American Literature

Book List for Month 1 (pre-1800)

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Anne Bradstreet – selected

Antifederalist Papers – various (selections)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Part 1)

Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois…)

Cotton Mather - Selections

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Hector St. John de Creve Coeur - Selected Letters

H. H. Brackenridge - The Battle of Bunkers-Hill

John and Abigail Adams - Selected Letters

Mercy Otis Warren - The Group (selections)

Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa

Phillip Freneau - Poems, Volumes 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 (selected)

Phillis Wheatley - selected works

Publius - The Federalist Papers

Roger Williams - A Key Into the Language of America

Royall Tyler - The Contrast

Samson Occom - A Short Narrative of My Life

Thomas Jefferson - Notes On The State of Virginia

 
 

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

William Bradford - Selections

William Dunlap - André

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