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The Literature of Colonial America | |
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
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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 (1580-1631) | |
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From The General History of Virginia 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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From Bradford on the Rise of Protestantism | |
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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 Contract] | |
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From Chapter XII [Narragansett Threat] | |
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From Chapter XIV [Ending of the 'Common Course ... ] | |
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From Chapter XXVIII [War with the Pequots] | |
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From Chapter XXXVI [Winslow Abandons the Plymouth Colony] | |
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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 Absent Upon Public Employment In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet... [On Deliverance] | |
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From Another Sore Fit | |
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Upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666 As Weary Pilgrim | |
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From Meditations Divine and Moral | |
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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 Restoration 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 Pier | |