AMERICA'S CIVIC TRADITION

America's Civic Values

The American Founding

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms
Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address

Struggles for Equality

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech at First Women's Rights Convention
William Jennings Bryan, 'Cross of Gold'
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech

Promoting the General Welfare

A Model of Christian Charity, John Winthrop
The Federalist Papers on the General Welfare
George Washington's Farewell Address
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Andrew Jackson's First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address