Author: Timothy Robbins et al
Expanding the Open Anthology of Early American Literature
I. Native American and Ethnographic Texts
1. Introduction
2. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
II. Christopher Columbus
3. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
4. Introduction
III. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
5. Introduction
6. Prologue
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)
IV. The Requerimiento
15. Requerimiento
V. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
16. Introduction
17. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
18. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
VI. William Bradford
19. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
20. Anno Dom: 1623
21. Preface
22. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
23. Anno Dom: 1642
VII. John Winthrop
24. "A Model of Christian Charity"
VIII. Thomas Morton
25. New English Canaan (Excerpt)
IX. Anne Bradstreet
26. Introduction
27. The Prologue
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
X. Mary Rowlandson
32. The First Remove
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)
XI. Cotton Mather
41. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
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
XII. Jonathan Edwards
44. Introduction
45. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
46. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
47. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
XIII. Thomas Paine
48. A Short Video About Thomas Paine
49. Introduction
50. Common Sense (Excerpt)
51. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
XIV. Roger Williams
52. Biography
53. Introduction to Texts
54. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
55. A Letter to the Town of Providence (1655)
56. A Key into the Language of America, excerpt (1643)
57. Research and Discussion Questions for Roger Williams
XV. Thomas Jefferson
58. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
59. Introduction
60. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
61. (Rough Draft of) The Declaration of Independence
XVI. Toussaint L'Ouverture
62. Introductory Video
63. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
XVII. Briton Hammon
64. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
XVIII. Prince Hall
65. Introduction
66. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
XIX. Benjamin Franklin
67. Introduction
68. Discussion Questions
69. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
70. Introduction of Autobiography
XX. Phillis Wheatley
71. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
XXI. Judith Sargent Murray
72. On the Equality of the Sexes
73. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
XXII. Washington Irving
74. Biography
75. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Introduction
76. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
77. Discussion Questions
78. Biography
79. Rip Van Winkle
XXIII. Tecumseh
80. Biography
81. Intro Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
82. Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
83. Tecumseh Research Questions
XXIV. Susanna Rowson
84. Charlotte Temple: Volume I
85. Charlotte Temple: Volume II
XXV. Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. Introduction
87. Text Introduction: Fate & Nature
88. Nature
89. Fate
90. Reading and Discussion Questions
XXVI. Catherine Maria Sedgwick
91. Biography
92. Introduction to the Text
93. The Linwoods
94. Bibliography
95. Reading Guide Questions
XXVII. Edgar Allan Poe
96. The Black Cat
97. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
98. The Woe of Poe: An Introduction
99. The Tell-Tale Heart
XXVIII. Henry David Thoreau
100. Biography
101. Textual Introduction
102. Civil Disobedience
103. Reading Guide Questions
104. Bibliography
XXIX. Herman Melville
105. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Biography
106. Textual Introduction to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
107. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
108. Discussion Questions
XXX. The Book of Mormon
109. Textual Introduction
110. 3 Nephi
111. Joseph Smith, Jr.
112. Research and Discussion Questions
XXXI. Nathaniel Hawthorne
113. Introduction
114. The Minister's Black Veil
115. Young Goodman Brown
XXXII. Walt Whitman
116. Author Bio
117. Introduction Text to President Lincoln Burial Hymn
118. When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd
119. O' Captain, My Captain
120. Hush'd be the Camps To-day
121. This Dust Was Once The Man
122. Review Questions
123. Song of Myself
XXXIII. Mark Twain
124. Introduction
125. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
126. The One Million Pound Banknote
XXXIV. Margaret Fuller
127. Margaret Fuller: Biography
128. Intro to "The Great Lawsuit"
129. The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.
130. Reading Questions
XXXV. John Muir
131. John Muir (1838-1914) Biography
132. My First Summer in the Sierra: Text Introduction
133. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 1
134. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 2
135. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 3
136. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 4
137. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 5
138. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 6
139. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 7
140. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 8
141. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 9
142. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 10
143. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 11
XXXVI. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
144. Biography
145. Textual Introduction
146. The Slave Auction
147. Bury Me in a Free Land
148. Review Questions
XXXVII. Frederick Douglass
149. Biography
150. Introduction
151. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
152. Bibliography
153. Discussion Questions
XXXVIII. Paul Laurence Dunbar
154. Biography (1872-1906)
155. Introduction to the Texts
156. We Wear the Mask
157. Sympathy
158. Reading Guide Questions
XXXIX. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
159. Biography
160. Introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper
161. The Yellow Wallpaper
162. Discussion Questions
XL. Emily Dickinson
163. Biography
164. "Hope" is the thing with feathers
165. "Because I could not stop for Death"
166. Reading Guide Questions
XLI. Emma Lazarus
167. Emma Lazarus Bio
168. 1492
169. The New Colossus
170. Discussion Questions for The New Colossus
171. Discussion Questions Part 2
XLII. Davy Crockett
172. Biography
173. Introduction to texts
174. Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
175. Discussion questions
XLIII. Captain John Smith
176. Author Biography: Captain John Smith
177. "The Capture of Pocahontas" and "Her Marriage with John Rolfe"
178. Bibliography
XLIV. Ambrose Bierce
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
XLV. Zitkala-Sa
185. Biography
186. Introduction to the Text
187. The School Day of an Indian Girl
XLVI. Sojourner Truth
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
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