Acknowledgments

Introductory Essay: From Many, One

PART I American Unity and Diversity: Political Principles and National Identity

Editor's Introduction to Part I

The Declaration of Independence: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America In Congress, July 4, 1776

The Anti-Federalists: Brutus and Cato

The Federalist Papers (1787)

George Washington, "Farewell Address" (1796)

Tecumseh, "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws"

Tecumseh, "Father, Listen! The Americans Have Not Yet Defeated Us By Land"

John C. Calhoun, "A Disquisition on Government" (1853)

Abraham Lincoln, "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" Address Before the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum, January 27, 1838

Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" (1863)

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)

James Bryce, "The Uniformity of American Life" from The American Commonwealth (1908)

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART II Gender and Politics: Citizenship, Equality, and Difference

Editor's Introduction to Part II

Letters of Abigail and John Adams (1776)

Philadelphia Broadside, "The Sentiments of an American Woman" (1780)

Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexs" (1790)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, et al., (Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions) Seneca Falls (1848)

Frances D. Gage, Sojourner Truth, "A 'n't I A Woman?" (1851)

Susan B. Anthony, "Constitutional Argument" (1872)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Address to the Founding Convention of the The National American Woman Suffrage Association" (1890)

Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage" (1917)

The National Organization for Women, "Statement of Purpose" (1966)

bell hooks, "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression" (1984)

Catharine A. MacKinnon, "The Sexual Politics of the First Amendment" (1986)

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART III Immigration and National Identity: From the Melting Pot to Multiculturalism

Editor's Introduction to Part III

Hector's St. Jean de Crevecoeur, "Letters From an American Farmer," (1782)

James Madison, et al., "Report on the Resolutions...Concerning the Alien and Sedition Acts" (1799)

Know-Nothing Party, "America for Americans" and "The Silent Scourge" (1855)

Theodore Roosevelt, "True Americanism" (1897)

Horace M. Kallen, "Democracy Versues the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality" (1915)

John Dewey, "Nationalizing Education," Address to the National Education Association (1916)

Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944)

Plyer v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202 (1982)

Michael Walzer, "Multiculturalism and Individualism" (1994)

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART IV Race and Politics: Two Americas or One?

Editor's Introduction to Part IV

Benjamin Rush, "An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America Upon Slave-Keeping" (1773)

Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)

George Fitzhugh, "Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Master" (1857)

Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address" (1865)

Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1876)

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Conservation of Races" (1897)

W. E. B. Du Bois, "On Being Ashamed of Oneself" (1933)

Booker T. Washington, "Democracy and Education" (1896)

Marcus Garvey, "The Negro and his Weakness" (1935)

Marcus Garvey, "Be King of Circumstances" (1935)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have A Dream" (1963)

Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART V Religion and Politics: Pluralism and Common Bonds

Editor's Introduction to Part V

Roger Williams, "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience" (1644)

John Winthrop, "A Little Speech on Liberty" (1645)

James Madison et al., "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785)

Red Jacket, "Brother, The Great Spirit Has Made Us All" (1792)

Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to the Danbury Baptists" (1802)

Samuel Kendal, "An Election Sermon: Religion the Only Sure Basis of Free Government" (1804)

Alexis de Tocqueville, "Indirect Influence of Religious Opinions Upon Political Society in the United States" (1835)

Mary Baker Eddy, "The Great Revelation"

Mark Twain, "Christian Science"

Walker v. The Superior Court of Sacramento

John F. Kennedy, "Remarks on Church and State" (1960)

Lemon v Kurtzman et al., 403 U.S. 602 (1971)

Ralph E. Reed, Jr., "An Agenda for the New Congress: Speech to the Economic Club of Detroit" (1995)

Suggestions for Further Reading

CONCLUDING ESSAY: Pluralism and Identity Politics Today: Three Case Studies

Richard C. Sinopoli

Teena Gabrielson

APPENDIX The Constitution of the United States of America