| indicates selection or author new to this edition | |
| Preface Exploration and the Colonies | |
| The Original Inhabitants Virginia and the South New England | |
| Exploration | |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485?-1528) | |
| Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524 | |
| Alvar NÚÑez Cabez de Vaca (C.1490-C.1557) | |
| The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca | |
| The Indians bring us food | |
| The departure of four Christians | |
| The Christians leave the island of Malhado | |
| The coming of Indians with Andres Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico | |
| Our separation by the Indians | |
| Of our escape | |
| Our cure of some of the afflicted | |
| The coming of other sick to us the next day. Samuel De Champlain (c.1567-1635). Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of 1604-1607 | |
| Continuation of the discoveries along the coast of the Almouchiquois, and what we observed in detail | |
| The Colonies | |
| John Smith (1580-1631) | |
| THE General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles | |
| The Third Book | |
| The Proceedings and Accidents of the English Colony in Virginia | |
| Chapter II: What Happened till the First Supply | |
| The Fourth Book: The Proceedings of the English after the Alteration of the Government Of Virginia | |
| John Smith's Relation to Queen Anne of Pocahontas (1616) | |
| The Sixth Book | |
| The General History of New England | |
| The Description of New England | |
| William Bradford (1590-1657) | |
| Of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod | |
| Showing How they Sought out a place of Habitation; and What Befell them Thereabout | |
| Of Plymouth Plantation | |
| [The Mayflower Compact (1620)] | |
| [Compact with the Indians (1621)] | |
| [First Thanksgiving (1621)] | |
| [Narragansett Challenge (1622)] | |
| [Thomas Morton of Merrymount (1628)] | |
| Thomas Morton (C.1579-1647) New English Canaan | |
| The First Book: Containing the Original of the Natives, Their Manners, and Customs, with their Tractable Nature and Love towards the English | |
| Of Their Houses and Habitations | |
| Of their Admirable Perfection in the Use of the Senses | |
| The Third Book Containing a Description of the People that are Planted There | |
| Of the Revels of New Canaan | |
| Of a Great Monster Supposed to be at Ma-re Mount | |
| John Winthrop (1588-1649) | |
| A Model of Christian Charity | |
| Roger Williams (1603?-1683) | |
| The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience | |
| Preface | |
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| The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody | |
| Letter to the Town of Providence | |
| Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) | |
| The Prologue | |
| The Four Ages of Man | |
| Childhood | |
| The Flesh and the Spirit | |
| Contemplations | |
| The Author to Her Book | |
| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
| A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
| Another [Letter of Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment] | |
| In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old | |
| Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
| Meditations, Divine and Moral | |
| Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) | |
| The Day of Doom | |
| Puritanism Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711?) | |
| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of | |
| Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | |
| Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) | |
| The Diary of | |
| Samuel Sewall | |
| [Customs, Courts, and Courtships] | |
| Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) | |
| The Preface | |
| Meditation 1, First Series | |
| Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children | |
| The Experience | |
| Huswifery | |
| Meditation 8, First Series | |
| The Glory of and Grace in the Church set out | |
| Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
| The Reflexion | |
| The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended | |
| Meditation 42, First Series | |
| A Fig for thee Oh! Death | |
| Two Meditations on "The Song of Solomon," Canticle VI | |
| Meditation 142, Second Series | |
| Meditation 146, Second Series | |
| Cotton Mather (1663-1728) | |
| The Wonders of the Invisible World | |
| Enchantments Encountered | |
| The Trial of Bridget Bishop | |
| A Third Curiosity | |
| Magnalia Christi Americana | |
| The Life of John Winthrop | |
| The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phips | |
| Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good | |
| Much Occasion for Doing Good | |
| The Excellence of Well-Doing | |
| The Reward of Well-Doing | |
| Opportunities to Do Good | |
| On Internal Piety and Self-Examination | |
| Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) | |
| The Journal of Madam Knight | |
| [New England Frontier] | |
| [Connecticut] | |
| [New York City] | |
| The South and the Middle Colonies | |
| Ebenezer Cook (1667?-1733?) | |
| The Sotweed Factor | |
| William Byrd (1674-1744) | |
| The History of the Dividing Line | |
| [The Marooner] | |
| [Lubberland] | |
| [Indian Neighbors] | |
| A Progress to the Mines | |
| [Reading a Play in the Backwoods] | |
| John Woolman (1720-1772) | |
| The Journal of | |
| John Woolman. 1720-1742 | |
| [Early Years]. 1749-1756 | |
| [On Merchandise]. 1757 | |
| [Evidence of Divine Truth] | |
| [Slavery]. 1755-1758 | |
| [Taxes and Wars] | |
| St. Jean De CrÈvecour (1735-1813) | |
| Letters from an American Farmer | |
| What Is an American? Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene | |
| Sketches of Eighteenth Century America | |
| Manners of the Americans | |
| William Bartram (1739-1823) | |
| Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida | |
| [Alligators] | |
| [The Amazing Crystal Fountain] | |
| [Indian Corn, Green Meadows, and Strawberry Fields] | |
| Reason and Revolution | |
| The Englightenment and the Spirit of Rationalism | |
| From Neoclassical to Romantic Literature | |
| Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) | |
| Sarah Pierrepont | |
| A Divine and Supernatural Light | |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
| Personal Narrative | |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | |
| The Autobiography | |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | |
| Preface to Poor Richard, 1733 | |
| The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard, 1758 | |
| An Edict by the King of Prussia | |
| The Sale of the Hessians | |
| The Ephemera | |
| To Madame Helvetius | |
| Information to Those Who Would Remove to America | |
| Letter to William Franklin | |
| [We Are Men, All Subject to Errors] | |
| Letter to Ezra Stiles [Here Is My Creed] | |
| Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention | |
| Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | |
| Common Sense | |
| Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs | |
| The American Crisis | |
| The Age of Reason | |
| [Profession of Faith] | |
| [Of Myth and Miracle] | |
| [Christian Revelation and Nature] | |
| [First Cause: God of Reason] | |
| [Recapitulation] | |
| John Adams (1755-1826) | |
| Abigail Adams (1744-1818) | |
| Letters | |
| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| First Inaugural Address | |
| Notes on the State of Virginia | |
| [A Southerner on Slavery] | |
| Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush | |
| [The Christian Deist] | |
| Letter to John Adams | |
| [The True Aristocracy] | |
| Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797?) | |
| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
| Chapter 2 | |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Chapter 7 | |
| Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) | |
| To the University of Cambridge, in New-England | |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
| On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield | |
| An Hymn to the Evening | |
| To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works | |
| To His Excellency General Washington | |
| The Federalist (1787-1788) | |
| The Federalist No. 1 | |
| [Alexander Hamilton] | |
| The Federalist No. 10 | |
| [James Madison] | |
| Philip Freneau (1752-1832) | |
| To Sir Toby | |
| To the Memory of the Brave Americans | |
| On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man | |
| The Wild Ho | |
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