I. Colonial and New England
Oral Narratives
Source: Blue Corn
- Native American Oral Literatures
- Native American Thought
- Outline of American Indian Literatures
- First People
- Iroquois Constitution
- Colonization and Print in the Americas
- First Nations
- D.L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Native American History at the Library of Congress
Christopher Columbus
Source: RosenblumTV
- Brooks, The True Story of Christopher Columbus
- Hale, The Life of Christopher Columbus
- Columbus in American History
- 1494 Letter to King and Queen of Spain
- Columbus at the Library of Congress
- Overview – Literature of Discovery and Exploration
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
Source: SJSU
- Timeline of Cabeza de Vaca’s travels (San Jose State)
- La Relacion (Texas State)
- Castañeda’s account of Cabeza de Vaca’s adventures (Texas A&M)
- Adventures into the Unknown Interior of America
- Catholic Encyclopedia Sketch
- American Passages: Exploring Borderlands
- Background on hagiography
- PBS page on Cabeza de Vaca
- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Pioneer Historian, Ethnologist, Physician (Part 1)
- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Pioneer Historian, Ethnologist, Physician (Part 2)
- Bibliography for further reading (Cabrillo College)
Thomas Morton
Source: Wilson's Almanac
- Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England), 1637 (Fordham)
- Revels in New Canaan (Swarthmore)
- Scott Atkins, “The American Sense of Puritan” (UVA)
- Hawthorne – “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” (Eldritch Press)
- “The Pagan Pilgrim: Thomas Morton of Merrymount”
- Timeline for Plymouth and Merrymount (WSU)
- New York Times article on Maypole celebrations
John Winthrop
Source: PAL
- Campbell on “Puritan Typology” (WSU)
- PAL bibliography
- Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”
- Winthrop, “Remarks on Liberty” (Maryland)
- Winthrop, “Reasons for Emigrating to New England (Swarthmore)
- Bercovitch on “A Model of Christian Charity” (Harvard)
- Shook’s page on the Puritans
- PBS page on the Puritans
- Scott Atkins, “The American Sense of Puritan” (UVA)
- Winthrop Society
- American Colonist’s Library
William Bradford
Source: UVA
- Bio from Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- Plymouth Colony Archive Project
- PAL bibliography
- CSPAN on Bradford
- History of the Pequot War
- Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freemen (1640)
- Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower Web
- Bradford’s last will and testament
Anne Hutchinson
Source: Stockton
- Hutchinson home page
- PAL bio and bibliography
- Trial transcript at the Court at Newton
- Anne Hutchinson and the Economics of Antinomian Selfhood in Colonial New England
- Revising Anne (student essay)
- Student page at Georgetown
- The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island
- Scott Atkins, “The American Sense of Puritan” (UVA)
Roger Williams
Source: RWFA
- Bio at Roger Williams Family Association
- Heath Anthology introduction
- PAL bibliography
- Abbreviated bio at Arkansas
- The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution (1644)
Anne Bradstreet
Source: poems.net.au
- Anne Woodlief’s bio and study texts (VCU)
- Heath anthology bio sketch
- PAL bibliography
- NPR feature on Bradstreet
- Online poems at Fire and Ice
- Online poems at Toronto
- Resources for Women Writers
- Anne Bradstreet Archive (Ferris State)
- The Colonial Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (Penn State)
Michael Wigglesworth
Source: sanctuary.frih.net
- Heath anthology bio sketch
- PAL bibliography
- Bio sketch and online poems at Fire and Ice
- Hypertext of “The Day of Doom”
- Ecclesiastes (KJV)
- Teaching strategies for Wigglesworth
- God’s Controversy with New England
- Notes on “The Day of Doom”
Mary Rowlandson
Source: UCI
- PAL bibliography
- Campbell on captivity narratives
- Gleason, “The Chosen People of God: Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative”
- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (UPenn)
- Synopsis of King Philip’s War
- Wesley, “Moving Targets: The Travel Text in ‘A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’”
Edward Taylor
Source: UNCP
- Heath introduction and overview
- PAL bibliography
- Campbell’s lecture notes on Taylor
- Online poems at Fire and Ice
- Meditative tradition (definition)
- Metaphysical poetry (overview)
- More background on metaphysical poetry
Cotton Mather
Source: Havel's
- Heath anthology bio sketch
- Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689)
- Excerpt of Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
- Salem Trials from a Legal Perspective
- Selected Salem examinations and trial records
- Comprehensive Salem court records
II. Enlightenment and Early Republic
Jonathan Edwards
Source: IOI
- The Writings of Jonathan Edwards
- Jonathan Edwards Center (Yale)
- Edwards article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
- How to Know if You Are a Real Christian
- A Divine and Supernatural Light
- Religion in Eighteenth-Century America
Benjamin Franklin
Source: Delmar
- Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
- Cambridge biography at Bartleby
- Deism: Franklin’s religious doctrine
- PBS site: An Extraordinary Life. An Electric Mind.
- D.H. Lawrence on Franklin
- Internet History Sourcebook on the Enlightenment
- The Electric Franklin
- John Locke (one of Franklin’s influences)
John Woolman
Source: PAL
- Bio sketch from Quaker Electronic Archive
- Journal of John Woolman (UVA)
- PAL bibliography
- The Religious Society of Friends
- John Woolman: Quintessential Quaker
- Abolitionism in America
Thomas Paine
Source: SMSU
- Bio sketch at Revolution to Reconstruction
- PAL bibliography
- Common Sense (Fordham)
- The Rights of Man
- The Life of Thomas Paine
- The Founders’ Constitution
- Resources on Revolution and Independence (Shook)
J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Source: UCI
- Brief timeline and overview
- PAL bibliography
- “Negotiating Nature/Wilderness: Crevecoeur and American Identity in Letters from an American Farmer“ (VCU)
- Letters from an American Farmer (UVA)
- D.H. Lawrence on Crevecoeur
- Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer
Thomas Jefferson
Source: PSU
- Life of Thomas Jefferson (UVA)
- PAL bibliography
- “Fighting for Space at the Jefferson Family Table”
- Digital guide to Thomas Jefferson (UVA)
- Notes on the State of Virginia (UVA)
- Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
- “Jefferson the Contradiction”
Philip Freneau
Source: PAL
- Cambridge bio at Bartleby
- PAL bibliography
- Poems Relating to the American Revolution
- “The Indian Burying Ground”
- “The Wild Honeysuckle”
- Other poems at Bartleby
Phillis Wheatley
Source: NCSU
- Woodlief’s bio (VCU)
- PAL bibliography
- Voices from the Gaps (UMN)
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (UNC)
- Bennett, “Phillis Wheatley’s Vocation and the Paradox of the ‘Afric Muse’” (JSTOR)
III. Romanticism and American Renaissance
Washington Irving
Source: LG
- Irving at Literary Gothic
- PAL bibliography
- Campbell’s Irving page
- Heath anthology site
- Excerpt from White on Red (UVA)
- Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York
- Searchable hyper-concordance to Irving’s work
- Works at Bartleby
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: ATW
- Woodlief’s bio (VCU)
- Emerson in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Emerson in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
- Search Emerson’s Complete Works (UMich)
- PAL bibliography
- “Emerson” at Bartleby
- “Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson’s Evolutionary Existentialism”
- Online poems
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: Eldritch
- Hawthorne’s works at Eldritch Press
- Hawthorne Society
- PAL bibliography
- Hawthorne in Salem reference site
- Texts and biographies at Bartleby
- Campbell’s Hawthorne site
- D.H. Lawrence on Hawthorne
- Searchable hyper-concordance to Hawthorne’s work
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Source: NMWH
- Margaret Fuller Society
- Woodlief’s bio (VCU)
- Goodwin’s bio
- PAL bibliography
- Study text of “The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.”
- Campbell’s Fuller site
- Alcott’s poem, “Margaret Fuller”
Harriet Jacobs
Source: Harvard
- Bio at Documenting the American South
- PAL bibliography
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (UVA)
- Selected writings and correspondence (Yale)
- More resources at Documenting the American South
Henry David Thoreau
Source: Clemson
- Woodlief’s bio (VCU)
- PAL bibliography
- Walden study text (VCU)
- Thoreau in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Writings of Henry David Thoreau (UCSB)
- Thoreau Society
- Thoreau Project
- Walden Woods Project
Frederick Douglass
Source: NAZ
- Bio with table of contents
- PAL bibliography
- Biographical timeline
- Douglass Papers at Indiana University
- Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- Frederick Douglass Project
- National Park Service site
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Herman Melville
Source: Britannica
- Life and Works of Herman Melville
- Cohen’s bio
- PAL bibliography
- Study text of “Bartleby” (VCU)
- Hypertext of Billy Budd (UVA)
- Poems by Melville (Cornell)
- Campbell’s Melville site
- Searchable hyper-concordance to Melville’s work
- D.H. Lawrence on Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Source: WWA
- Walt Whitman Archive
- PAL bibliography
- Modern American Poetry
- Donna Campbell’s slideshow
- Whitman Collection at Library of Congress
- D.H. Lawrence on Whitman
- Whitman and Slavery
- The Classroom Electric (searchable site for Whitman and Dickinson)
Emily Dickinson
Source: WFB
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- PAL bibliography
- Emily Dickinson International Society
- Modern American poetry
- Searchable hyper-concordance to Dickinson’s work
- Academy of American Poets
- Dickinson’s cartoons
- The Classroom Electric (searchable site for Whitman and Dickinson)
Moving Targets: the Travel Text in ‘A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.’
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