Beginnings to 1820. Introduction ;Timeline ; Native American oral literature ; Christopher Columbus ; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ; John Smith ; William Bradford ; John Winthrop ; Roger Williams ; Anne Bradstreet ; Mary Rowlandson ; Edward Taylor ; Cotton Mather ; Jonathan Edwards ; Benjamin Franklin ; Samson Occom ; Ethnographic and naturalist writings ; J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ; Thomas Paine ; Thomas Jefferson ; The Federalist ; Olaudah Equiano ; Judith Sargent Murray ; Philip Freneau ; Phillis Wheatley ; Charles Brockden Brown ; Native American eloquence: negotiation and resistance -- American literature 1820-1865. Introduction ; Timeline ; Washington Irving ; James Fenimore Cooper ; William Cullen Bryant ; William Apess ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Native Americans: removal and resistance ; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Abraham Lincoln ; Women's rights and women writing Margaret Fuller ; Slavery, race, and the making of American literature ; Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Harriet Jacobs ; Henry David Thoreau ; Frederick Douglass ; Walt Whitman ; Herman Melville ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Emily Dickinson ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Songs and poems from the Civil War.