Myths in American culture

Preface
Introduction
Unit 0ne The Myth of the New World
William Bradford Of PIvmouth Plantation
John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity
Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
William Ellery Channing The Moral Argument against Calvinism
Anne Bradstreet In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Verses upon the Bu rning of Our House
Unit Two The Myth of Individualism
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance
Christopher Lasch Changing Modes of Making It
Studs Terkel Stephen Cruz
Unit Three The Myth of Democracy
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine Common Sense
Jean de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer
Henry David Thoreau On CiviI Disobedience
Carf Schurz Manifest Destiny
James Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again
Unit Four The Myth of Progress
Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History
James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers
Henry David Thoreau Walden
John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes Talking to the Owls and Butterflies
Susan Griffin Split Culture
Unit Five The Myth of Racial Equality(I)
David Walker Appeal
Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
William LIoyd Garrison Preface to The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kate Chopin Desiree's Baby
Unit Six The Myth of Racial Equality(II)
Leonardo Covello The Heart is the Teacher
Malcolm X Learning to Read
Martin Luther King,Jr． Racism and the Wh ite Backlash
Curtis Chang Streets of Gold：The Myth of the Model Minority
Virginia R．Harris and Trinity A．Ordona Racism and Cross—Racial Hostility
Aurora Levins Morales Child of the Americas
Unit Seven The Myth of Gender Equality(1)
Abigail Adams Letter to Joh n Adams
Angelina Grimke Letter to Catharine E．Beecher
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments
Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Woman? Reminiscences What Time of Night It Is
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper Are Women Human Beings?
Unit Eight The Myth of Gender Equality(II)
Betty Friedan The Problem That Has No Name
Judy Syfers Why I Want a Wife
Kay Boyle Astronomer'S Wife
Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come from is Like This
bell hooks Reflections on Race and Sex