Contents xvii Thomas Jefferson, “To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation” ( January 10, 1806) 1285 John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (September 14, 1813) 1287 William Ellery Channing, Excerpt from “Unitarian Christianity” (1830) 1290 Charles Grandison Finney, Excerpt from What a Revival of Religion Is (1835) 1295 Angelina E. Grimké, Excerpt from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) 1297 James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis (1845) 1300 McGuffey’s Reader Excerpt (1848) 1303 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848) 1304 Sojourner Truth, “Another Camp Meeting” (1850) 1316 “Treaty with the Apache” ( July 1, 1852) 1321 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Address to the First Annual Meeting of the Woman’s State Temperance Society,” Rochester, New York ( June 1, 1853) 1324 Walt Whitman, “The Song of the Open Road” (1856) 1329 Henry David Thoreau, “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859) 1338 Georgia Secession ( January 29, 1861) 1352 Harlan Page, “Motives to Early Piety” (1861) 1358 Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862) 1361 Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation ( January 1, 1863) 1362 Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883) 1364 Pittsburgh Platform, Central Conference of American Rabbis (1885) 1365 Frances E. W. Harper, “The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Colored Woman” (1888) 1366 Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt from The Gospel of Wealth (1889) 1370 H. P. Blavatsky, Excerpt from “Theosophy and the Theosophical Society: The Meaning of the Name” (1889) 1378 Swami Vivekananda, Remarks at the World’s Parliament of Religions Chicago (September 11, 1893) 1385 Andrew Dickson White, Excerpt from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) 1394
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