like. For generations, schoolchildren of all backgrounds learned about literature and life in America via Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects , James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans , Herman Meville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride , Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s