Words of Ages: Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature (Softcover)

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Douglass, Frederick; Whitman, Walt; Wharton, Edith; Morrison, Toni; Wolfe, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780932765840
• ISBN10: 093276584X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: CLOSE UP FOUNDATION

Table of Contents

UNIT 1 A ``NEW WORLD,'' A NEW NATION 1600--1815	16	(62)
Explorers and Early Settlers	18	(20)
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles	19	(4)
John Smith
The History and Present State of Virginia	23	(3)
Robert Beverley
Of Plymouth Plantation	26	(3)
William Bradford
``A Model of Christian Charity''	29	(1)
John Winthrop
``In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet''	30	(2)
Anne Bradstreet
``The Minister's Black Veil''	32	(6)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Voices of a Revolution	38	(22)
``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God''	39	(2)
Jonathan Edwards
``The Way to Wealth''	41	(3)
Benjamin Franklin
``Considerations on Keeping Negroes''	44	(3)
John Woolman
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757	47	(5)
James Fenimore Cooper
Common Sense	52	(3)
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence	55	(2)
Thomas Jefferson
Personal Letters	57	(3)
John Adams
Abigail Adams
The Search for a National Identity	60	(18)
``On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country''	61	(2)
Philip Freneau
``Federalist No. 2''	63	(4)
John Jay
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	67	(2)
Olaudah Equiano
The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	69	(3)
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
A Tour on the Prairies	72	(2)
Washington Irving
``Tecumseh's Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws''	74	(2)
Tecumseh
The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades	76	(2)
John Dos Passos
UNIT 2 NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM 1815--1865	78	(58)
A Confident Nation	80	(18)
``The Young American''	81	(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
``Resistance to Civil Government''	83	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	86	(2)
Margaret Fuller
``Great Are the Myths''	88	(4)
Walt Whitman
``Annexation''	92	(3)
John L. O'Sullivan
Personal Memoirs	95	(3)
Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
Slavery and the Abolition Movement	98	(18)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	99	(4)
Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	103	(3)
Harriet Jacobs
Uncle Tom's Cabin	106	(3)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sociology for the South	109	(2)
George Fitzhugh
``Appeal to the Christian Women of the South''	111	(3)
Angelina Grimke Weld
``The Hunters of Men''	114	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Civil War and Reconstruction	116	(20)
``The Portent''	117	(1)
Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War	118	(4)
Stephen Crane
``Hospital Sketches''	122	(4)
Louisa May Alcott
Mohun	126	(4)
John Esten Cooke
``O Captain! My Captain!''	130	(1)
Walt Whitman
``Up from Slavery''	131	(2)
Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk	133	(3)
W.E.B. DuBois
UNIT 3 INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1865--1919	136	(82)
The Closing of the Frontier	138	(18)
O Pioneers!	139	(2)
Willa Cather
``Chiquita''	141	(3)
Bret Harte
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick	144	(4)
Nat Love
``Kansas I''	148	(1)
A Mexican Folk Ballad
``The Passing of the Buffalo''	149	(3)
Hamlin Garland
Black Elk Speaks	152	(4)
Black Elk
Artists Render Industrialization and Urbanization	156	(18)
``What the Engines Said''	157	(2)
Bret Harte
``Life in the Iron Mills''	159	(3)
Rebecca Harding Davis
The Age of Innocence	162	(2)
Edith Wharton
``Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge''	164	(3)
Hart Crane
Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto	167	(4)
Abraham Cahan
``Chicago''	171	(3)
Carl Sandburg
Social Critics and Reformers	174	(22)
``We Are All Bound Up Together''	175	(2)
Francis E. Watkins Harper
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815--1897	177	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
``A Church Mouse''	180	(4)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Huckleberry Finn	184	(4)
Samuel L. Clemens
The Shame of the Cities	188	(3)
Lincoln Steffens
The Jungle	191	(5)
Upton Sinclair
Americans Abroad and World War I	196	(22)
The Portrait of a Lady	197	(5)
Henry James
``The White Man's Burden''	202	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
``The Real `White Man's Burden''	202	(4)
Ernest Crosby
``Hallelujahs''	206	(3)
Jose de Diego
One of Ours	209	(6)
Willa Cather
``next to of course god america i''	215	(3)
E.E. Cummings
UNIT 4 DEMOCRACY AND ADVERSITY 1919--1945	218	(2)
The Jazz Age	220	(1)
The Great Gatsby	221	(4)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
``Song of Perfect Propriety''	225	(2)
Dorothy Parker
The Flivver King	227	(2)
Upton Sinclair
Jazz	229	(4)
Toni Morrison
``The Weary Blues''	233	(2)
Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God	235	(3)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Depression and the New Deal	238	(20)
The Big Money	239	(2)
John Dos Passos
Waiting for Lefty	241	(4)
Clifford Odets
``Women on the Breadlines''	245	(4)
Meridel LeSueur
The Grapes of Wrath	249	(5)
John Steinbeck
``Colonial Park''	254	(2)
Ralph Ellison
``Proud Day''	256	(2)
Genevieve Taggard
World War II	258	(24)
``Freedom''	259	(3)
E.B. White
Battle Cry	262	(4)
Leon Uris
Farewell to Manzanar	266	(3)
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
James D. Houston
``Apostrophe to the Land''	269	(3)
Countee Cullen
The Face of War	272	(3)
Martha Gellhorn
Night	275	(4)
Elie Wiesel
Hiroshima	279	(3)
John Hersey
UNIT 5 THE CHALLENGES OF POWER 1945--1975	282	(54)
Prosperity and Anxiety	284	(20)
An American Childhood	285	(2)
Annie Dillard
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	287	(3)
Sloan Wilson
On the Road	290	(3)
Jack Kerouac
Coming of Age in Mississippi	293	(2)
Anne Moody
The Crucible	295	(4)
Arthur Miller
The Right Stuff	299	(5)
Tom Wolfe
Rights and Revolutions	304	(18)
``Letter from Birmingham Jail''	305	(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.
``Message to the Grass Roots''	308	(3)
Malcolm X
``Why I Want a Wife''	311	(3)
Judy Brady
The House on Mango Street	314	(3)
Sandra Cisneros
Lakota Woman	317	(3)
Mary Crow Dog
``Blowin' in the Wind''	320	(2)
Bob Dylan
The Vietnam Years	322	(14)
One very hot day	323	(3)
David Halberstam
Going after Cacciato	326	(5)
Tim O'Brien
``Life at War''	331	(2)
Denise Levertov
American Pastoral	333	(3)
Philip Roth
``Letters from My Father''	336
Robert Olen Butler