American Revolution -- Utopian visions -- Abolitionism -- Suffrage and feminism -- Land and labor -- Anarchism, socialism, and communism -- "New Negro" to Black Power -- Modern feminism -- The New Left and counterculture -- Radical environmentalism -- Queer liberation -- New directions.
Eric Foner -- Introduction / Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian -- James Otis -- Resolutions of the Stamp act Congress (1765) -- Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768) / John Dickinson -- A State of the rights of the colonists (1772) / Samuel Adams -- Slave petitions for freedom (1773) -- Speech at the Second Virginia Convention (1775) / Patrick Henry -- Common Sense (1776) / Thomas Paine -- On Being brought from Africa to America (1773) / Phillis Wheatley -- To his Excellency General Washington (1776) / Phillis Wheatley -- Letter to John Adams (1776) / Abigail Adams -- Declaration of Independence (1776) -- An act for establishing religious freedom (1785) / Thomas Jefferson -- Petition from Shays' Rebellion (1786) -- The Bill of Rights (1791) -- A charge (1797) / Prince Hall -- Utopian Visions. Six sermons on intemperance (1826) / Lyman Beecher -- The rights of man to property (1829) / Thomas Skidmore -- Lectures on the revivals of religion (1835) / Charles Grandison Finney -- Manifesto (1840) / Robert Owen -- Self-reliance (1841) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Slave spirituals (c. 1600s-1800s) -- Resistance to civil government (1849) / Henry David Thoreau -- Leaves of grass (1855) / Walt Whitman-- Second Inaugural Address (1864) / Abraham Lincoln -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) / Mark Twain -- Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) / Edward Bellamy -- Herland (1915) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Opening editorial -- An appeal to the coloured citizens of the world (1829) / David Walker -- The liberator (1831) / Opening editorial-- Confession (1831) / Nat Turner -- Declaration of sentiments (1833) / American Anti-Slavery Society-- Productions (1835) / Maria W. Stewart -- An appeal to the Christian women of the South (1836) / Angelina Grimké -- American slavery as it is (1839) / Theodore Dwight Weld -- An address to the slaves of the United States (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (1845) / Frederick Douglass -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass -- The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States politically considered (1852) / Martin Delany -- Last speech to the jury (1859) / John Brown -- Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments -- Suffrage and Feminism. Letters on the equality of the sexes (1838) / Sarah Grimké -- Woman in the nineteenth century (1845) / Margaret Fuller -- Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of sentiments and resolutions (1848) -- The rights of women (1848) / Frederick Douglass -- Ar'n't I A woman (1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl (1861) / Harriet Jacobs -- Letter to Abby Kelley Foster (1867) / Lucy Stone -- Appeal to the National Democratic Convention (1868) / Susan B. Anthony -- Declaration of the rights of women (1876) / National Woman Suffrage Association -- Womanhood a vital element (1886) / Anna Julia Cooper -- Solitude of self (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- A double standard (1895) / Frances E.W. Harper -- A red record (1895) / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- National call for a League of Women Voters (1919) / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Nineteenth Amendment (1920).
Working Men's Party -- Address to young mechanics (1830) / Frances Wright -- An Indian's looking-glass for the white man / (1836) / William Apess -- Vote yourself a farm (1846) / George Henry Evans -- A reduction of hours, an increase in wages (1865) / Ira Steward -- Declaration of principles (1867) / National Labor Union -- Statement of principles (1869) / Colored National Labor Union -- The great uprising (1877) / Joseph A. Dacus -- Preamble (1878) / Knights of Labor -- The crime of poverty (1885) / Henry George -- Omaha platform (1892) / People's Party -- Appeal (1892) / Chinese Equal Rights League -- Statement to the American Railway Union (1894) / Pullman Workers -- Declaration of interdependence (1895) / Socialist Labor Party -- Cross of gold speech (1896) / William Jennings Bryan -- Black Elk speaks (1932) / Black Elk -- Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism. The jungle (1905) / Upton Sinclair -- Manifesto and preamble (1905 and 1908) / The Industrial Workers of the World -- The general strike (1911) / William D. "Big Bill" Haywood -- Anarchism: what it really stands for (1911) / Emma Goldman -- Speech to striking coal miners (1912) / Mother Jones -- The trouble at Lawrence (1912) / Mary Heaton Vorse -- War in Paterson (1913) / John Reed -- Address to the jury (1918) / Eugene Debs -- Why I am a Socialist (1928) / Norman Thomas -- Acceptance speech at the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communists) Party of America (1928) / William Z. Foster -- Share our wealth (1935) / Huey Long.
Hubert H. Harrison -- The New Negro-- What is he? (1920) / W.A. Domingo -- Africa for the Africans (1923) / Marcus Garvey -- The Negro artist and the racial mountain (1926) / Langston Hughes -- You cannot kill the working class (1937) / Angelo Herndon -- Why should we march? (1942) / A. Philip Randolph -- The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it (1955) / Jo Ann Robinson -- We must fight back (1959) / Robert F. Williams -- Wake up America! (1963) / John Lewis -- Letter from Birmingham jail (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- My dungeon shook (1963) / James Baldwin -- The ballot or the bullet (1964) / Malcolm X -- What we want (1966) / Stokely Carmichael -- What we want, what we believe (1966) / The Black Panther Party -- Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation (1971) / Angela Y. Davis -- The Gary declaration (1972) / The National Black Political Convention -- Modern Feminism. The feminine mystique (1963) / Betty Friedan -- Sex and caste: A kind of memo (1965) / Casey Hayden and Mary King -- Statement of purpose (1966) / National Organization for Women (NOW) -- No more Miss America! (1968) / Robin Morgan -- The myth of the vaginal orgasm (1968) / Anne Koedt -- Sexual politics: A manifesto for revolution (1970) / Kate Millett -- The enemy within (1970) / Susan Brownmiller -- Double jeopardy: To be black and female (1971) / Frances M. Beal -- Our bodies, ourselves (1973) / Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- The Combahee River Collective statement (1977) -- Pornography: Men possessing women (1981) / Andrea Dworkin -- ManifestA: Young women, feminism and the future (2000) / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards.
Allen Ginsberg -- The Port Huron statement (1962) / Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- One dimensional man (1964) / Herbert Marcuse -- Berkeley Fall: The Berkeley student rebellion of 1964 (1965) / Mario Savio -- In White America (1967) / Gregory Calvert -- The student as Nigger (1967) / Jerry Farber -- Predictions for Yippie activities (1968) / Ed Sanders -- Columbia liberated (1968) / The Columbia Strike Coordinating Committee -- Bring the war home (1969) / Students for a Democratic Society -- Comminiqué #1 (1970) / The Weather Underground -- Chapter ten. Radical environmentalism. Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau -- My people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide (1855) / Chief Seattle -- Man and nature (1864) / George P. Marsh -- The destruction of the redwoods (1901) / John Muir -- A Sand County almanac (1949) / Aldo Leopold -- Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson -- Desert solitaire (1968) / Edward Abbey -- Letter from Delano (1969) / César Chávez -- The closing circle (1971) / Barry Commoner -- Animal liberation (1975) / Peter Singer -- Strategic monkeywrenching (1985) / Dave Foreman -- Environmental racism and the environmental justice movement (1993) / Robert Bullard.
Lyn Pederson (Jim Kepner) -- Gay power comes to Sheridan Square (1969) / Lucian Truscott IV -- Notes of a radical Lesbian (1969) / Martha Shelly -- Refugees from Amerika: A Gay manifesto (1970) / Carl Williams -- The woman-identified woman (1970) / Radicalesbians -- What we want, what we believe (1971) / Third World Gay Liberation -- How to zap straights (1973) / Arthur Evans -- Post-action position statement on its "stop the church" action (1989) / ACT UP -- A queer manifesto (1993) / Michelangelo Signorile -- Matthew's passion (1998) / Tony Kushner -- Epilogue. new directions. Why Johnny can't dissent (1995) / Thomas Frank -- Habeus Corpus is a legal entitlement (1996) / asha bandele -- Transgender Movement: International bill of gender rights (1995) and Read my lips (1997) -- Culture jamming (1999) / Kalle Lasn -- WTO: The battle in Seattle (An eyewitness account) (1999) / Roni Krouzman -- Freedom agenda (1999) / Black Radical Congress -- The academic labor movement: Understanding its origin and current challenges (2000) / Kevin Mattson -- 5 days that shook the world (2000) / Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair -- A crisis of democracy (2000) / Ralph Nader -- None dare call it treason (2000) / Vincent Bugliosi -- Why we are sitting in (2001) / Harvard Living Wage Campaign -- Antiwar documents: The boondocks (2002) and We oppose both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. war on Iraq: A call for a new democratic U.S. foreign policy (2003).
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