugural Address (1821)......Page 1595 Seventh Annual Message to Congress (1823)......Page 1597 Special Message to the Senate on the Slave Trade Convention with Great Britain (1824)......Page 1599 Richard M. Nixon 1913–1994......Page 1602 “Checkers” Speech (1952)......Page 1609 “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev (1959)......Page 1612 Resignation Address to the Nation (1974)......Page 1614 Sandra Day O’Connor 1930–......Page 1618 WEBSTER V. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES (1989)......Page 1627 METRO BROADCASTING, INC. V. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (1990)......Page 1629 ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS (2002)......Page 1633 GRUTTER V. BOLLINGER (2003)......Page 1635 J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904–1967......Page 1640 Memorandum to Brigadier General Thomas Farrell on the Radiological Dangers of a Nuclear Detonation (1945)......Page 1648 A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (1946)......Page 1649 General Advisory Committee’s Report on the Building of the H-Bomb (1949)......Page 1652 Thomas Paine 1737–1809......Page 1658 THE CRISIS, No. 1 (1776)......Page 1665 THE CRISIS, No. 4 (1777)......Page 1670 Ely Parker 1828–1895......Page 1674 Report on Indian Affairs to the War Department (1867)......Page 1680 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1869)......Page 1684 Letter of Resignation as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1871)......Page 1687 Letter to Harriet Maxwell Converse about Indian Policy Reform (1885)......Page 1688 Alice Paul 1885–1977......Page 1692 Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee (1915)......Page 1699 Equal Rights Amendment (1921)......Page 1702 “Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment” (1972–1973)......Page 1703 Frances Perkins 1880–1965......Page 1708 “Social Insurance for U.S.” Radio Address (1935)......Page 1718 “What You Really Want Is an Autopsy”: Opening Remarks to the Tristate Silicosis Conference (1940)......Page 1722 “City Diets and Democracy” (1941)......Page 1724 “Three Decades: A History of the Department of Labor” (1943)......Page 1727 Wendell Phillips 1811–1884......Page 1730 “The Murder of Lovejoy” (1837)......Page 1738 “The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement” (1853)......Page 1739 “Crispus Attucks” (1858)......Page 1741 “The Puritan Principle and John Brown” (1859)......Page 1742 “Under the Flag” (1861)......Page 1743 “The Foundation of the Labor Movement” (1871)......Page 1745 James Polk 1795–1849......Page 1748 Inaugural Address (1845)......Page 1756 Message to Congress on War with Mexico (1846)......Page 1759 Farewell Message to Congress (1848)......Page 1762 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908–1972......Page 1766 Speech on Civil Rights (1955)......Page 1774 “Black Power: A Form of Godly Power” (1967)......Page 1777 “Black Power and the Future of Black America” (1971)......Page 1779 Colin Powell 1937–......Page 1784 “U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead” (1992/1993)......Page 1791 Remarks to the United Nations Security Council (2003)......Page 1795 Opening Remarks on Intelligence Reform before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (2004)......Page 1798 Ronald Reagan 1911–2004......Page 1802 “A Time for Choosing” Speech (1964)......Page 1812 Remarks at the Republican National Convention (1976)......Page 1815 First Inaugural Address (1981)......Page 1817 “Evil Empire” Speech (1983)......Page 1819 Letter to the American People about Alzheimer’s Disease (1994)......Page 1822 William Rehnquist 1924–2005......Page 1824 ROE V. WADE (1973)......Page 1831 UNITED STATES V. LOPEZ (1995)......Page 1833 GEORGE W. BUSH ET AL. V. ALBERT GORE, JR., ET AL. (2000)......Page 1834 Walter Reuther 1907–1970......Page 1840 “500 Planes a Day” Speech (1940)......Page 1848 National Hour Radio Address on Inflation (1946)......Page 1851 “The Guaranteed Annual Wage” Address (1955)......Page 1852 Address before the Annual Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1957)......Page 1854 Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally (1959)......Page 1856 Condoleezza Rice 1954–......Page 1860 Address to the Republican National Convention (2000)......Page 1867 “International Support for Iraqi Democracy” (2005)......Page 1869 “Transformational Diplomacy” (2006)......Page 1871 Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (2008)......Page 1874 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962......Page 1878 “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do” (1928)......Page 1888 Resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution (1939)......Page 1891 “The Struggle for Human Rights” (1948)......Page 1892 Remarks at the United Nations concerning Human Rights (1958)......Page 1897 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945......Page 1900 First Inaugural Address (1933)......Page 1909 “Four Freedoms” Message to Congress (1941)......Page 1911 “Second Bill of Rights” Message to Congress (1944)......Page 1915 Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919......Page 1920 Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes (1903)......Page 1931 Special Message to Congress (1908)......Page 1933 THEODORE ROOSEVELT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1913)......Page 1936 Statements Pertaining to Conservation (1903–1916)......Page 1937 Speech to the New York Republican State Convention (1918)......Page 1939 John Ross 1790–1866......Page 1942 Memorial to Congress (1829)......Page 1951 Letter to David Crockett (1831)......Page 1953 Annual Message to the Cherokee Nation (1832)......Page 1954 Letter to Martin Van Buren (1837)......Page 1956 Address to the Cherokee Nation (1838)......Page 1959 Address to a General Council of the Cherokee Nation (1839)......Page 1960 Margaret Sanger 1879–1966......Page 1962 “Sexual Impulse—Part II” (1912)......Page 1970 “The Prevention of Conception” (1914)......Page 1973 Hotel Brevoort Speech (1916)......Page 1974 “Birth Control and Racial Betterment” (1919)......Page 1976 William Henry Seward 1801–1872......Page 1980 Speech on the Admission of California to Statehood (1850)......Page 1988 Speech on the “Irrepressible Conflict” (1858)......Page 1992 Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln (1861)......Page 1994 Roger Sherman 1721–1793......Page 1996 “A Caveat against Injustice; or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a F This four-volume set offers a unique biographical approach to the study of primary source documents, with entries devoted to a diverse array of key figures from American history. From U.S. presidents and other government figures to influential private citizens, Milestone Documents of American Leaders features important full-text sources written by the people who shaped the nation. The set covers 120 notable Americans from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Each entry provides a brief overview of the person's life and times as well as in-depth analysis about the key primary source documents that the person produced. The full text of each document is also included, along with vocabulary keys. The following sections are included in each entry in Milestone Documents of American Leaders: "Overview": places the person in his/her historical context and gives a summary description of the person's output of speeches, letters, and other documents; "Timeline": includes important events from the subject's time; "Explanation and Analysis of the Documents": consists of a detailed examination of the main document texts produced by the subject; "Impact and Legacy ": outlines the impact that the person's writings had on his/her times and thus on American history; "Essential Quotes": offers a selection of key quotes from the person's writings/speeches; "Glossary": defines important, difficult, or unusual terms found in the document texts; "Questions for Further Study": includes study questions for students; "Key Sources ": features an annotated bibliography of the subject's key writings and papers; "Further Reading ": lists books, articles, and Web sites for further research. - Publisher.