Events
Christopher Columbus'
JournalThomas Harriot:
A Brief & True Report of the
New Found Land of VirgininaAlvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca:
NaufragiosSamuel De Champlain:
Des Sauvages ou Voyage de
Samuel ChamplainVirginia Colony
EstablishedJohn Smith:
General History
or Virginia, New England,
and the Summer IslesJohn Whinthrop:
A Model of Christian
Charity (1630)William Bradford:
Of Plymouth Plantation
(1651)Anne Bradstreet:
The Tenth Muse
(1650)Michael Wigglesworth:
Day of Doom
(1660)Mary Rowlandson:
Narrative in the
Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
(1682)Cotton Mather:
Magnalia Chriti Americana
(1702)Cadwallder Colden:
The History of Five Indian Nations
(1727)Jonathan Edawards:
Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God
(1741)Benjamin Franklin:
The Way to Wealth
(1758)Thomas Jefferson:
Declaration of Independence
(1776)John Woolman:
The Journal of John Woolman
(1774)Thomas Paine:
Common Sense
(1776)J Hector St. John:
Letters From an
American Farmer
(1782)Samson Occom:
A Short Narrative of My Life
(1792)Thomas Paine:
Rights of Man
(1791)Thomas Paine:
The Age of Reason
(1794)Washington Irving:
Rip Van Winkle
(1819)Washington Irving:
Sleepy Hollow
(1820)James Fenimore Cooper:
The Deerslayer
(1841)Thomas Bangs Thorpe:
The Big Bear of Arkansas
(1841)Thomas Bangs Thorpe:
Master's House
(1854)George Washington Harris:
Sut Lovingood
(1867)Periods
The BeginningsColonial PeriodEarly National PeriodRomantic Period
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