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101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021
Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895
Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002
Constitution of United States of America
Constitutional Convention
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1787
Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1896
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2017
Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1848
Executive Order 9066
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000
For the Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1970
Four Freedoms Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941
George Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1796
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775
Hōjōki: Visions of a Torn World
Kamo no Chōmei
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1212
Hope In The Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1928
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2013
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1992
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1979
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973
In Praise of Shadows
Jun’Ichirō Tanizaki, Transl. Thomas J. Harper, Transl. Edward G. Seidensticker
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1933
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Alice Walker
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1983
I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1958
I've Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1961
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1865
Montaigne: Selected Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1592