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The Literature of Early America | |
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Christopher Columbus (1451ndash;1506) | |
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Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage | |
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From The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America: Thursday 11 October 1492 | |
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Sunday 14 October 1492 | |
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Captain John Smith (1580ndash;1631) | |
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From The General History of Virginia | |
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The Third Book | |
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Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War | |
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From A Description of New England | |
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Native American Voices I | |
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Myths and Tales | |
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How the World Began | |
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How the World Was Made | |
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The Beginning of Summer and Winter | |
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The Gift of the Sacred Pipe | |
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Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow | |
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Dineacute; bahaneacute; | |
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Dineacute; bahaneacute;: The Navajo Creation Story | |
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William Bradford (1590ndash;1657) | |
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From Of Plymouth Plantation | |
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From Chapter I [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550ndash;1607] | |
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From Chapter III, Of Their Settling in Holland, and Their Manner of Living | |
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From Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal | |
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From Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden | |
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From Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage | |
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From Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation | |
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From Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact] | |
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From Chapter XII [Narragansett Challenge] | |
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From Chapter XIV [End of the 'Common Course | |
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From Chapter XIX [Thomas Morton of Merrymount] | |
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From Chapter XXIV | |
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From Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War] | |
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From Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure] | |
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Thomas Morton (c. 1579ndash;1647) | |
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From The New English Canaan | |
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John Winthrop (1588ndash;1649) | |
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From A Model of Christian Charity | |
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From The Journal of John Winthrop | |
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Roger Williams (c. 1603ndash;1683) | |
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From A Key into the Language of America | |
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From The Bloody Tenet | |
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The Bay Psalm Book (1640) | |
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From The Bay Psalm Book | |
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The New England Primer (c. 1683) | |
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From The New England Primer | |
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Anne Bradstreet (1612ndash;1672) | |
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The Prologue | |
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Contemplations | |
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The Flesh and the Spirit | |
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The Author to Her Book | |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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A Letter to Her Husband | |
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In Reference to Her Children | |
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In Memory of My Dear Grandchild | |
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On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet | |
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[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit | |
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Upon the Burning of our House | |
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As Weary Pilgrim | |
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From Meditations Divine and Moral | |
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Michael Wigglesworth (1631ndash;1705) | |
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From The Day of Doom | |
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Edward Taylor (c. 1642ndash;1729) | |
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Prologue | |
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From Preparatory Meditations | |
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The Reflexion | |
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Meditation 6 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 8 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 38 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 39 (First Series) | |
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Meditation 150 (Second Series) | |
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From God's Determinations | |
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The Preface | |
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The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended | |
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Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
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Huswifery | |
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The Ebb and Flow | |
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A Fig for Thee Oh! Death | |
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Cotton Mather (1663ndash;1728) | |
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From The Wonders of the Invisible World | |
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From Magnalia Christi Americana | |
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Samuel Sewall (1652ndash;1730) | |
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From The Diary of Samuel Sewall | |
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Mary Rowlandson (c 1637ndash;1711) | |
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of | |
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William Byrd II (1674ndash;1744) | |
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From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 | |
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From The History of the Dividing Line | |
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John Woolman (1720ndash;1772) | |
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From The Journal of | |
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Jonathan Edwards (1703ndash;1758) | |
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Sarah Pierrepont | |
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Personal Narrative | |
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From A Divine and Supernatural Light | |
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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From Images or Shadows of Divine Things | |
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The Literature of the Eighteenth Century | |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706ndash;1790) | |
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The Autobiography | |
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Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Creacute;vecoeur (1735ndash;1813) | |
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From Letters from an American Farmer | |
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Letter III (What Is an American?) | |
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Letter IX (Description of Charleston . . .) | |
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Olaudah Equiano (1745ndash;1797) | |
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From The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa The African, Written by Himself | |
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Thomas Paine (1737ndash;1809) | |
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From Common Sense | |
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From The American Crisis | |
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From The Age of Reason | |
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Thomas Jefferson (1743ndash;1826) | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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From Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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From Query V: Cascades | |
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From Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal | |
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From Query XVII: Religion | |
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From Query XVIII: Manners | |
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From Query XIX: Manufactures | |
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To James Madison | |
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To John Adams | |
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The Federalist (1787ndash;1788) | |
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The Federalist No.1. The Federalist No.10 | |
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The Federalist No.51 | |
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Phillis Wheatley (1754?ndash;1784) | |
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On Virtue | |
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To the University of Cambridge, in New England | |
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On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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On the Death of the Rev | |
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Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 | |
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On Imagination | |
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To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works | |
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Recollection | |
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To His Excellency General Washington | |
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Philip Freneau (1752ndash;1832) | |