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Timothy Robbins
Expanding the Open Anthology of Early American Literature
Introduction
Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan
Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
Charles Leland
Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
Christopher Columbus
Hannah Hounsell
Sam Gagnon
Prologue
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
Requerimiento
Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
Don Antonio de Otermín
HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
Edmund Nequatewa
Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
William Bradford
Anno Dom: 1623
Preface
The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
Anno Dom: 1642
"A Model of Christian Charity"
New English Canaan (Excerpt)
Thomas Morton
Shana Rowe
The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
The Author to Her Book
The Flesh and the Spirit
In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
Letter: To My Dear Children
The First Remove
Mary Rowlandson
The Second Remove
The Third Remove
The Fifth Remove
The Eighth Remove
The Twelfth Remove
The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
The Eighteenth Remove
The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
Cotton Mather
Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
Jonathan Neville
Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
Introduction to Texts
Biography
A Key into the Language of America, excerpt (1643)
A Letter to the Town of Providence (1655)
Research and Discussion Questions for Roger Williams
A Short Video About Thomas Paine
David Walker
Common Sense (Excerpt)
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Metivier
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
(Rough Draft of) The Declaration of Independence
Introductory Video
Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
Toussaint L'Ouverture
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
Briton Hammon
Rachel Levi
A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Prince Hall
"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
Discussion Questions
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Introduction of Autobiography
On the Equality of the Sexes
Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
Judith Sargent Murray
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Introduction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
Intro Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
Tecumseh Research Questions
Text Introduction: Fate & Nature
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate
Reading and Discussion Questions
Hailey Leal
Charlotte Temple: Volume I
Susanna Rowson
Charlotte Temple: Volume II
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Woe of Poe: An Introduction
The Tell-Tale Heart
Introduction to the Text
The Linwoods
Bibliography
Reading Guide Questions
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Textual Introduction
The Slave Auction
Bury Me in a Free Land
Review Questions
Margaret Fuller: Biography
Intro to "The Great Lawsuit"
The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.
Reading Questions
Civil Disobedience
John Muir (1838-1914) Biography
My First Summer in the Sierra: Text Introduction
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 1
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 2
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 3
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 4
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 5
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 6
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 7
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 8
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 9
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 10
My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 11
3 Nephi
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Research and Discussion Questions
Kelsey Neely
The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
Author Bio
Introduction Text to President Lincoln Burial Hymn
When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd
O' Captain, My Captain
Hush'd be the Camps To-day
This Dust Was Once The Man
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Janina Misiewicz
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
The One Million Pound Banknote
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Biography
Textual Introduction to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
Biography (1872-1906)
Introduction to the Texts
We Wear the Mask
Sympathy
Introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
"Because I could not stop for Death"
Emma Lazarus Bio
1492
The New Colossus
Discussion Questions for The New Colossus
Discussion Questions Part 2
Introduction to texts
Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
Discussion questions
Author Biography: Captain John Smith
"The Capture of Pocahontas" and "Her Marriage with John Rolfe"
Descriptions for the Works of Ambrose Bierce
The New Decalogue
An Inscription
The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
The Devil's Dictionary
The School Day of an Indian Girl
"Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Rev. Marius Robinson)
"Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Frances Dana Gage)
Present Day Speech Interpretation
Appendix
List of Full-Text Links to Texts from This Edition
https://www.biography.com/people/henry-david-thoreau-9506784
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau
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