American Literature I Index
From Earliest Times To 1865

By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph. D. Maintained by Paul McQuien, Ph.D., at tmcquien@mail.accd.edu


The Period of Exploration and Colonization

Spanish Explorers in the New World
English and French Explorers
John Smith
Thomas Morton
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Roger Williams
Ann Bradstreet
Michael Wigglesworth
Indian Captivity Narratives. Includes Mary Rowlandson.
Edward Taylor
Samuel Sewall
Cotton Mather
William Byrd
Jonathan Edwards

Revolutionary and Early National Period Benjamin Franklin
John Woolman
Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur
Thomas Paine
William Bartram
Thomas Jefferson
Olaudah Equiano
John Trumbull
Philip Freneau
Phillis Wheatley
Joel Barlow
Royall Tyler
Charles Brockden Brown*

The Early Nineteenth Century Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
A Group of Southern Humorists
A Group of Northern Humorists
William Cullen Bryant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Edgar Allan Poe
Abraham Lincoln
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick Douglass
James Russell Lowell
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Francis Parkman
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott

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