VOLUME II: FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

This volume features more than 70 documents, starting with an 1866 speech by Congressman Thaddeus Stevens on the Fourteenth Amendment and concluding with Barack Obama’s 2008 election-night address. Also included are addresses by Susan B. Anthony on behalf of the women’s suffrage movement, William Jennings Bryan on the Scopes trial, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on "The Four Freedoms."