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American Literature & Rhetoric
Table of Contents
4. Leah Libresco, I Used to Think Gun Control
Was the Answer. My Research Told Me
Otherwise. (2017)
5. Bret Stephens, Repeal the Second
Amendment (2017)
6. Sarah Morris, If I’m Killed by an AR-15
– Forget Burial – Just Drop My Body on the
Steps of the N.R.A (photograph, 2018)
7. Nicholas Kristof, How to Win an
Argument About Guns (2018)
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Subordination
in the Complex Sentence
Chapter 6 Suggestions for Writing
7 | AMERICA IN CONFLICT: 1830-1865
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black
Veil (fiction, 1832)
John Ross, Response to the Treaty of New
Echota (nonfiction, 1836)
Sara Grimké, from Letter on the Equality
of the Sexes (nonfiction, 1837)
Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House
of Usher (fiction, 1839)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Self-Reliance
(nonfiction, 1841)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of
Sentiments (nonfiction, 1848)
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?
(nonfiction, 1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Preface to
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (nonfiction, 1852)
Frederick Douglass, from What, to the Slave,
Is the Fourth of July? (nonfiction, 1852)
Anonymous, Go Down Moses (poetry, c. 1852)
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden
(nonfiction, 1854)
TALKBACK | Kathryn Schulz, from Pond
Scum (nonfiction, 2015)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Bury Me
in a Free Land (poetry, 1858)
John Brown, Last Speech (nonfiction, 1859)
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
(poetry, 1860)
TALKBACK | Langston Hughes, I,
Too (poetry, 1926)
O Captain! My Captain! (poetry, 1865)
Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl, Written by Herself (nonfiction, 1861)
Alfred M. Green, Let Us Take Up the Sword
(nonfiction, 1861)
Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers —
poetry, c. 1861)
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —
(poetry, c. 1862)
My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
(poetry, c. 1863)
TALKBACK | Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson
and Elvis Presley in Heaven (poetry, 2006)
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem (poetry, 1862)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
(nonfiction, 1865)
Mathew Brady Photo Studio, Civil War Photographs
(visual essay, 1861-1865)
Conversation | Reparations and the Legacy of Slavery
1. Erik K. Yamamoto, from Racial Reparations: Japanese
American Redress and African American Claims (1998)
2. Khalil Bendib, Apology, Hold the Reparations
(cartoon, 2009)
3. Americans’ Views on Reparations (graph, 2016)
4. Robert L. Woodson, Embracing Reparations
Debases Blacks, Raises Troubling Questions (2019)
5. Te-Nehisi Coates, Congressional Testimony on
Reparations (2019)
6. Charles M. Blow, from Reparations: Reasonable
and Right (2019)
7. Charles Lane, Would Reparations for Slavery Be
Constitutional? (2019)
8. Jonathan Capehart, No Reparations Check of
Any Amount Could Substitute for an Apology
(2019)
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style | Cumulative,
Periodic, and Inverted Sentences
Chapter 7 Suggestions for Writing
8 | RECONSTRUCTING AMERICA:
1865-1913
Jourdon Anderson, To My Old Master
(nonfiction, 1865)
Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field
(painting, 1865)
TALKBACK | Natasha Trethewey, Again, the
Fields: After Winslow Homer (poetry, 2006)
Red Cloud, Speech on Indian Rights
(nonfiction, 1870)
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among
the Piutes (nonfiction, 1882)
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
(poetry, 1883)
Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi
(nonfiction, 1883)
Jacob Riis, The Mixed Crowd
(nonfiction, 1890)
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge (fiction, 1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow
Wallpaper (fiction, 1892)
TALKBACK | Kehinde Wiley, Portrait
of a Lady (painting)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors:
Lynch Law in All Its Phases (nonfiction, 1892) 6. Joseph Blasi and Maureen Conway,
Frederick Jackson Turner, from The
Significance of the Frontier in American
History (nonfiction, 1893/1920)
Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition
Address (nonfiction, 1895)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
(poetry, 1896)
Robin Dissin Aufses, Renée H. Shea,
Lawrence Scanlon, Katherine E. Cordes
Jane Addams, from The Subtle Problem
of Charity (nonfiction, 1899)
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
(nonfiction, 1899)
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Ev’ry Voice
and Sing (poetry, 1900)
TALKBACK | Augusta Savage,
The Harp (sculpture, 1939)
Andy Adams, from The Log of a Cowboy
(fiction, 1903)
W.E.B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth
(nonfiction, 1903)
Willa Cather, The Sculptor’s Funeral
(fiction, 1905)
TALKBACK | Kim Stafford,
Willa Cather’s Ride (poetry, 2019)
E. A. Robinson, Miniver Cheevy (poetry, 1910)
Sui Sin Far, Its Wavering Image (fiction, 1912)
Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful
(poetry, 1912)
TALKBACK | Gregory Djanikian, In the
Elementary School Choir (poetry, 1989)
Conversation | Income Inequality:
A New Gilded Age?
1. Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of
Wealth (1889)
2. Eugene V. Debs, from Capitalism Has
Nearly Reached Its Climax (1902)
3. Yes, This Is Class Warfare (poster, 2011)
4. John Divine, How to Solve Income
Inequality (2017)
5. David R. Henderson, from Income
Inequality Isn’t the Problem (2018)
A Better Way to Share the Wealth (2018)
7. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Income Gains at the Top Dwarf Those
of Low- and Middle-Income Households
(graph, 2019)