VOLUME 1 : FROM COLONIES TO NATION : Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson
Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved / James Otis
Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
Samuel Adams Writing as Candidus
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One / Benjamin Franklin
Boston Massacre Oration / John Hancock
Liberty or Death Speech / Patrick Henry
Common Sense / Thomas Paine
Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania / Albert Gallatin
SLAVERY AND ABOLITION : A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting, Addressed to the Monthly Meeting in Dublin
An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina / James Oglethorpe
Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade
An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice / Richard Hall
Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World / David Walker
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention / William Lloyd Garrison
Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject / Lydia Marie Child
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered / Martin Delany
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States / John Brown
A Voice from Harper's Ferry / Osborne P. Anderson
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs
Under the Flag / Wendell Phillips
Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison
SECTIONAL CONFLICT, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION : South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act / Sam Houston
South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate / Jefferson Davis
Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy / Sam Houston
Cornerstone Speech / Alexander Stephens
Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature / Henry McNeal Turner
All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights / Richard Harvey Cain
Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government / Jefferson Davis
NATIVE AMERICAN DISSENT : Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws / Tecumseh
Memorial to Congress / John Ross
Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Dawes Severalty Act
Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts
Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation
Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
VOLUME 2 : AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS : Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
Lynching: Our National Crime / Ida B. Wells
Agitation / W. E. B. Du Bois
William Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson
The Eruption of Tulsa / Walter F. White
U.S. Department of (White) Justice / Walter F. White
A Black Inventory of the New Deal / John P. Davis
Call to Negro America to March on Washington / A. Phillip Randolph
An Appeal to the World / W. E. B. Du Bois
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Message to the Grass Roots / Malcolm X
The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X
What We Want / Stokely Carmichael
Black Power / Stokely Carmichael
What We Want, What We Believe / The Black Panther Party
WOMEN'S RIGHTS : Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments
Lecture on Constitutional Equality / Victoria Woodhull
Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? / Susan B. Anthony
The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future / Susan B. Anthony
Why Women Should Vote / Jane Addams
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee / Alice Paul
The SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas
Women's March on Washington / Angela Davis
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROTEST : Ten Days in a Mad-House / Nelly Bly
How the Other Half Lives / Jacob Riis
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements / Jane Addams
Editorial on the Pullman Strike / Samuel Gompers
Liberty / Eugene V. Debs
The Cross of Gold Speech / William Jennings Bryant
Speech Opposing the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge
Auto Workers Strike / Walter Reuther
Share Our Wealth Address / Huey Long
Southern Manifesto
The Port Huron Statement / Tom Hayden
Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square / Lucien Truscott IV
Steal This Book / Abbie Hoffman
Commonwealth Address / César Chávez
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM : Speech against Conscription and War / Emma Goldman
Speech Opposing War with Germany / Robert La Follette
Antiwar Speech / Eugene V. Debs
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War / John Kerry
The Emperor Has No Clothes Speech / Robert C. Byrd.