PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS, 1607-1760 : The bloudy tenet of persecution / Roger Williams -- The trial of Anne Hutchinson / Anne Hutchinson -- Petitions for the release of Alice Tilly / Alice Tilly -- Petitions and letters / Williams Dyer and Mary Dyer -- Declaration in the name of the people, July 30, 1676 / Nathaniel Bacon -- A minute against slavery / Quaker Antislavery Petition -- Releese us out of this cruell bondage / Letter from an anonymous slave -- Speech to John Smith / Powhatan chief -- Speech to Governor La Barre of New France / Garangula -- Reply to Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz / Stung Serpent -- Negotiations for the Casco Bay Treaty / Loron Sauguaarum -- Grievance against the "Walking purchase" / Lenni Lenape -- Remarks to Phineas Stevens / Atiwaneto -- Petition to the Massachusetts General Court / Mashpee -- Articles from the New York Weekly Journal 1733 / John Peter Zenger -- Advertisements from the Pennsylvania Gazette / Eighteenth Century Runaway Women -- REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION, 1760-1820 : Considerations on keeping negroes, part 2 / John Woolman -- Speech to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, 1771 / John Killbuck -- The rights of the colonists / Samuel Adams -- The female patriots / Hannah Griffiths -- Ladies of Edenton, North Carolina Agreement -- A declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies / Second Continental Congress -- Common Sense / Thomas Paine -- Letters of Abigail Adams and John Adams -- A Loyalist critique of the Declaration of Independence / Thomas Hutchinson -- Petition for gradual emancipation -- Speech to Governor Haldimand at Quebec / Joseph Brant -- Speech to the Governor of Florida / Alexander McGillivray -- Protest to the United States Congress, 1786 / United Indian Nations -- Statement of Grievances / Shay's Rebellion -- Objections to This Constitution of Government / George Mason -- On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray -- Proposal to maintain Indian lands / Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, and Seneca proposal -- The Virginia Resolutions / Protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts -- The Kentucky Resolutions / Protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts -- Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison / Tecumseh -- Speech to the Southern Tribes / Tecumseh -- Federalist Protest -- Proposals, 1814-1815 / Hartford Convention -- Protest against Colonization Policy, 1817 / Free blacks of Philadelphia -- QUESTIONING THE NATION, 1820-1860 : Speech protesting the Indian Removal Bill / Theodore Frelinghuysen -- Letter protesting the Treaty of New Echota / Cherokee Chief John Ross -- Reminiscences from Sylvia Dubois, a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistress and gand her fredom / Sylvia Dubois -- Appeal to the coloured citizens of the world / David Walker -- The Liberator, Vol. I, No, I / William Lloyd Garrison -- An Indian's looking-glass for the white man / William Apess -- Ten-hour cicular / Laborers of Boston -- Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina Grimké and Sarah Grimké -- The Original Equality of Women / Angelina Grimké and Sarah Grimké -- On the murder of Lovejoy / Wendell Phillips -- Self-Reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Address to the citizens of Concord / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Woman in the ninteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- Lowell Female Labor Reform Association -- Lowell Female Industrial Reform and Mutual Aid Society -- Speech at Seneca Falls / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Declaration of Sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth -- The North Star / Frederick Douglass -- What to the slave is the fourth of July / Frederick Douglass -- On resistance to the civil government / Henry David Thoreau -- Statement on marriage / Lucy Stone -- American Party Platform / The Know-Nothings -- Address to the Virginia Court at Charles Town, Virginia / John Brown --

CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1860-1877 : Response to Lincoln's address to Congress, 1861 / Clement L. Vallandigham -- Knoxville Whig antisecession letters and editorial / William Brownlow -- Arkansas Peace Society documents -- Letter to Alexander H. Stephens / Joseph E. Brown -- Message to the Legislature / Joseph E. Brown -- The record of a Quaker conscience / Cyrus Pringle -- Correspondence protesting unequal pay / Africa American soldiers of the Union Army -- What the black man wants / Frederick Douglass -- Petition to the United States Congress, 1865 / Zion Presbyterian Church -- Nation Convention resolutions / American Equal Rights Association -- From an account of the Trial of Susan B. Anthony / Susan B. Anthony -- Is it a crime for a U.S. citizen to vote / Susan B. Anthony -- Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill / Robert B. Elliott -- INDUSTRY AND REFORM, 1877-1912 : Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor / Terence Powderly -- Eight Hours / I. G. Blanchard and Jesse Jones -- Appeal to the Hayes Administration / Chief Joseph -- Speech to the WCTU / Mary Elizabeth Lease -- The Omaha platform / The People's Party -- The subjective necessity of social settlements / Jane Addams -- Speech to the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union / Frances E. Willard -- Cast down your bucket where you are / Booker T. Washington -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others / W. E. B. DuBois -- Address to the Niagara Conference, Harper's Ferry / W. E. B. DuBois -- Lynch Law in Georgia / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Tortured and burned alive / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Address at the University of Chicago denouncing U.S. Imperialism / Carl Schurz -- The paralyzing influence of imperialism / William Jennings Bryan -- The march of the mill children / Mother Jones -- The Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir -- Save the redwoods / John Muir -- Marriage and love / Emma Goldman -- Christianizing the social order / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Socialist Party platform -- CONFLICT AND DEPRESSION, 1912-1945 : We will sing one song / Joe Hill -- The preacher and the slave girl / Joe Hill -- Antiwar speech / Robert M. LaFollette -- Defense of Free Speech / Robert M. LaFollette -- Antiwar Speech / Eugene V. Debs -- War is the health of the state / Randolph Bourne -- On Socialism / A. Philip Randolph -- Speech to the Universal Negro Improvement Association / Marcus Garvey -- Appeal to the Soul of White America / Marcus Garvey -- Legislating woman's morals / Margaret Sanger -- The goal / Margaret Sanger -- On being an American / H. L. Mencken -- Last words / H. L. Mencken -- Mencken's creed / H. L. Mencken -- I, too sing America / Langston Hughes -- National Radio address, November 1934 / Father Charles Coughlin -- National Radio address, June 1936 / Father Charles Coughlin -- Speech in the U. S. Senate / Huey Long -- Radio address / Huey Long -- The individual, society and the State / Emma Goldman -- The ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd / Woody Guthrie -- Jesus Christ / Woody Guthrie -- A negro looks at this war / J. Saunders Redding -- Letter to President Roosevelt / Charles F. Wilson -- Why I refused to register in the October 1940 draft and a little of what it led to / David Dellinger -- Reflections on Executive Order 9066 / Minoru Yasui -- Resistance / Minoru Yasui -- Statement upon sentencing / Minoru Yasui -- Letters from jail to his sister Yuka Yasui / Minoru Yasui -- Murder the murderer / Henry Miller -- THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, 1945-1966 : Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American activities / John Howard Lawson -- Lawson's statement that was excluded from the public record / John Howard Lawso -- Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American activities / Paul Robeson -- Speech at the Gay Spirit Visions Conference / Harry Hay -- America / Allen Ginsberg -- I ain't scared of your jail / Pete Seeger -- If you miss me at the back of the bus / Carver Neblett -- Only a pawn in their game / Bob Dylan -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Testimony before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention / Fannie Lou Hamer -- The black revolution / Malcolm X -- Berkeley Speech / Stokely Carmichael -- Black Panther Party platform -- The Port Huron Statement / Students for a Democratic Society -- The Feminine Mystique (article) / Betty Friedan -- I ain't marching anymore / Phil Ochs -- Little boxes / Malvina Reynolds -- The times they are a-changin / Bob Dylan -- It's alright ma (I'm only bleeding) / Bob Dylan --

MOBILIZATION: VIETNAM AND THE COUNTERCULTURE, 1964-1975 : Speech at the University of California at Berkeley 1964 / Mario Savio -- Speech denouncing the war in Vietnam / Carl Oglesby -- You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows / The weather underground -- Statement to the Senate Committee on foreign relations, 1971 / John Kerry -- Using LSD to imprint the Tibetan-Buddhist experience / Timothy Leary -- Political preface to Eros and Civilization / Herbert Marcuse -- Introduction to Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman -- Be here now / Ram Dass -- Waist deep in the big muddy / Pete Seeger -- I feel-like-I'm-fixin-to-die rag / Country Joe McDonald -- My country 'tis of thy people you're dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Fortunate Son / John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival -- The Redstockings Manifesto -- S.C.U.M. Manifesto / Society for Cutting up Men -- Women's liberation aims to free men too / Gloria Steinem -- Stonewall documents -- Interview with César Chávez / César Chávez -- A proclamation: To the Great White Father and all his people / American Indian Movement -- American Indian Movement 20 point proposal / American Indian Movement -- CONTEMPORARY DISSENT, 1975-present : Crossing the threshold into the New Millennium - Globalization vs. Jihad -- Desert solitaire / Edward Abbey -- A conservative's lament: after Iran, we need to change our system and grand strategy / Paul Weyrich -- ACT UP activist explains civil disobedience / Aldyn McKean -- Why we fight / Vito Russo -- Interview with Jeff Paterson / Jeff Paterson -- Statement on Gay Liberation / Ernest Dillon -- Statement on Gay Liberation / Daniel Miller -- Statement on Gay Liberation / Nancy McDonald -- Statement on Gay Liberation / Phill Wilson -- Statement on Gay Liberation / Letitia Gomez -- Statement of purpose and mission / The Michigan Militia -- In defense of liberty / The Michigan Militia -- The Unabomber Manifesto / Theodore Kaczynski -- Interview with Theodore Kaczynski / Theodore Kaczynski -- It's time to end corporate welfare as we know it / Ralph Nader -- Green Party Platform / Ralph Nader -- Introduction to Stupid white man / Michael Moore -- Self evident / Ani DiFranco -- Know your enemy / Rage against the machine --- Mathematics / Mos Def -- New world water / Mos Def -- Son of a Bush / Public enemy -- The 4th branch / Immortal technique -- Rich man's war / Steve Earle -- Amnesty International's concerns regarding post-September 11 detentions in the U.S.A. -- Written testimony supplied to the U.S. House of Representatives for the February 12, 2002 hearing on Ecoterrorism -- Press release / Earth Liberation Front -- Statement of conscience / Not in our name -- Call to conscience from Veterans to Active duty troops and resevists / Veterans against the Iraq War -- Message to the troops: Resist! / Veterans against the Iraq War -- Defending my freedom / Veterans against the Iraq War -- Freedom under fire / ACLU -- The many faces of the media / MoveOn.org -- The power of connecting / MoveOn.org -- George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes / Michael Borg -- Transcript of Oklahoma City Speech / Michael Borg -- Not worth my son's sacrifice / Cindy Sheehan -- A lie of historic proportions / Cindy Sheehan -- Carly's poem - A nation rocked to sleep / Cindy Sheehan --