"The American Patriot's Handbook is a concise introduction to the ideas, events, and personalities of American freedom including key documents, speeches, poems, songs, and profiles of presidents and prominent Americans." --Publisher.

Includes index.

Part 1, A city on a hill. Apologia / by Christopher Columbus ; America / by Arthur Cleveland Coxe ; The Mayflower compact ; A model of charity / by John Winthrop ; Thanksgiving in Boston / by Hezekiah Butterworth ; Essays to do good / by Cotton Mather ; Five kernels of corn / by Hezekiah Butterworth -- Part 2, An experiment in liberty. A ballad of the Boston Tea Party / by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Liberty or death / by Patrick Henry ; Paul Revere's ride / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; The Declaration of Independence ; Valley Forge / by Thomas Buchanan Read ; The Articles of Confederation ; The Federalist : number 30 / by Alexander Hamilton ; The Federalist : number 47 / by James Madison ; The Constitution ; The Bill of Rights ; Washington's inaugural / by George Washington ; Farewell address / by George Washington ; The Bunker Hill oration / by Daniel Webster ; The forgotten presidents ; The founding fathers ; Presidential fathers -- Part 3, Manifest destiny. The star-spangled banner / by Francis Scott Key ; The Missouri compromise / by Henry Clay ; The Monroe doctrine / by James Monroe ; Liberty for all / by William Lloyd Garrison ; A house divided / by Abraham Lincoln ; The battle hymn of the republic / by Julia Ward Howe ; Stonewall Jackson's way / by John Williamson Palmer ; The Emancipation Proclamation / by Abraham Lincoln ; John Burns of Gettysburg / by Bret Harte ; The Gettysburg address / by Abraham Lincoln ; O captain! my captain! / by Walt Whitman ; Reconstruction oration / by Benjamin Hill ; My country 'tis of thee / by Samuel Smith ; Amendments to the Constitution ; Founders' sons -- Part 4, The American dream. Seneca Falls declaration / by Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Pledge of allegiance / by Francis Bellamy ; Atlanta Exposition address / by Booker T. Washington ; The men of the Maine / by Clinton Scollard ; The new colossus / by Emma Lazarus ; The man with the muck-rake / by Theodore Roosevelt ; Have faith in Massachusetts / by Calvin Coolidge ; War message / by Woodrow Wilson ; Victory bells / by Grace Conkling ; Pearl Harbor address / by Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; Inaugural address / by John F. Kennedy ; Letter from the Birmingham jail / by Martin Luther King Jr. ; Inaugural address / by Ronald Reagan ; Amendments to the Constitution ; Fathers of the future ; The message of freedom / by Alan Keyes ; September 11 / by George W. Bush.