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)
3. The Generall Historie of Virginia as a Text
II. Christopher Columbus
4. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
5. Introduction
III. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
6. Introduction
7. Prologue
8. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
9. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
10. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
11. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
12. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
13. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
14. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
15. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
IV. William Bradford
16. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
17. Anno Dom: 1623
18. Preface
19. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
20. Anno Dom: 1642
V. John Winthrop
21. "A Model of Christian Charity"
VI. Thomas Morton
22. New English Canaan (Excerpt)
VII. Anne Bradstreet
23. Introduction
24. The Prologue
25. The Author to Her Book
26. The Flesh and the Spirit
27. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
28. Letter: To My Dear Children
VIII. Mary Rowlandson
29. The First Remove
30. The Second Remove
31. The Third Remove
32. The Fifth Remove
33. The Eighth Remove
34. The Twelfth Remove
35. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
36. The Eighteenth Remove
37. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
IX. Cotton Mather
38. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
39. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
40. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
X. Jonathan Edwards
41. Introduction
42. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
43. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
44. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
XI. Thomas Paine
45. A Short Video About Thomas Paine
46. Introduction
47. Common Sense (Excerpt)
48. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
XII. Roger Williams
49. Biography
50. Introduction to Texts
51. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
52. A Letter to the Town of Providence (1655)
53. A Key into the Language of America, excerpt (1643)
54. Research and Discussion Questions for Roger Williams
XIII. Thomas Jefferson
55. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
56. Introduction
57. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
58. (Rough Draft of) The Declaration of Independence
XIV. Toussaint L'Ouverture
59. Introductory Video
60. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
XV. Briton Hammon
61. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
XVI. Prince Hall
62. Introduction
63. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
XVII. Benjamin Franklin
64. Introduction
65. Discussion Questions
66. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
67. Introduction of Autobiography
XVIII. Phillis Wheatley
68. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
XIX. Judith Sargent Murray
69. On the Equality of the Sexes
70. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
XX. Washington Irving
71. Biography
72. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Introduction
73. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
74. Discussion Questions
75. Biography
76. Rip Van Winkle
XXI. Tecumseh
77. Biography
78. Intro Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
79. Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages
80. Tecumseh Research Questions
XXII. Susanna Rowson
81. Charlotte Temple: Volume I
82. Charlotte Temple: Volume II
XXIII. Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. Introduction
84. Text Introduction: Fate & Nature
85. Nature
86. Fate
87. Reading and Discussion Questions
XXIV. Catherine Maria Sedgwick
88. Biography
89. Introduction to the Text
90. The Linwoods
91. Bibliography
92. Reading Guide Questions
XXV. Edgar Allan Poe
93. The Black Cat
94. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
95. The Woe of Poe: An Introduction
96. The Tell-Tale Heart
XXVI. Henry David Thoreau
97. Biography
98. Textual Introduction
99. Civil Disobedience
100. Reading Guide Questions
101. Bibliography
XXVII. Herman Melville
102. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Biography
103. Textual Introduction to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
104. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
105. Discussion Questions
XXVIII. The Book of Mormon
106. Textual Introduction
107. 3 Nephi
108. Joseph Smith, Jr.
109. Research and Discussion Questions
XXIX. Nathaniel Hawthorne
110. Introduction
111. The Minister's Black Veil
112. Young Goodman Brown
XXX. Walt Whitman
113. Author Bio
114. Introduction Text to President Lincoln Burial Hymn
115. When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd
116. O' Captain, My Captain
117. Hush'd be the Camps To-day
118. This Dust Was Once The Man
119. Review Questions
120. Song of Myself
XXXI. Mark Twain
121. Introduction
122. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
123. The One Million Pound Banknote
XXXII. Margaret Fuller
124. Margaret Fuller: Biography
125. Intro to "The Great Lawsuit"
126. The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.
127. Reading Questions
XXXIII. John Muir
128. John Muir (1838-1914) Biography
129. My First Summer in the Sierra: Text Introduction
130. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 1
131. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 2
132. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 3
133. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 4
134. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 5
135. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 6
136. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 7
137. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 8
138. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 9
139. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 10
140. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 11
XXXIV. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
141. Biography
142. Textual Introduction
143. The Slave Auction
144. Bury Me in a Free Land
145. Review Questions
XXXV. Frederick Douglass
146. Biography
147. Introduction
148. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
149. Bibliography
150. Discussion Questions
XXXVI. Paul Laurence Dunbar
151. Biography (1872-1906)
152. Introduction to the Texts
153. We Wear the Mask
154. Sympathy
155. Reading Guide Questions
XXXVII. Fakey McFakerton
XXXVIII. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
156. Biography
157. Introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper
158. The Yellow Wallpaper
159. Discussion Questions
XXXIX. Emily Dickinson
160. Biography
161. "Hope" is the thing with feathers
162. "Because I could not stop for Death"
163. Reading Guide Questions
XL. Emma Lazarus
164. Emma Lazarus Bio
165. 1492
166. The New Colossus
167. Discussion Questions for The New Colossus
168. Discussion Questions Part 2
XLI. Davy Crockett
169. Biography
170. Introduction to texts
171. Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
172. Discussion questions
XLII. Captain John Smith
173. Author Biography: Captain John Smith
174. "The Capture of Pocahontas" and "Her Marriage with John Rolfe"
175. Bibliography
XLIII. Ambrose Bierce
176. Biography
177. Descriptions for the Works of Ambrose Bierce
178. The New Decalogue
179. An Inscription
180. The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
181. The Devil's Dictionary
XLIV. Zitkala-Sa
182. Biography
183. Introduction to the Text
184. The School Day of an Indian Girl
XLV. Sojourner Truth
185. Biography
186. Introduction to the Text
187. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Rev. Marius Robinson)
188. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Frances Dana Gage)
189. Present Day Speech Interpretation
190. Discussion Questions
Appendix
List of Full-Text Links to Texts from This Edition
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