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Introduction
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1. Origin Myth of the Acoma
Patricia Bostian
2. The Popul Vuh
3. Mayan Chilam Balam
Angela Weiler
4. The Book of Genesis, King James Bible
5. Seneca Creation Myths
Timothy Robbins
6. Other Native American & Ethnographic Texts
Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan
7. Christopher Columbus (c.1450-1506)
Hannah Hounsell
8. Bartolome De Las Casas (1484 – 1566)
9. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1488-c.1560)
Sam Gagnon
10. The Requerimiento (1513)
11. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont
12. Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647)
13. John Smith (1580–1631)
Brook O'Keefe; Cheyanne Chesley; Jade Parkhurst; Ricki Pierre-Canel; and Christopher Goodwin
14. John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Sonya Parrish
15. William Bradford (1590–1657)
16. Roger Williams (c.1603-1683)
Matt Moore; Ryan Schlom; and Katelyn Metcalf
17. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Shana Rowe
18. Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)
Robert P. Wilson
19. Edward Taylor (c.1642-1729)
20. Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
21. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Jonathan Neville
22. Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
23. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
24. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
25. Prince Hall (c.1735-1807)
Rachel Levi
26. Thomas Paine (c.1736-1809)
27. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Samuel Metivier
28. Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803)
29. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
Elaina Frulla
30. Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
31. Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Shelli Homer
32. Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)
33. John Marrant (1755-1791)
Patricia Ann West
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)
Randallynn Smith; Jackson Carr; and Tyree Snorgrass
38. Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
Meghan Self
39. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Kelsey Davis; Hannah Fitzgerald; and Brittany John
40. David "Davy" Crockett (1786-1836)
Coultan Nilles; Samantha Brooks; Cole Hopkins; Derek Tillotson; Fatima Zamarron; and De'Andre Innocent
41. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
Amanda Ewing; Sawyer Steehn; and Juliann Houk
42. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
43. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Kelsey Neely
44. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Kendall Panaggio
45. Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
46. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
47. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Gesina A. Phillips
48. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Gesina A. Phillips; Rowena Finnegan Cummings; Anna Greenwood; and Nathan Theriault
49. Joseph Smith Jr., The Book of Mormon (1830)
Jessica Pycior
50. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
51. David Walker (1796-1830)
Kenyon Gradert
52. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
Josephine Acland; Payton Young; McKae Geromini; Abraham De Anda; and Amadou Kujabi
53. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
54. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Amelia Berube; Jordan Cady; and Samantha Latos
55. Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
Tucker Hayford; Paige Schoppmann; and Katherine Whitcomb
56. Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)
Caitlin Andreasen; Nicholas A. Prescott; and Kristan McCoy
57. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Tammie Jenkins
58. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Eleftheria Tsirakoglou
59. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Janina Misiewicz
60. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
61. John Muir (1838-1914)
62. Ambrose Bierce (1842–c1914)
63. Ambrose Bierce (1846-c.1914)
Ashley Leible; Noah Johnson; Sam Henson; Alvin Dudley; and Isaiah Johnson
64. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Anthony Ginger; Tabitha Reno; Arrianna Cannon; Cyntayla Glass; and Emma Hellens
65. Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
Ilse Schrynemakers
66. Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Matthew Teutsch
67. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Natalia Kome
68. Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)
Colleen Tripp
69. S. Alice Callahan (1868-1894)
70. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Tapan Basu
71. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
72. Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)
Abby Karlis; Kamryn Leavitt; Karley Whelchel; Jesse Beecher; and Shelby Smith
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