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Title page to Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse (1650) |
The National
Geographic on
Jamestown
artifacts (National Geographic)
A downloadable
map of Jamestown (National Geographic)
Early Images of Virginia
Indians (Virginia Historical Society)
Theodore De Bry’s Engravings
of Native Americans (1590) (Virginia Historical Society)
Captain
John Smith (University of Vienna)
The American
Sense of Puritan (UVA) [See also "The Pilgrims"
and "The Puritans"]
American
Puritanism: A Brief Introduction (PAL) [See: Basic
Puritan Beliefs - Tulip.]
The
Puritan Idea of the Covenant [Digital History Textbook]
Puritanism in New
England (Donna Campbell, Washington State University)
Complete Text of
Michael Wigglesworth’s Day of Doom (from The Poetry of Michael Wigglesworth): .
Last page of the alphabet from The New England Primer
Text of the entire New England Primer (1777 edition)
Biography of Anne Bradstreet (Poetry Foundation)
Poets.org page on Bradstreet (Academy of American Poets)
Biography of Anne Bradstreet (UVA)
Selected Works of Anne Bradstreet (UVA)
Unique Bradstreet Manuscript Preserved (Houghton Library blog)
Meditations divine and morall manuscript (1664-1672? MS Am 1007.1. Stevens Memorial Library deposit, Houghton Library, Harvard University)
For National Poetry Month: Anne Bradstreet's Tenth Muse (1650) (Clements Library)
Anne Bradstreet, colonial poet [Poems (1678)] (Library of Congress)
Biography of Edward Taylor (Poetry Foundation)
Poems of Edward Taylor (Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings)
Portrait and Brief Biography of Samuel Sewall [oil on canvas by Nathaniel Emmons, 1728] (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Text of Samuel Sewall's "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial" (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen, 1700
"Caveat Emptor!" The First Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Published in New England (Rebecca Onion, Slate.com)
Biography of Samuel Sewall (Salem Witch Trials) (UVA)
Sewall repents for his actions in the Salem witchcraft trials (Mural in the Massachusetts State House, Albert Herter, 1942)
Hector St. John Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
Negotiating Nature/Wilderness:
Crèvecoeur and American Identity in Letters From an American Farmer (Ann M. Woodlief, VCU)
Text of Crèvecoeur, Letters From An American Farmer (Project Gutenberg)
D.H. Lawrence’s
chapter on Crèvecoeur (from Studies in Classic American Literature)
(UVA)
The
Benjamin
Franklin: In His Own Words (Library of Congress)
See especially:
Ben Franklin, Scientist and Inventor
Ben Franklin & The New Republic
RWE.org - The Internet's Complete Guide to the Life and Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.rwe.org/ (The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute)
Emerson Biography at poets.org:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/201
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/emerson.htm
Paul Reuben’s Emerson Page: (PAL) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/emerson.html
RWE Society: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/
Text of Nature: http://www.rwe.org/pages/Nature_html.htm
Text of Nature with notes: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
Text of Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
Text of Emerson's "The Poet"
Church: Mount
Ktaadn (1853): http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/americansublime/room3a.htm
Transcendentalism: http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html
Transcendentalism Web: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne at Eldritch
Press: http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html
Text of The Scarlet Letter: http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sl.html
Images of
the Old Manse: http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Architecture/HousesinConcord/TheOldManse/Introduction.html
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/writings_main.html
Transcripts of Thoreau's Journal: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/writings_journals.html
Thoreau's Journal
as a blog: http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/
Thoreau's 1846 survey of
Thoreau’s surveys: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/Thoreau_Surveys.htm
Photo tour of
Ice melting on Walden in the spring: http://thoreau.eserver.org/spring.html
A 1920 photo of ice breaking up at Walden [Herbert Wendell Gleason]: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Gleason/II_1920_34.html
"Earth's
Church: Mount
Ktaadn (1853): http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/americansublime/room3a.htm
Harriet Jacobs (PBS--don't
miss the links at the bottom of the document)
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
(UVA)
(Dis)obedience
and Racial Order: How Illustrations in Uncle
Tom’s Cabin Test the Boundaries of Slavery (UVA)
Anothe
page organizing Illustrations for Uncle Tom’s Cabin (UVA)
Text of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (UVA)
Letter from Harriet
Beecher Stowe to William Lloyd Garrison (PBS)
Africans in America: America's journey
through slavery (PBS)
The Life
and Works of Herman Melville: http://www.melville.org/melville.htm
An online Melville biography: http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html
Herman
Melville links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/melville.htm
PAL Melville
page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/melville.html
Whitman
Song of Myself Study text (American Transcendentalism Web)
Whitman
and Transcendentalism (Thoreau visits Whitman in Brooklyn) (American
Transcendentalism Web)
Emily Dickinson International Society: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/index.html
The Emily Dickinson Journal: (Project Muse: to access off-campus, go to the GVSU library catalog).
Emily Dickinson Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm
PAL Emily dickinson page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html
Emily Dickinson Museum: http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
A New Photo
of Emily Dickinson? http://www.unc.edu/~gura/dickinson/index.html
How I Met
and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: An Adventure on eBay (Philip F. Gura): http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/gura/
Celebrity Caricature in
Sally Rand and Martha Graham: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/rand.htm (Vanity Fair, 1934)
Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index.htm
Eddie Cantor: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/cantor.htm
Environmental Writers [Links from ASLE]