PROSPERITY AND PROTECT
1946 - present
E.L.Doctorow The writer in the family
Sandra Cisneros Straw into gold: the metamorphosis of the everyday
Rita Dove For the love of books
Amy Tan Mother tongue
Carson McCullers The Mortgaged Heart
William Safire Onomatopoeia
Ian Frazier Coyote VS. Acme
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
John Updike The Brown Chest
Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years
DISCONTENT, DISILLUSION AND DEFIANCE
1914 - 1946
John Steinbeck The Turtle (excerptt from The Grapes of Wrath)
Ernest Hemingway In Another Country
Sherwood Anderson The Corn PLanting
Eudora Welty A Worn path
Edith Wharton April showers
Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of granny Weatherall
James Thurber The Night The Ghost Got In
E. B. White Here Is New York
Unit 4 DIVISION, RECONCILIATION AND EXPANSION
1850 - 1914
Stephen Crane An Episode of War
Abraham Licoln The Gettysburg Address , Second Inaugural Address
Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son
Mary chesnut Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Warren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private
Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Stonewall Jackson An account of the Battle of Bull Run
Reverend Henry M. Turner Reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation
Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience with Discrimination
Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi , The Notorious Frog of Calaveras County
Jack London To Build a Fire
Kate Chopin The story of an Hour
Willa Cather A Wagner Matinee
Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience with Discrimination
Reverend Henry M. Turnerr Reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation
Stonewall Jackson An account of the Battle of Bull Run
Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Waren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private
Mary Chesnut Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Also the book mentioned about a television documentary called The Civil War, aired in October 1990
Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son
Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
Stephen Crane An Episode of War
Unit 3 A Growing Nation
1800 - 1870
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience 論公民的不服從
Henry David Thoreau Walden 瓦爾登湖
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of The House of Usher
John Wesley Powell The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth
Meriweher Lewis Crossing the Great Divide
Washington Irving The Devil and Tom walker
Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson The Annoucement of the Dial 日晷的通告
Unit 2 A Nation is Born
1750 - 1800
Michel. Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer
Abigail Smith Adams Letters to Her Daughter From the New White House
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention 在立憲大會上的演講
Patrick Henry Speech In the Virginia Convention 在弗吉尼亞州大會上的演講
Thomas Paine The Crisis, Number 1 (the Ameracan Crisis)
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 獨立宣言
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography
Unit 1 Meeting of Culture
Beginnings to 1750
Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation
John Smith The General History of Virginia
Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Iroquois The Iroquois Constitution
Navajo The Navajo Origin Legend
Modoc When Grizzlies Walked Upright
Onondaga The Earth on Turtle's Back
Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage to America