Puritanism and Native American Voices
(The New Land to 1750)
Navajo Tribe
The Navajo Origin Legend (oral legend)
Iroquois Tribe
The Iroquois Constitution (circa 1570)
Bradford, William (1590-1657)
The History of the Plymouth Plantation (1620)
Smith, John (1580-1631)
Bradstreet, Anne (1612?1672)
“Upon the Burning of Our Houseâ€
“TO My Dear Loving Husbandâ€
Edwards, Esther (1732-1758)
“Diary Entries†(1743)
Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
Religious Affections (1754)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1745)
The Revolutionary Period
(1750-1800)
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Wheatly, Phillis (1753-1784)
“On Being Brought to America from Africaâ€
“To His Excellency General Washingtonâ€
Henry, Patrick (1736?1799)
Speech in the Virginia Convention (1775)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Adams, Abigail (1744-1798)
Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House (1800)
A Growing Nation
(1800-1840)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
“Thanatopsis†(1811)
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
“The Devil and Tom Walker†(1824)
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow†(1820)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1894)
“The Fall of the House of Usherâ€
The Tell Tale Heart
Romanticism: New England Renaissance
(1840-1855)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
“The Birthmark†(1843)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
“Paul Revere’s Rideâ€
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
“The Chambered Nautilusâ€
“The Last Leafâ€
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
“Selection from Biglow Papersâ€
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
“The Barefoot Boyâ€
Dickenson, Emily (1830-1886)
“Emancipationâ€
“I’m Nobody, Who Are You?â€
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Poems
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
Walden (1854)
“Civil Disobedience†(1866)
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Billy Budd (1924)
Division War and Reconciliation
(1855-1865)
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
“O Captain, My Captainâ€
Negro Spirituals
“Go Down Mosesâ€
“Deep Riverâ€
“Roll Jordan, Rollâ€
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariotâ€
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
“The Gettysburg Address†(1863)
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1840-1904)
“I Will Fight No More Forever†(1877 Surrender) -movie
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Realism, Naturalism and the Frontier
(1865-1915)
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
James, Henry (1843-1916)
Portrait of a Lady (1881)
“Daisy Miller†(1878)
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Up From Slavery (1901)
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat†(1869)
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904)
“The Story of an Hour†(1894)
Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie (1900)
London, Jack (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (1903)
White Fang (1906)
Masters, Edgar Lee (1868 -1950)
“Lucinda Matlock†(1916)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
“Richard Cory†(1897)
“Cassandra†(1921)
“Mr. Flood’s Party†(1921)
The Modern Age: Late Romanticism/Naturalism
(1915-1946)
Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
The Jungle (1906)
Warton, Edith (1862-1937)
Ethan Frome (1922)
20th Century Poetry:
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
Cather, Willa (1873-1945)
The Song of the Lark (1915)
My Antonia (1918)
Eliot, T.S. (1888 – 1965)
“Prufrock†(1915)
“Hippopotamus†(1920)
“The Wasteland†(1922)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Cummings, E.E. (1894-1962)
Crane, Hart (1899-1932)
“The Bridge†(1930)
“Voyages†(1923)
“At Melville’s Tomb (1926)
Milay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
“Harp Weaverâ€
“God’s Worldâ€
“Renascenceâ€
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
A New Song (1933)
Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
“The Road Not Taken†(1916)
“Fire and Ice†(1916)
“Once by the Pacific†(1916)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening†(1922)
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1923)
“Death of a Hired Handâ€
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
The Unvanquished (1938)
Hurston, Zora Neale (1901-1960)
Mules and Men (1935)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
The Pearl (1947)
The Modern Age: Realism/Naturalism
(1946-1960)
20th Century Drama:
O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888-1953)
The Emperor Jones (1924)
Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984)
The Little Foxes (1939)
Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie (1945)
Miller, Arthur (1915-2005)
The Crucible (1953)
Knowles, John (1926-2001)
A Separate Peace (1959)
O’Conner, Flannery (1925-1964)
“Everything That Rises Must Converge†(1965)
Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)
“A Worn Path†(1940)
Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall†(1930)
Contemporary Writers
(1960-Present)
Potok, Chiam (1929-2002)
The Chosen (1967)
Burns, Olive Ann (1924-1990)
Cold Sassy Tree (1984)