Section 1: Texts

Core

• • “The 14th Amendment’s Tortuous Relationship with American Indians,” Scott Bomboy, Yahoo, 2014
  • “What Does It Mean to Be an American?,” Amy Pearl & Jennifer Hsu, WNYC Studios, October 12, 2016
  • “What the Declaration of Independence Really Claimed,” Randy Barnett, The Washington Post, July 4, 2015

• • “A Quilt of a Country,” Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 2001
  • “Address to the Nation on the September 11 Attacks,” George W. Bush, Public Domain, 2001
  • “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” 2009, Barack Obama, Public Domain, 2009
  • “The 14th Amendment and the History of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.,” Ari Shapiro and Martha Jones, National Public Radio, Inc., October 30, 2018
  • The Declaration of Independence, Second Continental Congress, Public Domain, 1776
  • “The Great Society,” Lyndon B. Johnson, Public Domain, 1964
  • The Preamble to the Constitution and The 14th Amendment, United States Congress, Public Domain, 1787, 1868

Optional

• • “A July 4 Tradition: NPR Reads the Declaration of Independence,” Thomas Jefferson, read by NPR staff, National Public Radio, July 4, 2019
  • “American Citizenship for Natives Was Withheld, Then Rights Were Long-Ignored,” Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, June 5, 2019
  • “Americans” Online Exhibition, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, The Smithsonian, January 18, 2018
  • “‘I Do Not Identify as American’: A Native Perspective on Identity,” Tanzina Vega and Ellen Frankman, WNYC Studios, May 11, 2018