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"The Conqueror Worm," by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Aztecs

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"A Little Brother Follows Me," Anonymous

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Imagine a place devoted to the rights of the citizen. Where every free man has a voice.

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Follow your dreams ...

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Great words

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On the score of human dignity and the justice of the Creator

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"Solitude," Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"A Dream," by Edgar Allan Poe

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Chief Joseph's surrender

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"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

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Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln

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One of the enduring legacies of slavery

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"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe

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"Annabel Lee" (1849), by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Source of American Religious Liberty

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Noah Webster on the importance of the Christian religion to "[securing] the rights and privileges of a free people"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the "terrific injury" done to the Cherokee nation

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"The Defense of Fort McHenry," by Francis Scott Key

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The Bill of Rights, a shield against tyrants

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Thomas Jefferson on the individual's right to defend himself against tyranny

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Thomas Jefferson on Debt and Slavery

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"For Annie" (1849), by Edgar Allan Poe

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"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

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"Alone," by Edgar Allan Poe

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Write with POWER!

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George Washington, an honest man

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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852