Chapter 1: USA - A nation or an idea?
Fiction
- Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (1814) (song)
- Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (1883) (poem)
- The Simpsons: Coming to Homerica (season 20, episode 21) (tv show)
- Neil Diamond, America (1980) (song)
- The Patriot (2000) (film)
- Lincoln (2012) (film)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) (novel)
- Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again (1938) (poem)
- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959) (play)
- Junot Díaz, Drown (1997) (short story)
- Pat Mora, Immigrants (2000) (poem)
- Spanglish (2004) (film)
- Jhumpa Lahari, Hell-Heaven (2004) (short story)
- Waqar Ahmed, The Right Passengers (2008) (short story)
- World Trade Center (2006) (film)
Non-fiction
- The Declaration of Independence (1776) (declaration)
- The Constitution (1787) (law text)
- The Bill of Rights (1789) (law text)
- Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life (April 10, 1899) (speech)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream (August 28, 1963) (speech)
- Barack Obama, Remarks in Bettendorf, Iowa: Reclaiming the American Dream (November 7, 2007) (speech)
- God in America (2010) (tv series)
- Barack Obama, Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform (January 29, 2013) (speech)
- The Huffington Post, 19 Reasons Latin Americans Come To The U.S. That Have Nothing To Do With The American Dream (April 18, 2014) (article)
- Harvard Magazine, End of the Melting Pot? (May-June 2007) (article)
- The Washington Post, Timeline: The rise and fall of immigration reform (June 26, 2014) (article)
- Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at Naturalization Ceremony for Servicemembers and Military Spouses (July 4, 2014) (speech)
