John Smith
The General History of Virginia", "A Description of New England
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation", "The Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity
Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue", "The Author to Her Book", "Some Verses on the Burning of My House
Mary Rowlandson
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Edward Taylor
Preparatory Meditations", "Huswifery
Cotton Mather
Magnalia Christi Americana
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography", "Poor Richard's Almanac
J. Hector st. John de Crevecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Philip Freneau
On the Emigratiion to America and Peopling the Western Country", "To a Honey Bee
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers", "The Deer Slayer", "The Last of the Mohicans
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature", "Self Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The May-pole of Merry Mount", "The Scarlet Letter", "The Birth Mark
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life", "Paul Revere's Ride
John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven", "Annabel Lee", "The Fall of the House of Usher
Margaret Fuller
Four Kinds of Equality", "The Dial
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods", "Civil Disobedience
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass", "Song of Myself
Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Moby Dick
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death", "A narrow fellow in the grass
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Tom Sawyer", "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Ambrose Bierce (bitter bierce)
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Henry James
Daisy Miller", "The Portrait of a Lady