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Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano RooseveltInaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933 This is a day of national consecration, and I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them...
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Collected Articles of Frederick DouglassCollected Articles of Frederick Douglass In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance...
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A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
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The Black Experience in AmericaThe Black Experience in America This text is claimed under copyright to protect its integrity, and therefore you are required to pass it on intact, but you may make changes to your own copy. This text may be shared in whole or in part...
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The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some...
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Anne of the IslandAnne of the Island Harvest is ended and summer is gone, quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner,...
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Anne of AvonleaAnne of Avonlea A tall, slim girl, half-past sixteen, with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe...
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The Legend of Sleepy HollowThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a...
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The Mayflower CompactThe Mayflower CompactIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, c. Having undertaken for the...
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Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln's First Inaugural AddressFellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United...
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressFellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued,...
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me DeathGive Me Liberty or Give Me DeathNo man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and,...
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Lincoln's Gettysburg AddressLincoln's Gettysburg Address - Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USANow we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on...
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John F. Kennedy's Inaugural AddressJohn F. Kennedy's Inaugural AddressWe observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom. . . symbolizing an end as well as a beginning. . .signifying renewal as well as change for I have sworn before you and Almighty God the...
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The Declaration of Independence of the United States of AmericaThe Declaration of Independence of the United States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the...
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