1. Age of Exploration (Native American Era) (1492-1763)
a. Discovery of the Americas
i. King Ferdinand’s Remarks by Bobbi Katz
1. http://inquiryunlimited.org/lit/poetry/ghistpoems1.html
ii. Columbus Reports on his first voyage, 1493
1. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inlinepdfs/01427_FPS.pdf
2. Colonialism (Puritanism) (1600-1800)
a. Salem Witch Trials
i. Tituba Takes the Stand
1. http://allpoetry.com/poem/5865027-Tituba-takes-the-stand-byvwck
ii. Salem Witch Trials (Tituba transcript)
1. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/tei/swp?div_id=n125
b. Puritanism
i. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
1. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&c
ontext=etas
ii. A Word to New England by William Bradford
1. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-word-to-new-england/
3. The Age of Reason/Enlightenment (1750-1800)
a. Revolutionary Period
i. “Crispus Attucks” by John Boyle O’Reilly
1. http://allpoetry.com/Crispus-Attucks
ii. The Murder of Crispus Attucks
1. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr046.html
iii. “Liberty Tree” by Thomas Paine
1. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/liberty-tree/
iv. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
1. http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/thomas-painecommon-sense/introduction.php
v. Declaration of Independence
1. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/print_friendly.html?pag
e=declaration_transcript_content.html&title=NARA%20%7C%20
The%20Declaration%20of%20Independence%3A%20A%20Trans
cription
4. Romanticism (1800-1860)
a. The War of 1812
i. The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
1. http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx
ii. Proclamation of a State of War with Great Britain (June 19, 1812)
1. http://millercenter.org/president/madison/speeches/speech-3615
b. California Gold Rush
i. “The Grip of Gold” by Thomas Hood
1. https://yesteryearsnews.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/californiagold-poetry/
ii. The Discovery of Gold in California by General John A. Sutter
1. http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist2/gold.html
c. Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
i. On Indian Removal 1830 by Andrew Jackson
1. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?flash=true&page
=transcript&doc=25&title=Transcript+of+President+Andrew+Jack
son%27s+Message+to+Congress+%27On+Indian+Removal%27+(
1830)
ii. “A Sioux Prayer” translated by Chief Yellow Lark 1887
1. http://www.firstpeople.us/html/A-Sioux-Prayer.html
5. Transcendentalism (1840-1860)
a. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 1849
i. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/Essays/civil.html
b. “Thoreau’s Flute” by Louisa May Alcott
i. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thoreau-s-flute/
c. “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
i. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/civilwarrecon/whitman/
1SongofMyself.pdf
6. Realism (1850-1900)
a. Civil War/Slavery
i. “On Liberty and Slavery” by George Moses Horton
1. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/liberty-and-slavery#
ii. “Civil War” by Charles Dawson Shanly
1. http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarpoem.html
iii. Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
1. https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipati
on_proclamation/transcript.html
iv. Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
1. http://historytools.davidjvoelker.com/sources/lincolngettysburg.pdf
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v. 13 , 14th, 15th amendments
1. Reconstruction FINAL SAC ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.pdf
vi. Jim Crow Laws
1. http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jimcrow.html
b. Regionalism
i. “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain
1. http://www.readbookonline.net/read/219/6996/
ii. “The Jumping Frog” by Mark Twain
1. http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1563/
c. Hysteria/Women’s Rights
i. “Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin
1. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/
ii. “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
1. http://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf
iii. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
1. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/literatureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/
digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
iv. Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” by Sigmund Freud
1. http://www.mhweb.org/freud/dora.pdf
7. Modernism
a. World War I
i. “Wings of Prey” by Linty
1. https://www.booksie.com/posting/linty/wings-of-prey-401407
ii. Avro 504
1. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/aerialwarfare-and-world-war-one/avro-504/
b. World War II
i. “Pearl Harbor” by Jon M. Nelson
1. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pearl-harbor-3/
ii. Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
1. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/FDR%20Pea
rl%20Harbor.pdf
c. Harlem Renaissance
i. “Will V-Day, be Me-Day too?” by Langston Hughes
1. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/will-v-day-be-me-day-too/
ii. “How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston
1. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grandjean/hurston/chapters/how.html
iii. “I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar Nelson
1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237230
iv. “America” by Claude McKay
1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173957
8. Post-Modernism
a. Korean War
i. Transcript of Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South
Korean State (1953)
1. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript
&doc=85&title=Transcript+of+Armistice+Agreement+for+the+Re
storation+of+the+South+Korean+State+%281953%29
ii. “Attack in the Fog” by Bob Larson (Private First Class of the U.S. Army)
1. http://www.accesskansas.org/kskoreanwar/stories/story_larson1.ht
ml
iii. “Memories of the Korean War: From Farm Boy to Soldier” by Retired
Col. Paul E. Idol
1. http://www.accesskansas.org/kskoreanwar/stories/story_idol1.html
b. Modern Era
i. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1. http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/128945/2b5c0f90
c981f51ad9484b2ea8e415b6.pdf
ii. “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings
1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/179622
c. Civil Rights Movement
i. Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.ht
ml
ii. Civil Rights Act of 1964
1. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript
&doc=97&title=Transcript+of+Civil+Rights+Act+%281964%29
iii. Voting Rights Act of 1965
1. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript
&doc=100&title=Transcript+of+Voting+Rights+Act+%281965%2
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iv. Speech at the March on Washington by Josephine Baker
1. http://www.blackpast.org/1963-josephine-baker-speech-marchwashington
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d. Vietnam War
i. Primary Sources on the Impact of the Vietnam War on Military Opposed
to the War (Several Authors)
1. http://lhs.loswego.k12.or.us/zhoppesk/ACW/Quarter3/Lessons/lesson13.pdf
ii. Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu of the
Republic of Vietnam
1. http://www.vietnamwar.net/Nixon-1.htm
e. 9-11/War on Terror
i. Remembering 9/11: Top 10 Poems in Tribute to September 11th (Various
Poets)
1. http://heavy.com/news/2015/09/9-11-poems-quotes-september11th-remembering-timeline-remembrance-2015-stories-2001-911/
ii. “The Goat Variations” by Jeff VanderMeer
1. http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/read-jeff-vandermeer-911fiction-short-story.html
iii. “The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction” by Joshua Rothman
1. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-creepypower-of-speculative-911-fiction
iv. Text of George Bush’s Speech
1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/21/september11.usa1
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