TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition, by Jared Aragona
NATIVE AMERICAN ACCOUNTS
Introduction by Jennifer Kurtz and Wendy Kurant
Origin of Folk Stories (Seneca)
The Story of the Emergence (Navajo)
A Take from Skyworld (Seneca)
Prayers to the Ancients (Zuni)
Red Woman and the Tale of Two Boys (Crow)
Caught by a Hairstring (Micmac)
VIKING EXPLORATION
Introduction to Viking Sagas by Arthur Middleton Reeves
A Brief History of Eric the Red
A Brief History of the Greenlanders
ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
Introduction by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
From The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
PEDRO DE CASTANEDA
Introduction by Various Authors
From The Journey of Coronado
JOHN SMITH
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
From A Description of New England
WILLIAM BRADFORD
Introduction by Lily Boatman
From Of Plimouth Plantation
JOHN WINTHROP
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
A Model of Christian Charity
ANNE BRADSTREET
Introduction by McKenna Sheehy
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
DON ANTONIO DE OTORMIN
Introduction by Various Authors
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
SARAH WHIPPLE GOODHUE
Introduction by Various Authors
The Copy of a Valedictory and Monitory Writing
MARY ROWLANDSON
Introduction by Svetlana Antropova
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
COTTON MATHER
Introduction by Various Authors
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 KEMBLE KNIGHT
Introduction by Brenna Boschetto
From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Introduction by Abigail Thornton
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
MARY JEMISON
Introduction by Various Authors
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
PONTIAC
Introduction by Samantha Zivic
Speech at Detroit
SAMSON OCCOM
Introduction by Elizabeth Johnson
From A Short Narrative of My Life
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
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
MERCY OTIS WARREN
Introduction by Various Authors
“A Political Reverie”
“The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, or the Sacrifice of the Tuscaroroes
ANNA YOUNG SMITH
Introduction by Various Authors
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
THOMAS PAINE
Introduction by Various Authors
From Common Sense
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Introduction by Various Authors
Draft of The Declaration of Independence
JOHN ADAMS and ABIGAIL ADAMS
Introduction by Colleen Vorst
The Letters of John & Abigail Adams
LEMUEL HAYNES
Introduction by Various Authors
Liberty Further Extended
JUPITER HAMMON
Introduction by Various Authors
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Introduction by Adriana Geraldo
“The Way to Wealth”: Preface to Poor Richard Improved
“Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”
J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
From Letters from an American Farmer
FRANCISCO PALÓU
Introduction by Various Authors
From Life of Junipero Serra
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
HENDRICK AUPAUMUT
Introduction by Various Authors
“A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry”
WASHINGTON IRVING
Introduction by David Campbell
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Introduction by Noah Long
From The Pioneers
From Last of the Mohicans
JAMES M. NACK
Introduction by Various Authors
A Father’s Name, A Monody
The Blue Ey’d Maid, To Mary
The Dream of Bliss
Life and Death
Ode to the New Year, 1826
WILLIAM APESS
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man
CAROLINE KIRKLAND
Introduction by Various Authors
from A New Home — Who’ll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Introduction by Samantha Zivic
Nature
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
SARAH MARGARET FULLER
Introduction by Various Authors
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Introduction by Various Authors
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Introduction by Sidney Torres Salazar
“The Black Cat”
“The Purloined Letter”
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Introduction by Svetlana Antropova
The Minister’s Black Veil
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The Artist of the Beautiful
From The Blithedale Romance
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Introduction by National Park Service
Declaration of Sentiments
SOJOURNER TRUTH
Introduction by National Park Service
Woman’s Rights Convention Speech
Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Introduction by Colleen Vorst
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
From Walden; or Life in the Woods
HERMAN MELVILLE
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
“Benito Cereno”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Introduction by Clayton Lamb
“A House Divided Cannot Stand”
The Emancipation Proclamation 93
The Emancipation Proclamation 95
The Gettysburg Address — Bliss Copy
WALT WHITMAN
Introduction by Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, and Doug Davis
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”
HARRIET ANN JACOBS
Introduction by Wendy Kurant
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
EMILY DICKINSON
Introduction by David Campbell
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591 [465]
1263 [1129]
LAURA BRIDGMAN
Introduction by Hugh Chisolm
Holy Home
Love
