Our library's Literature Online (LION) database provides access to thousands of works of poetry, prose, and drama.
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- American Drama (1714-1915)
- Early American Fiction (1789-1915)
- American Poetry (colonial times to present)
Click Browse > Literary Periods
- American Colonial Period, 1607-1765 (e.g., works by Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Mary Rowlandson)
- Revolutionary and Early American Period, 1765-1830
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- African Americans
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