Research Guides: *American History: Literature

Literature

African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the earliest published African American poem to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success.

Early American Fiction
Full-text copies of more than 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
American Poetry (library database)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.