Online readings

Creation Stories

• Genesis (see, especially, Chapters 1-3)
• “The Story of Poia” (Blackfoot)
• “How the World Began” (Seneca)
• D.L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
• “Story of the Peace Pipe” (Sioux)

Selected readings listed chronologically:

• Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion
• John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”
• William Bradford, “Of Plymouth Plantation”
• Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse
• Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
• Edward Taylor, “Huswifery”
• Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
• Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth”
• Thomas Paine, “Common Sense”
• Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis”
• J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
• Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
• Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
• Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” and “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
• Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women.”
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”
• Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
• Emily Dickinson, Poems (search for titles)