Great American speeches
Contains excerpts from twenty historical speeches with background information and student learning activities
Print Book, English, ©1997
Scholastic Professional Books, New York, ©1997
History
"Grades 4-8"--Cover.
88 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9780590117265, 9780590898102, 0590117262, 0590898108
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Hiawatha: We must united ourselves (c. 1559)
Patrick Henry: Give me liberty or give me death! (1775)
Thomas Jefferson: This government, the world's best hope (1801)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Let us consider man's superiority (1848)
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a woman? (1851)
Frederick Douglass: What to the American slave ...? (1852)
Chief Seattle: The White Man will never be alone (1854)
Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago (1863) ; With malice toward none (1865)
Susan B. Anthony: Are women persons? (1872)
Chief Joseph: I will fight no more forever (1877)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear (1933) ; A date which will live in infamy (1941)
Harry S. Truman: This 'do nothing' Congress (1948)
Douglas MacArthur: Old soldiers never die (1951)
Eleanor Roosevelt: The great common hope (1952)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: To help the world advance (1961)
John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do for you (1961)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream (1963)
Ronald Reagan: There is always a better tomorrow (1985)