Recommended Reading
17th Century Literature
- John Smith's Narratives of Exploration and
Colonization
- Poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
18th Century Literature
- Royall Tyler, The Contrast
- Letters of John Adams and Abigail Adams
- Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of
the Sexes"
- Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland
19th Century Literature
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Herman Melville, Billy
Budd
- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
- Frederick
Douglass, My Bondage and my Freedom
- Henry James, The Golden Bowl
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
- William James, Varieties of Religious
Experience
- Emily Dickinson's Poetry
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855 ed.)
20th Century Literature
- Paul Auster Mr. Vertigo
- William Faulkner, Light in August
- John Dos Passos, U.S.A.
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and Beloved
- Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
- Leslie Silko, Ceremony
- Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear it Away
- Thomas
Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
- Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
- Marilyn Robinson, Housekeeping
20th Century Web Pages
- American
History Archives
- The National
Archives
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