Canon Beginnings to 1700
Christopher Columbus
Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First VoyageÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of AmericaWilliam Bradford
The Mayflower CompactJohn Winthrop
A Model of Christian CharityAnne Bradstreet
Select PoemsMary Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonEdward Taylor
HuswiferyCotton Mather
The Wonders of the Invisible World
American Literature Canon 1700-1820
Jonathan Edwards
Selected SermonsPontiac
Speech at DetroitThomas Jefferson
The Declaration of IndependenceJames Madison
The United States ConstitutionFederalist No. 10Tecumseh
Speech to the OsagesBenjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJohn Adams
Letter on Thomas JeffersonJ. Hector St John de Crevecoeur
Letters from an American FarmerThomas Paine
Common SenseThe CrisisAlexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 1Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoPhillis Wheatley
Religious and Moral Poems
American Literature Canon 1820-1865
Washington Irving
Rip Van WinkleThe Legend of Sleepy HollowJames Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the MohicansWilliam Cullen Bryant
ThanatopsisTo a WaterfowlThe PrairiesRalph Waldo Emerson
NatureThe American ScholarSelf-RelianceThe PoetEach and AllMerlinBrahmaLetter to President Martin van BurenComplete WorksNathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet LetterMy Kinsman, Major MolineuxYoung Goodman BrownThe May-Pole of Merry MountThe Minister's Black VeilThe Birth-MarkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of LifeThe Slave's DreamThe Jewish Cemetery at NewportMy Lost YouthJohn Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-Bound: A Winter IdylEdgar Allan Poe
The RavenAnnabel LeeLigeiaThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Black CatThe Purloined LetterThe Philosophy of CompositionAbraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg AddressSecond Inaugural AddressThe Emancipation ProclamationMargaret Fuller
The Great LawsuitWilliam Lloyd Garrison
To the PublicThe InsurrectionJohn Brown and the Principle of NonresistanceAngelina Grimke
Appeal to the Christian Women of the SouthSojourner Truth
Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, OhioAin't I a Woman?Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's CabinFanny Fern
Male Criticism on Ladies' BooksFresh Leaves, by Fanny FernHarriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHenry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)WaldenFrederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by HimselfWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Herman Melville
Bartleby, the ScrivenerBenito CerenoBattle-PiecesMoby-DickWalt Whitman
Complete WorksEmily Dickinson
Complete WorksElizabeth Drew Stoddard
Lemorne versus HuellFrances Ellen Watkins Harper
Eliza HarrisEthiopiaThe Fugitive's WifeThe Tennessee HeroBury Me in aFree LandRebecca Harding Davis
Life in the Iron-Mills
American Literature Canon 1865-1914
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyPudd'nhead WilsonWilliam Dean Howells
Novel Writing and Novel ReadingEdithaAmbrose Bierce
An Occurance at Owl Creek BridgeHenry James
The Turn of the ScrewDaisy Miller: A StudyThe Real ThingThe Beast in the JungleThe Art of FictionThe Portrait of a LadySarah Orne Jewett
A White HeronEmma Lazarus
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport1492The New ColossusKate Chopin
At the 'Cadian BallThe StormDésirée’s BabyThe AwakeningBooker T. Washington
Up from SlaveryCharlotte Perkins-Gilman
The Yellow Wall-paperEdith Wharton
The Other TwoRoman FeverEthan FromeW. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black FolkFrank Norris
A Plea for Romantic FictionTheodore Dreiser
Sister CarrieTrue Art Speaks PlainlyStephen Crane
The Red Badge of CourageMaggieThe Open BoatThe Blue HotelThe Black RidersWar Is KindPaul Laurence Dunbar
When Malindy SingsAn Ante-Bellum SermonSympathyWe Wear the MaskFrederick DouglassHarriet Beecher StoweJack London
The Call of the WildTo Build a FireWhat Life Means to MeZitkala Sa
Impressions of and Indian ChildhoodThe Soft-Hearted SiouxFrederick Jackson Turner
The Significance of the Frontier in American HistoryTheodore Roosevelt
American IdealsThe Strenuous LifeHelen Hunt Jackson
A Century of Dishonor
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