An Online Reading List for
Boston American Studies Excursions

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The following reading list has been compiled from various online sources with readings of various literary and historical relationship to the sites included in the "Boston American Studies Excursion."

Reading in these works will better acquaint you with both the historical events and the writers who addressed them. Because you may not have an opportunity to read them all, the works in bold face-italics reflect primary works in the readings.


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Louisa May Alcott 
"Little Women," a novel 

William Bradford 
"Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth," a history 

Frederick Douglass 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, an essay

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance," an essay
"Nature," an Essay

William Lloyd Garrison 
William Lloyd Garrison links 
The African Meeting House

Nathaniel Hawthorne 
Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Biography
Nathaniel Hawthorne links
"The House of the Seven Gables," a novel 
"Mosses from an Old Manse," a collection of essays and short stories 
"Young Goodman Brown," a short story from "Twice-Told Tales"
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount," a short story from "Twice-Told Tales" 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Selected Poems

Thomas Paine
"Common Sense," an essay
"The American Crisis," an essay 

Henry David Thoreau
"Walden," an essay 
"Civil Disobedience," an essay 

Phillis Wheatley 
Poems
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Ernest Hemingway
"Ernest Hemingway: A Storyteller's Legacy"
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Henry David Thoreau
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This Resource Webliography was created by Dr. Geoffrey Grimes
in support of the Mountain View College Boston American Studies Excursions.
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