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Classics and Primary Sources

Classics and Primary Sources

Classics - Historical/Literary

• Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

• James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leather-Stocking Tales”
  (The Pathfinder, The Last of The Mohicans, etc)

• Johnny Tremain -  Esther Forbes

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

• Tom Sawyer and/or Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

• Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Christy - Catherine Marshall

• The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell Wright

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

           

Primary Sources.  In their own words.

• The General History of Virginia - John Smith

• Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford

• No Cross, No Crown - William Penn

• The Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin

• Common Sense - Thomas Paine

• The Federalist Papers - John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

• “Farewell Address” - George Washington

• Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

• A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass

• “The Gettysburg Address” - Abraham Lincoln

• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

To Avoid due to Historical Inaccuracies and/or lack of Biblical Worldview

• Turn: Washington’s Spies - AMC TV Series

• Sons of Liberty - History Channel TV Series

• Signing Their Lives Away - Denise Kiernan & Joseph D’Agnese