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American Humanities

American Humanities. Final Exam Review. Transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson Various essays which include “Nature,” “The American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Fate” Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience” Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil. 19 th Century Poetry.

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American Humanities

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  1. American Humanities Final Exam Review

  2. Transcendentalism • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Various essays which include “Nature,” “The American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Fate” • Henry David Thoreau • “Civil Disobedience” • Nathaniel Hawthorne • “The Minister’s Black Veil

  3. 19th Century Poetry • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • “A Psalm of Life,” “My Cathedral,” “The Children’s Hour,” “Nature,” “The Day is Done” • Emily Dickinson • “Some keep the Sabbath,” “To die—takes just a little while,” “Much madness is divinest sense” • Walt Whitman • “Song of Myself,” “O Captain, My Captain,” “Reconciliation,” “I Hear American Singing”

  4. Realism • Frederick Douglass • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass • Ambrose Bierce • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” • Stephen Crane • “War is Kind” • Mark Twain • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  5. Native Americans • Native American Myths • “How the Crow Came to Be Black,” “Sweat Lodge,” “Sun Dance Mountain,” “The Woman Who Gossiped,” “Coyote, Iktome, and the Rock” • Black Elk • Black Elk Speaks • E. Pauline Johnson • “As It Was in the Beginning” • Sherman Alexie • “The Farm” and “The American Indian Holocaust Museum”

  6. Women • Kate Chopin • “Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby” • Anzia Yezierska • Bread Givers 1920s • F. Scott Fitzgerald • The Great Gatsby The Great Depression • John Steinbeck • The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, and “Woody Guthrie”

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