{"subtitle": "Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature", "description": "Explorers and early settlers --\r\nThe general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith --\r\nThe history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley --\r\nOf Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --\r\n\"A model of Christian charity\" / John Winthrop --\r\n\"In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet\" / Anne Bradstreet --\r\n\"The minister's black veil\" / Nathaniel Hawthorne --\r\nVoices of a revolution --\r\n\"Sinners in the hands of an angry God\" / Jonathan Edwards --\r\n\"The way to wealth\" / Benjamin Franklin --\r\n\"Considerations on keeping Negroes\" / John Woolman --\r\n\"The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757\" / James Fenimore Cooper --\r\nCommon sense / Thomas Paine --\r\nDeclaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson --\r\npersonal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams --\r\nThe search for a national identity --\r\n\"On the emigration to America and peopling the western country\" / Philip Freneau --\r\n\"Federalist no.2\" / John Jay --\r\n\"The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano\" / Olaudah Equiano --\r\nThe history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark --\r\nA tour on the prairies / Washington Irving --\r\n\"Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws\" / Tecumseh --\r\nThe shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation --\r\n\"The young American\" / Ralph Waldo Emerson --\r\n\"Resistance to civil government\" / Henry David Thoreau --\r\nWoman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller --\r\n\"Great are the myths\" / Walt Whitman --\r\n\"Annexation\" / John L. O'Sullivan --\r\nPersonal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin --\r\nSlavery and the abolition movement --\r\nNarrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass --\r\nIncidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs --\r\nUncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe --\r\nSociology for the South / George Fitzhugh --\r\n\"Appeal to the Christian women of the South\" / Angelina Grimke Weld --\r\n\"The hunters of men\" / John Greenleaf Whittier --\r\nCivil war and reconstruction --\r\n\"The portent\" / Herman Melville --\r\nThe red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane --\r\n\"Hospital sketches\" / Louisa May Alcott --\r\n\"O Captain! My Captain!\" / Walt Whitman --\r\n\"Up from slavery\" / Booker T. Washington --\r\nThe souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America --\r\nThe closing of the frontier --\r\nO pioneers! / Willa Cather --\r\n\"Chiquita\" / Bret Harte --\r\nThe life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love --\r\n\"Kansas I\" / A Mexican Folk Ballad --\r\n\"The passing of the buffalo\" / Hamlin Garland --\r\nBlack Elk speaks / Black Elk --\r\nArtists render industrialization and urbanization --\r\n\"What the engines said\" / Bret Harte --\r\n\"Life in the iron mills\" / Rebecca Harding Davis --\r\nThe age of innocence / Edith Wharton --\r\n\"Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge\" / Hart Crane --\r\nYekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan --\r\n\"Chicago\" / Carl Sandburg --\r\nSocial critics and reformers --\r\n\"We are all bound up together\" / Francis E. Watkins Harper --\r\nEighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --\r\n\"A church mouse\" / Mary Wilkins Freeman --\r\nHuckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens --\r\nThe shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens --\r\nThe jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I --\r\nThe portrait of a lady / Henry James --\r\n\"The white man's burden\" / Rudyard Kipling --\r\n\"The real 'white man's burden'\" / Ernest Crosby --\r\n\"Hallelujahs\" / Jose de Diego --\r\nOne of ours / Willa Cather --\r\n\"next to of course god america i\" / E. E. Cummings --\r\nDemocracy and adversity --\r\nThe jazz age --\r\nThe great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald --\r\n\"Song of perfect propriety\" / Dorothy Parker --\r\nThe flivver king / Upton Sinclair --\r\nJazz / Toni Morrison --\r\n\"The weary blues\" / Langston Hughes --\r\nTheir eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston --\r\nThe Great Depression and the New Deal --\r\nThe big money / John Dos Passos --\r\nWaiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets --\r\n\"Women on the breadlines\" / Meridel LeSueur --\r\nThe grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck --\r\n\"Colonial Park\" / Ralph Ellison --\r\n\"Proud day\" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II --\r\n\"Freedom\" / E. B. White --\r\nBattle cry / Leon Uris --\r\nFarewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston --\r\n\"Apostrophe to the land\" / Countee Cullen --\r\nThe face of war / Martha Gellhorn --\r\nNight / Elie Wiesel --\r\nHiroshima / John Hershey --\r\nThe challenges of power --\r\nProsperity and anxiety --\r\nAn American childhood / Annie Dillard --\r\nThe man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson --\r\nOn the road / Jack Kerouac --\r\nComing of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody --\r\nThe cruicible / Arthur Miller --\r\nThe right stuff / Tom Wolfe --\r\nRights and revolutions --\r\n\"Letter from a Birmingham jail\" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --\r\n\"Message to the grass roots\" / Malcolm X --\r\n\"Why I want a wife\" / Judy Brady --\r\nThe house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --\r\nLakota woman / Mary Crow Dog --\r\n\"Blowin' in the wind\" / Bob Dylan --\r\nThe Vietnam years --\r\nOne very hot day / David Halberstam --\r\nGoing after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien --\r\n\"Life at war\" / Denise Levertov --\r\nAmerican pastoral / Philip Roth --\r\n\"Letters from my father\" / 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