Illustrations and patriotic images accompany the words that have shaped America throughout history.

Includes index.

Finding freedom: Mayflower Compact, 1620 -- Petition of right, 1628 -- Maryland toleration act, 1649 -- Declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774 -- "Give me liberty or give death", 1775 / Patrick Henry -- Paul Revere's ride, poem -- Letter to Martha from George Washington, 1775 -- Declaration of independence, 1776 -- "I regret I have but one life to give", 1776 / Nathan Hale -- "These are the times that try men's souls", 1776 / Thomas Paine -- Yankee Doodle, song -- Defining freedom: Articles of confederation, 1777 -- Federalist no. 1, 1787 / Alexander Hamilton -- Old glory aloft, poem -- Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 -- Bill of rights, 1789 -- Further amendments to the constitutional -- Farewell address (excerpted), 1796 / George Washington -- God of our fathers, anthem -- Freedom tested: Manifest destiny, 1839 / John L. O'Sullivan -- Seneca Falls declaration, 1848 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "A house divided", 1858 / Abraham Lincoln -- Emancipation proclamation, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg address, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- "What the black man wants", 1865 / Frederick Douglass -- On women's right to vote, 1873 / Susan B. Anthony -- "I feel that my country has gotten a bad name", 1883 / Sitting Bull -- Star spangled banner, anthem.Carrying freedom's torch: New colossus, sonnet -- You're a grand old flag, song -- War message to Congress, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson -- Pledge of allegiance, 1892 -- American's creed, 1918 -- "The four freedoms", 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "A date which will live in infamy", 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Victory order of the day, 1945 / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Flag of the free, poem -- Universal declaration of human rights, 1948 -- America the beautiful, anthem -- Let freedom ring: "Ask not what your country can do for you", 1961 / John F. Kennedy -- "I have a dream", 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr.-- "The great society", 1964 / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- "We shall overcome", 1965 / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- "I shall not seek, and I will not accept", 1968 / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- "One giant leap for mankind", 1968 / Neil Armstrong -- War powers resolution (excerpted), 1973 -- Show the flag, poem -- "Awakened to danger and called to defend freedom", 2001 / George W. Bush -- My country, 'tis of thee, anthem.