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Introduction
1. The Peyote Cult (Plains)
Paul Radin
2. Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
Charles Leland
3. How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
4. The Origin of Disease and Medicine
James Mooney
5. Introduction
Shannon Griffiths, Kendal LaRiviere, David MacNeill, Timothy Mooneyhan
6. Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
Christopher Columbus
7. Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500 (Excerpt)
8. Introduction
Hannah Hounsell
9. Introduction
Sam Gagnon
10. Prologue
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
11. Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
12. Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute (Excerpt)
13. Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
14. Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
15. Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
16. Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
17. Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
18. Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
19. Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
20. Requerimiento
21. Introduction
Justin Siewierski & Simon Pierpont
22. HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
Edmund Nequatewa
23. Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
Don Antonio de Otermín
24. Preface
William Bradford
25. Anno Dom: 1642
26. Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
27. Anno Dom: 1628 (Excerpt)
28. Anno Dom: 1623
29. The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
30. Chapter 9: Of their voyage, and how they passed the sea; and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod
31. New English Canaan (Excerpt)
Thomas Morton
32. Letter: To My Dear Children
Anne Bradstreet
33. The Prologue
34. The Author to Her Book
35. The Flesh and the Spirit
36. In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
37. Introduction
Shana Rowe
38. The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
Mary Rowlandson
39. The First Remove
40. The Second Remove
41. The Third Remove
42. The Fifth Remove
43. The Eighth Remove
44. The Twelfth Remove
45. The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
46. The Eighteenth Remove
47. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author’s Defence
Cotton Mather
48. Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
49. Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
50. Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards
51. Introduction
Jonathan Neville
52. Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
Jonathan Edwards
53. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
54. Introduction
David Walker
55. A Short Video About Thomas Paine
56. Common Sense (Excerpt)
Thomas Paine
57. The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
58. Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
Thomas Jefferson
59. Introduction
Samuel Metivier
60. Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
61. Toussaint’s Constitution (Excerpt)
Toussaint L'Ouverture
62. Introductory Video
63. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man…
Briton Hammon
64. A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Prince Hall
65. Introduction
Rachel Levi
66. “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
Phillis Wheatley
67. On the Equality of the Sexes
68. Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
Judith Sargent Murray
69. Charlotte Temple: Volume II
Susanna Rowson
70. Charlotte Temple: Volume I
71. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
72. Introduction to Poe
Kendall Panaggio
73. The Black Cat
74. Introduction
Kelsey Neely
75. The Minister’s Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
76. Young Goodman Brown
77. Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
78. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
79. The One Million Pound Banknote
80. Introduction
Janina Misiewicz
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Toussant’s Constitution from Jonathan Neville on Vimeo.
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