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Preface | |
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Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910 | |
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Nation, Regions, Borders | |
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African-American Folktales | |
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Animal Tales | |
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When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race | |
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Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit | |
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How Sandy Got His Meat | |
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Who Ate Up the Butter? Fox and Rabbit in the Well | |
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The Signifying Monkey | |
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Memories of Slavery | |
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Malitis | |
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The Flying Africans | |
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Conjure Stories | |
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Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida | |
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John and Old Marster | |
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Master Disguised | |
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The Diviner | |
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Massa and the Bear | |
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Baby in the Crib | |
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John Steals a Pig and a Sheep | |
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Talking Bones | |
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Old Boss Wants into Heaven | |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) | |
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Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog | |
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from Roughing It, Chapter XLVIII: Buck Fanshawe's Funeral; A True Story | |
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The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg | |
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from The Autobiography of Mark Twain | |
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Chapter 4. As Regards Patriotism | |
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The War Prayer | |
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[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a Riverside Edition.] Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) | |
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from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, Chapter II: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story; Chapter IV: How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox | |
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from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches: Free Joe and the Rest of the World | |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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What is a White Man? The Goophered Grapevine | |
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Po' Sandy | |
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The Passing of Grandison | |
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The Wife of His Youth | |
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Cluster: Aesthetics | |
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Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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Review: Waiting for the Verdict | |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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from Criticism and Fiction | |
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Jack London (1876-1916) from The Terrible and the Tragic | |
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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To Annie Field, Oct. 12, 1890 | |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) from Journal | |
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) | |
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Preface Contending Forces | |
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George Santayana (1863-1952) from The Sense of Beauty | |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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from Lyrics of Lowly Life: Frederick Douglass | |
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We Wear the Mask | |
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When Malindy Sings | |
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Sympathy | |
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Prometheus | |
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The Lynching of Jube Benson | |
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Ghost Dance Songs | |
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Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) | |
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Ode to Sequoyah | |
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Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo | |
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Fus Fixicos Letter Number 44 | |
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Fus Fixicos Letter Number 45 | |
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Fus Fixicos Letter Number 46 | |
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John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) | |
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The Problem of Old Harjo | |
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Sheaf: A Latino Chorus for Social Change | |
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Raphael Serra (1858-1909) | |
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from Nuestro Periodico / Our Newspaper | |
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from Sin justicia no hay union / Without Justice There is No Unity | |
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Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) | |
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from Anarchismo y Espiritismo / Anarchy and Spiritualism | |
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from Situacion del trabajador puertorriqueno / The situation of the Puerto Rican Worker | |
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Sara Estela Ramirez (1881-1910) | |
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21 de marzo / March 21st | |
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Anonymous | |
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Collaboration / Collaboration | |
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from Plan de San Diego (in English) | |
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Corridos | |
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Kiansis I. Kansas I. Gregorio Cortez | |
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Jacinto Trevi?o / Jacinto Trevi?o | |
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Hijo Desobediente / The Disobedient Son | |
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Recordiando al Presidente / Remembering the President | |
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Corrido de C?sar Ch?vez / Ballad of C?sar Ch?vez | |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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from The Editor's Study | |
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Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune | |
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Mary E. Wilkins' Short Stories | |
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from Criticism and Fiction | |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar | |
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Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories | |
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Editha. Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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Daisy Miller: A Study | |
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The Art of Fiction | |
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The Beast in the Jungle | |
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
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Chickamauga | |
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) | |
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Up the Coulee | |
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New Orleans and America | |
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George Washington Cable (1844-1925) | |
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'Tite Poulette | |
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Grace King (1852-1932) | |
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The Little Convent Girl | |
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) | |
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from The Goodness of St. Rocque | |
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Sister Josepha | |
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The Praline Woman | |
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Mr. Baptiste | |
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Kate Chopin (1851-1904) | |
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Desiree's' Baby | |
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The Storm | |
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The Story of an Hour | |
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The Awakening | |
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
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The Open Boat | |
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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | |
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from The Black Riders and Other Lines | |
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God Lay Dead in Heaven | |
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from War Is Kind: Do Not Weep | |
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Maiden, For War Is Kind | |
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The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart | |
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A Man Said to the Universe | |
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A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices | |
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There Was A Man with Tongue of Wood | |
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from Uncollected Poems | |
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Chant You Loud of Punishments | |
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Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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South of the Slot | |
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Koolou the Leper | |
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Cluster: America in the World/The World in America | |
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | |
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The White Man's Burden | |
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Anonymous | |
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We've taken up the white man's burden | |
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Anna Manning Comfort (1845-1931) | |
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Home Burdens of Uncle Sam | |
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from Chicago Republic | |
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Buster Brown in a New Role | |
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Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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from The Marrow of Tradition | |
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The Women's Auxiliary of the Anti-Imperialist League | |
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Women Make an Appeal in Behalf of the Foundation Principles of the Republic | |
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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) | |
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from The Person Sitting in Darkness | |
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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
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The New Colossus | |
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) | |
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Unguarded Gates | |
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Sheaf: Filipino and Filipina Writing | |
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Sixto Lopez (unknown dates) | |
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The Philippine Problem: A Proposition for a Solution | |
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Maria Guadalupe Gutierrez Quintero de Joseph (unknown dates) | |
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American and Filipino Women | |
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The Filipino Students Magazine | |
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Who were the Original Dog-Eaters? Manuel Quezon (1878-1944) | |
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The Philippines--What They Are and What They Would Be | |
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Maximo M. Kalaw (unknown dates) | |
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from The Case for the Filipinos | |
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from Self Government in the Philippines | |
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Emma Serapta Yule (unknown dates) | |
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The Woman Question in the Philippines | |
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Critical Visions of Postbellum America | |
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Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908) | |
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What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark | |
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Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939) | |
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from The Soul of the Indian, Chapter I: The Great Mystery; from The Deep Woods to Civilization; Chapter VII: The Ghost Dance War | |
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Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891) | |
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from Life Among the Piute, Chapter I: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites | |
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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926) | |
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from Samantha Among the Brethren, Chapter XIX | |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) | |
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Aunt Chloe's Politics | |
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Learning to Read | |
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The Martyr of Alabama | |
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A Double Standard, Songs for the People | |
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Woman's Political Future | |
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Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964) | |
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from A Voice from the South, Chapter XXX: Our Raison D'Etre | |
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Woman versus the Indian | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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Turned | |
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"Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" | |
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Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) | |
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The Wanderers | |
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The Popularity of Firemen | |
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The Piano in the Parlor | |
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Immigration | |
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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) | |
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The Jungle, from Chapter II; from Chapter II; from Chapter IX; from Chapter XII; from Chapter XII; from Chapter XIV | |
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Henry Adams (1838-1918) | |
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from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Chapter VI: The Virgin of Chartres | |
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from The Education of Henry Adams, Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin | |
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Developments in Women's Writing | |
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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) | |
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Hearing the Battle | |
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Giving Back the Flower | |
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Shapes of a Soul | |
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The Funeral of a Doll | |
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The Palace-Burner | |
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Her Blindness in Grief | |
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We Two | |
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The Witch in the Glass | |
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Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) | |
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from A Brand Plucked from the Fire, Chapter XVII: My Call to Preach the Gospel; Chapter XIX: Public Effort-Excommunication; Chapter XX: Women in the Gospel | |
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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | |
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My Contraband | |
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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) | |
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Circumstance | |
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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) | |
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Miss Grief | |
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Maria Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895) | |
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from The Squatter and the Don, Chapter 5: The Don in His Broad Acres | |
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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A White Heron | |
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The Foreigne | |
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Martha's Lady | |
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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A New England Nun | |
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The Revolt of Mother | |
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) | |
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from Contending Forces, Chapter VIII: The Sewing Circle; Chapter XIV: Luke Sawyer Speaks | |
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Talma Gordon | |
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A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women | |
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Adah Menken (1835?-1868) | |
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Judith | |
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Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) | |
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In Kittery Churchyard | |
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Wherefore | |
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Two Sonnets | |
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Louise Chandler Moulton (1855-1900) | |
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A Girl's Funeral in Milan | |
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Laus Veneris | |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) | |
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Her Prayer | |
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Illusion | |
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Goddess of Liberty, Answer | |
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Edith Thomas (1854-1925) | |
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The Torches of Dawn | |
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The Deep Sea Pearl | |
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Frost To-night | |
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To Walk Invisible | |
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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) | |
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Early September | |
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Telling the Bees | |
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Drought | |
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White Flags | |
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Emily | |
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Spring Ecstasy | |
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Crows | |
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Sophie Jewett (1861-1909) | |
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Entre Nous | |
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Armistice | |
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I Speak Your Name | |
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E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913) | |
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The Camper | |
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The Corn Husker | |
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The Indian Corn Planter | |
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Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) | |
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Hylas | |
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Monochrome | |
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Charista Musing | |
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Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) | |
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The Wood-Chopper to His Ax | |
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The Cross and the Pagan | |
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) | |
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I Sit and Sew | |
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You! Inez! The Proletariat Speaks | |
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A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s | |
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Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927) | |
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Longing | |
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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Love and the Witches | |
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Ella Higginson (1862-1940) | |
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In a Valley of Peace | |
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Eleanor B. Caldwell (fl. 1890) | |
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Creation | |
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Anne Throop (fl. 1890) | |
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The Sinner | |
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Ethel Balton (fl. 1890) | |
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An Impressionist Picture | |
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Maude Caldwell Perry (1973-1963) | |
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Summer Died Last Night | |
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Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959) | |
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Behold the Lilies | |
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The Making of "Americans" | |
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Cluster: E Pluribus Unum--All in the Family | |
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Henry Adams (1838-1918) | |
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from Democracy | |
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Henry W. Grady (1851-1889) | |
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The New South | |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) | |
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from A Red Record | |
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Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 | |
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Dawes Severalty Act 1887 | |
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The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | |
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Thomas Nast (1840-1902) | |
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E Pluribus Unum (Except the Chinese) | |
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One Named Xu, from Xiangshan, Consoling Himself | |
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Poem 27 | |
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Poem 41 | |
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Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914) | |
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Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian | |
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from Mrs. Spring Fragrance, In the Land of the Free | |
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The Wisdom of the New | |
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Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875-1954) | |
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A Half-Caste | |
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Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) | |
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from The Imported Bridegroom | |
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Cluster: Religion | |
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Sanford F. Bennett (1838-1898) | |
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In the Sweet Bye and Bye | |
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Joe Hill (1879-1915) | |
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The Preacher and the Slave | |
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The Rev. Billy Sunday (1862-1935) | |
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from A sermon preached in Decatur, Illinois | |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) | |
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from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | |
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Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) | |
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from In His Steps | |
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Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) | |
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from Looking Backwards | |
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Gertrude Bonnin Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) | |
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Why I Am a Pagan | |
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Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) | |
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Christ's Entry into Jerusalem | |
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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
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The Choice | |
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Thomas Huxley (1825-1895) | |
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Agnosticism and Christianity | |
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Mary Austin (1868-1934) | |
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from Earth Horizon: Chapter III | |
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Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)(Sioux) (1876-1938) | |
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from The School Days of an Indian Girl, Chapter I: The Land of Red Apples; Chapter II: The Cutting of My Long Hair; Chapter III: The Snow Episode; Chapter VI: Four Strange Summers; Chapter VII: Incurring My Mother's Displeasure | |
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Mary Antin (1881-1949) | |
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from The Promised Land, Chapter IX | |
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Yone Noguci (1875-1947) | |
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I Hail Myself as I do Homer. O Hana San | |
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The Lotus Worshippers | |
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from Japanese Hokkus (#s 12, 16, 36, 71) | |
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from American Diary of a Japanese Girl | |
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Jos? Mart? (1853-1895) | |
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Our America | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |