Tekster fra The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 7th Edition:
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
- Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit”
- Henry D. Thoreau, utdrag fra Walden (“Economy” og “Conclusion”)
- Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno”
- Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave’s Dream”
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
- Emily Dickinson, dikt nr. 122, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1263
- Bret Harte, “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”
- William Dean Howells, “Editha”
- Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
- Sui Sin Far, “In the Land of the Free”
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth”
Romaner:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter , Norton Critical Editions.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Norton Critical Editions.