Highlights of Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction
• Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno
• In-depth thematic sections on such topics as “Rebellions and Revolutions,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” and “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny”
• More extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies
• Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José María Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
• Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources