Hour of freedom: American history in poetry

Epigraph. The Universal Song / Ralph Waldo Emerson Introduction The Colonial Era. The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers / Lydia H. Sigourney Peregrine White and Virginia Dare / Stephen Vincent Benét The Indian Burying Ground / Philip Freneau Circles / Carl Sandburg The Struggle for Independence. Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson Molly Pitcher / Laura E. Richards Liberty Bell / Anonymous Lord Cornwallis' Surrender / Anonymous Our Fathers Fought for Liberty / James Russell Lowell Washington Monument by Night / Carl Sandburg Jefferson and Liberty / Anonymous - Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes America / Samuel Francis Smith Young America. America Was Schoolmasters / Robert P. Tristram Coffin Buffalo Dusk / Carl Sandburg Western Wagons / Stephen Vincent Benét from The Praries / William Cullen Bryant What's the Railroad / Henry David Thoreau The Erie Canal Samuel Woodworth I Hear America Singing / Walt Whitman From Slavery to Freedom. The Hour of Freedom / William Lloyd Garrison Many Thousands Gone / Anonymous The Runaway Slave / Walt Whitman The Abduction / Rita Dove Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln Learning to Read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Carr Benét The Expansion of the Nation. America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates I, Too / Langston Hughes Mother to Son / Langston Hughes Incident / Countee Cullen Chicago / Carl Sandburg The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus Bread and Roses / James Oppenheim Golf LInks / Sarah N. Cleghorn Poem / Charlotte L. Forten Grimke Depression/ Isabel Joshlin Glaser Seven-Cent Cotton and Forty-Cent Meat / Anonymous Wars. The last Good War-and Afterward / Isabel Joshlin Glaser I Sing the Battle / Harry Kemp Conscientious Objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay Basic Training / Mary Fell In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must report to Relocation Centers / Dwight Okita Tattoo / Gregg Shapiro The Unknown Citizen / W. H. Auden

Changing America. Ode to the American Dead in Asia / Thomas McGrath

What Were They Like? / Denise Levertov

Martin Luther King / Aileen Fisher

For Malcolm, a Year After / Ethridge Knight

The Reservation / Susan Clements

Petroglyphs of Serena / Adrian C. Louis

Immigrants in Our Own Land / Jimmy Santiago Baca

Occupant: Blue Roof Apartments / Diane Garcia

Elena / Pat Mora

Enemies / Charlotte Zolotow

War / Amy McArthur

Afterword. Where? / Eleanor Roosevelt.