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- Columbus (The First Voyage, The Second Voyage, The Third Voyage)
- Handsome Lake (“How America was Discovered”)
- John Winthrop (Excerpt from “A Model of Christian Charity”)
- Jonathan Edwards (Excerpt from “Personal Narrative”)
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
- Emily Dickinson (“Apparently with no Surprise”)
- Mark Twain (“Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” )
- Robert Frost (“Home Burial”)
- Ernest Hemingway (“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”)
- Katherine Anne Porter (“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”)
- Bobbie Ann Mason (“Shiloh”)
- Tim O’Brien (“How to Tell a True War Story”)
- Louise Erdrich (“Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”)
- Louise Erdrich (“Dear John Wayne”)