The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 112
• Hawthorne's greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter , is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction... Lees meer

Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 136
• Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, as Britain and France fought for control of North America, The Last of the Mohicans is a historical nove... Lees meer

Jim Crow, American

T D Rice

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 101
• Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America's imperfect union. When the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage in blackface as Jim ... Lees meer

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 22
• The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance... Lees meer

The Spirit of the Ghetto

Hutchins Hapgood

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 5
• First published in 1902, and illustrated by Jacob Epstein, this evocation of the spiritual and cultural life of Yiddish New York remains fresh and rel... Lees meer

Man and Nature

George Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 8
• George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It w... Lees meer

Prison Blossoms

Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, Carl Nold

• Hardcover | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 120
• In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempt... Lees meer

Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays

J Hector St John de Crèvecoeur

• Hardcover | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 49
• Letters from an American Farmer was published in London in 1782, just as the idea of an "American" was becoming a reality. Those epistolary essays int... Lees meer

A Fool's Errand

Albion W Tourgée

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 13
• What was a carpetbagger? Albion W. Tourgée was called one, and he wrote, "To the southern mind it meant a scion of the North, a son of an 'abolitionis... Lees meer

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 116
• One of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author's experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian commun... Lees meer

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 145
• When a murder takes place in Dawson's Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd "black" son who has... Lees meer

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 106
• Stephen Crane's weirdly impressionistic The Red Badge of Courage is one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War--and the first non-romantic ... Lees meer

The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649

John Winthrop

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 20
• The journal of Governor John Winthrop, one of the key documents of early New England history, records the first two crucial decades of the Bay Colony.... Lees meer

The Key of Liberty

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 18
• The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot soldier... Lees meer

The Tribunal

• Hardcover | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 100
• When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of mill... Lees meer

The Pathfinder

James Fenimore Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 139
• In 1831, James Fenimore Cooper told his publisher that he wanted to write a story set on Lake Ontario. The book was accepted, but with no hint that it... Lees meer

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 23
• The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance... Lees meer

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 21
• This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science o... Lees meer

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 123
• "In Common Sense a writer found his moment to change the world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine 's attack on the British mixed con... Lees meer

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 140
• The action of James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie (1827) unfolds against the backdrop of the grasslands beyond the Mississippi, just after the Louisia... Lees meer

The Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months

Susan Paul

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 24
• "The design of this Memoir is, to present the incidents in the life of a little colored boy." So begins the life story of James Jackson, as set down b... Lees meer

The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 121
• Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, sc... Lees meer

Fanny Kemble's Journals

Fanny Kemble

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 25
• Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British ... Lees meer

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library
• No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass's Narra... Lees meer