Essential Documents

The United States of America

Founding Documents

• Declaration of Independence
• United States Constitution and Amendments
• The Long Telegram, from George Kennan

Essential Speeches

• Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" - Patrick Henry
• George Washington's Farewell Address - George Washington
• What to a Slave is the Fourth of July
• Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
• "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
• "We choose to go to The Moon..." - John F. Kennedy
• "I Have a Dream" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.