Contents

  1. Timothy Robbins

  2. Expanding the Open Anthology of Early American Literature

  3. Native American and Ethnographic Texts

    1. Introduction

      Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan

    2. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)

      Charles Leland

  4. Christopher Columbus

    1. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)

      Christopher Columbus

    2. Introduction

      Hannah Hounsell

  5. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    1. Introduction

      Sam Gagnon

    2. Prologue

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    3. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    4. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    5. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    6. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    7. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    8. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    9. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    10. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  6. The Requerimiento

    1. Requerimiento

  7. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

    1. Introduction

      Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont

    2. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt

      Don Antonio de Otermín

    3. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION

      Edmund Nequatewa

  8. William Bradford

    1. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)

      William Bradford

    2. Anno Dom: 1623

      William Bradford

    3. Preface

      William Bradford

    4. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)

      William Bradford

    5. Anno Dom: 1642

      William Bradford

  9. John Winthrop

    1. "A Model of Christian Charity"

  10. Thomas Morton

    1. New English Canaan (Excerpt)

      Thomas Morton

  11. Anne Bradstreet

    1. Introduction

      Shana Rowe

    2. The Prologue

      Anne Bradstreet

    3. The Author to Her Book

      Anne Bradstreet

    4. The Flesh and the Spirit

      Anne Bradstreet

    5. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth

      Anne Bradstreet

    6. Letter: To My Dear Children

      Anne Bradstreet

  12. Mary Rowlandson

    1. The First Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    2. The Second Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    3. The Third Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    4. The Fifth Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    5. The Eighth Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    6. The Twelfth Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    7. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)

      Mary Rowlandson

    8. The Eighteenth Remove

      Mary Rowlandson

    9. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)

      Mary Rowlandson

  13. Cotton Mather

    1. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence

      Cotton Mather

    2. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692

      Cotton Mather

    3. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War

      Cotton Mather

  14. Jonathan Edwards

    1. Introduction

      Jonathan Neville

    2. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)

      Jonathan Edwards

    3. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)

      Jonathan Edwards

    4. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion

      Sarah Pierrepont Edwards

  15. Roger Williams

    1. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)

    2. Introduction to Texts

    3. Biography

    4. A Key into the Language of America, excerpt (1643)

    5. A Letter to the Town of Providence (1655)

    6. Research and Discussion Questions for Roger Williams

  16. Thomas Paine

    1. A Short Video About Thomas Paine

      Jonathan Neville

    2. Introduction

      David Walker

    3. Common Sense (Excerpt)

      Thomas Paine

    4. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)

      Thomas Paine

  17. Thomas Jefferson

    1. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)

      Thomas Jefferson

    2. Introduction

      Samuel Metivier

    3. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell

      Thomas Jefferson

    4. (Rough Draft of) The Declaration of Independence

  18. Toussaint L'Ouverture

    1. Introductory Video

      Jonathan Neville

    2. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)

      Toussaint L'Ouverture

  19. Briton Hammon

    1. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...

      Briton Hammon

  20. Prince Hall

    1. Introduction

      Rachel Levi

    2. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge

      Prince Hall

  21. Phillis Wheatley

    1. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"

      Phillis Wheatley

  22. Benjamin Franklin

    1. Introduction

    2. Discussion Questions

    3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    4. Introduction of Autobiography

  23. Judith Sargent Murray

    1. On the Equality of the Sexes

    2. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms

      Judith Sargent Murray

  24. Washington Irving

    1. Biography

    2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Introduction

    3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    4. Discussion Questions

    5. Biography

    6. Rip Van Winkle

  25. Tecumseh

    1. Biography

    2. Intro Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages

    3. Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages

    4. Tecumseh Research Questions

  26. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    1. Introduction

    2. Text Introduction: Fate & Nature

    3. Nature

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

    4. Fate

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

    5. Reading and Discussion Questions

      Hailey Leal

  27. Susanna Rowson

    1. Charlotte Temple: Volume I

      Susanna Rowson

    2. Charlotte Temple: Volume II

      Susanna Rowson

  28. Edgar Allan Poe

    1. The Black Cat

      Edgar Allan Poe

    2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue

      Edgar Allan Poe

    3. The Woe of Poe: An Introduction

    4. The Tell-Tale Heart

  29. Catherine Maria Sedgwick

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction to the Text

    3. The Linwoods

    4. Bibliography

    5. Reading Guide Questions

  30. Frederick Douglass

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction

    3. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

    4. Bibliography

    5. Discussion Questions

  31. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

    1. Biography

    2. Textual Introduction

    3. The Slave Auction

    4. Bury Me in a Free Land

    5. Review Questions

  32. Margaret Fuller

    1. Margaret Fuller: Biography

    2. Intro to "The Great Lawsuit"

    3. The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.

    4. Reading Questions

  33. Henry David Thoreau

    1. Biography

    2. Textual Introduction

    3. Civil Disobedience

    4. Bibliography

    5. Reading Guide Questions

  34. John Muir

    1. John Muir (1838-1914) Biography

    2. My First Summer in the Sierra: Text Introduction

    3. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 1

    4. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 2

    5. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 3

    6. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 4

    7. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 5

    8. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 6

    9. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 7

    10. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 8

    11. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 9

    12. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 10

    13. My First Summer in the Sierra: Chapter 11

  35. The Book of Mormon

    1. Textual Introduction

    2. 3 Nephi

    3. Joseph Smith, Jr.

    4. Research and Discussion Questions

  36. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    1. Introduction

      Kelsey Neely

    2. The Minister's Black Veil

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

    3. Young Goodman Brown

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

  37. Walt Whitman

    1. Author Bio

    2. Introduction Text to President Lincoln Burial Hymn

    3. When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd

    4. O' Captain, My Captain

    5. Hush'd be the Camps To-day

    6. This Dust Was Once The Man

    7. Review Questions

    8. Song of Myself

      Walt Whitman

  38. Mark Twain

    1. Introduction

      Janina Misiewicz

    2. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

      Mark Twain

    3. The One Million Pound Banknote

      Mark Twain

  39. Herman Melville

    1. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Biography

    2. Textual Introduction to "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

    3. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"

    4. Discussion Questions

  40. Paul Laurence Dunbar

    1. Biography (1872-1906)

    2. Introduction to the Texts

    3. We Wear the Mask

    4. Sympathy

    5. Reading Guide Questions

  41. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper

    3. The Yellow Wallpaper

    4. Discussion Questions

  42. Emily Dickinson

    1. Biography

    2. "Hope" is the thing with feathers

    3. "Because I could not stop for Death"

    4. Reading Guide Questions

  43. Emma Lazarus

    1. Emma Lazarus Bio

    2. 1492

    3. The New Colossus

    4. Discussion Questions for The New Colossus

    5. Discussion Questions Part 2

  44. Davy Crockett

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction to texts

    3. Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns

    4. Discussion questions

  45. Captain John Smith

    1. Author Biography: Captain John Smith

    2. "The Capture of Pocahontas" and "Her Marriage with John Rolfe"

    3. Bibliography

  46. Ambrose Bierce

    1. Biography

    2. Descriptions for the Works of Ambrose Bierce

    3. The New Decalogue

    4. An Inscription

    5. The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ

    6. The Devil's Dictionary

  47. Zitkala-Sa

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction to the Text

    3. The School Day of an Indian Girl

  48. Sojourner Truth

    1. Biography

    2. Introduction to the Text

    3. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Rev. Marius Robinson)

    4. "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Transcribed by Frances Dana Gage)

    5. Present Day Speech Interpretation

    6. Discussion Questions

  49. Appendix

  50. List of Full-Text Links to Texts from This Edition