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”

 

  1. 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”

 

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