Tekster fra The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter 6th Edition (or 7th Edition):
• Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
• William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter”
• Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit”
• Henry D. Thoreau, utdrag fra Walden (“Economy” og “Conclusion”)
• Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave's Dream”
• Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
• Emily Dickinson, dikt nr. 49, 130, 328, 341, 441, 465, 712, 1129
• Bret Harte, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
• William Dean Howells, “Editha”
• Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
• Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
• Zitkala Sä (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), “Impressions of an Indian Childhood”
• Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth”
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, Norton Critical Editions.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter , Norton Critical Editions.
Henry James : Roderick Hudson, Penguin Classics.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, Norton Critical Editions.