- John Smith: The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia
- The Bill of Rights
- Thomas Paine: Profession of Faith
- Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
- Mark Twain: An American’s View of Europe
- Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
- Walt Whitman: From Song of Myself
- Emily Dickinson
- Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
- T. S. Eliot: Preludes
- T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Robert Frost: After Apple-Picking
- The Road Not Taken
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): Sea Poppies
- Claude McKay: If We Must Die
- Malcolm X: Declaration of Independence
- Gary Snyder: Buddhism and the Coming Revolution
- Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
- Stanley Kauffman: The Necessary Film
- Tim O’Brien: The Man I Killed
- Sherman Alexie: The Trial of Thomas Builds the Fire
