I’ve been busy today making up a list of American literature to recommend to my AP US History students next year. I’m telling them that they will probably learn a lot more if they study American Literature and American History together, but I’m just going to give them a recommended list for literature. We’ll be meeting for an hour a week fro the history class, and I’ll be making assignments, giving tests, etc. For the literature part they and their parents will be pretty much on their own. So far my American literature So far I have on the list: William Bradford, Anee Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Peter Cartwright, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Booker T. Washington, Stephen Crane, Edward Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Chaim Potok, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Harper Lee, Flannery O’Conner, and Annie Dillard. These are probably way too many authors for a high school literature class, but does anyon have any other suggestons? Anybody you think I should leave off the list? Whyy? Any specific suggestions of which stories, novels, or poems by these authors I should suggest?