I become a student / Lincoln Steffens
My home / Clarence Darrow
Learning the river / Samuel L. Clemens
Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau
Rodeo / Thomas Hart Benton
Wayside pikes / Clarence King
Shooting the young idea / Heywood Broun
George Lyman Kittredge / Stuart P. Sherman
Charles Goodyear / James Parton
The happy warrior / John Dos Passos
Still rebels, still yankees / Donald Davidson
The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner
Information to those who would remove to America / Benjamin Franklin
Changing America / Vernon L. Parrington
Crash! / Frederick Lewis Allen
From longhorn to combine / Paul B. Sears
Thirty million new Americans / Louis Adamic
To heaven by subway / The editors of Fortune
Free speech in a democracy / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
The American of the future / Walt Whitman
Humor and America / Max Eastman
Huckleberry Finn / John Erskine
Hawthorne's three American novels / Henry James
The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poetic "renaissance" / Granville Hicks
Fiction tells all / Henry Seidel Canby
The American language / H.L. Mencken
The negro's creative genius / James Weldon Johnson
Music and the flag / Deems Taylor
Contemporary American artists / Gerald Bywaters
Architecture and civilization / Lewis Mumford
Letters: George Washington to Martha Washington; Thomas Jefferson to President James Monroe; Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne; Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley; Artemus Ward to his wife; William James to Henry James
Ballads and folksongs: Nathan Hale; I got shoes; John Henry; The roving gambler; The Erie Canal; The jealous lover of Lone Green Valley; The old Chisholm Trail; Good-by, old paint; O bury me not on the lone prairie; Git along, little dogies; Jesse James
Poetry: Walt Whitman: One's-self I sing; From song of myself; I hear America singing; Night on the prairies; For you O democracy; Crossing Brooklyn ferry; O magnet-South; Cavalry crossing a ford; Come up from the fields father; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods; Pioneers! O pioneers!; To a certain civilian
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The height of the ridiculous; My aunt; The last leaf; Old ironsides; Brother Jonathan's lament for Sister Caroline
John Greenleaf Whittier: The shoemakers; Massachusetts to Virginia; Telling the bees; The eternal goodness
Robert Frost: Mending wall; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening; Two tramps in mud time; Birches; The road not taken; A lone striker; An oldman's winter night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hawthorne; From the song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's wooing; The birds of Killingworth; The harvest moon; The tide rises, the tide falls
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord hymn; Each and all; The humble-bee; The snow-storm; Terminus
Edgar Allen Poe: Romance; To Helen; Lenore; Ulalume; Eldorado; Annabel Lee
Sidney Lanier: Song of the chattahoochee; The mocking bird; The stirrup-cup; Corn; Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land; Evening song
Stephen Vincent Benet: From John Brown's body: Invocation; Mountaineers; Appomattox
James Russell Lowell: The pious editor's creed; The courtin'; Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Credo; Richard Cory; How annandale went out; Miniver cheevy
Amy Lowell: The dinner-party
Vachel Lindsay: The proud farmer; General William Booth enters into heaven; The eagle that is forgotten; In praise of Johnny Appleseed, part I
Carl Sandburg: Chicago; To a contemporary bunkshooter; Caboose thoughts; Threes
Archibald MacLeish: Speech to those who say comrade
Drama: Green grow the lilacs / Lynn Riggs
Our town / Thornton Wilder
The green pastures / Marc Connelly
Folk tales: The clockmaker / Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A useful coonskin / David Crockett
Th fight / A.B. Longstreet
The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe
Sicily Burn's wedding / George W. Harris
Uncle Remus: I. The wonderful tar-baby story; II. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris
The buckskin harness / Esther Shephard
Short stories: Lady Eleanore's mantle / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe
The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte
The "harnt" that walks Chilhowee / Mary Noailles Murfree
On the walpole road / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce
The return of a private / Hamlin Garland
A municipal report / O. Henry
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner
The three-day blow / Ernest Hemingway
How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele
He / Katherine Anne Porter
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Novelette: Remembering laughter / Wallace Stegner.