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For users of Firsthand America and
This Land: A History of the United States
Primary Sources:
1866 - 1900

1866 - Frederick Douglass - Atlantic Monthly, December 1866,
        "Reconstruction"    Text

1868 - Horatio Alger - Ragged Dick    Text

1871 - Horace White - The Great Chicago Fire    Text

1871 - James Clyman - Narrative of a Rocky Mountain Trip    Text

1872 - Mark Twain - Buck Fanshaw, "Roughing It"    Text

1873 - Susan B. Anthony - "Is it a Crime to Vote?"    Text

1875 - Susan B. Anthony - Social Purity    Text

1876 - Harpers Weekly - "The Custer Massacre"    Text

1876 - Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer    Text

1879 - Henry James - Daisy Miller, A Study    Text

1881 - Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings    Text

1883 - Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi    Text

1885 - Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn    Text

1885 - William Dean Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham    Text

1886 - Chicago Tribune account of the Haymarket uprising    Text

1887 - The Dawes Act    Text

1889 - Booker T. Washington - Atlantic Monthly, November 1889,
        "The Case of the Negro"    Text

1889 - Andrew Carnegie - "Wealth," North American Review    Text

1891 - Ambrose Bierce - "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"    Text

1891 - Hamlin Garland - Main-Traveled Roads    Text

1891 - William D. Howells - "Criticism and Fiction"    Text

1892 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - "Yellow Wallpaper"    Text

1892 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "Solitude of Self"    Text

1892 - Ida B. Wells - "Southern Horrors"    Text

1894 - Kate Chopin - "The Awakening" and selected short stories    Text

1895 - Booker T. Washington - Atlanta Compromise Speech    Text

1895 - Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage    Text

1896 - William Jennings Bryan - "Cross of Gold" Speech    Text

1896 - Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country Of The Pointed Firs    Text

1896 - Booker T. Washington - Atlantic Monthly, September 1896,
         "The Awakening of the Negro"    Text

1897 - Edwin Arlington Robinson - "Children Of The Night"    Text

1898 - Mark Twain - Harper's Magazine, March 1898,
        "Concerning the Jews"    Text

1899 - W. E. B. Du Bois - Atlantic Monthly, January 1899,
        "The Negro Schoolmaster in the New South"    Text

1900 - Charles Waddell Chesnutt - "The House Behind The Cedars"    Text




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