Product Description: This concise collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagreed with the government or majority opinion...read more

Product Description: Notions of Christian love, or charity, strongly shaped the political thought of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as each presided over a foundational moment in the development of American democracy. Matthew Holland examines how each figure interpreted and appropriated charity, revealing both the problems and possibilities of making it a political ideal...read more

Product Description: Collected in one small volume are some of the most important speeches, documents, and writings that shaped America. Included are the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr...read more

Product Description: This collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagree with the government or majority opinion...read more

Product Description: Freedom. It's an idea worth pledging a life for, in the words of Thomas Jefferson. A gift outright to the poet Robert Frost. A difficult responsibility, writes Frederick Douglass. Defiant and enduring, for Maya Angelou. Quarrelsome, to Kurt Vonnegut...read more

Product Description: A guide to the development of American democracy. It contains documents, declarations and statements. The emphasis is upon American documents and texts, but there are selections from the ancient Greeks, Romans and medieval and Enlightenment Europeans as well as moderns such as Vaclev Havel...read more