TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT
The Private Journel of a Journey from Boston to New York
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
PONTIAC
Speech at Detroit
SAMSON OCCOM
From A Short Narrative of My Life
THOMAS PAINE
From Common Sense
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Draft of The Declaration of Independence
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”
- 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
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
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”
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”
WALT WHITMAN
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”
EMILY DICKINSON
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