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Speeches and Documents

Founding documents and the speeches that moved the country, in their own words. Never adapted.

The collection

18 titles

The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln Grades 5-12speech Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln Grades 9-12speech First Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt Grades 8-12speech Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy Grades 7-12speech The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson and others Grades 5-12document The Constitution of the United States The Constitutional Convention Grades 5-12document The Bill of Rights James Madison and the First Congress Grades 4-12document The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay Grades 9-12document What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass Grades 9-12speech Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (selected speeches) Alice Dunbar-Nelson (editor) Grades 9-12speech The Four Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt Grades 6-12speech Day of Infamy Address Franklin D. Roosevelt Grades 5-12speech Farewell Address Dwight D. Eisenhower Grades 9-12speech We Choose to Go to the Moon John F. Kennedy Grades 5-12speech The American Promise (We Shall Overcome) Lyndon B. Johnson Grades 7-12speech Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed NASA Grades 3-12document Address on the Challenger Disaster Ronald Reagan Grades 4-12speech Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate Ronald Reagan Grades 7-12speech