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Voices of a people's history of the United States
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Diario of Christopher Columbus (October 11-15, 1492) --
Devastation of the Indies: a brief account (1542) / Bartolemae de Las Casas --
In defense of the Indians (1550) / Bartolemae de Las Casas --
Memory of fire (1982) / Eduardo Galeano --
Letter to Mr. Boone in London (June 24, 1720) / Anonymous --
Letter from St. Petersburg, Virginia (May 17, 1792) --
Secret keeper Richmond to secret keeper Norfolk (1793) --
Slave petition for freedom (January 6, 1773) / Felix --
Petition for freedom (April 20, 1773) / Peter Bestes, Sambo Freemon, Felix Holbrook, and Chester Joie --
"Petition of a great number of blackes" to Thomas Gage (May 25, 1774) --
"Petition of a great number of Negroes" to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (January 13, 1777) --
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (August 19, 1791) / Benjamin Banneker --
Richard Frethorne on indentured servitude (March 20-April 3, 1623) --
True narrative of the rise, progresse, and cessation of the late rebellion in Virginia, most humbly and impartially reported by his Majestyes commissioners appointed to enquire into the affairs of the said colony (1677) --
Proclamation of the New Hampshire legislature on the Mast Tree riot (1734) --
Letter written to William Shirley to the Lords of trade about the Knowles riot (December 1, 1747) --
Gottlieb Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750 and return to Germany in the year 1754 / Gottlieb Mittelberger --
Account of the New York riots (July 14, 1766) --
Thomas Hutchinson recounts the reaction to the Stamp Act in Boston (1765) --
Samuel Drowne's testimony on the Boston Massacre (March 16, 1770) --
George Hewes recalls the Boston Tea Party (May 29, 1766) --
Common Sense (1776) / Thomas Paine --
Joseph Clarke's letter about the rebellion in Springfield (August 30, 1774) --
Narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier (1830) / Joseph Plumb Martin --
Samuel Dewees recounts the suppression of insubordination in the Continental Army after the mutinies of 1781 (1844) --
Letter to George Washington (October 23, 1786) / Henry Knox --
Federalist No. 10 (November 23, 1787) / "Publius" (James Madison) --
"Address delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston" / Maria Stewart --
Angelina Grimkae Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall (May 17, 1838) --
Characteristics of the early factory girls" (1898) / Harriet Hanson Robinson --
Woman in the nineteenth century (1845) / St. Margaret Fuller Ossoli --
"Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, " Seneca Falls Convention (July 19, 1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
Ain't I a women? (1851) / Sojourner Truth --
Marriage proposal of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell (May 1, 1855) --
Susan B. Anthony addresses Judge Ward Hunt in the United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony (June 19, 1873) --
Tecumseh's speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) --
"Memorial of the Cherokee Indians" (December 1829) / Cherokee Nation --
Address of the committee and council of the Cherokee Nation, in general council convened, to the people of the United States (July 17, 1830) / Lewis Ross et al. --
Black Hawk's surrender speech (1832) --
"Cherokee removal through the eyes of a private soldier" (December 11, 1890) / John G. Burnett --
Chief Joseph's surrender (October 5, 1877) --
Chief Joseph recounts his trip to Washington D.C. (1879) --
"End of the dream" (1932) / Black Elk --
Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (June 30, 1845-March 26, 1846) --
Dispatch on Texas colonists (October 31, 1835) / Miguel Barragan --
Desertion handbill (June 6, 1847) / Juan Soto --
Address to the New England Convention (May 31, 1849) / Frederick Douglass --
"War with Mexico" (January 21, 1848) / North Star Editorial --
Civil disobedience (1849) / Henry David Thoreau --
Appeal (1830) / David Walker --
Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself (1861) / Harriet A. Jacobs --
James Norcom's runaway slave newspaper advertisement for Harriet Jacobs (June 30, 1835) --
Letter to Lydia Maria Child (June 3, 1834) / James R. Bradley --
Speech of Theodore Parker at the Faneuil Hall Meeting (May 26, 1854) / Reverend Theodore Parker --
Letter to William Gatewood (March 23, 1844) / Henry Bibb --
Letter to Sarah Logue (March 28, 1860) / Jermain Wesley Loguen --
"Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (July 5, 1852) / Frederick Douglass --
"John Brown's last speech (November 2, 1859) / John Brown --
Voice from Harper's Ferry (1861) / Osborne P. Anderson --
Martin Delany's advice to former slaves (July 23, 1865) --
"On the eligibility of colored members to seats in the Georgia legislature" (September 3, 1868) / Henry McNeal Turner --
Eyewitness account of the flour riot in New York (February 1837) --
Impending crisis of the south (1857) / Hinton Rowan Helper --
"Voting by classes" (October 13, 1863) / "Mechanic" --
Report on a bread riot in Savannah, Georgia (April 1864) --
"To go, or not to go (June 28, 1864) / "Exempt" --
Letter to the editor (February 17, 1865) / O.G.G. --
"Class that suffer" (February 17, 1865) / Columbus Sun --
Annals of the great strikes in the United States (1877) / J.A. Dacus --
"Crime of poverty" (April 1, 1885) / Henry George --
"Address of August spies" (October 7, 1886) / August Spies --
"Red-handed murder: Negroes wantonly killed at Ghibodaux, La." (November 26, 1887 / Anonymous --
Open letter from the New Orleans mass meeting (August 22, 1888) / Reverend Ernest Lyon et al. --
"Wall Street owns the country" (circa 1890) / Mary Elizabeth Lease --
Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union (1890) / Mary Elizabeth Lease --
Omaha platform of the People's Part of America (1892) --
"Lynch Law" (1893) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett --
Statement from the Pullman strikers (June 15, 1894) --
Looking backward: 2000-1887 (1888) / Edward Bellamy --
Letter to General William R. Shafter (July 17, 1898) / Calixto Garcia --
Black opposition to McKinley (November 17, 1899) / Lewis H. Douglass --
"Negro should not enter the army" (May 1, 1899) / Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church --
Open letter to President McKinley by colored people of Massachusetts (October 3, 1899) / I.D. Barnett et al. --
"Comments on the Moro massacre" (March 12, 1906 / Samuel Clemens --
War is a racket (1935) / Smedley D. Butler --
"Agitation: the greatest factor for progress" (March 24, 1903) / Mother Jones --
Jungle (1906) / Upton Sinclair --
Souls of Black folk (1903) / W.E.B. Du Bois --
"Patriotism: a menace to liberty" (1908) / Emma Goldman --
"Proclamation of the striking textile workers of Lawrence" (1912) --
Arturo Giovannitti's address to the jury (November 23, 1912) --
"Ludlow Massacre" (1946) / Woody Guthrie --
"Remember Ludlow!" (May 1914) / Julia May Courtney --
"My last will" (November 18, 1915) / Joe Hill --
"Strike against war" (January 5, 1916) / Helen Keller --
"Whose war?" (April 1917) / John Reed --
"Why the I is not patriotic to the United States" (1918) --
Address to the jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (July 9, 1917) / Emma Goldman --
"Canton, Ohio, speech" (June 16, 1918) / Eugene Debs --
Statement to the court (September 18, 1918) / Eugene Debs --
"State" (1918) / Randolph Bourne --
"i sing of Olaf glad and big" (1931) / e.e. cummings --
"Body of an American (1932) / John Dos Passos --
Johnny got his gun (1939) / Dalton Trumbo --
"Echoes of the jazz age" (1931) / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
"Brother, can you spare a dime?" (1932) / Yip Harburg --
"Tear-gas, bayonets, and votes (August 17, 1932) / Paul Y. Anderson --
"I remember the Scottsboro defense" (February 5, 1997) / Mary Licht --
All God's dangers (1969) / Ned Cobb ("Nate Shaw") --
"Strange fruit" (1937) / Billie Holiday --
"Ballad of Roosevelt" (1934) / Langston Hughes --
"Ballad of the landlord" (1940) / Langston Hughes --
Speech to the court (April 9, 1927) / Bartolomeo Vanzetti --
"Back of the yards" (1973) / Vicky Starr --
"You have to fight for freedom" (1973) / Sylvia Woods --
Rose Chernin on organizing the unemployed in the Bronx in the 1930s (1949) --
Striking flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger remembers the 1936-37 GM sit-down strike (February 1995) / Genora (Johnson) Dollinger --
Grapes of wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck --
"This land is your land" (February 1940) / Woody Guthrie --
"Precision bombing will win the war" (1989) / Paul Fussell --
"Then came the war" (1991) / Yuri Kochiyama --
"Eight hundred meters from the hypocenter" (1992) / Yamaoka Michiko --
United States strategic bombing survey, summary report (Pacific War) (July 1, 1946) --
Admiral Gene Larocque speaks to Studs Terkel about "the good war" (1985 --
Slaughterhouse-five (1969) / Kurt Vonnegut --
Paul Robeson's unread statement before the House Committee on Un-American activities (June 12, 1956) --
"Thou shall not sing" (1989) / Peter Seeger --
"But it's not just Joe McCarthy" (March 15, 1054) / I.F. Stone --
Final letter from Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to their children (June 19, 1953) --
12 million Black voices (1941) / Richard Wright --
"Montage of a dream deferred" (1951) / Langston Hughes --
Coming of age in Mississippi (1968) / Anne Moody --
Original text of speech to be delivered at the Lincoln Memorial (August 28, 1963) / John Lewis --
"Message to the Grass Roots" (November 10, 1963) / Malcolm X --
Letter from Mississippi Freedom summer (August 9, 1964) / Martha Honey --
Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer (August 22, 1964) --
Testimony of Rita L. Schwerner (1964) --
"Once" (1968) / Alice Walker --
"Riot!-a Negro resident's story" (July 24m 1967) / Sandra A. West --
"Where do we go from here?" (August 16, 1967) / Martin Luther King Jr.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, McComb, Mississippi, petition against the war in Vietnam (July 28, 1965) --
"Beyond Vietnam" (April 4, 1967) / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Student nonviolent coordinating committee, position paper on Vietnam (January 6, 1966) --
"Masters of war" (1963) / Bob Dylan --
Muhammad Ali speaks out against the Vietnam War (1966) --
Village of Ben Suc (1967) / Jonathan Schell --
They were butchering people (2003) / Larry Colburn --
"Kid" Kirkland, from Bloods: an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black veterans" (1984) / T. Haywood --
"People just disappeared and didn't say anything" (2003) / Loung Ung --
"Man I killed" (1990) / Tim O'Brien --
Two poems on Vietnam (1999) / Maria Herrera-Sobek --
Secrets: a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2003) / Daniel Ellsberg --
"America" (January 17, 1956) / Allen Ginsberg --
Stonewall (1993) / Martin Duberman --
Suppressed speech on the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrim's landing at Plymouth Rock (September 10, 1979) / Wamsutta (Frank B.) James --
Of woman born (1977) / Adrienne Rich --
"Who will revere the Black woman?" (September 1966) / Abbey Lincoln --
"Abortion is a woman's right" (1999) --
"Women in prison: how we are (April 1978) / Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) --
"Women, power, and revolution" (October 16, 1998) / Kathleen Neal Cleaver --
"Problem is civil disobedience" (November 1970) / Howard Zinn --
Soledad brother (1970) / George Jackson --
"George Jackson" (1971) / Bob Dylan --
"Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation" (1970) / Angela Davis --
Barkley (September 9, 1971) / Elliott James ("L.D.") --
Interview with Frank "Big Black" Smith (2000) --
Leonard Peltier on the trail of broken treaties protest (1999) --
Select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities, covert action in Chile 1963-1973 (December 18, 1975) --
"COINTELPRO: what the (deleted) was it?" (March 12, 1978) / Noam Chomsky --
Commencement address at Milton Academy (June 10, 1983) / Marian Wright Edelman --
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (November 9, 1984) / Caesar Chaavez --
Testimony of Ismael Guadalupe Ortiz on Vieques, Puerto Rico (October 2, 1979) --
Local P-9 strikers and supporters against the Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota (1991) --
Resignation letter to the labor-management group (July 19, 1978) / Douglas A. Fraser --
"Why we fight" (1988) / Vito Russo --
"Closing argument" (April 15, 1987) / Abbie Hoffman --
"Fight the power" (1990) / Public Enemy --
"If my Marine son is killed ..." / Alex Molnar --
"Roots of the Gulf Crisis" (November 17, 1990) / Eqbal Ahmad --
June Jordan speaks out against the 1991 Gulf War (February 21, 1991) --
Statement refusing to serve in the 1991 Gulf War (January 9, 1991) / Yolanda Huet-Vaughn --
Interview with civilian worker at the Raio Hato Military Base in Panama City (February 23, 1990) --
"In L.A. burning all illusions" (June 1, 1992) / Mike Davis --
All things censored (2001) / Mumia Abu-Jamal --
Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) / Bruce Springsteen --
Lorell Patterson on the "war zone" strikes in Decatur, Illinois (June 1995) --
Acceptance speech for the Green Party's nomination for vice president of the United States of America (August 29, 1996) / Winona LaDuke --
Letter to President Clinton (March 13, 1996) / Alice Walker --
Letter to Jane Alexander refusing the national medal for the arts (July3, 1997) / Adrienne Rich --
"How many more must die?" (September 17, 2000) --
"WTO: the battle in Seattle: an eyewitness account" (December 6, 1999) / Roni Krouzman --
"Steps came tumbling down-ADAPT's battle with the HBA (2000) / Elizabeth ("Betita") Martainez --
Workin' on the chain gang (2000) / Walter Mosley --
"Surviving the storm: lessons from nature" (2001) / Julia Butterfly Hill --
"Presidency-just another perk" (November 14, 2000) / Michael Moore --
"Not in our son's name" (September 15, 2001) / Orlando Rodriguez and Phyllis Rodriguez --
"To avoid another September 11, U.S. must join the world" (September 5, 2002) / Rita Lasar --
"Organizing in our communities post-/September 11th" (2001) / Monami Maulik --
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705, "Resolution against the war" (October 18, 2002) --
Letter from Palestine (February 7, 2003) / Rachel Corrie --
Speech during the World Day of Protest against the war (February 15, 2003) / Danny Glover --
"Independent media in a time of war" (2003) / Amy Goodman --
"How many more must die?" (August 24, 2003) / Tim Predmore --
Open letter to Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) Michael G. Jones (September 12, 2003) / Maritza Castillo et al. --
"Cold turkey" (May 31, 2004) / Kurt Vonnegut --
"People have the power (1988) / Patti Smith.
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