William Bradford: of Plymouth Plantation/ Norman S. Grabo
Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography / Ralph L. Ketcham
Michel-Fuillaume St. Jean de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer / Russel B. Nye
The Federalist / Melvin K. Whiteleather
Washington Riving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. /
James Fenimore Cooper: The Prairie / William H. Goetzmann
Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail / David Levin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Benjamin Quarles
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque / John Seelye
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables /
Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man / Warner Berthoff
Henry David Thoreau: Walden; or, Life in the Woods / Walter Harding
Walt Whiteman: "Song of Myself" /James E. Miller, Jr.
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Stephen Crane: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / Edwin H. Cady
Henry James: The Ambassadors / Leon Edel
John Wesley Powell: Exploration of the Colorado River / Murray G. Murphey
Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 / Arthur P. Dudden
Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class / Stow Persons
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk / Everett S. Lee
William James: Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking / Gay Wilson Allen
The Education of Henry Adams / Allen Guttmann
H.L. Hencken: The American Language / Raven I. McDavid, Jr.
Charles Ives: Essays Before a Sonata / Alfred. V. Frankenstein
Louis Sullivan: The Autobiography of an Idea / Wayne Andrews
E.E. Cummings: The Enormous Room / James P. Dougherty
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun also Rises / Earl H. Rovit
Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt / Mark Schorer
James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Samuel Hynes
Willieam Faulkner: "The Bear" / Daniel Hoffman
Eugen O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh / Gerald Weales
John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage / John William Ward
The American as Involved and Dropout: An Afterworld / Hennig Cohen.
