Approaches to American Culture, 1607-1865
Texts and Documents

The following texts have been ordered at the Columbia University Bookstore and Labyrinth Books.  Please note that at the Columbia University Bookstore, they are shelved under ENG 3002y.  Please contact me immediately if you have difficulty finding the course texts.

• Baym et al. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5^th edition, volume I (Norton)
• David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth- Century New England; A Documentary History,1638-1692 (Northeastern UP)
• Thomas J. Schlereth, Material Culture Studies in America (AltaMira Press)
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (Penguin 1992 edition)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (NAL-Dutton)

In addition,  the following materials are available through the course website.  (Note that this list will grow as the semester proceeds):

• The Written Record of the Voyage of 1524 of Giovanni da Verrazano as recorded in a letter to Francis I, King of France, July 8th, 1524
• John Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War:   Especially of the memorable Taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637.  ed. Charles Orr.  Cleveland:  Helman-Taylor, 1897. (This text is available in Adobe Acrobat format as well.)
• Gardener, Lion.  Leift Lion Gardener his relation of the Pequot Warres.  Boston, 1833.  History of the Pequot War, ed. Charles Orr.  Cleveland:  Helman-Taylor, 1897.
• Jonathan Edwards,  "To the Trustees of the College of New Jersey" (19 October 1757)
• Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.," (1751)