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Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Fall/Winter 2006 On Principle
Resources: On Principle
The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation, edited by Diane Ravitch (1990)
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (laws.findlaw.com/us/347/483.html)
"Citizenship by Exclusion" by Earl Shorris, in Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities (2000)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/39.htm)
Constitution of the United States of America (archives.gov)
Declaration of Independence (archives.gov)
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) (laws.findlaw.com/us/60/393.html)
Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942 (historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154)
Federalist Paper Number 10 (yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm)
"Freedom Is Why We Are Here," a position paper by the American Civil Liberties Union (1999) (aclu.org)
"The Free Vacation House" by Anzia Yezierska in Hungry Hearts & Other Stories (1985)
"I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes (1951) (poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15615)
Inaugural Address by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, January 20, 1961 (jfklibrary.org)
Indian Removal Act of 1830 (civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/indian_act.html)
"Is Freedom Just Another Word for Many Things to Buy?" by Barry Schwartz, Hazel Rose Markus, and Alana Conner Snibbe in the New York Times, February 26, 2006
Kettering Foundation (kettering.org)
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (historicaltextarchive.com/print.php?artid=40)
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1984)
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope by Jonathan Kozol (2000)
Project on Civic Reflection (civicreflection.org)
Public Conversations Project (publicconversations.org)
"Relatively Deprived: How poor is poor?" by John Cassidy in the New Yorker, April 3, 2006 (newyorker.com/printables/fact/060403fa_fact)
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/17.htm)
Study Circles Resource Center (studycircles.org)
"The Subtle Problems of Charity" by Jane Addams in the Atlantic Monthly, February 1899
"To Make a Living" by Walter Lippmann, in Out of the Sweatshop: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy, edited by Leon Steiner (1977)
"Trans-national America" by Randolph S. Bourne, in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1916 (swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Bourne.html)
"Wealth" by Andrew Carnegie, in the North American Review, June 1889 (alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/carnegie.htm)
"What Is an American?" by M. G. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, in Letters from an American Farmer (1793) (fordham.edu/halsall/mod/crevecour2.html)
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass (douglassarchives.org/doug_a10.htm)
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (2004)
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