Welcome to a small library of American literature sources for students.  Here you will find a number of texts copied from their original sources which are in the public domain and one that isn't.  (If you have reason to suspect something on these pages should be removed, please contact Gill(dot)Creel@minneapolis(dot)edu.)

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from History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford

from From the Deep Woods to Civilization by Charles Alexander Eastman

"On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man" by Philip Freneau

from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"European Enlightenment" by Richard Hooker

from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

from The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

"Blood-Burning Moon" by Jean Toomer

"To His Excellency, General Washington" by Phillis Wheatley