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Preface Exploration and the Colonies | |
The Original Inhabitants Virginia and the South New England | |
Exploration | |
Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485?-1528) | |
Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524 | |
Alvar NÚÑez Cabez de Vaca (C.1490-C.1557) | |
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca | |
The Indians bring us food | |
The departure of four Christians | |
The Christians leave the island of Malhado | |
The coming of Indians with Andres Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico | |
Our separation by the Indians | |
Of our escape | |
Our cure of some of the afflicted | |
The coming of other sick to us the next day. Samuel De Champlain (c.1567-1635). Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of 1604-1607 | |
Continuation of the discoveries along the coast of the Almouchiquois, and what we observed in detail | |
The Colonies | |
John Smith (1580-1631) | |
THE General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles | |
The Third Book | |
The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia | |
Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply | |
The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia | |
John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616) | |
The Sixth Book | |
The General History of New England | |
The Description of New England | |
William Bradford (1590-1657) | |
Of Plymouth Plantation | |
Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod | |
Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout | |
Of Plymouth Plantation | |
[The Mayflower Compact (1620)] | |
[Compact with the Indians (1621)] | |
[First Thanksgiving (1621)] | |
[Narragansett Challenge (1622)] | |
[Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)] | |
Thomas Morton (C.1579-1647) New English Canaan | |
The First Book: Containing the Original of the Natives, Their Manners, and Customs, with their Tractable Nature and Love towards the English | |
Of Their Houses and Habitations | |
Of their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses | |
The Third Book Containing a Description of the People that are Planted There | |
Of the Revels of New Canaan | |
Of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-re Mount | |
John Winthrop (1588-1649) | |
A Model of Christian Charity | |
Roger Williams (1603?-1683) | |
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience | |
Preface | |
The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody | |
Letter to the Town of Providence | |
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) | |
The Prologue | |
The Four Ages of Man | |
Childhood | |
The Flesh and the Spirit | |
Contemplations | |
The Author to Her Book | |
Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
Another [Letter of Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment] | |
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old | |
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
Meditations, Divine and Moral | |
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) | |
The Day of Doom | |
Puritanism Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?) | |
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of | |
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | |
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) | |
The Diary of | |
Samuel Sewall | |
[Customs, Courts, and Courtships] | |
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) | |
The Preface | |
Meditation 1, First Series | |
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children | |
The Experience | |
Huswifery | |
Meditation 8, First Series | |
The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out | |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
The Reflexion | |
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended | |
Meditation 42, First Series | |
A Fig for thee Oh! Death | |
Two Meditations on "The Song of Solomon," Canticle VI | |
Meditation 142, Second Series | |
Meditation 146, Second Series | |
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) | |
The Wonders of the Invisible World | |
Enchantments Encountered | |
The Trial of Bridget Bishop | |
A Third Curiosity | |
Magnalia Christi Americana | |
The Life of John Winthrop | |
The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips | |
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good | |
Much Occasion for Doing Good | |
The Excellence of Well-Doing | |
The Reward of Well-Doing | |
Opportunities to Do Good | |
On Internal Piety and Self-Examination | |
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) | |
The Journal of Madam Knight | |
[New England Frontier] | |
[Connecticut] | |
[New York City] | |
The South and the Middle Colonies | |
Ebenezer Cook (1667?-1733?) | |
The Sotweed Factor | |
William Byrd (1674-1744) | |
The History of the Dividing Line | |
[The Marooner] | |
[Lubberland] | |
[Indian Neighbors] | |
A Progress to the Mines | |
[Reading a Play in the Backwoods] | |
John Woolman (1720-1772) | |
The Journal of | |
John Woolman. 1720-1742 | |
[Early Years]. 1749-1756 | |
[On Merchandise]. 1757 | |
[Evidence of Divine Truth] | |
[Slavery]. 1755-1758 | |
[Taxes and Wars] | |
St. Jean De CrÈvecour (1735-1813) | |
Letters from an American Farmer | |
What Is an American? Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene | |
Sketches of Eighteenth Century America | |
Manners of the Americans | |
William Bartram (1739-1823) | |
Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida | |
[Alligators] | |
[The Amazing Crystal Fountain] | |
[Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields] | |
Reason and Revolution | |
The Englightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism | |
From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature | |
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) | |
Sarah Pierrepont | |
A Divine and Supernatural Light | |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
Personal Narrative | |
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | |
The Autobiography | |
Poor Richard's Almanack | |
Preface to Poor Richard, 1733 | |
The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 | |
An Edict by the King of Prussia | |
The Sale of the Hessians | |
The Ephemera | |
To Madame Helvetius | |
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America | |
Letter to William Franklin | |
[We Are Men, All Subject to Errors] | |
Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed] | |
Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention | |
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | |
Common Sense | |
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs | |
The American Crisis | |
The Age of Reason | |
[Profession of Faith] | |
[Of Myth and Miracle] | |
[Christian Revelation and Nature] | |
[First Cause: God of Reason] | |
[Recapitulation] | |
John Adams (1755-1826) | |
Abigail Adams (1744-1818) | |
Letters | |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
The Declaration of Independence | |
First Inaugural Address | |
Notes on the State of Virginia | |
[A Southerner on Slavery] | |
Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush | |
[The Christian Deist] | |
Letter to John Adams | |
[The True Aristocracy] | |
Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?) | |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
Chapter 2 | |
Chapter 3 | |
Chapter 7 | |
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) | |
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England | |
On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield | |
An Hymn to the Evening | |
To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works | |
To His Excellency General Washington | |
The Federalist (1787-1788) | |
The Federalist No. 1 | |
[Alexander Hamilton] | |
The Federalist No. 10 | |
[James Madison] | |
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) | |
To Sir Toby | |
To the Memory of the Brave Americans | |
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man | |
The Wild Ho | |
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