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The Study of American Literature
Native American Literature
Literature
Cherokee: The Origin of Disease
Ayocuan: Like Flowers Continually Perishing
Jane Schoolcraft: Mishosha
Exploration and Colonialism
Lectures
Literature
Exploration of North America
History Channel article on the European exploration of North America
Columnus, the Indians, and Human Progress
Chapter 1 of Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States
Christopher Columbus: Journals
Handsome Lake: How America was Discovered
Bartolome Las Casas: Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
The Puritans
Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World
The Great Awakening
Lectures
Literature
The Puritans
Article from PBS series God in America
Anne Bradstreet: "Upon the Burning of Our House"
The Enlightenment
Lectures
Literature
Benjamin Franklin on Wealth, Luxury, and Virtue
Article from the National Humanities Center
Benjamin Franklin: "The Way to Wealth"
Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
Early American Drama
Literature
Royal Tyler: The Contrast
American Romanticism
Literature
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Wakefield
William Wells Brown: Clotel
Herman Melville: The Lightning Rod Man
Herman Melville: The Confidence Man
Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Walt Whitman: Democratic Vistas
Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
James Fenimore Cooper: The Slaughter of the Pigeons
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birthmark
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Maypole of Merrymount
Gothic Fiction
Literature
Washington Irving: The Adventure of the German Student
Edgar Allen Poe: The Masque of the Read Death
Edgar Allen Poe: The Assignation
Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
The American Transcendentalists
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Henry David Thoreau: Walking
Race, Slavery, and the South
Literature
Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Linda Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
William Grayson: The Hireling and the Slave
Caroline Lee Hentz: The Planter's Northern Bride
Williams Wells Brown: Clotel
Victor Sejour: The Mulatto
Frederick Douglass: That to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Phillis Wheatley: On Being Brought from Afrika to America
George Fitzhugh: Sociology of the South
Lydia Maria Child: An Appeal in Favor of the Class of Americans known as Afrikans
The Literature of Social Reform
Literature
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments
Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature
Literature
EDEN Southworth: The Hidden Hand
Caroline Lee Hentz: The Planter's Northern Bride
Charlotte Rowson: Charlotte Temple
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Agnes of Sorrento
Maria Cummins: The Lamplighter
Hannah Foster: The Coquette
Nineteenth-Century African-American Fiction
Literature
William Wells Brown: Clotel
Victor Sejour: The Mulatto
Frank Webb: The Garies and Their Friends
Frank Webb: The Garies and Their Friends (Complete Novel)
Frances Harper: Ioloa Leroy
Harriet Wilson: Our Nig
Romantic Poetry
Literature
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Emily Dickinson: Poems
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