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"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven." Matthew 5: 13 – 16

The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.
The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England in September of 1620. They landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in December of 1620.

William Bradford:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357893 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/william-bradford3/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-52135 
• The full version of History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford http://www.archive.org/details/historyofplimoth00braduoft
• http://members.aol.com/calebj/bradford_journal.html

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford The Second Governor of the Colony, Reprinted from the Massachusetts Historical Collection; Edited with Notes by Charles Deane, Privately Printed in Boston, 1856.
• Original Narratives of Early American History; Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 1604-1646. Edited by William T. Davis. Published by Charles Scribner, 1908.
• Bradford, William, Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Bay Psalm Book:

The full version of The Bay Psalm Book is available for download at the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection available on the Learning Center computer:

• The Bay Psalm Book Being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, New England in 1640. Dodd, Meade and Co, 1905.
• Or visit http://www.archive.org/details/thebaypsalmbookb00unknuoft 
• Bay Psalm Book, The, Encyclopedia Britannica.

The New England Primer:

The full version of The New England Primer is available for download at the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection available on the Learning Center computer:

• The New England Primer, A History of its Origin and Development with a reprint of the unique copy of the earliest known edition, Edited by Paul Leicester Ford, Dodd, Mead and Co, 1897.

Anne Bradstreet:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357900 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/anne-dudley-bradstreet/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-76096 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-88554 
• Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet - http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/27.html 

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672, Together with Her Prose Remains with an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton, 1897 The Duodecimos
• Bradstreet, 

Benjamin Franklin:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9364852 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/benjamin-franklin-dlb3/ 
• Scientific Discovery - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/benjamin-franklin-wsd/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-86975
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-92970 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-93904
• Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History - http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
• PBS Online: Benjamin Franklin - http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
• Benjamin Franklin House - http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/default.htm 

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• Little Masterpieces : Benjamin Franklin, Selections from Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanac, Advice to a Young Tradesman, The Whistle, Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich, Motion for Prayers, Selected Letters. Edited by Bliss Perry. 
• Franklin, Benjamin, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Thomas Paine:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9374377 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/thomas-paine/ 
• The Crisis - http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-crisis-by-thomas-paine-arrl-04/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-13344
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-82353
• The Age of Reason - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/reason1.html 

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• The Works of Thomas Paine, a Hero in the American Revolution with an Account of his Life in Three Volumes, Vol. I comprising Life of Thomas Paine, Miscellaneous Theological Writings, and Letters to George Washington. E. Haskell Publisher.
• The Writings of Thomas Paine collected and edited by Moncure Daniel Conway, Volume I 1774-1779. Putnam and Sons, 1906.
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine or view the Project Gutenberg Etext at http://ia300226.us.archive.org/0/items/comsn10a/comsn10a.txt
• Paine, Thomas, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Washington Irving:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9368217 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-11983 
• Listen to a Librivox audio book recording of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
  http://www.archive.org/details/sleepy_hollow_librivox
• View a 1902 silent film of "Rip Van Winkle" starring Joseph Jefferson http://www.archive.org/details/rip_van_winkle_1896

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"
• Irving, Washington, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Erminnie A. Smith:

• Read about Erminnie A. Smith and "The Myth of the Iroquois" from The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volume IV, October 1881-October 1882. Edited by Rev. Stephen D. Peet. Jameson and Morse Publishers, 1881-82.
• Smith, Erminnie, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Edgar Allan Poe:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9375497 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/edgar-allan-poe/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-75125
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - http://www.eapoe.org/ 
• Edgar Allan Poe: Tales, Sketches and Selected Criticism - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/contents.html
• The Poe Museum - http://www.poemuseum.org/
• Read Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (includes The gold-bug -- The black cat -- Mesmeric revelation -- Lionizing -- The fall of the House of Usher -- A descent into the maelström -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The mystery of Marie Roget -- The purloined letter -- The man in the crowd) http://www.archive.org/details/talesedg00poeerich

Video: The Raven, read by Christopher Walken