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"Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material: A bibliography of print criticism divided in categories designed to provide teachers and students a starting place for class preparation and research projects complied by Professor Edward J. Gallagher up to 1999. Students might consult the bibliography online, or teachers might download and modify it for their local purposes. Please see "Resources for Early American Studies: A Selective Guide," by Edward J. Gallagher in Carla Mulford's Teaching the Literatures of Early America, from European Contact to 1812. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1999.”

Please click on the links below for the PDF documents of these bibliographies as organized by Professor Gallagher, Lehigh University. Thank you.

Critical Context: Scholarly Books & Articles; Bibliography; General References

Exploration and Discovery; Exploration and Settlement; Religion in Early America; New England; New France; New Spain; The Staple Colonies; The Middle Colonies

The Eighteenth Century; Transatlantic; Westward Expansion

Poetry; Fiction; Drama; Autobiography; Captivity Narratives; Narrative and Other Literary Forms

Multicultural Studies in General; Native American Studies; African American Studies; Women and Gender

Music; Art; History of the Book; Material Culture

 

 

 

Sequoyah

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.