| 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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D
| 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 | AbsolutionBenedictionBernice 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 |
| Henry Highland Garnet | “Let Slavery Die” |
| 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! |
| Sarah Moore Grimké | Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké |
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J
| 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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N
| 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‘X-ing a Paragrab’ |
| 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 |
| Margaret Chase Smith | Declaration of Conscience |
| 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 |
Y
| Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Frog Pond |
| Howard Zinn | Finishing School for Pickets |