Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
1. The Popul Vuh Excerpts
Patricia Bostian
2. Origin Myth of the Acoma
3. Navajo Diné Bahaneʼ
Joel Gladd
4. Mayan Chilam Balam
5. Christopher Columbus
6. Bartolome De Las Casas
7. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Sam Gagnon
8. The Requerimiento
Angela Weiler
9. Genesis 1-3
10. William Bradford
11. John Winthrop
Sonya Parrish
12. Roger Williams
13. Thomas Morton
Joel Gladd, Ph.D
14. Anne Bradstreet
15. Edward Taylor
16. Mary Rowlandson
17. Cotton Mather
18. Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Neville
19. Briton Hammon
20. Benjamin Franklin
21. Elizabeth Ashbridge
22. Tecumseh
23. Thomas Paine
24. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
25. The Federalist (Hamilton and Madison)
Elaina Frulla
26. Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Metivier
27. Toussaint L’Ouverture
28. John Marrant
Patricia Ann West
29. Prince Hall
Rachel Levi
30. Hugh Henry Brackenridge
31. Phillis Wheatley
32. Judith Sargent Murray
Robert P. Wilson
33. Philip Freneau
34. Susanna Rowson
35. Charles Brockden Brown
36. Catharine Maria Sedgwick
37. Washington Irving
38. James Fenimore Cooper
39. William Cullen Bryant
40. Joseph Smith Jr.
41. Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Margaret Fuller
43. Edgar Allan Poe
44. Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
46. Herman Melville
47. Harriet Beecher Stowe
48. Abraham Lincoln
Kenyon Gradert
49. Frederick Douglass
50. David Walker
51. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Tammie Jenkins
52. Harriet Jacobs
Tucker Hayford; Paige Schoppmann; and Katherine Whitcomb
53. Louisa May Alcott
Eleftheria Tsirakoglou
54. Emily Dickinson
55. Walt Whitman
56. Thomas Cole
57. Mark Twain
Janina Misiewicz
58. William Dean Howells
59. S. Alice Callahan
60. Ambrose Bierce
Gesina A. Phillips
61. Kate Chopin
62. Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
Colleen Tripp
63. Charles Chesnutt
Matthew Teutsch
64. W.E.B. Du Bois
Tapan Basu
65. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
66. Paul Laurence Dunbar
67. John Muir
68. Hózhó and Navajo Artifacts
69. Anne Bradstreet and Early American Meditative Poetry
70. Mary Rowlandson and Captivity Narratives
71. The Salem Witch Trials and Cotton Mather's Apocalyptic Imagination
72. Introduction to the Puritan Imagination
73. Benjamin Franklin, Personal Narratives, and the Art of Self-Cultivation
74. Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, and the debate over poetic genius
75. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, and Gothic Fiction
76. The Rise of the American Short Story, Washington Irving, and German Fairy Tales
77. William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Smith, Thomas Cole, and the early 19th-Century debate over Mound Builders
78. Thomas Cole and the Proto-Environmental Imagination
79. Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism
80. Henry David Thoreau, Self-Improvement, and Nature Writing
81. Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Horror, and the Early Detective Story
82. Ralph Waldo Emerson's "moment of transition" and modern poetics
83. Frederick Douglass's Narrative, arguments over slavery, and Black Christianity
84. Walt Whitman's Democratic Sublime
85. Emily Dickinson's Private Sublime
86. Characterization
87. Plot
Appendix
Accessibility Assessment
Toussant’s Constitution from Jonathan Neville on Vimeo.
Previous/next navigation
Toussaint L’Ouverture Copyright © by Jonathan Neville is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.