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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 |
Chapter 12 The Indians bring us food |
Chapter 14 The departure of four Christians |
Chapter 16 The Christians leave the island of Malhado |
Chapter 17 The coming of Indians with Andres Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico |
Chapter 19 Our separation by the Indians |
Chapter 20 Of our escape |
Chapter 21 Our cure of some of the afflicted |
Chapter 22 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 |
Chapter 8 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 |
Book I |
Chapter IX Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod |
Chapter X Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout |
Of Plymouth Plantation |
Book II [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 |
Chapter IV Of Their Houses and Habitations |
Chapter XV Of their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses |
The Third Book Containing a Description of the People that are Planted There |
Chapter XIV Of the Revels of New Canaan |
Chapter XV 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 |
Chapter XVIII 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 |