Chapter 8
Jourdon Anderson, To My Old Master
Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (painting)
Emily Dickinson
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Does Not Such a Meeting Make Amends? (cartoon)
Red Cloud, Speech on Indian Rights
Thomas Nast, Worse than Slavery (cartoon)
Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo (painting)
Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of Wealth
Jacob Riis, The Mixed Crowd
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
E. A. Robinson, Richard Cory
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
Jane Addams, from The Subtle Problem of Charity
Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful
Zitkala-Ša, from The School Days of an Indian Girl
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
W. E. B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth
Willa Cather, The Sculptor’s Funeral
Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle
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