1889 - Andrew Carnegie - Wealth

1890 - The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1894 - Henry Demarest Lloyd - Excerpt from Wealth against Commonwealth

1894 - William Graham Sumner - The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over

1894 - 'Coin' Harvey - Excerpts from Coin's Financial School

1895 - James Laurence Laughlin - Answer to 'Coin' Harvey

1909 - Teddy Roosevelt's "Expansion of the White Races" Speech

1917 - Wilson's Message Calling for War against Germany

1918 - Wilson's Fourteen Points

1919 - Henry Cabot Lodge: Reservations with Regard to the Versailles Treaty

1922 - Harry Emerson Fosdick:  Shall the Fundamentalists Win?

1933 - The Humanist Manifesto

1940 - Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 15:  On National Defense

1940 - Churchill's Parliamentary speeches of encouragement

1941 - Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech

1941 - The Atlantic Charter

1941 - Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Speech Requesting War with Japan

1941 - Hitler's Declaration of War against America

1943 - Roosevelt's Christmas Eve Fireside Chat - #142

1944 - Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer

1945 - The Surrender of Germany

1945 - The United Nations Charter 

1945 - The Surrender of Japan

1946 - Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

1946 - US Secretary of State Byrnes Restatement of US Policy on Germany

1947 - 'X' (George Kennan):  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs

1947 - The Truman Doctrine

1952 - Truman's Proclamation Establishing a "National Day of Prayer"

1961 - Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial-Complex" (or Farewell) Speech

1961 - Kennedy's Inaugural Address

1963 - King's "I Have a Dream" Speech

1964 - Johnson's Outline of his "Great Society" Program

1973 - The Humanist Manifesto - II

1976 - The 2nd Presidential Debate between President Ford and  Governor Carter

1983 - Reagan on the proposed constitutional amendment on public school prayer

2001 - Bush's 9/11 Speech

2004 - Obama's Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention

2009 - Obama's Speech to the Muslim World from Cairo


  Miles H. Hodges