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.