Tekster fra The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter 6th Edition (or 7th Edition):
? 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.