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The Schlager Anthology of American Wars and Conflicts
The Schlager Anthology of American Wars and Conflicts
A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
Author(s): Tom Lansford
Publication Date: 15 March, 2025  Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781961844360
Pages: 1044
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844179

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Table of contents

Chapters

Keywords: American Wars, American Conflicts, Military History, U.S. History, American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, Gulf War
Chapter 1:: Colonial Wars
3 pages
Henry Dering: Letter to John Cotton
Henry Dering
4 pages
Thomas Oliver: “A Memorial of the State of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, with Reference to the War, humbly Offered to your most Sacred Majesty”
Thomas Oliver
5 pages
Benjamin Franklin: Join, or Die
Benjamin Franklin
2 pages
George Washington: Letters to Robert Dinwiddie, 11–14 October 1755
George Washington
5 pages
Proclamation of 1763
King George
3 pages
Chapter 2:: American Revolution
4 pages
Patrick Henry: Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
3 pages
Anna Young Smith: “An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers”
Anna Young Smith
3 pages
George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress
George Washington
3 pages
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
4 pages
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Thomas Paine
4 pages
Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Letter
Abigail Adams
3 pages
George Washington: Letter to John Hancock
George Washington
4 pages
Nicholas Cresswell: Journal of a Loyalist in Virginia
Nicholas Cresswell
3 pages
Molly Gutridge: “A New Touch on the Times”
Molly Gutridge
4 pages
Eliza Wilkinson: Letters from a Planter’s Daughter
Eliza Wilkinson
3 pages
George Washington: Farewell Address
George Washington
4 pages
Boyrereau Brinch: Pension Application
Boyrereau Brinch, Benjamin F. Prentiss
4 pages
Chapter 3:: The War of 1812
3 pages
James Madison: War Message to Congress
James Madison
5 pages
Tecumseh: Speech to Major General Henry Procter at Fort Malden
Tecumseh
3 pages
Henry Clay: Speech on the Bill to Raise an Additional Military Force
Henry Clay
3 pages
Francis Scott Key: “The Star-Spangled Banner” (U.S. National Anthem)
Francis Scott Key
3 pages
Treaty of Ghent
7 pages
Chapter 4:: Slave Revolts
3 pages
Robert Hunter: Letter to the Lords of Trade on the New York Slave Revolt of 1712
Robert Hunter
3 pages
James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
James Oglethorpe
3 pages
William C. C. Claiborne: Letter to Thomas Jefferson
William C. C. Claiborne
4 pages
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Nat Turner
3 pages
Chapter 5:: Native American Conflicts
4 pages
Treaty with the Cherokee, 1798 (First Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse)
5 pages
Little Turtle: Address of Little Turtle
Little Turtle
5 pages
Joseph Cramer: Letter to Major Ed Wynkoop about the Sand Creek Massacre
Joseph Cramer
3 pages
Treaty of Fort Laramie
5 pages
Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts
4 pages
Two Moons: A Cheyenne Description of the Battle of the Little Bighorn River
3 pages
Little Bear: Account of the Sand Creek Massacre
3 pages
Nicholas Black Elk: “The Butchering at Wounded Knee”
4 pages
Chapter 6:: Mexican-American War
4 pages
Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas
4 pages
Thomas J. Green: “Reflections upon the . . . Relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States”
Thomas J. Green
5 pages
James K. Polk: Message to Congress on War with Mexico
James K. Polk
4 pages
Ephraim Kirby Smith: Letters from the Front in the Mexican War
Ephraim Kirby Smith
6 pages
Henry Clay: Speech on the Mexican-American War
Henry Clay
5 pages
Richard Doyle: “The Land of Liberty” Cartoon
Richard Doyle
2 pages
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Nicholas P. Trist, Luis P. Cuevas, Bernadro Cuoto, Miguel Atristain
4 pages
Frederick Douglass: “The War with Mexico”
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
The Other Side; or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States
Ramon Alcaraz, Alejo Barreiro, Jose Maria Castillo, Felix Maria Escalante, Albert C. Ramsey
4 pages
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoir on the Mexican War
Ulysses S. Grant
3 pages
Chapter 7:: The Civil War
3 pages
Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
5 pages
Alexander Stephens: Corner-Stone Speech
Alexander Stephens
5 pages
Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Civil War Diary of a Union Soldier
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
5 pages
Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom
Frederick Law Olmsted
4 pages
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
3 pages
Jefferson Davis: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate
Jefferson Davis
4 pages
Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
5 pages
Julia Ward Howe: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Julia Ward Howe
3 pages
Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry
Osborne P. Anderson
3 pages
Robert E. Lee: 1861 Letter to Custis Lee
Robert E. Lee
3 pages
Sam Houston: Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy
Sam Houston
3 pages
Wendell Phillips: “Under the Flag”
Wendell Phillips
4 pages
William Henry Seward: Memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Seward
4 pages
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
4 pages
Frederick Douglass: “The Reasons for Our Troubles”
Frederick Douglass
5 pages
George Frederick Root: “Battle-Cry of Freedom”
George Frederick Root
3 pages
Robert E. Lee: 1862 Letter to Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
3 pages
Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
5 pages
Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James C. Conkling
Abraham Lincoln
5 pages
Frances Anne Kemble: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
Frances Anne Kemble
4 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
3 pages
Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches
Louisa May Alcott
5 pages
Robert E. Lee: 1863 Letter to Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
4 pages
U.S. War Department General Order 143
3 pages
“An Ordinance to Organize and Establish Patrols for the Police of Slaves in the Parish of St. Landry”
Elbert Gantt
4 pages
James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny”
James H. Payne
3 pages
Robert E. Lee: 1864 Letter to Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
4 pages
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester
4 pages
Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
5 pages
Arnold Bertonneau: “Every Man Should Stand Equal before the Law”
Arnold Bertonneau
3 pages
John Jones: “The Black Laws of Illinois: And a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed”
John Jones
3 pages
Photograph of Powder Monkey on USS New Hampshire
3 pages
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
3 pages
Andrew Johnson: First Annual Message to Congress
Andrew Johnson
4 pages
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
3 pages
Black Code of Mississippi
4 pages
Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress
3 pages
Robert E. Lee: General Order No. 9
Robert E. Lee
3 pages
Robert E. Lee: Letter to Andrew Hunter
Robert E. Lee
4 pages
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
3 pages
Ulysses S. Grant: Final Report of Military Operations
Ulysses S. Grant
3 pages
Walt Whitman: Selections from Drum-Taps
Walt Whitman
6 pages
William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
4 pages
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
William Tecumseh Sherman
3 pages
Andrew J. Russell: Ruins of Richmond Photograph
Andrew J. Russell
2 pages
Photograph of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
William Morris Smith
3 pages
Chapter 8:: The Spanish-American War
5 pages
William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
William McKinley
5 pages
Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
Victor Gillam
3 pages
William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
William McKinley
4 pages
John W. Galloway: A Black Soldier’s Letter from the Philippines
John W. Galloway
3 pages
James W. Poe: “The Slaughter in the Philippines and Its Relation to Massacres of Our People in the South”
James W. Poe
3 pages
Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
Carl Schurz
4 pages
Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
Louis Dalrymple
3 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands
Henry Cabot Lodge
4 pages
Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
Emil Flohri
4 pages
Chapter 9:: World War I
3 pages
Mary L. Graffam: Letter from Turkey
Mary L. Graffam
4 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico
Henry Cabot Lodge
4 pages
Woodrow Wilson: Second Inaugural Address
Woodrow Wilson
4 pages
Zimmermann Telegram
Arthur Zimmermann
3 pages
Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany
Woodrow Wilson
5 pages
Emma Goldman: Speech against Conscription and War
Emma Goldman
4 pages
Robert La Follette: Speech Opposing War with Germany
Robert La Follette
4 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on President Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for a World Peace
Henry Cabot Lodge
4 pages
Espionage Act
4 pages
“Gee! I Wish I Were a Man”: Navy Recruiting Poster
Howard Chandler Christy
2 pages
Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech
Eugene V. Debs
4 pages
Theodore Roosevelt: Speech to the New York Republican State Convention
Theodore Roosevelt
4 pages
Robert Russa Moton: “The American Negro and the World War”
Robert Russa Moton
3 pages
Sedition Act
3 pages
Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson
5 pages
Covenant of the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
5 pages
Treaty of Versailles
Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson
6 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers”
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech Opposing the League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
4 pages
“The Colored Americans in France”
Charles A. Shaw
4 pages
Photograph of Harlem Hellfighters Regiment
2 pages
Chapter 10:: World War II
3 pages
U.S. Congress: Neutrality Act of 1939
4 pages
George Marshall: Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War
George Marshall
4 pages
Walter Reuther: “500 Planes a Day”
Walter Reuther
4 pages
Kichisaburō Nomura: Draft Proposals for Peace between the Governments of Japan and the United States
Kichisaburō Nomura
4 pages
Harold Ickes: Speech for “I Am an American Day”
Harold Ickes
5 pages
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
6 pages
Lend-Lease Act
5 pages
Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph L. Rauh
3 pages
Japan’s Fourteen-part Message
Shigenori Togo, Kichisaburo Nomura, Saburo Kurusu
5 pages
Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Pearl Harbor” Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 pages
Executive Order 9066: Internment of Japanese Americans
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, John McCloy
4 pages
John L. DeWitt: Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco
John L. DeWitt
4 pages
John DeWitt: Final Report: The Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942
John DeWitt
5 pages
George Marshall: Speech to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy
George Marshall
4 pages
Bayard Rustin: “The Negro and Nonviolence”
Bayard Rustin
4 pages
“We Can Do It!” Rosie the Riveter Poster
J. Howard Miller
2 pages
“Kultur-terror” Pro-German, Anti-American Propaganda Poster
Harald Damsleth
2 pages
U.S. War Department: Pamphlet on Censorship
5 pages
National War Labor Board: Case No. 771—Southport Petroleum Company (Texas City, Texas) and Oil Workers’ International Union
Frank P. Graham
4 pages
Photograph of B-17 Formation over Schweinfurt, Germany
3 pages
Ansel Adams: “Manzanar Relocation Center” Photograph
Ansel Adams
3 pages
Photograph of Navajo Code Talkers
2 pages
Alfred T. Palmer: “Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (Chrysler)” Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
3 pages
Korematsu v. United States
Hugo Black
5 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Order of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower
3 pages
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
5 pages
John Pehle and John McCloy: Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz
John W. Pehle, John J. McCloy
5 pages
U.S. Department of Defense: Combat Interview of D-Day Survivors of the 116th Infantry Regiment
5 pages
Joe Rosenthal: Raising the Flag over Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal
2 pages
Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan
Emperor Hirohito
4 pages
Douglas MacArthur: Radio Broadcast after the Surrender of Japan
Douglas MacArthur
4 pages
Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
Harry S. Truman
4 pages
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Memorandum on the Radiological Dangers of a Nuclear Detonation
J. Robert Oppenheimer
3 pages
Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerogy Zhukov, Bernard Law Montgomery, Gabriel Jean-Marie, de Lattre de Tassigny
5 pages
Yalta Conference Joint Statement
Churchill Winston, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin
5 pages
Potsdam Conference Protocols
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, Clement Attlee
4 pages
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report
Franklin D’Olier
4 pages
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy
J. Robert Oppenheimer
4 pages
Robert H. Jackson: Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany
Robert H. Jackson
4 pages
Chapter 11:: The Cold War
5 pages
Winston Churchill: “Iron Curtain” Speech
Winston Churchill
5 pages
George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram”
George F. Kennan
5 pages
George Marshall: The Mediator’s View of the Situation in China
George Marshall
5 pages
J. Edgar Hoover: Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
5 pages
Marshall Plan
George Marshall
4 pages
Truman Doctrine
Harry S. Truman
6 pages
George F. Kennan: “PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy”
George F. Kennan
4 pages
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Harry S. Truman
3 pages
North Atlantic Treaty
5 pages
Harry S. Truman: Inaugural Address
Harry S. Truman
4 pages
Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within” Speech
Joseph McCarthy
4 pages
J. Edgar Hoover: Letter to Harry Truman’s Special Consultant, Sidney Souers
J. Edgar Hoover
4 pages
Joseph McCarthy: Telegram to President Harry S. Truman
Joseph McCarthy
3 pages
Joseph McCarthy: Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
4 pages
George Marshall: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
George Marshall
4 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: First Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 pages
John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala
John Foster Dulles
4 pages
Warsaw Security Pact
5 pages
Allen Dulles: Television Interview on the Soviets’ Intentions
Dulles Allen
5 pages
Paul Robeson: Testimony before HUAC
Paul Robeson
3 pages
John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China
John Foster Dulles
4 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Second Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower Doctrine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
4 pages
John Foster Dulles: News Conference on U.S. Relations with Latin American Nations
John Foster Dulles
4 pages
Richard M. Nixon: “Kitchen” Debate with Nikita Khrushchev
Richard M. Nixon
4 pages
Allen Dulles: Address on the Soviet Military Threat
Allen Dulles
4 pages
Walter Reuther: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally
Walter Reuther
3 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower
5 pages
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
5 pages
Tom Hayden: “The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society”
Tom Hayden
4 pages
John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba
John F. Kennedy
4 pages
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency
Lyndon Baines Johnson
4 pages
Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai: Shanghai Communique
5 pages
Biological Weapons Convention
4 pages
Helsinki Final Act
Henry Kissinger, Andrei Gromyko
5 pages
Ronald Reagan: “Evil Empire” Speech
Ronald Reagan
6 pages
Ronald Reagan: Address to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America
Ronald Reagan
4 pages
Ronald Reagan: Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate
Ronald Reagan
4 pages
Photograph of Berlin Wall Teardown
2 pages
George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States
George H. W. Bush
4 pages
Chapter 12:: The Korean War
4 pages
UN Security Council: Resolutions on Hostilities in Korea
4 pages
David Douglas Duncan: Captain Francis “Ike” Fenton Photograph
David Douglas Duncan
2 pages
Harry S. Truman: Report to the American People on Korea
Harry S. Truman
4 pages
Thurgood Marshall: Draft of Report on Korea
Thurgood Marshall
4 pages
Harry S. Truman: Statement and Order on Relieving General MacArthur of His Commands
Harry S. Truman
4 pages
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
5 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Radio and Television Address to the American People Announcing the Signing of the Korean Armistice
Dwight D. Eisenhower
3 pages
Chapter 13:: Vietnam War
4 pages
John McNaughton: Plan of Action for South Vietnam
John McNaughton
6 pages
Joint Chiefs of Staff: U.S. Department of Defense Rules of Engagement
4 pages
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
3 pages
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Remarks on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Lyndon Baines Johnson
3 pages
J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on the Leak of Vietnam War Information
J. Edgar Hoover
3 pages
Bond v. Floyd
Earl Warren
4 pages
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
Martin Luther King
4 pages
My Lai Massacre Witness Statements and Testimony
6 pages
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Abe Fortas
4 pages
Richard M. Nixon: “Silent Majority” Speech
Richard M. Nixon
4 pages
Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia
Richard M. Nixon
5 pages
Mexican American Marines in Vietnam
2 pages
John Kerry: Testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
John Kerry
5 pages
Clay v. United States
5 pages
Photograph of Vietnam War Destruction
2 pages
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho: Paris Peace Accords
Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
6 pages
Herbert Block: “National Security Blanket” Cartoon
2 pages
Chapter 14:: Post–Cold War Conflicts
4 pages
George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Panama
George H. W. Bush
4 pages
George H. W. Bush: Memorandum on the Arrest of General Manuel Noriega in Panama
George H. W. Bush
3 pages
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
5 pages
George H. W. Bush: Address to the Nation Announcing Operation Desert Storm
George H. W. Bush
5 pages
Bernie Sanders: Speech on the Persian Gulf War
Bernie Sanders
3 pages
Jonas Jordan: Photograph of Burning Oil Field in Kuwait
Jonas Jordan
2 pages
William J. Clinton: Address to the Nation on Somalia
William J. Clinton
5 pages
John D. Gresham: “Black Hawk Down” Interview with Michael J. Durant
John D. Gresham
5 pages
Chapter 15:: Iraq-Afghanistan
4 pages
George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
George W. Bush
4 pages
2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force
4 pages
George W. Bush: Second State of the Union Address
George W. Bush
4 pages
Bybee Torture Memo
Jay S. Bybee, John C. Yoo
5 pages
Colin Powell: Remarks to the United Nations Security Council
Colin Powell
5 pages
George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq
George W. Bush
3 pages
J. Scott Applewhite: “Mission Accomplished” Photograph
J. Scott Applewhite
2 pages
Robert C. Byrd: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech
Robert C. Byrd
4 pages
Antonio Taguba: Taguba Report
Antonio Taguba
4 pages
Condoleezza Rice: “International Support for Iraqi Democracy”
Condoleezza Rice
4 pages
Iraq Study Group Report
4 pages
Report on the Death of Pat Tillman
4 pages
Barack Obama: “A New Beginning” Speech on U.S.-Muslim Relations
Barack Obama
5 pages
Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan
5 pages
Brennen Lege: Photograph of U.S. Withdrawal from Kabul
Brennen Lege
3 pages
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Subject(s): American Wars, American Conflicts, Military History, U.S. History, American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, Gulf War
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