Introduction
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I. Pre-contact, Contact, and Colonization
1. Origin Myth of the Acoma
2. The Popul Vuh
3. Mayan Chilam Balam
4. The Book of Genesis, King James Bible
5. Seneca Creation Myths
6. Other Native American & Ethnographic Texts
7. Christopher Columbus (c.1450-1506)
8. Bartolome De Las Casas (1484 – 1566)
9. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1488-c.1560)
10. The Requerimiento (1513)
11. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
II. New England/Puritanism
12. Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647)
13. John Smith (1580–1631)
14. John Winthrop (1588-1649)
15. William Bradford (1590–1657)
16. Roger Williams (c.1603-1683)
17. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
18. Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)
19. Edward Taylor (c.1642-1729)
20. Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
21. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
22. Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
III. Struggles, Revolution, and Nation
23. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
24. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
25. Prince Hall (c.1735-1807)
26. Thomas Paine (c.1736-1809)
27. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
28. Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803)
29. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
30. Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
31. Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
32. Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)
33. John Marrant (1755-1791)
34. Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings (1760)
35. The Federalist (1787-1788): Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay
36. Susanna Rowson (1762-1824)
37. Tecumseh (c.1768-1813)
38. Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
39. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
40. David "Davy" Crockett (1786-1836)
41. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
IV. American Renaissance/Romanticism
42. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
43. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
44. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
45. Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
46. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
47. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
48. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
49. Joseph Smith Jr., The Book of Mormon (1830)
50. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
V. Abolition and Civil War
51. David Walker (1796-1830)
52. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
53. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
54. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
55. Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
56. Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)
57. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
58. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
VI. Reconstruction and Realism
59. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
60. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
61. John Muir (1838-1914)
62. Ambrose Bierce (1842–c1914)
63. Ambrose Bierce (1846-c.1914)
64. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
65. Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
66. Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
67. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
68. Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)
69. S. Alice Callahan (1868-1894)
70. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
71. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
72. Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)
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