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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