Words of Ages
Subtitle: Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature
Publisher: Close Up Foundation
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780932765840
Subjects: History: American; Essays; United States; Literary collections; History; American literature
Table of contents: title: Explorers and early settlers --; title: The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith --; title: The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley --; title: Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford --; title: "A model of Christian charity" / John Winthrop --; title: "In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet" / Anne Bradstreet --; title: "The minister's black veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: Voices of a revolution --; title: "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / Jonathan Edwards --; title: "The way to wealth" / Benjamin Franklin --; title: "Considerations on keeping Negroes" / John Woolman --; title: "The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757" / James Fenimore Cooper --; title: Common sense / Thomas Paine --; title: Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson --; title: personal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams --; title: The search for a national identity --; title: "On the emigration to America and peopling the western country" / Philip Freneau --; title: "Federalist no.2" / John Jay --; title: "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano" / Olaudah Equiano --; title: The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark --; title: A tour on the prairies / Washington Irving --; title: "Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws" / Tecumseh --; title: The shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation --; title: "The young American" / Ralph Waldo Emerson --; title: "Resistance to civil government" / Henry David Thoreau --; title: Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller --; title: "Great are the myths" / Walt Whitman --; title: "Annexation" / John L. O'Sullivan --; title: Personal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin --; title: Slavery and the abolition movement --; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass --; title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs --; title: Uncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe --; title: Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh --; title: "Appeal to the Christian women of the South" / Angelina Grimke Weld --; title: "The hunters of men" / John Greenleaf Whittier --; title: Civil war and reconstruction --; title: "The portent" / Herman Melville --; title: The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane --; title: "Hospital sketches" / Louisa May Alcott --; title: "O Captain! My Captain!" / Walt Whitman --; title: "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington --; title: The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America --; title: The closing of the frontier --; title: O pioneers! / Willa Cather --; title: "Chiquita" / Bret Harte --; title: The life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love --; title: "Kansas I" / A Mexican Folk Ballad --; title: "The passing of the buffalo" / Hamlin Garland --; title: Black Elk speaks / Black Elk --; title: Artists render industrialization and urbanization --; title: "What the engines said" / Bret Harte --; title: "Life in the iron mills" / Rebecca Harding Davis --; title: The age of innocence / Edith Wharton --; title: "Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane --; title: Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan --; title: "Chicago" / Carl Sandburg --; title: Social critics and reformers --; title: "We are all bound up together" / Francis E. Watkins Harper --; title: Eighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --; title: "A church mouse" / Mary Wilkins Freeman --; title: Huckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens --; title: The shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens --; title: The jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I --; title: The portrait of a lady / Henry James --; title: "The white man's burden" / Rudyard Kipling --; title: "The real 'white man's burden'" / Ernest Crosby --; title: "Hallelujahs" / Jose de Diego --; title: One of ours / Willa Cather --; title: "next to of course god america i" / E. E. Cummings --; title: Democracy and adversity --; title: The jazz age --; title: The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: "Song of perfect propriety" / Dorothy Parker --; title: The flivver king / Upton Sinclair --; title: Jazz / Toni Morrison --; title: "The weary blues" / Langston Hughes --; title: Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston --; title: The Great Depression and the New Deal --; title: The big money / John Dos Passos --; title: Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets --; title: "Women on the breadlines" / Meridel LeSueur --; title: The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck --; title: "Colonial Park" / Ralph Ellison --; title: "Proud day" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II --; title: "Freedom" / E. B. White --; title: Battle cry / Leon Uris --; title: Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston --; title: "Apostrophe to the land" / Countee Cullen --; title: The face of war / Martha Gellhorn --; title: Night / Elie Wiesel --; title: Hiroshima / John Hershey --; title: The challenges of power --; title: Prosperity and anxiety --; title: An American childhood / Annie Dillard --; title: The man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson --; title: On the road / Jack Kerouac --; title: Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody --; title: The cruicible / Arthur Miller --; title: The right stuff / Tom Wolfe --; title: Rights and revolutions --; title: "Letter from a Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --; title: "Message to the grass roots" / Malcolm X --; title: "Why I want a wife" / Judy Brady --; title: The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --; title: Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog --; title: "Blowin' in the wind" / Bob Dylan --; title: The Vietnam years --; title: One very hot day / David Halberstam --; title: Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien --; title: "Life at war" / Denise Levertov --; title: American pastoral / Philip Roth --; title: "Letters from my father" / Robert Olen Butler.