American Literature 19th & 20th c. Speeches and Essays



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American Literature_19th & 20th c. Speeches and Essays




Romanticism

Realism

Modernism

Post-Modernism

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Romanticism (1770-1860 approx.)

Speeches


  1. Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided, in which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said, speaking of the pre-Civil War United States, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (WEX)

  2. Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address (1829): http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres23.html.

  3. Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, Delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March 1841: http://www.historycentral.com/amistad/amistad.html.

  4. Booker T. Washington, Democracy and Education, Address Before the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, September 30, 1896

  5. Chief Red Jacket Rejects Change of Religion (1805): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefredjacket.htm.

  6. Chief Seattle (1854): http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html.

  7. Edgar Allan Poe, Speech on the Theory of Beauty and Poetry: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/poetprin.htm. (also published posthumously in 1850)

  8. Elias Boudinot, An Address To The Whites: Speech Delivered In The First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, May 26, 1826: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/expansion/text3/addresswhites.pdf.

  9. Elizabeth Cade Stanton, Seneca Falls Keynote Address: http://www.greatamericandocuments.com/speeches/stanton-seneca-falls.html

  10. Frederick Douglass, The Church and Prejudice: http://www.greatamericandocuments.com/speeches/douglass-church-prejudice.html

  11. Frederick Douglass, The Hypocrisy of American Slavery: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm

  12. Lucretia Mott, Discourse on Women, December 17, 1849: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches-by-women/lucretia-mott-speech.htm

  13. Maria Stewart Advocates Education for Black Women (1832): http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1832-maria-w-stewart-advocates-education-african-american-women.

  14. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature: An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adelphi
    Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/method.html

  15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Transcendentalist from Lectures, published as part of Nature; Addresses and Lectures: http://www.emersoncentral.com/transcendentalist.htm

  16. Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?, extemporaneously delivered at a Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. (1851)

  17. William Lloyd Garrison, On the Death of John Brown: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/garrison.htm

  18. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Speech, 1865: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/lincoln-2nd-inaug.htm.

  19. Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided,” 1958: http://usinfo.org/enus/government/overview/22.html

Essays


  1. David Walker, Walker’s Appeal 1829: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html.

  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe, How to Live On Christ: http://www.path2prayer.com/article.php?id=579.

  3. Harriet Jacobs, Free At Last: http://essays.quotidiana.org/jacobs/free_at_last/

  4. Harriet Jacobs, The Fugitive Slave Law: http://essays.quotidiana.org/jacobs/fugitive_slave_law/

  5. James Russell Lowell, Among My Books: essays on Shakespeare, Dryden, Witchcraft and Rousseau: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8503

  6. Lydia Maria Childs, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28242.

  7. Lydia Maria Childs, The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13989.

  8. Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women., The Dial, IV, July 1843. Hypertext by Ann Woodlief: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/debate.html

  9. Margaret Fuller, Woman in the 19th century: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8642

  10. Nathanial Hawthorne, The Haunted Mind: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/hmind.html

  11. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/751

  12. Scenes in My Native Land, by Lydia H. Sigourney (1844): http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/scenes/SCENES.HTM

  13. The Alhambra: sketches, stories and essays by Washington Irving: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/i/irving/washington/i72a/

  14. The Essays, Sketches and Lectures of Edgar Allan Poe: http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/

  15. The Thoreau Reader: annotated works by Henry David Thoreau: http://thoreau.eserver.org/

  16. Twelve Essential Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: http://www.americanliterature.com/EM/EMINDX.HTML

  17. What is Beauty? Lydia Maria Child, The Dial, April 1843: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/beauty-lmc.html

  18. William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11013

  19. Woman's Wrongs, by "Gail Hamilton" (1868): http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/wrongs/WRONGS.HTM.

  20. William Apess, An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/IndiansLookingGlass.htm

Realism (1865-1919 approx. includes Progressive Era)

Speeches


  1. Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided,” June 16, 1858: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/abrahamlincolnhousedivided.htm

  2. Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1865: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/abrahamlincolnsecondinauguraladdress.htm

  3. Anna Howard Shaw, “The Fundementals of a Republic,” June 21, 1915: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/annahowardshawprinciplerepublic.htm.

  4. Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise Speech,” September 18, 1895: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches/booker-t-washington-speech-atlanta-compromise.htm

  5. Carrie Chapman Catt, “The Crisis,” September 7, 1915: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/carriechapmancattthecrisis.htm.

  6. Chief Joseph, “I Will No More Forever,” October 5, 1877: http://www.nezperce.com/npedu11.html.

  7. Daniel Deleon, “Reform or Revolution,” January 26, 1896: http://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1896/960126.htm.

  8. Daniel Deleon, “What Means This Strike?” February 11, 1898: http://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm.

  9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Destructive Male,” 1868: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/stanton.htm.

  10. Emma Goldman, “What is Patriotism?” 1908: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches/emma-goldman-speech-what-is-patriotism.htm

  11. Frederick Douglass, “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,” 1876: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39.

  12. George Graham Vest, “A Tribute to Dogs,” 1855(?): http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/vest.htm.

  13. Henry Ward Beecher, “The Moral Authority of Civil Liberty, June 4, 1869: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1434.

  14. Mark Twain, “Speech Mocking Emerson, Longfellow & Holmes,“ December 17, 1877: http://www.transcendentalists.com/twain_on_emerson.htm

  15. Mark Twain, “Votes for Women,” January 20, 1901: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches/mark-twain-speech-votes-for-women.htm

  16. Mary Church Terrell, “What It Means to Be Colored in the United States,” October 10, 1906: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marychurchterellcolored.htm

  17. Robert Marion LaFollette, “Free Speech in War-Time,” October 6, 1917: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/robertlafollettefreespeecninwartime.htm

  18. Russell Conwell, “Acres of Diamonds, 1900: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rconwellacresofdiamonds.htm.

  19. Susan B. Anthony, “After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election” stump speech from 1873: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches-by-women/susan-b-anthony-speech.htm.

  20. Theodore Roosevelt, “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” April 14, 1906: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/teddyrooseveltmuckrake.htm

  21. Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life,” April 10, 1899: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=608.

  22. Victoria Woodhull, “And the Truth Shall Make You Free,” 1871: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches-by-women/victoria-woodhull-speech.htm.

  23. William Jennings Bryant, “Against Imperialism,” August 8, 1900: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjbryanimperialism.htm

  24. William Jennings Bryant, “Cross of Gold,” 1896: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/.

  25. Woodrow Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,” January 1918: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wilson-points.htm.


Essays


  1. Ambrose Bierce, “The Art of Controversy” http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/BierceControversyessay.htm.

  2. George Santayana, “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men”: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/The-Suppressed-Madness-Of-Sane-Men-By-George-Santayana.htm.

  3. Henry Adams, Monte-Sainte Michelle and Chartres, 1904: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Adams_Mont/toc.html.

  4. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1918: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html.

  5. Henry James, “London” http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/London-By-Henry-James-Essay.htm.

  6. Henry Van Dyke, “Who Owns the Mountains,” 1905: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/whoownsthemountains.htm.

  7. Jack London, “The Story of an Eyewitness” [San Francisco Earthquake, 1906]: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/erathqkessay.htm.

  8. Jack London, “What Life Means to Me,” 1905: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/LondonLife.htm

  9. Jacob Riis, “How the Other Half Lives,” [essays and photojournalism], 1890: http://www.authentichistory.com/1865-1897/progressive/riis/index.html.

  10. John Burroughs, “In Mammoth Cave,” 1894: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/mammothcave.htm.

  11. John Reed, “The Rise of Pancho Villa,” 1913: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/reedvilla08.htm

  12. Last Statement of Queen Liluokalani of Hawaii, 1893: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F11FC3B5515738DDDA90994DB405B8385F0D3.

  13. Louisa May Alcott, “The Death of a Soldier,” from “Hospital Sketches,” 1863: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Death-Of-A-Soldier-By-Louisa-May-Alcott.htm

  14. Mark Twain, “Advice to Youth” http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/adviceyouth.htm.

  15. Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” http://grammar.about.com/od/essaysonstyle/a/twaincooper.htm.

  16. Mark Twain, “How I Conquered Stage Fright,” 1906: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/How-Mark-Twain-Conquered-Stage-Fright.htm.

  17. Mary Austin, “The Land of Little Rain,” 1903: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/AustinLittleRain.htm

  18. Stephen Crane, “An Experiment in Misery,” 1894: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/craneexperiment.htm

  19. Upton Sinclair, “The Profits of Religion,” [essay collection], 1917: http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/upton_sinclair/profits_of_religion.html

  20. W.E.B. DuBois, Of Booker T. Washington and Others: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1111.

  21. W.E.B. DuBois, Of the Faith of the Fathers, 1903: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1157.

  22. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk [essay collection]: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DUBOIS/toc.html.

  23. Walt Whitman, “Slang in America,” 1885 http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/whitmanslang.htm.

  24. Walt Whitman, “Street Yarn,” 1856 http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/StreetYarnWhitman.htm.

  25. William James, “On Some Mental Effects of The Earthquake [San Francisco, 1906]: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/WJamesEarthquake.htm.

Modernism (1920’s & 1930’s)

Speeches


  1. Chrystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin”(1920): women’s right speech following passage of women’s suffrage: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_eastman_crystal_1920.htm.

  2. Clarence Darrow, A Plea for Mercy for Leopold And Loeb (September 1924): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/cdarrowpleaformercy.htm

  3. Clarence Darrow, Debate on Capital Punishment, October 27, 1924: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~thematic/darrow-capitalpun.pdf.

  4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Four Freedoms” Speech: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fourfreedoms.html. [text/audio]

  5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “The Great Arsenal of Democracy,” December 29, 1940: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrarsenalofdemocracy.html.

  6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Speech, Match 4, 1933: http://artofmanliness.com/first-inaugural-address-of-franklin-d-roosevelt/.

  7. Harold Ickes, “What is an American,” May 1941: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ickes.htm.

  8. Huey P. Long, “Every Man A King” (radio address, February 23, 1934): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hueyplongking.htm

  9. John L. Lewis, Labor’s Right to Strike (1937): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnlewisrightsoflabor.htm.

  10. Lou Gehrig, “The Luckiest Man on Earth,” 1939: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lougehrigfarewelltobaseball.htm. [text/video/audio]

  11. Margaret Sanger, The Morality of Birth Control (November 18, 1921): http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretsangermoralityofbirthcontrol.htm

  12. Marie Curie, “On the Discovery of Radium,“ May 14,1921: http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/Marie-Curie/index.htm.

  13. Mary McLeod Bethune, What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?, New York, N.Y., Nov. 23, 1939: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html.

  14. Sacco and Vanzetti, Speeches in Response to Death Sentence (April 19, 1927): [Landmark Speeches: GHCHS book]

  15. William Jennings Bryant, Closing Speech in Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925: http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/smt310-handouts/wjb-last/wjb-last.htm.

  16. William Lyon Phelps, “The Pleasure of Books,” 1933: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/phelps.htm.

Essays


  1. Alain Locke, "Enter the New Negro," essay, Survey Graphic, March 1925
    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/maai3/migrations/text8/text8read.htm

  2. Christopher Morley, Essays by Christopher Morley: http://www.readbookonline.net/books/Morley/522/#Essay

  3. Dorothy Parker, “Good Souls, 1919: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Good-Souls-By-Dorothy-Parker.htm.

  4. Dorothy Parker, Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/MrsPostParker.htm.

  5. E.B. White. Farewell My Lovely: http://www.wesjones.com/white1.htm.

  6. Emma Goldman, “On the Street,” 1931: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/EmmaGoldman.htm.

  7. H. L. Mencken, The Hills of Zion (July, 1925): http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mencken/the-hills-of-zion/.

  8. H.L. Mencken, Articles from the Scope Monkey Trial, 1925: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/menck04.htm.

  9. Haywood Broun, Essays by Haywood Broun: http://www.readbookonline.net/books/Broun/723/#Essay

  10. Helen Keller, Three Days to See (1933): http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=17&DocumentID=1215.

  11. James Agee, Now Let Us Praise Famous Men

  12. James Thurber, Alarms and Diversions [GHCHS library book]

  13. James Thurber, My World and Welcome to It [GHCHS library book]

  14. James Thurber, The Thurber Carnival [GHCHS library book]

  15. James Thurber. “Which”: http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/whichthurber.htm

  16. James Weldon Johnson, "Harlem: The Culture Capital," essay in Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro
    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/community/text1/text1read.htm

  17. Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," essay, The Nation, 23 June 1926
    http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/360.html

  18. Marcus Garvey, "Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem," essay, 1924
    http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/maai3/segregation/text1/text1read.htm

  19. Richard Wright, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch," essay, Federal Writers' Project (WPA)
    http://newdeal.feri.org/fwp/fwp03.htm

  20. Robert Benchley, Advice to Writers (1922): http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/advicebenchley.htm

  21. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader [GHCHS library book]

  22. William Allen White, Mary White (1922): http://www.bartleby.com/237/2.html.

  23. Zora Neale Hurston, Hoodoo in America, Zora Hurston, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 44, No. 174 (Oct. - Dec., 1931), pp. 317-417, American Folklore Society : http://www.jstor.org/stable/535394.

  24. Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/theireyesessay.htm.

Post-Modernism (1945 to the Present)

Speeches


  1. Albert Einstein. “The War is Won but the Peace is Not,” December 19, 1945: [Landmark Speeches: GHCHS book]

  2. Barack Obama, “Tucson Memorial Speech “Together We Thrive,” January 12, 2011: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barackobama/barackobamatucsonmemorial.htm.

  3. Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Speech: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/barbara_jordan_1976dnc.html.

  4. Barbara Jordan, The Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, 1973: http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jordan3.html.

  5. Barry Goldwater, “Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice,” July 16, 1964 [Landmark Speeches: GHCHS book]

  6. Betty Friedan, “Sex Plus” Doctrine, 1970: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/betty_friedan_plus.html.and “The Power of Our Sisterhood,” August 26, 1970. [Landmark Speeches: GHCHS book]

  7. Eleanor Roosevelt, Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/eleanorrooseveltdeclarationhumanrights.htm and http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/eleanorroosevelt.htm.

  8. George Wallace, “Segregation Now” speech, 1963: http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html

  9. Gloria Steinem, “Address to the Women,” 1971: http://www.last.fm/music/Gloria+Steinem/_/Address+To+The+Women+Of+America.

  10. John F. Kennedy, “We Choose to go to the Moon,” 1962: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-space.htm.

  11. John F. Kennedy, Inauguration Speech: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-inaug.htm.

  12. Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html.

  13. Margaret Chase Smith, “Declaration of Conscience,” 1950: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.html

  14. Martin Luther King, “I Have Been to the Mountaintop,” 1968: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm.

  15. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/mlk_nobel.html.

  16. Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power,” 1966: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/stokely_carmichael_blackpower.html.

  17. Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize for Literature Speech, 1993: http://gos.sbc.edu/m/morrisont.html.

  18. Richard M. Nixon, “The Checkers Speech,” 1952: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/nixon-checkers.htm.

  19. Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” April 16, 1953: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ike_chance_for_peace.html and “Atoms for Peace” http://www.world-nuclear-university.org/about.aspx?id=8674&terms=atoms%20for%20peace.

  20. John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Speech, June 11, 1963: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcivilrights.htm.

  21. Robert C. Wearver, “The Negro as American,” June 13, 1963: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/weaver_negro_american.html.

  22. Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have A Dream, August 28, 1963: http://ushistorysite.com/mlk_I_have_dream.php. [text/video]

  23. Ronald Reagan, Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-challenger.htm

  24. Ryan White, “I Have AIDS,” March 3, 1988: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ryan_White%27s_Testimony_before_the_President%27s_Commission_on_AIDS.

  25. Mary Fisher, “A Whisper of AIDS,” August 19, 1992: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/maryfisher1992rnc.html.

  26. Colin Powell, “Sharing the American Dream,” April 29, 1997. [Landmark Speeches: GHCHS book]

  27. Elie Weisel, “The Perils of Indifference,” April 12, 1999: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/elie_wiesel_perils.html.

  28. Barack Obama, “A More Perfect Union,” March 18, 2008 [Rev. Wright speech]: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barackobamaperfectunion.htm.

  29. Ronald Reagan, Tear Down This Wall –Berlin Wall Speech, June 12, 1987: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-tear-down.htm

  30. Hillary Clinton, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” September 5, 1995: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/hillaryclinton_women.html.

  31. Shirley Chisholm, “For the Equal Rights Amendment,” August 10, 1970: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/shirley_chisholm_era.html.

Essays


  1. Alice Walker, The Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, 1984: [GHCHS book]

  2. Amy Tan. “Mother Tongue,” 2003: [Language of Composition textbook]

  3. Arthur Miller, Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944-2000. [GHCHS book]

  4. Carl Sagan, “Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience and Civilization,” 1996: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/does_truth_matter_science_pseudoscience_and_civilization.

  5. Carl Sagan, “The Burden of Skepticism,”1987: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/burden_of_skepticism/.

  6. Edward Abbey, “The Great American Desert” http://www.li.suu.edu/library/circulation/Aton/engl2010jaAbbeyDesertFa10.pdf.

  7. Fran Leibowitz. The Fran Lebowitz Reader [GHCHS book]

  8. Gretel Ehrlich, This Cold Heaven, 2000 [LAPL book]

  9. Hunter S. Thompson. “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1976” [LAPL book]

  10. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963: [GHCHS book]

  11. Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction) [CSUN Oviatt book]

  12. John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens,” The New Yorker, 1972 [available via New Yorker only]

  13. Joyce Carol Oates, “On Boxing,” [GHCHS book]

  14. Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect [essays], 2008: [CSUN Oviatt book]

  15. LeRoi Jones, “Cuba Libre,” 1960: http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs1124.html.

  16. Lewis Thomas, “Lives of A Cell: Notes of a Biology Worker,” 1974: [GHCHS book]

  17. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” 1963: http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html.

  18. Micheal Eric Dyson, “The Culture of Hip-Hop,: in Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature. [GHCHS book]

  19. Oates, Joyce Carol. "And god saw that it was good." Southwest Review 80.2/3 (1995): 318. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 29 Mar. 2011. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9511264152&site=ehost-live.

  20. Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” 1998 [GHCHS book]

  21. Richard Rodriguez, Collected Essays by Richard Rodriguez at PBS NewsHour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/richard_rodriguez.html.

  22. Richard Wright, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch,” located in Uncle Tom’s Children [GHCHS book}

  23. Rick Bragg, 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways: http://www.faulkner.edu/admin/websites/cwarmack/bragg.pdf

  24. Sherman Alexie, “Superman and Me, 1998: [Language of Composition textbook]

  25. Stephen Jay Gould, “Women’s Brains,” 1989: [Language of Composition textbook]

  26. Susan Sontag, “Illness as a Metaphor,” 1978: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1978/jan/26/illness-as-metaphor/. [partial copy]

  27. Susan Sontag, “Notes on Camp,”1964: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html.

  28. Tom Wolfe, “Stealing the Billion Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel,” 1989: http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos3/tomwolfe.pdf.

  29. Truman Capote. “Handcarved Coffins,” from Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, 1984: [located at CSUN Oviatt Library and LAPL]

  30. Woody Allen, “Getting Even,” 1971 [GHCHS book]

  31. Woody Allen, “Without Feathers” 1974 [GHCHS book]

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