- •American Emblems and Symbols
- •American Character
- •Geographical position
- •Early America
- •The First Europeans
- •First European settlements
- •English-American Relationship
- •The Wars
- •A New Colonial System
- •The War for Independence
- •The New Nation
- •Frontier
- •The Mexican War
- •The Civil War
- •Radical reconstruction
- •19Th-20th centuries
- •World War I
- •The New Deal
- •World War II
- •Pearl Harbor
- •Postwar America
- •Civil Rights Movement
- •Kennedy and the New Frontier
- •Cuban crisis
- •The Vietnam War
- •Watergate
- •Iran-Contra and Black Monday
- •The Gulf War
- •Panama and nafta
- •XXI century
- •The System of Government in the usa
- •American Constitution
- •Elections of the President
- •The President at Work
- •Vice-President
- •Parties and Elections
- •The parties
- •How Government Works
- •State Governments
- •Economy
- •Crime and punishment
- •Religion
- •Education
- •Mass Media
- •The Arts
- •American music
- •Appendix
- •American states New England
- •Midwest
- •Great Plains
- •Mountain
- •Southwest
- •Pacific
- •The anthem
- •The Enduring Mystery Of The Anasazi
- •Early Men, Indians And The Mound Builders
- •Tribes of Native Americans
- •Christopher Columbus
- •Jamestown
- •Massachusetts
- •Native Americans
- •The Iroquois Confederacy
- •Great Native Americans
- •Boston Tea Party Take your tea and shove it.
- •George Washington
- •“First in war, first in peace”, George Washington is the best known and the most honoured individual in America’s history.
- •John Adams
- •Thomas Jefferson
- •Early presidential elections and Congressional caucuses
- •Slavery and the War
- •John Brown (1800-1859) Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913)
- •John Brown’s Last Speech November 2, 1859
- •The Gettysburg Address
- •Abraham Lincoln
- •Robert Edward Lee
- •Ulysses s. Grant
- •William Tecumseh Sherman
- •Reconstruction
- •The First Sioux War
- •The Last Sioux War
- •The Nez Perce War
- •The Ghost Dance
- •Theodore Roosevelt
- •Prohibition
- •Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- •Eleanor Roosevelt
- •The Fair Deal
- •The Korean War
- •Civil Rights Movement
- •Martin Luther King, Jr.
- •I Have a Dream
- •The Ghetto Riots
- •The Cuban Missile Crisis
- •The Vietnam War
- •The Hostage Crisis
- •Manhattan Project Bomb Design
- •"Fat Man" - The Plutonium Bomb
- •Time Magazine:
- •Division of Powers
- •The Ivy League
- •Holidays
John Brown’s Last Speech November 2, 1859
I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say.
In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all admitted, - the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite slave to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
…This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to “remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them”. I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of person. I believe that to have interfered as I have done – as I have always freely admitted I have done – in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, - I submit; so let it be done!..
The Gettysburg Address
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war; we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.