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Lit. 214
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Colonial Period
Native American
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Red Jacket's Speech
Story Collections
Lyrics, Poems and Chants
Spanish Explorers
Early Colonial
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New England Primer
Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson
John Smith
John Winthrop
Colonial Song Lyrics
Colonial and Revolutionary
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Readings
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Ben Franklin
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Advice on the Choice of a Mistress
Excerpts from The Autobiography
A Tale
Phyllis Wheatly
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Poems
Thomas Paine
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Common Sense
Philip Freneau
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Freneau Poems
Thomas Jefferson
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Writings
Jupiter Hammon
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An Evening Thought
Lyrics
Romantic Period
Elements of American Romanticism
Authors
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Washington Irving
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Irving's Place
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Irving's Place2
Irving on the Tale
Rip Van Winkle
Rip 2
Rip 3
Poetry
James Fenimore Cooper
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LOTH Silent Movie
Chapter 32
Chapter 32 B
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Selected Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Selected Writings
Transcendentalism
Edgar Allen Poe
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Poe's Approach to Fiction
Life of Poe
Selected Poems
"The Raven"
The Black Cat
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Cullen Bryant
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Bryants Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Selected Poetry
Margaret Fuller
Fanny Fern
Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Scarlett Letter Excepts
Young Goodman Brown
C. Clement Moore
Lyrics
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Folk / Gospel
Parlor Music
Music Hall
Stephen Foster
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Music
George Root
Civil War Period
1850 - 1861
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Harriet Anne Jacobs
Francis Harper
Frederick Douglass
Songs of Protest, Freedom, Sadness
1861 - 1866
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Julie Ward Howe
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
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Excerpts
Abraham Lincoln
Louisa May Alcott
Misc. Poets
Warriors & Memoirs
Civil War Songs
Supporting Videos for Lit. 215
Click on the Photos below to watch a video. The biography of Ernest Hemingway is also from the American Masters Series. Its focus is Hemingway the artist.
Mark Twain's Adventurous Life
The Red Badge of Courage