author and title english

Mason Locke Weems

excerpt Life of George Washington

National Park Service

George Washington and the Cherry Tree

Winslow, Edward

A Letter Sent from New England to a Friend in These Parts,” 12 December 1621, excerpt from Mourt’s Relation (1622).

Bradford, William.

Excerpt from Chapter 12 Anno Domini 1621, Of Plymouth
Plantation (1630-1651)

Lincoln, Abraham

A Proclamation, 3 October 1863

Toensing, Gale Courey

What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving

Schilling, Vincent.

Six Thanksgiving Myths and the Wampanoag Side of the Story.

Waxman, Olivia B.

What Thanksgiving Means Today to the Native American Tribe that Fed the Pilgrims.

Orange, Tommy

Thanksgiving is a Tradition. It’s Also a Lie.

Grant-Costa, Paul

We Did Not Land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock Landed on us.

Ralph Hamor

Excerpts from A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia.

John Rolfe

Letter to Sir Thomas Dale

Schilling, Vincent

The True Story of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad
Reality.

Smithsonian Institute, Pocahontas

beyond the myth

Founding Fathers

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense

American Crisis & expert from, Rights of Man

Olympe de Gouge

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the
Citizen

Mary Wollstonecraft

excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Judith Sargent Murray

excerpts from, On the Equality of the Sexes

Absalom Jones

The Petition of the People of Colour

Samson Occom (1st and 2nd drafts)

Autobiographical Narrative, “First Draft, 28 November 1765”
Autobiographical Narrative, “Second Draft, 17 September 1768”