American Literature

Book List for Month 2 (1801-1865)

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Abraham Lincoln – various proclamations

Caroline M Kirkland – A New Home – Who’ll Follow

Cherokee Memorials

Edgar Allan Poe-selected works

Edwin Dwight - Memoirs of Henry Obookiah

Elizabeth Oakes Smith - The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories

Frank J. Webb – The Garies and their Friends

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (sel.)

Harriet Jacobs – Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - selections

Herman Melville – Bartleby the Scrivener

James Fenimore Cooper – The Pioneers (sel)

John P. Kennedy – Swallow Barn

Louise AS Clappe – The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-1852

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance

Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass

Washington Irving

William Apess – An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man

William Cullen Bryant – selected poems

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