Contents

1. Introduction

2. I. Native American and Ethnographic Texts

   1. 1. Introduction

      Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan

   2. 2. The Peyote Cult (Plains)

      Paul Radin

   3. 3. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)

      Charles Leland

   4. 4. The Origin of Disease and Medicine

      James Mooney

   5. 5. How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)

      Charles Leland

3. II. Christopher Columbus

   1. 6. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)

      Christopher Columbus

   2. 7. Introduction

      Hannah Hounsell

   3. 8. Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500 (Excerpt)

      Christopher Columbus

4. III. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   1. 9. Introduction

      Sam Gagnon

   2. 10. Prologue

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   3. 11. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   4. 12. Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute (Excerpt)

   5. 13. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   6. 14. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   7. 15. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   8. 16. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   9. 17. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)

      Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   10. 18. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)

       Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

   11. 19. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)

       Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

5. IV. The Requerimiento

   1. 20. Requerimiento

6. V. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

   1. 21. Introduction

      Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont

   2. 22. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt

      Don Antonio de Otermín

   3. 23. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION

      Edmund Nequatewa

7. VI. William Bradford

   1. 24. Anno Dom: 1642

      William Bradford

   2. 25. Preface

      William Bradford

   3. 26. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)

      William Bradford

   4. 27. Anno Dom: 1628 (Excerpt)

      William Bradford

   5. 28. Anno Dom: 1623

      William Bradford

   6. 29. Chapter 9: Of their voyage, and how they passed the sea; and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod

      William Bradford

   7. 30. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)

      William Bradford

8. VII. Thomas Morton

   1. 31. New English Canaan (Excerpt)

      Thomas Morton

9. VIII. Anne Bradstreet

   1. 32. The Prologue

      Anne Bradstreet

   2. 33. Introduction

      Shana Rowe

   3. 34. The Author to Her Book

      Anne Bradstreet

   4. 35. The Flesh and the Spirit

      Anne Bradstreet

   5. 36. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth

      Anne Bradstreet

   6. 37. Letter: To My Dear Children

      Anne Bradstreet

10. IX. Mary Rowlandson

    1. 38. The First Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    2. 39. The Second Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    3. 40. The Third Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    4. 41. The Fifth Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    5. 42. The Eighth Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    6. 43. The Twelfth Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    7. 44. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)

       Mary Rowlandson

    8. 45. The Eighteenth Remove

       Mary Rowlandson

    9. 46. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)

       Mary Rowlandson

11. X. Cotton Mather

    1. 47. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence

       Cotton Mather

    2. 48. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692

       Cotton Mather

    3. 49. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War

       Cotton Mather

12. XI. Jonathan Edwards

    1. 50. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)

       Jonathan Edwards

    2. 51. Introduction

       Jonathan Neville

    3. 52. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)

       Jonathan Edwards

    4. 53. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion

       Sarah Pierrepont Edwards

13. XII. Thomas Paine

    1. 54. A Short Video About Thomas Paine

       Jonathan Neville

    2. 55. Introduction

       David Walker

    3. 56. Common Sense (Excerpt)

       Thomas Paine

    4. 57. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)

       Thomas Paine

14. XIII. Thomas Jefferson

    1. 58. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)

       Thomas Jefferson

    2. 59. Introduction

       Samuel Metivier

    3. 60. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell

       Thomas Jefferson

15. XIV. Toussaint L'Ouverture

    1. 61. Introductory Video

       Jonathan Neville

    2. 62. Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)

       Toussaint L'Ouverture

16. XV. Briton Hammon

    1. 63. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...

       Briton Hammon

17. XVI. Prince Hall

    1. 64. Introduction

       Rachel Levi

    2. 65. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge

       Prince Hall

18. XVII. Phillis Wheatley

    1. 66. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"

       Phillis Wheatley

19. XVIII. Judith Sargent Murray

    1. 67. On the Equality of the Sexes

    2. 68. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms

       Judith Sargent Murray

20. XIX. Susanna Rowson

    1. 69. Charlotte Temple: Volume II

       Susanna Rowson

    2. 70. Charlotte Temple: Volume I

       Susanna Rowson

21. XX. Edgar Allan Poe

    1. 71. Introduction to Poe

       Kendall Panaggio

    2. 72. The Black Cat

       Edgar Allan Poe

    3. 73. The Murders in the Rue Morgue

       Edgar Allan Poe

22. XXI. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    1. 74. Introduction

       Kelsey Neely

    2. 75. The Minister's Black Veil

       Nathaniel Hawthorne

    3. 76. Young Goodman Brown

       Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. XXII. Walt Whitman

    1. 77. Song of Myself

       Walt Whitman

24. XXIII. Mark Twain

    1. 78. Introduction

       Janina Misiewicz

    2. 79. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

       Mark Twain

    3. 80. The One Million Pound Banknote

       Mark Twain

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