Source Materials
*All images used in the anthology are from Wikimedia Commons and are licensed in the public domain.
Adams, John, Abigail, and Charles Francis. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams. Hurd and Houghton, 1875. Project Gutenberg. http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/34123
Apess, William. “An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man.” The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, of the Pequod Tribe. James B. Dow, 1837. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/experiencesoffiv00apes
Bradstreet, Anne. Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England. John Foster, 1678. Early English Books Online. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A29149.0001.001
Bryant, William Cullen. Poems. Katz Brothers, 1854. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16341
Black Hawk. Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk. J. B. Patterson, 1882. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7097 Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Nunez. The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536. Allerton Book, 1922. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000288721
Child, Lydia Maria. Letters from New York, 1st and 2nd Series. F. Pittman, 1879. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/lettersfromnewyo00child/page/n7
—. Letters of Lydia Maria Child. Edited by Harriet Winslow Sewall. Houghton Mifflin, 1883. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/lettersoflydiam00chil/page/n5
Cusick, David. Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations. Edited by Paul Royster. Tuscarora Village, 1828. Digital Commons at University of Nebraska – Lincoln. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/24/
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. 1845. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007488597
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The American Scholar.” Essays. Edited by Edna H. L. Turpin. Charles E. Merrill Co, 1907. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16643
Fern, Fanny. Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Port-folio. Second Series. Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, 1854. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45450
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Charles Eliot. P F Collier & Son, 1909. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “The Duston Family.” The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. vol 2. no. 7. May 1835. pp. 395-97. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000598160
Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. G.P. Putnam, 1864. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2048
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Edited by Lydia Maria Child. 1861. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003488671
Kirkland, Caroline. A New Home, Who’ll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life. 5th ed. C.S. Francis, 1855. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003842705
Mather, Cotton. “A Notable Exploit: Dux Faemina Facti.” Magnalia Christi Americana. S. Andrus & Son, 1853. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001268171
Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. 1855. University of Adelaide E-books. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/melville/herman/benito-cereno/complete.html
“Memorials of the Cherokee Indians.” United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. G.P.O., 1817. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3983183&view=1up&seq=66
Per Amicum. “Preface.” A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Samuel Green, 1682. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/soveraigntygoodn00rowl/page/n6
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Black Cat.” The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven Edition, Vol II. P F Collier & Son, 1903. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148
Rowlandson, Mary. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. 1682. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/851
Smith, John. The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. Michael Sparks, 1624. Early English Books Online. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12461.0001.001
Thoreau, Henry David. “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
—. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 1849. Project Gutenberg.. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4232/4232-h/4232-h.htm
Washington, George. “Letter to Phyllis Wheatley.” February, 1776. National Archives: Founders Online. https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Correspondent%3A%22Washington%2C%20George%22%20Correspondent%3A%22Wheatley%2C%20Phillis%22&s=1111311111&r=2
Wheatley, Phyllis. “Letter to Samson Occom.” The Connecticut Gazette. 1774. Africans in America: PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h19t.html
—. “To His Excellency George Washington.” 1775. National Archives: Founders Online. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0222-0002
—. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. 1773. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/409
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1855. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322
Williams, Roger. The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience. Hanserd Knollys Soc, 1848. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/thebloudytenento00willuoft/page/n59
—. A Key into the Language of America. Gregory Dexter, 1643. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/keyintolanguageo02will/page/n1
—. “Letter to the Town of Providence.” Publications of the Narragansett Club: The Letters of Roger Williams. 1874. GooglePlay Free E-books. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=vb9HAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-vb9HAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
Winthrop, John. “A Model of Christian Charity.” Collections of the Massachussetts Historical Society. Third Series. Vol VII. Charles Little & James Brown, 1838. HathiTrust Digital Library. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002748095&view=1up&seq=7
