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 |