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Timothy Robbins
Expanding the Open Anthology of Early American Literature
1. Introduction
Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan
2. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
Charles Leland
3. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
Christopher Columbus
4. Introduction
Hannah Hounsell
5. Introduction
Sam Gagnon
6. Prologue
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
7. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
8. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
9. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
10. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
11. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
12. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
13. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
14. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
15. Requerimiento
16. Introduction
Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont
17. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
Don Antonio de Otermín
18. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
Edmund Nequatewa
19. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
William Bradford
20. Anno Dom: 1623
21. Preface
22. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
23. Anno Dom: 1642
24. "A Model of Christian Charity"
25. New English Canaan (Excerpt)
Thomas Morton
26. Introduction
Shana Rowe
27. The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
28. The Author to Her Book
29. The Flesh and the Spirit
30. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
31. Letter: To My Dear Children
32. The First Remove
Mary Rowlandson
33. The Second Remove
34. The Third Remove
35. The Fifth Remove
36. The Eighth Remove
37. The Twelfth Remove
38. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
39. The Eighteenth Remove
40. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
41. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
Cotton Mather
42. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
43. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
44. Introduction
Jonathan Neville
45. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
Jonathan Edwards
46. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
47. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards
48. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
49. Introduction to Texts
50. Biography
51. A Key into the Language of America, excerpt (1643)
52. A Letter to the Town of Providence (1655)
53. Research and Discussion Questions for Roger Williams
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. (Rough Draft of) The Declaration of Independence
62. Introductory Video
63. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
Toussaint L'Ouverture
64. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
Briton Hammon
65. Introduction
Rachel Levi
66. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Prince Hall
67. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
68. Introduction
69. Discussion Questions
70. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
71. Introduction of Autobiography
72. On the Equality of the Sexes
73. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
Judith Sargent Murray
74. Biography
75. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Introduction
76. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
77. Discussion Questions
78. Biography
79. Rip Van Winkle
80. Biography
81. Intro Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
82. Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
83. Tecumseh Research Questions
84. Introduction
85. Text Introduction: Fate & Nature
86. Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. Fate
88. Reading and Discussion Questions
Hailey Leal
89. Charlotte Temple: Volume I
Susanna Rowson
90. Charlotte Temple: Volume II
91. The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
92. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
93. The Woe of Poe: An Introduction
94. The Tell-Tale Heart
95. Biography
96. Introduction to the Text
97. The Linwoods
98. Bibliography
99. Reading Guide Questions
100. Biography
101. Introduction
102. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
103. Bibliography
104. Discussion Questions
105. Biography
106. Textual Introduction
107. The Slave Auction
108. Bury Me in a Free Land
109. Review Questions
110. Margaret Fuller: Biography
111. Intro to "The Great Lawsuit"
112. The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.
113. Reading Questions
114. Biography
115. Textual Introduction
116. Civil Disobedience
117. Bibliography
118. Reading Guide Questions
119. John Muir (1838-1914) Biography
120. My First Summer in the Sierra: Text Introduction
121. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 1
122. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 2
123. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 3
124. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 4
125. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 5
126. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 6
127. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 7
128. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 8
129. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 9
130. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 10
131. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 11
132. Textual Introduction
133. 3 Nephi
134. Joseph Smith, Jr.
135. Research and Discussion Questions
136. Introduction
Kelsey Neely
137. The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
138. Young Goodman Brown
139. Author Bio
140. Introduction Text to President Lincoln Burial Hymn
141. When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd
142. O' Captain, My Captain
143. Hush'd be the Camps To-day
144. This Dust Was Once The Man
145. Review Questions
146. Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
147. Introduction
Janina Misiewicz
148. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
149. The One Million Pound Banknote
150. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Biography
151. Textual Introduction to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
152. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
153. Discussion Questions
154. Biography (1872-1906)
155. Introduction to the Texts
156. We Wear the Mask
157. Sympathy
158. Reading Guide Questions
159. Biography
160. Introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper
161. The Yellow Wallpaper
162. Discussion Questions
163. Biography
164. "Hope" is the thing with feathers
165. "Because I could not stop for Death"
166. Reading Guide Questions
167. Emma Lazarus Bio
168. 1492
169. The New Colossus
170. Discussion Questions for The New Colossus
171. Discussion Questions Part 2
172. Biography
173. Introduction to texts
174. Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
175. Discussion questions
176. Author Biography: Captain John Smith
177. "The Capture of Pocahontas" and "Her Marriage with John Rolfe"
178. Bibliography
179. Biography
180. Descriptions for the Works of Ambrose Bierce
181. The New Decalogue
182. An Inscription
183. The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
184. The Devil's Dictionary
185. Biography
186. Introduction to the Text
187. The School Day of an Indian Girl
188. Biography
189. Introduction to the Text
190. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Rev. Marius Robinson)
191. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Frances Dana Gage)
192. Present Day Speech Interpretation
193. Discussion Questions
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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