| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 157 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Declaration and the American founding. Declaration of Independence / Continental Congress (1776) -- Rough draft of the Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson (1776) -- Letters to Abigail / John Adams (1776) -- Short review of the Declaration / Jeremy Bentham (1826) -- American mind / Thomas Jefferson (1825) -- Popular sovereignty / James Wilson (1787) -- Keeping the revolution / Daniel Webster (1802) -- American and French revolutions / Lemuel Shaw (1815) -- American principles / John Quincy Adams (1821) -- Fifty years later / Thomas Jefferson (1826) -- Lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams / William Wirt (1826) -- Declaration in a house divided. Petition for freedom / [ Prentice Hall] "A great number of blackes," (1777) -- Constitution and slavery / Luther Martin (1787) -- Republican consistency! / William Lloyd Garrison (1838) -- Amistad argument / John Quincy Adams (1841) -- Cause of the present crisis / John C. Calhoun (1848) -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass (1852) -- Party platform / Republican National Convention (1856) -- Dred Scott Decision / Chief Justice Roger Taney (1857) -- Debate on the Dred Scott Decision / Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas (1858) -- Chief cornerstone / Alexander Stephens (1861) -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln (1863) -- Reconstructing America / United States Congress (1864-1870) -- Declaration in the modern world. Seneca Falls Declaration / Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott (1848) -- Declaration of the Rights of Women / National Woman Suffrage Association (1876) -- Inevitability of women's suffrage / Carrie Chapmen Catt (1917) -- What is progress? / Woodrow Wilson (1913) -- Speech on the Fourth of July / Calvin Coolidge (1926) -- Commonwealth Club Address / Franklin Roosevelt (1932) -- Speech at the Bicentennial of the Constitution / Thurgood Marshall (1987) -- Sanctity of human life / Ronald Reagan (1984) -- America's work in the world / George W. Bush (2003) -- More perfect union / Barack Obama (2008). |
| Summary |
American Soul brings together a variety of primary source documents related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various speeches and writings assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, two and a half centuries of political conflict in America. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Declaration of Independence.
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United States. Declaration of Independence -- Criticism, Textual.
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Declaration of Independence (United States) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dyer, Justin B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442211469 1442211466 (DLC) 2011027813 |
| ISBN |
1442211482 (electronic book) |
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9781442211483 (electronic book) |
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9781442211469 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442211466 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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