American soul
Subtitle: the contested legacy of the Declaration of Independence
By: edited with an introduction by Justin Buckley Dyer, foreword by David L. Boren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781442211469; 9781442211483
Subjects: United States; Textual Criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence; title: Thomas Jefferson, rough draft of the Declaration of Independence; title: John Adams, letters to Abigail; title: Jeremy Bentham, a short review of the Declaration; title: Thomas Jefferson, the American mind; title: James Wilson, popular sovereignty; title: Daniel Webster, keeping the revolution; title: Lemuel Shaw, the American and French revolutions; title: John Quincy Adams, American principles; title: Thomas Jefferson, fifty years later; title: William Wirt, the lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; title: "A great number of blackes," petition for freedom; title: Luther Martin, the constitution and slavery; title: William Lloyd Garrison, republican consistency!; title: John Quincy Adams, Amistad argument; title: John C. Calhoun, the cause of the present crisis; title: Frederick Douglass, what to the slave is the Fourth of July?; title: Republican National Convention, party platform; title: Chief Justice Roger Taney, the Dred Scott Decision; title: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, debate on the Dred Scott Decision; title: Alexander Stephens, the chief cornerstone; title: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address; title: United States Congress, reconstructing America (1864-1870); title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, Seneca Falls Declaration; title: National Woman Suffrage Association, Declaration of the Rights of Women; title: Carrie Chapmen Catt, the inevitability of women's suffrage; title: Woodrow Wilson, what is progress?; title: Calvin Coolidge, speech on the Fourth of July; title: Franklin Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Address; title: Thurgood Marshall, speech at the Bicentennial; title: Ronald Reagan, the sanctity of human life; title: George W. Bush, America's work in the world; title: Barack Obama, a more perfect union.