TABLE OF CONTENTS

VIKING EXPLORATION

A Brief History of Eric the Red

A Brief History of the Greenlanders

JOHN SMITH

From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

From A Description of New England

WILLIAM BRADFORD

From Of Plymouth Plantation

JOHN WINTHROP

A Model of Christian Charity

MARY ROWLANDSON

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

ANNE BRADSTREET

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old

On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being But a Month, and One Day Old

COTTON MATHER

The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminet, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692

A Notable Exploit; Dux Faemina Facti  [Hannah Dunston Captivity Narrative]

SARAH WHIPPLE GOODHUE

The Copy of a Valedictory and Monitory Writing

SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT

The Private Journel of a Journey from Boston to New York

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

MARY JEMISON

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

PONTIAC

Speech at Detroit

SAMSON OCCOM

From A Short Narrative of My Life

MERCY OTIS WARREN

“A Political Reverie”

“The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, or the Sacrifice of the Tuscaroroes

THOMAS PAINE

From Common Sense

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Draft of The Declaration of Independence

ANNA YOUNG SMITH

An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers Who Fell in the Engagement between the Massachusetts-Bay Militia, and the British Troops, April 19, 1775

JOHN ADAMS and ABIGAIL ADAMS

The Letters of John & Abigail Adams

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“The Way to Wealth”: Preface to Poor Richard Improved

“Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”

J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR

From Letters from an American Farmer

OLAUDAH EQUIANO

From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

On being brought from Africa to America

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth,

His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c

To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works

To His Excellency, General Washington

JUPITER HAMMON

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly

An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York

LEMUEL HAYNES

Liberty Further Extended

HENDRICK AUPAUMUT

“A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry”

WASHINGTON IRVING

Rip Van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

From The Pioneers

From Last of the Mohicans

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nature

The American Scholar

Self-Reliance

SARAH MARGARET FULLER

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

From Walden; or Life in the Woods

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The Minister’s Black Veil

The May-Pole of Merry Mount

The Artist of the Beautiful

From The Blithedale Romance

EDGAR ALLAN POE

“The Black Cat”

“The Purloined Letter”

HERMAN MELVILLE

“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”

“Benito Cereno”

WILLIAM APESS

An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man

CAROLINE KIRKLAND

from A New Home — Who’ll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Declaration of Sentiments

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

From Uncle Tom’s Cabin

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

HARRIET ANN JACOBS

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

SOJOURNER TRUTH

Woman’s Rights Convention Speech

Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association

WALT WHITMAN

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”

“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”

EMILY DICKINSON

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