The Amistad Africans / John Quincy Adams -- A declaration of women's rights / Susan B. Anthony -- The butchering at Wounded Knee / Black Elk, a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux -- Sentenced to death / John Brown -- The cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- The nullification crisis / John C. Calhoun -- The gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie -- The Compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay -- Mark Twain's "Shameful" speech / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- First inaugural address / Jefferson Davis -- The suffering insane / Dorothea Dix -- The first Lincoln-Douglas debate / Stephen Douglas -- The great sin and shame of America / Frederick Douglass -- The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The eight-hour day / Samuel Gompers -- Second inaugural address / Andrew Jackson -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- I will fight no more forever / Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce -- Farewell to the Confederate Army / Robert E. Lee -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The treason trial of Aaron Burr / Luther Martin -- The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe --

The death of Alexander Hamilton / Gouverneur Morris

The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt

The irrepressible conflict / William Seward

Declaration of sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Broken American promises / Tecumseh, War Chief of the Shawnees

Walking West / Henry David Thoreau

A'n't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth

The confession of Nat Turner / Nat Turner

Cast down your bucket where you are / Booker T. Washington

The Plymouth Rock oration / Daniel Webster

American patriotism / Frances Wright.