The American Experiment: A country arguing itself into being

The founding and self-invention of the United States — Paine and Hamilton, Thoreau and Douglass, the documents and dissenters of a new republic.

In this collection

• A Dream
• The Spectre Bridegroom
• Little Britain
• My Escape from Slavery
• The Aurora of Guido. a Fragment
• As Adam Early in the Morning
• O Captain! my Captain!
• Sic Vita
• The Atlantides
• Salut Au Monde!
• Manhattan Arming
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• The Republican Proclamation
• The Voyage
• A Royal Poet
• Westminster Abbey
• Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum
• To One Shortly to Die
• A Word out of the Sea
• Other Lands
• This Compost
• Despairing Cries
• Love of Comrades
• Centuries Hence
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