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AML2010 American Literature to 1865 OER
4. Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
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AML2010 American Literature to 1865 OER
Free and/or openly accessible readings for the OER AML2010 course at Indian River State College.
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1. Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar”
Christopher Columbus’s “Letter Announcing His Discovery” and “Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage”
Cabeza de Vaca's
Relation
Iroquois Creation Story
Hernan Cortes's "Second Letter to Charles V"
Samuel de Champlain's
Voyages
William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation"
The Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Samson Occom
2. American Independence
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Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Jefferson's rough draft of The Declaration of Independence compared to the final signed version
John & Abigail Adams
Familiar Letters
3. Post-Revolutionary Period
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Walt Whitman's "Preface" to
Leaves of Grass
Whitman poem: "Starting from Paumanok"
Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems
4. Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln's A House Divided, Gettysburg Address, and Second Inaugural Address
Frederick Douglass' “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass' Speech at Dedication of Emancipation Memorial
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