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Introduction
1. Introduction
Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan
2. The Peyote Cult (Plains)
Paul Radin
3. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
Charles Leland
4. The Origin of Disease and Medicine
James Mooney
5. How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
6. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
Christopher Columbus
7. Introduction
Hannah Hounsell
8. Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500 (Excerpt)
9. Introduction
Sam Gagnon
10. Prologue
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
11. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
12. Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute (Excerpt)
13. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
14. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
15. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
16. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
17. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
18. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
19. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
20. Requerimiento
21. Introduction
Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont
22. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
Don Antonio de Otermín
23. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
Edmund Nequatewa
24. Anno Dom: 1642
William Bradford
25. Preface
26. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
27. Anno Dom: 1628 (Excerpt)
28. Anno Dom: 1623
29. Chapter 9: Of their voyage, and how they passed the sea; and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod
30. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
31. New English Canaan (Excerpt)
Thomas Morton
32. The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
33. Introduction
Shana Rowe
34. The Author to Her Book
35. The Flesh and the Spirit
36. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
37. Letter: To My Dear Children
38. The First Remove
Mary Rowlandson
39. The Second Remove
40. The Third Remove
41. The Fifth Remove
42. The Eighth Remove
43. The Twelfth Remove
44. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
45. The Eighteenth Remove
46. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
47. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
Cotton Mather
48. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
49. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
50. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
Jonathan Edwards
51. Introduction
Jonathan Neville
52. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
53. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards
54. A Short Video About Thomas Paine
55. Introduction
David Walker
56. Common Sense (Excerpt)
Thomas Paine
57. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
58. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
Thomas Jefferson
59. Introduction
Samuel Metivier
60. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
61. Introductory Video
62. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
Toussaint L'Ouverture
63. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
Briton Hammon
64. Introduction
Rachel Levi
65. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Prince Hall
66. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
67. On the Equality of the Sexes
68. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
Judith Sargent Murray
69. Charlotte Temple: Volume II
Susanna Rowson
70. Charlotte Temple: Volume I
71. Introduction to Poe
Kendall Panaggio
72. The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
73. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
74. Introduction
Kelsey Neely
75. The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
76. Young Goodman Brown
77. Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
78. Introduction
Janina Misiewicz
79. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
80. The One Million Pound Banknote
List of Full-Text Links to Texts from This Edition
Toussant’s Constitution from Jonathan Neville on Vimeo.
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