Excerpts from the following texts available online or in classfronter; specific page numbers will be assigned later.
- Addams, Jane. My Twenty Years at Hull House
- Bellah, Robert. "Civil Religion in America"
- DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk
- Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
- Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography
- Jefferson, Thomas. “The Ward Republic”; Notes of the State of Virginia
- Madison, James, et. Al. The Federalist Papers
- Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades
- Paine, Thomas. Select Works
- Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought
- Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America
- Trachetenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America
- Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History
- Veblen, Thorstein. Theory of the Leisure Class
- Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy