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The American Experience
The History and Culture of the United States through Speeches, Letters, Essays, Articles, Poems, Songs, and Stories
An essential collection of the 569 documents, which explores the events, both major and minor, that have shaped our nation.
A celebration of our American history and culture, The American Experience takes you on a journey from 1763 to the present. Explore our history as it weaves its way through Pre-Columbus times to the creation of the republic and forming of a nation; civil war and reconstruction; the progressive era; boom, bust, and the New Deal; world wars; the Cold War; social upheaval of every kind; and much more.
We are proud to present the firsthand words of the famous, infamous, and forgotten through speeches, articles, essays, public records, landmark legal documents, poems, news reports, and more. Featuring hundreds of voices spanning three centuries, the documents included in The American Experience express the development of a nation as told through the eyes of those who lived during its most pivotal moments.
| *Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race | *Cherokee Nation on How the World was Made | *On the Oregon Trail | *The Monroe Doctrine | *The Kinsey Report | *The Influence of Microsoft | *The Louisiana Purchase |
| *The G.I. Bill | *The Declaration of Independence | *Transcripts from the Salem Witch Trials | *Truman Orders U.S. into the Korean War | *Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle | *Journals of Lewis & Clark | *Sojourner Truth on Women’s Suffrage |
| *“I Have a Dream” | *The Boston Tea Party | *Roe v. Wade | *Civil War Legislation | *George W. Bush’s 9/11 Address | *The Feminine Mystique | *and hundreds more! |
