Short Nonfiction: English II

EARLY AMERICA

• • Edwards, Jonathan - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) 

  • Henry, Patrick - Speech in the Virginia Convention (1775)

  • Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (1776)

  • Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (1776)

TRANSCENDENTALISM

• Overview

• Literary History

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selections and commentary

  • The Great Books podcast - Episode 143: "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Thoreau, Henry David - excerpt from "Civil Disobedience" (1849)

• Thoreau, Henry David - excerpts from Walden (1854)

  • The Great Books podcast – Episode 33: Walden by Henry David Thoreau

CIVIL WAR ERA

• Lincoln, Abraham - "The Gettysburg Address" (1863)