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- Columbus Background
- New World Images
- Background for Colonial Literature
- Anne Bradstreet
- Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine
- Phillis Wheatley Background
- Transcendentalism
- Poe
- Melville
- Douglass, Jacobs, and the Slave Narrative
- Whitman and Dickinson
- Realism and Naturalism: Davis and Twain
- Crane and Frost
- Modernism and Hemingway
- Imagist Poets
- Harlem Renaissance
- Ellison
- Brooks and Kitchenette Buildings
- Ginsberg and the Beats
- O’Brien and Metafiction