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Introduction
The Iroquois Creation Story
How the World Was Made
Anno Domini 1620: The Mayflower Compact
Anno Domini 1620: Indian Relations
"Upon the Burning of our House July 10th 1666" by Anne Bradstreet
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
"Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by Anne Bradstreet
"In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet" by Anne Bradstreet
"A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment" by Anne Bradstreet
Sinners in the Angry Hands of a God: A Sermon by Jonathan Edwards
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
Speech at Detroit by Chief Pontiac
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Federalist Paper No 1
Federalist Paper No 6: Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States
From Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII. Manners: Effect of Slavery
Give me Liberty or Give Me Death
Speech to the US Senate
On the Equality of the Sexes
Abigail Adams to John Adams: Correspondence between John and Abigail Adams; March- April 1776 (On nature and liberty)
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden, Conclusion
Resistance to Civil Government
The Harvest Moon
The Tide Rises-The Tide Falls
Song of Myself from within Leaves of Grass
Rip Van Winkle
The Tell-Tale Heart
Annabel Lee
The Hunters of Men
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother
Address at the Gettysburg National Cemetery
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
Ain’t I a Woman?
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
Hungry Husbands
It was not Death, for I stood up
I felt a Funeral in my Brain
He fumbles at your Soul
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