Literature
Books:
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening (Norton)
- Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (Norton)
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (Norton)
Texts from The Norton Anthology of American Literature
- Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron-Mills"
- Walt Whitman,"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
- Emily Dickinson, the poems 49,130,328,341,441,465,712,1129
- Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
- Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle"
- William Dean Howells, "Editha"
- Mary Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun"
- Zitkala Sä (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), "Impressions of an Indian Childhood"
- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
- Charles W. Chestnutt, "The Wife of His Youth"
Culture
C. Vann Woodward: The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 2001. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195146905. Commemrtv edition.
Allen Trachtenberg: The Incorporation of America, 1982. Hill & Wang. ISBN: 0-8090-5827-8.