American Humanities

Final Exam Review

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson Various essays which include “Nature,” “The

American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Fate” Henry David Thoreau

“Civil Disobedience” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Minister’s Black Veil

19th Century Poetry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Psalm of Life,” “My Cathedral,” “The

Children’s Hour,” “Nature,” “The Day is Done” Emily Dickinson

“Some keep the Sabbath,” “To die—takes just a little while,” “Much madness is divinest sense”

Walt Whitman “Song of Myself,” “O Captain, My Captain,”

“Reconciliation,” “I Hear American Singing”

Realism

Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass Ambrose Bierce

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Stephen Crane

“War is Kind” Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Native Americans

Native American Myths “How the Crow Came to Be Black,” “Sweat

Lodge,” “Sun Dance Mountain,” “The Woman Who Gossiped,” “Coyote, Iktome, and the Rock”

Black Elk Black Elk Speaks

E. Pauline Johnson “As It Was in the Beginning”

Sherman Alexie “The Farm” and “The American Indian Holocaust

Museum”

Women Kate Chopin

“Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby” Anzia Yezierska

Bread Givers

1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

The Great Depression John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, and “Woody Guthrie”