: Known for its inclusive focus on Indigenous oral traditions, African American oral literature, and contextual sections on slavery and resistance.
While the "Practical Anthology" is a specific university resource, the study of American literature often relies on broader, more comprehensive anthologies that provide historical and thematic context:
: The standard for most survey courses, covering literature from the sixteenth century to the present. It includes seminal works like Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Thoreau’s Walden .