Classic American Literature

By nomikw
  • 40,000 BCE

    Iroquois Nation tells their Creation Story

    Iroquois Nation tells their Creation Story
    It has blood and guts, babies being born from armpits, and lots of family murder.
  • Crevecouer writes some biased shit about Native Americans

    Crevecouer writes some biased shit about Native Americans
    He calls is "Letters from and American Farmer" and is basically fiction that is loosely based on his journey in the "New World." Basically he left the old European way of life behind, to go mess up a perfectly fine way of life in America with a bunch of other Europeans, and so began America as we know it...
  • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

    Margaret Fuller Ossoli
    It's the 1800s and Ossoli is feeling like an oppressed woman, so she decides to join the women's rights movement AND the movement to abolish slavery because she's one cool cat.
    "Nowhere I worship less than in places set apart for that purpose...the blue sky seen above the opposite roof preaches better than any brother."