American Literature

I. The Colonial Period to the Civil War

1: INTRODUCTION
The Pre-Columbian Tribes
The Age of Discovery

2: THE EUROPEAN EXODUS
Of Plymouth Plantation – William Bradford

3: MASSACHUSETTS BAY CO.
Model of Christian Charity – John Winthrop

4: THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
Anne Bradstreet

5: JONATHAN EDWARDS
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

6: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Autobiography


7: THOMAS PAINE
Common Sense

8: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist Papers


9: WASHINGTON IRVING
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


10: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Birth Mark


11: EDGAR ALLEN POE
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Man of the Crowd
The Tell-Tale Heart


12: HERMAN MELVILLE
Billy Budd


13: RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance


14: HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Resistance to Civil Government


15: SLAVERY
Bondage and Freedom - Frederick Douglass

16: CIVIL WAR
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe



II. The Reconstruction to the Modern Era


17: INTRODUCTION

18: WALT WHITMAN

19: EMILY DICKINSON

20: MARK TWAIN

21: HENRY ADAMS

22: CIVIL RIGHTS
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois

23: GHOST-DANCING
The Great Vision - Black Elk

24: ERNEST HEMINGWAY

25: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

26: WILLIAM FAULKNER

27: JOHN STEINBECK

28: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

29: ARTHUR MILLER

30: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

31: ROBERT FROST


32: THE BEAT POETS
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg