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| The Literature of Colonial America | |
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| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
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| From The Diario of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America | |
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| Thursday 11 October 1942 | |
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| Sunday 14 October 1492 | |
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| Captain John Smith (1580-1631) | |
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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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| 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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| William Bradford (1590-1657) | |
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| From Of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal | |
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| Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage Chapter X, Showing How They Sought out a Place of Habitation Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact] | |
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| Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War] | |
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| Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure] | |
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| John Winthrop (1588-1649) | |
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| From The Journal of John Winthrop | |
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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 (1612-1672) | |
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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 In Reference to Her Children In Memory of My Dear Grandchild On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet Upon the Burning of Our House Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729) | |
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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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| Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) | |
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| From The Diary of Samuel Sewall | |
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| Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) | |
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| From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | |
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| William Byrd II (1674-1744) | |
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| From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 | |
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| Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) | |
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| Sarah Pierrepont | |
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| Personal Narrative | |
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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 Reason and Revolution | |
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| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | |
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| [Silence Dogood, No. 4] | |
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| From Poor Richard Improved, 1758 | |
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| An Address to the Public | |
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| The Autobiography | |
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| Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Cravecoeur (1735-1813) | |
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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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| Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | |
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| From Common Sense | |
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| From The American Crisis | |
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| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
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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 (1787-1788) | |
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| The Federalist No. 10 | |
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| The Federalist No. 51 | |
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| Phillis Wheately (1754?-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 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 (1752-1832) | |
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| The Power of Fancy | |
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| The Hurricane | |
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| To Sir Toby | |
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| The Wild Honey Suckle | |
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| The Indian Burying Ground | |
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| On the Universality and Oth | |