ENGL 235: Midterm: Materials

“Iroquois Creation Story”

David Cusick

“Trickster Tales” from The Winnebago Trickster Cycle

Paul Radin

"Letter of Discovery"

Christopher Columbus

"A Portion of the Mappa Mundi"

Juan de la Cosa

“An Account of the West Indies”

Bartolomé De Las Casas

“The Relation of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

“Second Letter to the Spanish Crown”

Hernán Cortés

"A Model of Christian Charity"

John Winthrop

"The Prologue" "To My Dear and Loving Husband," "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House", and "The Author to Her Book"

Anne Bradstreet

“A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”

Mary Rowlandson

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Jonathan Edwards

“The Declaration of Independence”

Thomas Jefferson

“Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776”

Abigail Adams

"Letter III: What is an American?"

J. Hector St. John De Crèvecœur

“The Autobiography”

Benjamin Franklin

“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself”

Olaudah Equiano

"On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth," "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770," "To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works," and "To His Excellency General Washington"

Phillis Wheatley

“The Coquette”

Hannah Webster Foster