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« Go to American Writers Select a writer 1600-1800: William Bradford Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson James Madison 1800-1850: Lewis & Clark James Fenimore Cooper  Sojourner Truth Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850-1865: Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary Chesnut Abraham Lincoln 1865-1901: Mark Twain Willa Cather Black Elk Booker T. Washington W.E.B Du Bois Henry Adams Edith Wharton 1901-1929: Upton Sinclair Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Dreiser Will Rogers Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston H.L. Mencken F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 1929-1945: John Steinbeck William Faulkner Ayn Rand Ernie Pyle 1945-1961: Whittaker Chambers Walter Lippmann Jack Kerouac 1961-1975: James Baldwin Betty Friedan Russell Kirk William F. Buckley David Halberstam Neil Sheehan ______________________ Select a work 1600-1800: Mayflower Compact Autobiography of    Benjamin Franklin Common Sense Declaration of   Independence U.S. Constitution 1800-1850: Journals of   the Expedition Last of the Mohicans Narrative of   Sojourner Truth Nature Walden Declaration of   Sentiments The Scarlet Letter 1850-1865: Narrative of the Life of   Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom's Cabin A Diary from Dixie Gettysburg Address 1865-1901: The Adventures of   Huckleberry Finn O Pioneers! Black Elk Speaks Up From Slavery The Souls of Black Folk The Education of   Henry Adams Age of Innocence 1901-1929: The Jungle The Winning of   the West Sister Carrie The Cowboy Philosopher   on Prohibition Their Eyes   Were Watching God Montage of a Dream The American Language   Deferred The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises 1929-1945: The Grapes of Wrath The Sound and   the Fury The Fountainhead Here is Your War 1945-1961: Witness Public Opinion On the Road 1961-1975: The Fire Next Time The Feminine Mystique The Conservative Mind God and Man at Yale The Best and   the Brightest A Bright Shining Lie ______________________ Select a place 1600-1800: Plymouth, MA Philadelphia, PA: New Rochelle, NY Montpelier Station, VA: 1800-1850: Astoria, OR Cooperstown, NY Battle Creek, MI Concord, MA Seneca Falls, NY Salem, MA 1850-1865: Washington, DC Cincinnati, OH Camden, SC Gettysburg, PA 1865-1901: Hannibal, MO Red Cloud, NE Little Bighorn Battlefield Ntnl Mnt, MT Tuskegee, AL Amherst, MA Quincy, MA Lenox, MA 1901-1929: Chicago, IL: Upton Sinclair Medora, ND Chicago, IL: Theodore Dreiser Claremore, OK Harlem, NY Baltimore, MD: Montgomery, AL Key West, FL 1929-1945: Salinas, CA Oxford, MS Hollywood, CA Dana, IN 1945-1961: Washington, DC Washington, DC Lowell, MA 1961-1975: Bronx, NY Northampton, MA Mecosta, MI Washington, DC ______________________    Video Archives    Portrait Gallery    Classroom    Cable Affiliates    Home			View the original series: Get Interactive American Writers Book Club *** Attention Book Club Members *** Read Chat Transcripts on Some of Your Favorite Writers From the American Writers Series Including:      • Harriet Beecher Stowe      • James Baldwin      • Vietnam & the 60's - Halberstam &        Sheehan
				About this web site American Writers: Journey through history and American Writers II: The 20th Century are now available as permanent archives for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C-SPAN series. Things to do on this site • Find information on writers,   their works and program   locations • View streaming media of   complete programs &   related video • Use lesson plans designed by   C-SPAN in the Classroom • View portraits of each writer   created by Chas Fagan • Review complete past   program schedules Watch American Writers II: Broadband On Demand C-SPAN's Cable Modem Showcase
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