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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 | |