America First: Patriotic Readings

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CONTENTS

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Jasper L. McBrien
Introduction		[13]
Tableau—The Spirit of Seventy-Six		[19]
Cast of Characters		[20]
The Continental Congress—A Dramatization		[21]
AMERICAN PATRIOTISM
What is Patriotism	Jasper L. McBrien	[71]
America for Me	Henry van Dyke	[73]
America First	Woodrow Wilson	[75]
The Meaning of the Flag	Woodrow Wilson	[83]
Makers of the Flag	Franklin K. Lane	[87]
The Flag of the Union Forever	Fitzhugh Lee	[90]
Farewell Address	George Washington	[94]
Washington	John W. Daniel	[104]
Abraham Lincoln	Henry Watterson	[129]
Second Inaugural Address	Abraham Lincoln	[151]
Robert E. Lee	E. Benjamin Andrews	[154]
Our Reunited Country	Clark Howell	[163]
The Blue and the Gray	Henry Cabot Lodge	[171]
A Reminiscence of Gettysburg	John B. Gordon	[175]
The New South	Henry W. Grady	[181]
The Duty and Value of Patriotism	Archbishop Ireland	[195]
Our Country	William McKinley	[202]
Behold the American	T. DeWitt Talmage	[206]
The Hollander as an American	Theodore Roosevelt	[212]
The Adopted Citizen	Ulysses S. Grant	[217]
Our Navy	Hampton L. Carson	[220]
The Patriotism of Peace	William J. Bryan	[232]
A Plea for Universal Peace	George W. Norris	[238]
Gettysburg Address	Abraham Lincoln	[255]
Neutrality Proclamation	Woodrow Wilson	[ 256]
POETRY OF PATRIOTISM
Concord Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[261]
Warren's Address	John Pierpont	[262]
Patriotism	Sir Walter Scott	[263]
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	[263]
My Country	Samuel F. Smith	[265]
The American Flag	Joseph Rodman Drake	[266]
Song of Marion's Men	William Cullen Bryant	[267]
The Old Continentals	Guy Humphreys McMaster	[269]
The Sword of Bunker Hill	Wm. Ross Wallace	[271]
Liberty Tree	Thomas Paine	[272]
The Rising in 1776	Thomas Buchanan Read	[274]
America	Bayard Taylor	[278]
The Blue and the Gray	Francis M. Finch	[279]
Abraham Lincoln	James Russell Lowell	[281]
The Flag Goes By	Henry Holcomb Bennett	[284]
The Ship of State	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[285]
The Name of Old Glory	James Whitcomb Riley	[286]

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