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Colonial America and Children's Literature (0 words) |
 | Integrating US History with Literature in Grades 3-8. |
 | It is often a part of the curriculum, integrates well with literature, and can be approached in an inventive manner. |
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From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Early American and Colonial Period to ... (642 words) |
 | The early literature of exploration, made up of diaries, letters, travel journals, ships' logs, and reports to the explorers' financial backers -- European rulers or, in mercantile England and Holland, joint stock companies -- gradually was supplanted by records of the settled colonies. |
 | As American minority literature continues to flower in the 20th century and American life becomes increasingly multicultural, scholars are rediscovering the importance of the continent's mixed ethnic heritage. |
 | Although the story of literature now turns to the English accounts, it is important to recognize its richly cosmopolitan beginnings. |