Does anyone have any one of these books need asap for my history class... Catherine Beecher, Treatise on Domestic Economy or The American Woman’s Home (women’s roles) William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (“Pilgrims” and the Plymouth Colony) Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet (Puritan poet) — read a large selection of poems Mary Boykin Chesnutt, A Diary from Dixie (Confederacy and the Civil War) Christopher Columbus, The Log of Christopher Columbus (or the Journal or Diario) (Columbus’s voyage) James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (frontier life) James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat (Jacksonian-era politics) Hector St. John Crevecouer, Letters from an American Farmer (American identity) Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (slavery and abolitionism) Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “The American Scholar,” and/or “Circles” (Transcendentalism) Olaudah Equiano, Equiano’s Travels (slave trade) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Enlightenment) William Lloyd Garrison, Great Lives Observed, ed. George M. Frederickson (abolitionism) Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs and Selected Letters (Civil War) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (American utopianism) Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (National period) Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (slave narrative) Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson, slavery, etc.) Bartolomé Las Casas, The Destruction of the Indies (Spanish in Caribbeann) Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, ed. Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark (L&C Expedition) Abraham Lincoln, The Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Carl Van Doren (Lincoln and Civil War) — read a large selection of items J. Madison, J. Jay, A. Hamilton, The Federalist (or The Federalist Papers) (support for the Constitution) Herman Melville, Moby Dick (whaling, 19C life) Thomas Paine, Common Sense (support for the Revolution) R. G. Shaw, Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Robert Gould Shaw (Civil War and racism) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (women’s rights) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (slavery and abolitionism) Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Transcendentalism and self-reliance) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855 edition!) (greatest American poet)
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