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1 | NOTE: Existing texts are indicated below in green. If you would like to suggest another text for any of these sections, please add the title in BOLD. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | NOTE: Beware that if an introduction is labeled complete, it still might need more work or a complete overhaul. Please add your name if you would like to add polish or rewrite. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | NOTE: Finally, feel free to add an author and a text to a section as well. If you have some feedback about the overall structure, please comment in the forum (https://forum.rebus.community/topic/66) or email timothy.robbins@graceland.edu. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section Title & Chapters | Suggested Texts (please include link if you know of an online version) | Intro Author (please add your name & comment in the forum if you might be interested) | Text researcher(s) (please add your name & comment in the forum if you might be interested) | Notes/Comments | Intro Submitted | Text Submitted | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Anthology Introduction | Tim Robbins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Section Introduction: Pre-contact, Contact, Colonization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | "Creation Stories" Introduction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | The Book of Genesis (KJV) excerpts | Lisa Roy-Davis | Lisa Roy-Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Winnebago Trickster Cycle | Patricia Bostian | Patricia Bostian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Popul Vuh excerpts | Creation Myth from the Popul Vuh http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/pvuheng.htm | Patricia Bostian | Patricia Bostian | Submitted to Zoe 7/31/17 | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Iroqoius Seneca Creation Myth | THE CREATION OF MEN (INDIANS) http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/sim/index.htm | Patricia Bostian | Patricia Bostian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Seneca Creation Myth | THE CREATION OF MEN (INDIANS) http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/sim/index.htm | Patricia Bostian | Patricia Bostian | Submitted to Zoe 7/31/17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Origin Myth of the Acoma | Patricia Bostian | Patricia Bostian | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Mayan Chilam Balam | Angela Weiler | Angela Weiler | Submitted to Zoe 7/14/17 | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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16 | Other Native American & Ethnographic Texts | The Peyote Cult (Plains), Of the Girl who Married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot), The Origin of Disease and Medicine, How Glooskap went to England and France | Needs Review | This section needs a TON of work... -RDeRosa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Christopher Columbus | Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt), Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500 (Excerpt) | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Bartolome De Las Casas | A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies | Angela Weiler | Angela Weiler | Submitted to Zoe 7/17/17 | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Hernan Cortes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Prologue, Chapters VII, VIII, X, XII, XXI, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | The Requerimiento | Requerimento | Angela Weiler | Angela Weiler | Submitted to Zoe 7/19/17 | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Samuel de Champlain (New France) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (New Spain) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (New Spain) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Louis Hennepin (New France) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 | Letter on the Pueblo Revolt, HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION | [Intro complete] | Move this? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Section Introduction: New England/Puritanism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | John Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | William Bradford | Chapter 9: Of their voyage, and how they passed the sea; and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod, The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt), Anno Dom: 1623, Anno Dom: 1628 (Excerpt), Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt), Anno Dom: 1642 | Chris Payson (christine.payson@tufts.edu) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | John Winthrop | "A Modell of Christian Charity" | Sonya Parrish | Sonya Parrish | y | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Roger Williams | [Intro complete] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Thomas Morton | New English Canaan (Excerpt) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Anne Bradstreet | The Prologue, The Author to Her Book, The Flesh and the Spirit, In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth, Letter: To My Dear Children | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Edward Taylor | “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children,” “Huswifery,” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Mary Rowlandson | The First, Second, Third, Fifth, Eighth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth Removes | Robert P. Wilson | Robert P. Wilson | The "Per Amicum" intro is essential. Possible to include the whole text as well? | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Cotton Mather | Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence, Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692, Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War | Sonya Parrish | Sonya Parrish | y | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Jonathan Edwards | Personal Narrative (Excerpt), Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt), Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Elizabeth Ashbridge | Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge | Sonya Parrish | Sonya Parrish | I think Ashbridge should be included in the textbook, but I'm unsure if it should be here or later. Thoughts? | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Section Introduction: Struggle, Revolution, and Nation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | "Native Responses" Introduction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Bejamin Franklin | Cassandra Fetters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | The Narranganset people, "Act of Submission" | *No appropriate texts available (per Tim R.) | Angela Weiler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Pontiac | *No appropriate texts available (per Tim R.) | Angela Weiler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Samson Occom | “A Short Narrative” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Tecumseh | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Lucy Terry | "Bars Fight" | Shelli Homer | Shelli Homer | N | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | Letters from an American Farmer (Letters III and IX) | Tapan Basu | Tapan Basu | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Thomas Paine | Common Sense (Excerpt), The Age of Reason (Excerpt) | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Sarah Kemble Knight | Tracey Daniels-Lebrerg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | The Federalist (Hamilton and Adams) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Thomas Jefferson | Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt), Letter to Nathaniel Burwell | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Olaudah Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Ch I, II, V | Emily Butler-Probst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Toussaint's Constitution(Excerpt),Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Briton Hammon | A Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man... | Meghan Self | N | |||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Prince Hall | A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Phillis Wheatley | "On Being Brought from Africa to America" | Lisa Roy-Davis | Lisa Roy-Davis | N | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Judith Sargent Murray | Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms, On the Equality of the Sexes | Robert P. Wilson | Robert P. Wilson | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Philip Freneau | "A Political Litany" and "Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Seat in Virginia" | Shelli Homer | Shelli Homer | y | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Susanna Rowson | Charlotte Temple: Volumes I and II | Emily Butler-Probst | Emily Butler-Probst | |||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale or Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (a few chapters); "Walstein's School of History"; "The Difference Between History and Romance"; "Somnambulism: A Fragment" | Meghan Self | Meghan Self | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | John Marrant | A Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with John Marrant, A Black; Journal 1787 | Patricia Ann West | Patricia Ann West | ttp://blackloyalist.com/cdc/documents/diaries/marrant_journal.htm | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Section Introduction: American Renaissance/Romanticism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Mary-Lynn Chambers | Mary-Lynn Chambers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | William Cullen Bryant | "Thanatopsis" | Heath Bowen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | William Apess | A Son of the Forest... and Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Mass... and Eulogy on King Philip | Meghan Self | Meghan Self | Suggestion: A Son of the Forest, (full text: https://archive.org/details/sonofforestexper00inapes) and Indian Nullification of the unconstitutional laws of Mass (full text: https://archive.org/details/indiannullificat00apesuoft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature, Fate, "Circles," "The Poet" | [Intro complete] | Melissa Sherer, Hailey Leal, Daryn Nowlin ??????? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A Psalm of Life, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | Heath Bowen | Heath Bowen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | John Greenleaf Whittier | Suggestion: "Our Countrymen in Chains" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Margaret Fuller | The Great Lawsuit. Man vs. Men. Woman vs. Women. | [Intro complete] | FROM MY CLASS???? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Edgar Allan Poe | The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, "Berenice," "Premature Burial," "William Wilson" | [Intro complete] | Meghan Self; Lawrence Mullen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Minister's Black Veil, Young Goodman Brown, "The Birthmark" | [Intro complete] | Emily Butler-Probst | |||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Henry David Thoreau | "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," from Walden | [Intro complete] | From MY CLASS???? | Hello-- It's marked 'Intro Complete' but I'm happy to edit/polish if needed. I'm an Adjunct English instructor and professional editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Herman Melville | Benito Cereno Bartleby: The Scrivener; Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life; Moby-Dick Excerpts: Ch 1. "Loomings," Ch 36 "The Quarterdeck," Ch. 41 "Moby-Dick," Ch. 99 "The Doubloon," Ch 132. "The Symphony" | [Intro complete] | ADD JENNA'S INTRO | Text submitted so far: Bartleby. | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Walt Whitman | Song of Myself, When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd, O' Captain, My Captain, Hush'd be the Camps To-day, The Dust Was Once The Man | Tim Robbins and Matt Moore | Gesina Phillips | Text submitted so far: O Captian, Song of Myself | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Section Introduction: Abolition and Civil War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapters 1-3, 7) | [Intro complete] | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Abraham Lincoln | House Divided Speech, 1858; The Gettysburg Address, 1863; Second Inaugural | Kenyon Gradert | I have a few suggested short texts for an anthology of this sort. kenyongradert@gmail.com | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Frederick Douglass | The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro; The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass | Meghan Self | I would suggest including at least portions of Douglass's Narrative. Students in my Early American Lit class always respond to that text. cassandra.fetters@uc.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | David Walker | Kenyon Gradert | I'd suggest a few key excerpts from each of Walker's four sections of Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the world. Could make recommendations. kenyongradert@gmail.com | y | |||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Sojourner Truth | "Ain't I a Woman?" | Lisa Roy-Davis | Lisa Roy-Davis | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | Iola Leroy or Shadows Lifted, The Slave Auction, Bury Me in a Free Land | Tammie Jenkins | Tammie Jenkins | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Harriet Jacobs | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Chapters 1-5) | [Intro complete] | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Lydia Maria Child | An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Louisa May Alcott | Behind the Mask; or a Woman's Power; The Mysterious Key and What it Opened; A Long Fatal Love Chase; "Perilous Play" | Eleftheria Tsirakoglou | Meghan Self | y | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Emily Dickinson | Heath Bowen | Heath Bowen? My CLASS? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Section Introduction: Reconstruction and Realism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Rebecca Harding Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Mark Twain | The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, The One Million Pound Banknote; Pudd'nhead Wilson | [Intro complete] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Bret Harte | Heath Bowen | Heath Bowen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Sarah Winnemucca | Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | William Dean Howells | A Traveler from Altruria: A Romance | Angela Weiler | Angela Weiler | Submitted to Zoe 7/22/17 | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | S. Alice Callahan | Wynema, A Child of the Forest (Chapters 21 and 22) | Angela Weiler | Angela Weiler | Submitted to Zoe 8/1/17 | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Ambrose Bierce | "The Damned Thing" | Gesina Phillips | WHERE IS IT? | Submitted to Apurva 16/11/17 | y | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Sarah Orne Jewett | The Country of the Pointed Firs, "A White Heron" | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller: A Study | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | Tracey Daniels-Lerberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Kate Chopin | The Awakening, "Désirée’s Baby" | Ilse Schrynemakers | Gesina Phillips | Texts submitted so far: Baby, Silk Stockings | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Emma Lazarus | "The New Colossus," "1492," "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Sui Sin Far | "Mrs. Spring Fragrance", "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" | Colleen Tripp | Colleen Tripp | Hello! My name is Colleen Tripp, and I am interested in contributing to this anthology. | y | y | ||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Charles Chesnutt | "Dave's Neckliss" "The Dumb Witness" (cannot find online) "The Wife of His Youth" The Sheriff's Children" | Matthew Teutsch | Matthew Teutsch | y | y |