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Introduction
1. Introduction: Native American Stories
2. Introduction: European Explorers
3. Native American Creation Stories
4. Native American Views of Explorers
5. Christopher Columbus, Letter of Discovery (1493)
6. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation (1542)
7. Samuel de Champlain, Voyages and Explorations (1613)
8. John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624)
9. Adriaen van der Donck, A Description of New Netherland (1655-1656)
10. Introduction: Early Colonial Literature
11. John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
12. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1651)
13. Anne Bradstreet, Poems (1651)
14. Mary Rowlandson, The Captivity and Restoration (1682)
15. Sarah Kemble Knight, The Private Journal of a Journey (1704-1705)
16. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
17. Introduction: Enlightenment and Revolution
18. Philip Freneau, A Political Litany (1775)
19. Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
20. John and Abigail Adams, Letters (1776)
21. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776)
22. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (1789)
23. Introduction: “American” Literature
24. Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819)
25. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (1823)
26. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827)
27. Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)
28. Introduction: Romanticism
29. Introduction: Humanitarian Themes
30. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835)
31. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
32. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (1845) and Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
33. Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
34. Introduction: Transcendentalism
35. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) and Self-Reliance (1841)
36. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) and Walden (1854)
37. Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) and Leaves of Grass (1855)
38. Emily Dickinson, Poems (1861-1865)
39. Introduction: Slave Narratives
Edited by Jenifer Kurtz and Remixed by Deborah Gussman
40. Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph (1700)
41. Phillis Wheatley, Poems and Letter (1773)
42. Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789)
43. Philip Freneau, To Sir Toby (1795)
44. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life (1845)
45. Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I A Woman? (1851)
46. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1858)
47. Abraham Lincoln, Writings (1861-1863)
Kenyon Gradert
48. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
49. Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! (1865)
50. Reading American Literature
51. Reading Fiction
Mollie Chambers; Karin Hooks; Donna Hunt; Kim Karshner; Josh Kesterson; Geoff Polk; Amy Scott-Douglass; Justin Sevenker; Jewon Woo; and other LCCC Faculty
52. Reading Poetry
53. Responding to Literature
54. Introduction to Literary Criticism
55. Examples of Applying Literary Theory and Criticism
56. Comparison/Contrast Analysis Approach
57. Essay Tips, Steps, and Support
58. Anne Bradstreet and Early American Meditative Poetry
Joel Gladd
59. Mary Rowlandson and Captivity Narratives
60. Introduction to the Puritan Imagination
61. Benjamin Franklin, Personal Narratives, and the Art of Self-Cultivation
62. The Rise of the American Short Story, Washington Irving, and German Fairy Tales
63. Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Horror, and the Early Detective Story
64. Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism
65. Ralph Waldo Emerson's "moment of transition" and Modern Poetics
66. Henry David Thoreau, Self-Improvement, and Nature Writing
67. Walt Whitman's Democratic Sublime
68. Emily Dickinson's Private Sublime
69. Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, and the Debate over Poetic Genius
70. Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Arguments over Slavery, and Black Christianity
71. Contextual Reading: The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Ibram X. Kendi
72. Contextual Reading: Democracy by Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019)
Appendix
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