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| Preface | |
| Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910 | |
| Nation, Regions, Borders | |
| African-American Folktales | |
| Animal Tales | |
| When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race | |
| Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit | |
| How Sandy Got His Meat | |
| Who Ate Up the Butter? Fox and Rabbit in the Well | |
| The Signifying Monkey | |
| Memories of Slavery | |
| Malitis | |
| The Flying Africans | |
| Conjure Stories | |
| Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida | |
| John and Old Marster | |
| Master Disguised | |
| The Diviner | |
| Massa and the Bear | |
| Baby in the Crib | |
| John Steals a Pig and a Sheep | |
| Talking Bones | |
| Old Boss Wants into Heaven | |
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) | |
| Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog | |
| from Roughing It, Chapter XLVIII: Buck Fanshawe's Funeral; A True Story | |
| The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg | |
| from The Autobiography of Mark Twain | |
| Chapter 4. As Regards Patriotism | |
| The War Prayer | |
| [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a Riverside Edition.] Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) | |
| from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, Chapter II: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story; Chapter IV: How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox | |
| from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches: Free Joe and the Rest of the World | |
| Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
| What is a White Man? The Goophered Grapevine | |
| Po' Sandy | |
| The Passing of Grandison | |
| The Wife of His Youth | |
| Cluster: Aesthetics | |
| Henry James (1843-1916) | |
| Review: Waiting for the Verdict | |
| William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
| from Criticism and Fiction | |
| Jack London (1876-1916) from The Terrible and the Tragic | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
| To Annie Field, Oct. 12, 1890 | |
| Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) from Journal | |
| Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) | |
| Preface Contending Forces | |
| George Santayana (1863-1952) from The Sense of Beauty | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
| from Lyrics of Lowly Life: Frederick Douglass | |
| We Wear the Mask | |
| When Malindy Sings | |
| Sympathy | |
| Prometheus | |
| The Lynching of Jube Benson | |
| Ghost Dance Songs | |
| Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) | |
| Ode to Sequoyah | |
| Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo | |
| Fus Fixicos Letter Number 44 | |
| Fus Fixicos Letter Number 45 | |
| Fus Fixicos Letter Number 46 | |
| John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) | |
| The Problem of Old Harjo | |
| Sheaf: A Latino Chorus for Social Change | |
| Raphael Serra (1858-1909) | |
| from Nuestro Periodico / Our Newspaper | |
| from Sin justicia no hay union / Without Justice There is No Unity | |
| Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) | |
| from Anarchismo y Espiritismo / Anarchy and Spiritualism | |
| from Situacion del trabajador puertorriqueno / The situation of the Puerto Rican Worker | |
| Sara Estela Ramirez (1881-1910) | |
| 21 de marzo / March 21st | |
| Anonymous | |
| Collaboration / Collaboration | |
| from Plan de San Diego (in English) | |
| Corridos | |
| Kiansis I. Kansas I. Gregorio Cortez | |
| Jacinto Trevi?o / Jacinto Trevi?o | |
| Hijo Desobediente / The Disobedient Son | |
| Recordiando al Presidente / Remembering the President | |
| Corrido de C?sar Ch?vez / Ballad of C?sar Ch?vez | |
| William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
| from The Editor's Study | |
| Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune | |
| Mary E. Wilkins' Short Stories | |
| from Criticism and Fiction | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | |
| Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories | |
| Editha. Henry James (1843-1916) | |
| Daisy Miller: A Study | |
| The Art of Fiction | |
| The Beast in the Jungle | |
| Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
| Chickamauga | |
| Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) | |
| Up the Coulee | |
| New Orleans and America | |
| George Washington Cable (1844-1925) | |
| 'Tite Poulette | |
| Grace King (1852-1932) | |
| The Little Convent Girl | |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) | |
| from The Goodness of St. Rocque | |
| Sister Josepha | |
| The Praline Woman | |
| Mr. Baptiste | |
| Kate Chopin (1851-1904) | |
| Desiree's' Baby | |
| The Storm | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| The Awakening | |
| Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
| The Open Boat | |
| The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | |
| from The Black Riders and Other Lines | |
| God Lay Dead in Heaven | |
| from War Is Kind: Do Not Weep | |
| Maiden, For War Is Kind | |
| The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart | |
| A Man Said to the Universe | |
| A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices | |
| There Was A Man with Tongue of Wood | |
| from Uncollected Poems | |
| Chant You Loud of Punishments | |
| Jack London (1876-1916) | |
| South of the Slot | |
| Koolou the Leper | |
| Cluster: America in the World/The World in America | |
| Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | |
| The White Man's Burden | |
| Anonymous | |
| We've taken up the white man's burden | |
| Anna Manning Comfort (1845-1931) | |
| Home Burdens of Uncle Sam | |
| from Chicago Republic | |
| Buster Brown in a New Role | |
| Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
| from The Marrow of Tradition | |
| The Women's Auxiliary of the Anti-Imperialist League | |
| Women Make an Appeal in Behalf of the Foundation Principles of the Republic | |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) | |
| from The Person Sitting in Darkness | |
| Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
| The New Colossus | |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) | |
| Unguarded Gates | |
| Sheaf: Filipino and Filipina Writing | |
| Sixto Lopez (unknown dates) | |
| The Philippine Problem: A Proposition for a Solution | |
| Maria Guadalupe Gutierrez Quintero de Joseph (unknown dates) | |
| American and Filipino Women | |
| The Filipino Students Magazine | |
| Who were the Original Dog-Eaters? Manuel Quezon (1878-1944) | |
| The Philippines--What They Are and What They Would Be | |
| Maximo M. Kalaw (unknown dates) | |
| from The Case for the Filipinos | |
| from Self Government in the Philippines | |
| Emma Serapta Yule (unknown dates) | |
| The Woman Question in the Philippines | |
| Critical Visions of Postbellum America | |
| Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908) | |
| What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark | |
| Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939) | |
| from The Soul of the Indian, Chapter I: The Great Mystery; from The Deep Woods to Civilization; Chapter VII: The Ghost Dance War | |
| Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891) | |
| from Life Among the Piute, Chapter I: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites | |
| Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926) | |
| from Samantha Among the Brethren, Chapter XIX | |
| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) | |
| Aunt Chloe's Politics | |
| Learning to Read | |
| The Martyr of Alabama | |
| A Double Standard, Songs for the People | |
| Woman's Political Future | |
| Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964) | |
| from A Voice from the South, Chapter XXX: Our Raison D'Etre | |
| Woman versus the Indian | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| Turned | |
| "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" | |
| Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) | |
| The Wanderers | |
| The Popularity of Firemen | |
| The Piano in the Parlor | |
| Immigration | |
| Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) | |
| The Jungle, from Chapter II; from Chapter II; from Chapter IX; from Chapter XII; from Chapter XII; from Chapter XIV | |
| Henry Adams (1838-1918) | |
| from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Chapter VI: The Virgin of Chartres | |
| from The Education of Henry Adams, Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin | |
| Developments in Women's Writing | |
| Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) | |
| Hearing the Battle | |
| Giving Back the Flower | |
| Shapes of a Soul | |
| The Funeral of a Doll | |
| The Palace-Burner | |
| Her Blindness in Grief | |
| We Two | |
| The Witch in the Glass | |
| Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) | |
| from A Brand Plucked from the Fire, Chapter XVII: My Call to Preach the Gospel; Chapter XIX: Public Effort-Excommunication; Chapter XX: Women in the Gospel | |
| Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | |
| My Contraband | |
| Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) | |
| Circumstance | |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) | |
| Miss Grief | |
| Maria Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895) | |
| from The Squatter and the Don, Chapter 5: The Don in His Broad Acres | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
| A White Heron | |
| The Foreigne | |
| Martha's Lady | |
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
| A New England Nun | |
| The Revolt of Mother | |
| Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) | |
| from Contending Forces, Chapter VIII: The Sewing Circle; Chapter XIV: Luke Sawyer Speaks | |
| Talma Gordon | |
| A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women | |
| Adah Menken (1835?-1868) | |
| Judith | |
| Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) | |
| In Kittery Churchyard | |
| Wherefore | |
| Two Sonnets | |
| Louise Chandler Moulton (1855-1900) | |
| A Girl's Funeral in Milan | |
| Laus Veneris | |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) | |
| Her Prayer | |
| Illusion | |
| Goddess of Liberty, Answer | |
| Edith Thomas (1854-1925) | |
| The Torches of Dawn | |
| The Deep Sea Pearl | |
| Frost To-night | |
| To Walk Invisible | |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) | |
| Early September | |
| Telling the Bees | |
| Drought | |
| White Flags | |
| Emily | |
| Spring Ecstasy | |
| Crows | |
| Sophie Jewett (1861-1909) | |
| Entre Nous | |
| Armistice | |
| I Speak Your Name | |
| E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913) | |
| The Camper | |
| The Corn Husker | |
| The Indian Corn Planter | |
| Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) | |
| Hylas | |
| Monochrome | |
| Charista Musing | |
| Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) | |
| The Wood-Chopper to His Ax | |
| The Cross and the Pagan | |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) | |
| I Sit and Sew | |
| You! Inez! The Proletariat Speaks | |
| A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s | |
| Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927) | |
| Longing | |
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
| Love and the Witches | |
| Ella Higginson (1862-1940) | |
| In a Valley of Peace | |
| Eleanor B. Caldwell (fl. 1890) | |
| Creation | |
| Anne Throop (fl. 1890) | |
| The Sinner | |
| Ethel Balton (fl. 1890) | |
| An Impressionist Picture | |
| Maude Caldwell Perry (1973-1963) | |
| Summer Died Last Night | |
| Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959) | |
| Behold the Lilies | |
| The Making of "Americans" | |
| Cluster: E Pluribus Unum--All in the Family | |
| Henry Adams (1838-1918) | |
| from Democracy | |
| Henry W. Grady (1851-1889) | |
| The New South | |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) | |
| from A Red Record | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 | |
| Dawes Severalty Act 1887 | |
| The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | |
| Thomas Nast (1840-1902) | |
| E Pluribus Unum (Except the Chinese) | |
| One Named Xu, from Xiangshan, Consoling Himself | |
| Poem 27 | |
| Poem 41 | |
| Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914) | |
| Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian | |
| from Mrs. Spring Fragrance, In the Land of the Free | |
| The Wisdom of the New | |
| Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875-1954) | |
| A Half-Caste | |
| Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) | |
| from The Imported Bridegroom | |
| Cluster: Religion | |
| Sanford F. Bennett (1838-1898) | |
| In the Sweet Bye and Bye | |
| Joe Hill (1879-1915) | |
| The Preacher and the Slave | |
| The Rev. Billy Sunday (1862-1935) | |
| from A sermon preached in Decatur, Illinois | |
| James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) | |
| from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | |
| Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) | |
| from In His Steps | |
| Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) | |
| from Looking Backwards | |
| Gertrude Bonnin Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) | |
| Why I Am a Pagan | |
| Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) | |
| Christ's Entry into Jerusalem | |
| Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
| The Choice | |
| Thomas Huxley (1825-1895) | |
| Agnosticism and Christianity | |
| Mary Austin (1868-1934) | |
| from Earth Horizon: Chapter III | |
| Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)(Sioux) (1876-1938) | |
| from The School Days of an Indian Girl, Chapter I: The Land of Red Apples; Chapter II: The Cutting of My Long Hair; Chapter III: The Snow Episode; Chapter VI: Four Strange Summers; Chapter VII: Incurring My Mother's Displeasure | |
| Mary Antin (1881-1949) | |
| from The Promised Land, Chapter IX | |
| Yone Noguci (1875-1947) | |
| I Hail Myself as I do Homer. O Hana San | |
| The Lotus Worshippers | |
| from Japanese Hokkus (#s 12, 16, 36, 71) | |
| from American Diary of a Japanese Girl | |
| Jos? Mart? (1853-1895) | |
| Our America | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |