| 1. | Introduction, Washington Irving: The Sketch Book |
| 2. | Richerd Henry Danna, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast |
| 3. | Henry David Thoreau: Walden |
| 4. | Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| 5. | Harriet Beecher Stowe: 'Sojourner Truth: The Libyan Sibyl' |
| 6. | Frederick Douglas: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas |
| 7. | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk |
| 8. | Emily Dickinson: 'Could Ride Indefinite' |
| 9. | Walt Whitman: 'On Journey through the States' |
| 10. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 'Paul Rever's Ride' |
| 11. | Henry James: Washington Square |
| 12. | Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| 13. | Willa Cather: My Antonia |
| 14. | N. Scott Momanday: The Way to Rainy Mountain |