Anonymous (The Afro-American) | No Room in the Cemetery |
Anonymous (A Kentucky Soldier) | “Like a Sea of Blood” |
Anonymous (The Liberator) | A Dream |
Anonymous (New-Jersey Gazette) | The Sentiments of a Lady in New-Jersey |
Anonymous (The New York Times) | Bombers over London |
Abigail Adams | Becoming a First LadyThe Declaration of Independence“Remember the Ladies”“The Spirit of party has overpowerd the Spirit of Patriotism” |
John Adams | Destruction of the Tea in BostonThe Epocha of the Stamp Act“Remember the Ladies”“The Urgent Necessity” |
John Quincy Adams | “This Whole Horrible Transaction” |
Lois Bryan Adams | Meeting “Father Abraham” |
Jane Addams | A Modern Lear |
George Ade | Mark Twain as Our Emissary |
Louisa May Alcott | Anna’s Whim An HourHow I Went Out to ServiceKate’s ChoiceMy Girls |
Fred Allen | The Life and Death of Vaudeville |
Sherwood Anderson | AdventureCertain Things LastThe EggHandsLonelinessMotherThe New EnglanderUnlighted LampsThe Untold Lie |
Susan B. Anthony II | Working at the Navy Yard |
Mary Antin | My Country |
Gertrude Atherton | The Striding Place |
John James Audubon | The Eccentric Naturalist |
Mary Austin | The LandThe Scavengers |
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Caroline W. Healey Dall | A Sketch from Maryland Life |
Emma Frances Dawson | An Itinerant House |
Barbara Deming | Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One? |
Peggy Hull Deuell | Death of Carrier Described |
Joan Didion | After HenryL. A. NoirQuiet Days in Malibu |
Kenneth L. Dixon | Courthouse Square Is Authentic Picture of Occupied Town |
Gregory Djanikian | Immigrant Picnic |
John Dos Passos | The Donkey BoyPaul BunyanTalk by the RoadViews of Washington |
Frederick Douglass | Eulogy for Abraham LincolnI Have Come to Tell You Something About SlaveryLetter to His Old MasterReconstructionReminiscences of Abraham LincolnWhat the Black Man WantsThe Work Before Us |
Theodore Dreiser | A Certain Oil RefineryThe Country DoctorA Traveler at Forty: Paris!A True PatriarchThe Village FeudistsW. L. S. |
W.E.B. Du Bois | The ExpertsThe Souls of White Folk |
Olivia Howard Dunbar | The Shell of Sense |
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Three Poems |
John M. Duncan | A Virginia Barbecue |
Katherine Dunham | Thesis Turned Broadway |
Edith Maude Eaton | Mrs. Spring Fragrance |
Loren Eiseley | Barbed Wire and Brown SkullsThe Fifth Planet |
Carol Emshwiller | Pelt |
Morton Eustis | The Man Who Came to Dinner with Geo. Kaufman Directing |
David G. Farragut | The Capture of USS Essex |
Fanny Fern | Tyrants of the Shop |
Edward Field | World War II |
John Fisher | I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque |
Philip Vickers Fithian | The Battle of Long Island |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | BenedictionBernice Bobs Her HairThe Cut-Glass BowlDalyrimple Goes WrongHead and ShouldersHow to Live on $36,000 a YearThe Ice PalaceThe Lees of HappinessPorcelain and PinkWinter Dreams |
George G. Foster | The Eating-Houses |
Benjamin Franklin | “It is impossible we should think of Submission” |
Mary Wilkins Freeman | Luella Miller |
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle | Battle of Gettysburg |
Robert Frost | Christmas TreesThe Death of the Hired ManIn the Home StretchThe Original and OnlyThe Question of a Feather |
Margaret Fuller | Our City Charities |
John Kenneth Galbraith | In Goldman, Sachs We Trust |
Floyd Gibbons | Wounded—How It Feels to Be Shot |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | According to SolomonThe Giant WistariaThe Unnatural MotherThe Yellow Wall Paper |
James R. Gilmore | Our Visit to Richmond |
Ellen Glasgow | The Shadowy Third |
Susan Glaspell | The Hossack Murder |
George R. Gleig | Storming the Capital |
Paul Goodman | The Young Pacifist |
Ulysses S. Grant | Letters from Matamoros |
Hawthorne C. Gray | Eight Miles—Straight Up! |
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Helen Hunt Jackson | Echoes in the City of the Angels |
Shirley Jackson | Biography of a StoryCharles (Bonus story: ‘Trial by Combat’)The Night We All Had Grippe |
Harriet Ann Jacobs | The Lover |
Harriet Ann Jacobs & Louisa M. Jacobs | Building a School |
Henry James | The After-Season in RomeBrooksmithAn English New YearGreville FaneThe Middle YearsMiss Gunton of PoughkeepsiePasteA ProblemThe Real Right ThingThe Special TypeThe Real ThingThe Tree of KnowledgeSee also: Bosanquet |
William James | On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake |
Sarah Orne Jewett | Aunt Cynthy DallettAn Autumn HolidayThe Circus at DenbyDecoration DayGoing to ShrewsburyIn Dark New England DaysThe Passing of Sister BarsettTom’s HusbandThe Town PoorA White HeronA Winter Courtship |
Clifton Johnson | The Colored Cooper |
James Weldon Johnson | Stranger Than Fiction |
Alice Eleanor Jones | Created He Them |
Lenny Kaye | The Best of Acapella |
Elia Kazan | Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea |
Elizabeth Keckly | Lincoln’s Assassination |
David H. Keller | The Jelly-Fish |
Helen Keller | I Go Adventuring |
Francis Scott Key | Defence of Fort M‘Henry |
Frances Parkinson Keyes | Terry Helburn |
Maxine Hong Kingston | A Sea Worry |
Rudyard Kipling | An Interview with Mark Twain |
Edmund Kirke | Our Visit to Richmond |
Seymour Krim | Making It! |
Karl Kroeber | Sisters and Science Fiction |
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George Jean Nathan | Baiting the Umpire |
Juanita Nelson | A Matter of Freedom |
Levi Nelson | The Colfax Massacre Trial |
Frank Norris | Grettir at Thorhall-steadHunting Human Game |
Flannery O'Connor | The Train |
John O’Hara | AgathaChristmas PoemJoey on the Cake Line |
Frederick Law Olmsted | Trees in Streets and in Parks |
Eugene O'Neill | In the ZoneThe Long Voyage HomeTomorrow |
Susan Orlean | Shiftless Little Loafers |
Grace Paley | The Loudest Voice |
Joe Palmer | Samuel Doyle Riddle |
Maud Wood Park | A Perfect Moment |
Annie Parker | Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman |
Dorothy Parker | The Christmas Magazines and the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound TrainThe Jest |
Edmund Pearson | Hell Benders, or The Story of a Wayside Tavern |
S. J. Perelman | Cloudland Revisited: Rock-a-Bye, Viscount, in the Treetop |
Leslie Perri | Space Episode |
Ann Petry | Harlem |
Edgar Allan Poe | The Angel of the OddThe Business ManThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Domain of ArnheimHop-FrogThe Masque of the Red DeathMorning on the WissahicconMS. Found in a BottleNever Bet the Devil Your HeadThe Oval PortraitThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor FetherWilliam Wilson |
James Poling | Thurgood Marshall and the 14th Amendment |
Jack H. Pollack | Literacy Tests: Southern Style |
Channing Pollock | Stage Struck |
Katherine Anne Porter | The Charmed LifeA Christmas Story |
Charles Portis | The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth |
Ernie Pyle | “This One Is Captain Waskow” |
Seabury Quinn | The Curse of Everard Maundy |
Joseph H. Rainey | “The Destruction of a Free Ballot” |
Marta Randall | A Scarab in the City of Time |
William H. Rankin | Free Fall (from The Man Who Rode the Thunder) |
Kit Reed | The New You |
Grantland Rice | Senators Win Title, 4–3 |
Jane Rice | The Refugee |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Notes on War Experiences |
Edith Roberts | Indiana’s Town of Champions |
Theodore Roosevelt | Enjoying the Presidency“A Very Sad Thing” |
A. I. Root | “The First Successful Trip of an Airship” |
Waverly Root | The Flying Fool |
Philip Roth | PatrimonyYou Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings |
Berton Roueché | The Fog |
Joanna Russ | When It Changed |
William Howard Russell | Celebration in CharlestonThe Union Army Retreats |
Cornelius Ryan | The Longest Day Dawns |
Morrie Ryskind | Shakespeares of 1922 |
George Augustus Sala | The Tyranny of Pie |
Ellen Sander | Inside the Cages of the Zoo |
Pamela Sargent | If Ever I Should Leave You |
John Schulian | Nowhere to Run |
Gilbert Seldes | Transatlantic |
Harvey Shapiro | War Stories |
Vincent Sheean | Aufenthalt in Rosenheim |
Clark Ashton Smith | Genius Loci |
Moses Smith | “Old Ironsides” Captures HMS Guerrière |
Red Smith | “I’m the Greatest”Jim Crow’s PlaymatesKings Get in FreeThe Lost CauseThe Strongest Lady in the World |
Jack Snow | Midnight |
Elizabeth Spencer | A Southern LandscapeThe White Azalea |
Harriet Prescott Spofford | The Moonstone Mass |
Jean Stafford | Children Are Bored on SundayOld Flaming Youth |
Francis Stevens | Unseen—Unfeared |
Wallace Stevens | Sunday Morning |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abraham LincolnCookery: Meat DepartmentThe Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One |
Gene Stratton-Porter | The Last Passenger Pigeon |
George Strock and the editors of Life | Three Americans |
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John Updike | The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd |
Charles E. Van Loan | Baseball as the Bleachers Like It |
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Frog Pond |
Howard Zinn | Finishing School for Pickets |