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
Allen Ginsberg