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Native American creation myths (Iroquois, Pima)
Bartolome de las Casas (excerpts from the Norton Anthology of American Literature)
A. N. Cabeza de Vaca (excerpts from the Norton Anthology of American Literature)
J. Smith (excerpts from The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles)
W. Bradford (excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation)
J. Winthrop "A Model of Christian Charity"
R. Williams "A Key to the Language of America"
Anne Bradstreet (poems)
Michael Wigglesworth "The Day of Doom"
E. Taylor "Preparatory Meditations," "God’s Determinations"
S. Sewall (excerpts from The Diary)
C. Mather (excerpts from The Wonders of the Invisible World)
J. Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
B. Franklin "The Way to Wealth," "The Edict by the King of Prussia," "The Sale of the Hessians," excerpts from The Autobiography
J. Woolman The Journal of John Woolman (excerpt): "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes"
S. Occom "Sermon Preached at the Executon of Moses Paul"
J. H. St. J. de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer („What is an American”)
Th. Paine (excerpts from Common Sense; "Of the Theology of the Christians, and the True Theology"
Th. Jefferson "The Declaration of Independence"
Ph. Freneau (poems)
Phillis Wheatley (poems)
Royall Tyler The Contrast
W. Irving "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow"
William Apess "An Indian Looking-Glass for the White Man"
J. F. Cooper The Pioneers
E. A. Poe "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Ligeia," "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Purloined Letter," "The Philosophy of Composition"
N. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil," "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," preface to The House of the Seven Gables
H. Melville Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Sailor
R. W. Emerson "Nature," "Self-Reliance"
H. D. Thoreau Walden, "Resistance to Civil Government," "Life Without Principle"
M. Fuller "The Great Lawsuit"
Walt Whitman Preface to The Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself
E. Dickinson poems
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Letters from the Earth (excerpts)
W.D. Howells "Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading"
Kate Chopin The Awakening, "Emancipation: A Life Fable”
H. James "Daisy Miller," "The Art of Fiction"
S. Crane The Red Badge of Courage, "The Open Boat"
Th. Dreiser Sister Carrie