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Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature by George Perkins (Editor); Barbara Perkins (Editor); Phillip Leininger (Editor)
Call Number: PS21 .B46 1991
ISBN: 0062700278
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
The Columbia Literary History of the United States by Emory Elliott
Call Number: PS92 .C64 1988
ISBN: 0231058128
Publication Date: 1988-02-15
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia (Editor); Thomas McLaughlin (Editor); Thomas Mclaughlin (Editor)
Call Number: In Credo Reference
ISBN: 9780226472096
Publication Date: 2008-11-08
The Encyclopedia of African-American Writing by Grey House Publishing Staff
Call Number: In Credo Reference
ISBN: 9781682177181
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden (Editor); Martin Kreiswirth (Editor); Imre Szeman (Editor)
Call Number: From Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801880106
Publication Date: 2005-2012
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature by Jay Parini (Editor)
Call Number: PS21 .E537 2004, V 1 - 4
ISBN: 0195156536
Publication Date: 2004-01-29

American Literature, Colonial Age To 1890 by Frank N. Magill (Editor)
Call Number: PS92 .A42 1980
ISBN: 0893563048
Publication Date: 1980-01-01
American Women Writers to 1800 by Sharon M. Harris (Editor)
Call Number: PS508 .W7 A49 1996
ISBN: 0195084535
Publication Date: 1996-01-04
The American Writer and the European Tradition by Margaret Denny
Call Number: PS157 .D4
Publication Date: [1950]
The Bay Psalm Book by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Introduction by)
Call Number: BS1440 .B4 2014
ISBN: 185124414X
Publication Date: 2015-02-15
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism by Donald Pizer (Editor)
Call Number: PS374 .N29 C36 1995
ISBN: 0521433002
Publication Date: 1995-07-28
The Chronology of American Literature by Daniel S. Burt (Editor)
Call Number: e-book in Credo Reference
ISBN: 9781849721912
Publication Date: 2007-04-08
Classic Americans; a Study of Eminent American Writers from Irving to Whitman, with an Introductory Survey of the Colonial Background of Our National Literature by Henry Seidel Canb
Call Number: PS88 .C35 1931
Publication Date: c1931
Earth Power Coming by Simon J. Ortiz
Call Number: PS 508 .I5 E23 198, Rm. 301
ISBN: 0912586508
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
In Vain I Tried to Tell You by Dell Hymes
Call Number: PM483.5 .H9 1981
ISBN: 0812278062
Publication Date: 1981-10-01
The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers by Katharine M. Rogers (Editor) Authors include Anne Bradstreet, Mary White Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Elizabeth Sampson Sullivan Ashbridge, Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, Judith Sargent Murray, Phillis Wheatley, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Jarena Lee, Eliza Southgate Bowne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Sarah Moore Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Eldredge Farrington Parton (Fanny Fern), Harriet Farley Donlevy, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Louisa May Alcott.
Call Number: PS508 .W7 M47 1991
ISBN: 0452010756
Publication Date: 1991-08-01

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Earth Power Coming by Simon J. Ortiz
Call Number: PS 508 .I5 E23 198, Rm. 301
ISBN: 0912586508
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
The Iroquois and the Jesuits, the Story of the Labors of Catholic Missionaries Among These Indians by Donohoe, Thomas
Call Number: E99.I7 D6
Publication Date: 1895
Navajo ABC by Eleanor Schick (Illustrator); Luci Tapahonso
Call Number: 497.2 TAP Children's collection
ISBN: 0689803168
Publication Date: 1995-10-01

The Columbian Voyages by Alfred W. Crosby; Michael Adas (Editor)
Call Number: e-book in ACLS Humanities Ebooks
ISBN: 0872290395
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies by Nicolás Wey-Gómez
Call Number: e-book in ACLS Humanities E-Books
ISBN: 9780262232647
Publication Date: 2008-06-13

Captain John Smith by John E. Smith; James Horn (Editor)
Call Number: F229 .S592 2007
ISBN: 1598530011
Publication Date: 2007-03-22
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles by John Smith
Call Number: F229 .S633 1624A
Publication Date: [1966]

The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers: from Anne Bradstreet to Louisa May Alcott, 1650-1865 by Katharine M. Rogers (Editor)
Call Number: PS508 .W7 M47 1991
ISBN: 0452010756
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
The Tenth Muse (1650) and, from the Manuscripts: Meditations Divine and Morall, Together with Letters and Occasional Pieces by Anne Bradstreet
Call Number: PS711 .A1 1965
Publication Date: 1965
The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne D. Bradstreet; Jeannie Hensley; Adrienne Rich (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book in ACLS Humanities E-books
ISBN: 9780674959996
Publication Date: 1967-01-01

The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
Call Number: PS745.A3 L4
Publication Date: [1961]
Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters by John Bach McMaster
Call Number: PS751 .M3
Publication Date: 1887
The Oldest Revolutionary: Essays on Benjamin Franklin by J. A. Leo Lemay (Editor)
Call Number: PS752 .O4
ISBN: 0812277074
Publication Date: 1976-03-29
Silence Dogood, the Busy-Body, and Early Writings : Boston and London, 1722-1726, Philadelphia, 1726-1757, London, 1757-1775 by Benjamin Franklin
Call Number: PS745 .A2 2002
Publication Date: c2002

Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams; Edith Gelles (Editor)
Call Number: E322.1 .A38 A33 2016
ISBN: 9781598534658
Publication Date: 2016-03-22
The Adams-Jefferson Letters by Lester J. Cappon (Editor); John Adams
Call Number: E322 .A4 1988
ISBN: 0807818070
Publication Date: 1988-09-30
The Book of Abigail and John by Abigail S. Adams; L. H. Butterfield (Editor); Marc Friedlaender (Editor); Mary-Jo Kline (Editor)
Call Number: E322.1 .A293
ISBN: 0674078551
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
John Adams by James B. Peabody (Editor); Lyman H. Butterfield (Introduction by)
Call Number: E322 .A35 1973
ISBN: 0060133082
Publication Date: 1973-06-01
John Quincy Adams Diaries, 1779-1821 by John Quincy Adams; David Waldstreicher (Editor)
Call Number: E377 .A3 2017
ISBN: 159853520X
Publication Date: 2017-06-20
John Quincy Adams Diaries, 1821-1848 by John Quincy Adams; David Waldstreicher (Editor)
Call Number: E377 .A3 2017B
ISBN: 1598535226
Publication Date: 2017-06-20

Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine
Call Number: BL2740 .A1 1940
Publication Date: 1940
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Call Number: E211 .P1198 1995
ISBN: 1566197007
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Paine by Thomas Paine; Eric Foner (Editor)
Call Number: JC177 .A5 1995
ISBN: 1883011035
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens
Call Number: JC177 .H5 H58 2006
ISBN: 9780802143839
Publication Date: 2008-09-01

Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book by Douglas L. Wilson (Editor); James P. McClure (General Editor)
Call Number: E332.9 .C6 J44 1989
ISBN: 0691047200
Publication Date: 1989-06-21
Jefferson - Writings by Thomas Jefferson; Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
Call Number: E302 .J442 1984
ISBN: 094045016X
Publication Date: 1984-08-15
The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson
Call Number: BT304.95 .J44 1989
ISBN: 0807077011
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
The Religious and Moral Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson by Allen Jayne
Call Number: E302 .J442 1984A
ISBN: 0533058007
Publication Date: 1984-01-01

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano by James Walvin
Call Number: e-book In EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
ISBN: 9780826447043
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Robert J. Allison (Editor); Olaudah Equiano
Call Number: HT 869 .E6 A3 1995
ISBN: 0312122438
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Call Number: In EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
ISBN: 9781775416197
Publication Date: e-book 2009-07-01
The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano; P. Edwards (ed.)
Call Number: HT 869 .E6 A3 1995
ISBN: 0582264731
Publication Date: 1995-04-11

Washington Irving: and Other Essays, Biographical, Historical and Philosophical by Charles Anson Ingraham
Call Number: AC8 .I7 1922
Publication Date: 1922

Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper; Kay Seymour House (Editor); Thomas L. Philbrick (Editor)
Call Number: PS1402 1991
ISBN: 0940450704
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
Cooper - Two Novels of the American Revolution by James Fenimore Cooper; Alan Taylor (Editor)
Call Number: PS1401 .L53 2018
ISBN: 9781598535822
Publication Date: 2018-11-27
The crater, or, Vulcan's Peak by James Fenimore Cooper
Call Number: e-book in ACLS Humanities E-books
Publication Date: 1962
The Last of the Mohicans by N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator); James Fenimore Cooper
Call Number: FIC COO Children's
ISBN: 0684187116
Publication Date: 1986-10-31

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