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1600-1800:
William Bradford
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
1800-1850:
Lewis & Clark
James Fenimore Cooper
Sojourner Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850-1865:
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mary Chesnut
Abraham Lincoln
1865-1901:
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Black Elk
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
Henry Adams
Edith Wharton
1901-1929:
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Dreiser
Will Rogers
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
H.L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1929-1945:
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Ayn Rand
Ernie Pyle
1945-1961:
Whittaker Chambers
Walter Lippmann
Jack Kerouac
1961-1975:
James Baldwin
Betty Friedan
Russell Kirk
William F. Buckley
David Halberstam
Neil Sheehan
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Select a work
1600-1800:
Mayflower Compact
Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin
Common Sense
Declaration of
Independence
U.S. Constitution
1800-1850:
Journals of
the Expedition
Last of the Mohicans
Narrative of
Sojourner Truth
Nature
Walden
Declaration of
Sentiments
The Scarlet Letter
1850-1865:
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Diary from Dixie
Gettysburg Address
1865-1901:
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
O Pioneers!
Black Elk Speaks
Up From Slavery
The Souls of Black Folk
The Education of
Henry Adams
Age of Innocence
1901-1929:
The Jungle
The Winning of
the West
Sister Carrie
The Cowboy Philosopher
on Prohibition
Their Eyes
Were Watching God
Montage of a Dream
The American Language
Deferred
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
1929-1945:
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and
the Fury
The Fountainhead
Here is Your War
1945-1961:
Witness
Public Opinion
On the Road
1961-1975:
The Fire Next Time
The Feminine Mystique
The Conservative Mind
God and Man at Yale
The Best and
the Brightest
A Bright Shining Lie
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1600-1800:
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Philadelphia, PA:
New Rochelle, NY
Montpelier Station, VA:
1800-1850:
Astoria, OR
Cooperstown, NY
Battle Creek, MI
Concord, MA
Seneca Falls, NY
Salem, MA
1850-1865:
Washington, DC
Cincinnati, OH
Camden, SC
Gettysburg, PA
1865-1901:
Hannibal, MO
Red Cloud, NE
Little Bighorn
Battlefield Ntnl Mnt, MT
Tuskegee, AL
Amherst, MA
Quincy, MA
Lenox, MA
1901-1929:
Chicago, IL
Medora, ND
Chicago, IL
Claremore, OK
Harlem, NY
Baltimore, MD
St. Paul, MN
Key West, FL
1929-1945:
Salinas, CA
Oxford, MS
Hollywood, CA
Dana, IN
1945-1961:
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Lowell, MA
1961-1975:
Bronx, NY
Northampton, MA
Mecosta, MI
Washington, DC
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Frederick Douglass & the Abolitionist Writers
Narrative of the Life
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5/28/01
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
6/4/01
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Mary Chesnut
Diary from Dixie
6/11/01
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Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
6/18/01
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5/08/99
C.P. Weaver,
Thank God My Regiment An African One
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6/27/99
Bruce Chadwick,
Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
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6/26/99
David Adler,
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
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Stars in Their Course
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Merrill Peterson
Lincoln in American Memory
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