Compiled by Robert Holloway
Abraham Lincoln’s First Major Speech – The Lyceum Speech
Letters from the Alamo – William Barett Travis
Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to James C. Conkling (1863) to be read to Illinois citizens
Theodore Roosevelt’s speech on “The Strenuous Life”
Their Finest Hour – Winston Churchill
The Long Telegram – by George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Sinews of Peace (The Iron Curtain Speech) by Winston Churchill