Vorwort
I From American Dream to American Nightmare?
1 JOHN BRERETON: The First English Account of New England (1602)
2 RICHARD BRADFORD: The Landing of the Pilgrims (1620)
3 BILL BRYSON: Made in America (1994)
4 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775)
5 EMMA LAZARUS: The New Colossus (1883)
6 ROBINSON JEFFERS: November Surf (1931)
7 MARTIN LUTHER KING: I Have a Dream (August 28, 1963)
8 ALEX HALEY: The Maleolm X Inte rview (1963)
9 ART BUCHWALD: The American Dream (April 23, 1977)
10 DAVID G. MYERS: Wealth, Well-being, and the New American Dream (2000)
11 JOHN LELAND: Faith in the Future: Why America Sees the Silver Lining (June 13, 2004)
II The Constitutfun: From the Virginia Corporation to the 26th Amendment
1 The Royal Charter for the Virginia Corporation (1606)
2 The "Mayftower" Compact (1620)
3 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America (July 4, 1776)
4 Constittition of the United States (1787)
5 The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution: The Bill of Rights (1789)
6 THOMAS JEFFERSON: First Inaugural Address (1801)
7 Later Amendments to the Constitution (1865-1971) Investigative Journalism
8 BOB WOODWARD: How Mark Feit Became "Deep 11uoat" (June 2, 2005) Constitutional Change - The Second Amendment
9 MAX CASTRO: It's Time to Repeat the Second Amendment (May 24, 2000)
10 The NRA's View
III Minorities - Melting Pot versus Salad Bowl
Native Americans
1 Captain John Smith's Exploration of Chesapeake Bay (1608)
2 JOHN SMITH: The Massacre upon the 1vo and Twentieth of March (1624)
3 PAULA M. ROBERTSON: Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
African Americans
4 HORACE GREELEY: The Prayer of 1venty Millions (August 19, 1862)
5 Lincoln's Reply to Greeley (1862)
6 Emancipation Prodarnation (January 1, 1863)
7 RICHARD POWERS: August 1955 (2003)
8 JOHN STEINHECK: Travels with Charley (1962)
9 LYNDON B. JOHNSON: Radio and Television Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill (July 2, 1964)
Hispanics
10 ROBERTO FELIX SALAZAR: The Other Pioneers (1939)
11 ARMANDO REND6N: Kiss of Death (1971)
12 T. C. BOYLE : The Tortilla Curtain (1995)
IV Isolationism versus Interventionism:
1 JAMES MADISON: War Message to Congress (June 1, 1812)
2 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY: ' The Star-Spangled Banner (1812)
3 The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
4 JAMES K. POLK: War Message (May 11, 1846)
5 WILLIAM MCKINLEY: War Message (Aprilll, 1898)
6 WOODROW WILSON: War Message (April2, 1917)
7 THEODORE ROOSEVELT: War Message to Congress (December 8, 1941)
8 JOHN F. KENNEDY: Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation (October 22, 1962)
9 JOHN F. KENNEDY: Ich bin ein Berliner (June 23, 1963)
10 Transcript of Tonkin Gulf Resolution (August 7, 1964)
11 GEORGE W. BUSH: Address to the Nation (March 19, 2003)
12 NOJ.M CHOMSKY: Two Superpowers
V From 'Salem to the '.'Axis of Evil"
1 TERRY MATTHEWS: Religious Life in the United States (1995)
2 Religious Denominations (2006)
3 SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON: Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004)
4 Intelligent Design Debate (August 19, 2005)
5 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: The Scarlet Letter (1850)
6 SINCLAIR, LEWIS: Eimer Gantry (1927)
7 GEORGE GERSHWIN / IRA GERSHWIN: "It ain't necessarily so" (1935)
8 BOB DYLAN: With God on Our Side (1963)
9 LANGSTON HUGHES: Salvation (1963)
VI Education: From Kindergarten to Harvard
1 COTTON MATHER: Teaching Children at Horne (1702)
2 WASHINGTON IRVING: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1819/20)
3 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
4 Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
5 A. HARRY PASSOW: Secondary Education (1979)
6 RICHARD SHENKMAN: Education (1989)
7 Ole Miss History - A Great American Public University
8 JESSICA MCELRATH: James Meredith's Admission to Ole Mississippi
9 JOYCE CAROL OATES: We Were tlie Mulvaneys (1996)
10 ALEXANDER RUSSO: Flunking Out. Bush's Pet Education Bill Is in
Serious Trouble (August 28, 2003)
VII Everyday Life
1 MARY C. SOPHOS: Food and Beverage lndustry Re.spon,ds to
IOM Childhood Obesity Report' (September 30, 2004)
2 Medicaid -Background
3 JAY GALLAGHER: Where Medicaid Stings Most (March 28, 2004)
4 PAUL HARRIS: 37 Million Poor Hidden in the Land of Plenty (February 19, 2006)
5 Popular Sports in the U.S.A.
6 PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO: Introduction to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (1994)
7 JONATHON MARCUS: Exporting the American Dream (February 23, 2004)
8 MIKE DAVIS f ANTHONY FONTENOT: Hurricane Gumbo (November 7, 2005)
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