Tekster fra The Norton Anthology of American Literature:
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter”
- Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit”
- Henry D. Thoreau, utdrag fra Walden (“Economy” og “Conclusion”)
- Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave's Dream”
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
- Emily Dickinson, dikt nr. 49, 130, 328, 341, 441, 465, 712, 1129
- Bret Harte, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
- William Dean Howells, “Editha”
- Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
- Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
- Zitkala S? (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), “Impressions of an Indian Childhood”
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth”
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, Norton Critical Editions.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter , Norton Critical Editions.
Henry James: Roderick Hudson , Penguin Classics.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Norton Critical Editions.