I just love American literature - it was written in the US and it's colonies.
What kind of American literature do you like best, history, romance, something else?
Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer. It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published. An early example is William Hill Brown's "The Power of Sympathy" published in 1791. Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fall in love without knowing they are related. 
With an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key
the time of the demonstration, noted, "it's a lot easier to do physical violence to something because you're responding to your emotions and you get immediate gratification. And [the Silent Vigil] was slow gratification, and it took discipline to do that. I have a great deal of respect for the leadership that made it happen that way. It really was special to Duke and to higher education; nothing like it happened anywhere else in the country."
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