Writing New England: an anthology from the Puritans to the present

From A Model of Christian Charity / John Winthrop

From A Brief Recognition of New England's Errand into the Wilderness / Samuel Danforth

Preface to God's Determinations Touching His Elect / Edward Taylor

From The Christian Philosopher / Cotton Mather

Spider Letter / Jonathan Edwards

"Forest Hymn" / William Cullen Bryant

From Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dialogue" / Margaret Fuller

From Two Years before the Mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

From American Notebooks / Nathaniel Hawthorne

From the History of the Puritan Commonwealth / Peter Oliver

"Four Trees upon a Solitary Acre" / Emily Dickinson

From The Maine Woods / Henry David Thoreau

"The Oldest Inhabitant - The Weather of New England" / Mark Twain

"What Pragmatism Means" / William James

"Out, Out -" / Robert Frost

"The Snow Man" / Wallace Stevens

From The Outermost House / Henry Beston

"Mr. Edwards and the Spider" / Robert Lowell

"Another Night in the Ruins" / Galway Kinnell

"Mayflies" / Richard Wilbur

From Christ the Fountain of Life / John Cotton

"Before the Birth of One of Her Children" / Anne Bradstreet

Personal Narrative / Jonathan Edwards

"I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See" / Emily Dickinson

From The Education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams

From Darkwater / W. E. B. Du Bois

"To Earthward" / Robert Frost

"In the Waiting Room" / Elizabeth Bishop

From The Richer, the Poorer / Dorothy West

From Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe

From The Morgesons / Elizabeth Stoddard

From The Bostonians / Henry James

"Miniver Cheevy" / Edwin Arlington Robinson

From Literary Friends and Acquaintance / William Dean Howells

"The Cambridge Ladies" / E. E. Cummings

From The Late George Apley / John P. Marquand

From The Last Hurrah / Edwin O'Connor

"Reunion" / John Cheever

"Plumbing" / John Updike

From Parsons' Mill / Timothy Lewontin

From New England's First Fruits / Harvard College

Dogood Papers, No. 4 / Benjamin Franklin

From Conversations with Children / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and A. Bronson Alcott

From Christian Nurture / Horace Bushnell

From "Equality before the Law" / Charles Sumner

Inaugural Address / Charles W. Eliot

"The Function of a University" / John Jay Chapman

"Sex Education" / Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Schoolmasters / Louis Auchincloss, John McPhee and Geoffrey Wolff

Letter to His Wife / John Winthrop

From The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved / James Otis

Letters / Abigail Adams and John Adams

Letters concerning Brook Farm / George Ripley, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Argument before the Supreme Court in the Amistad Case / John Quincy Adams

"The Lady in the White Dress, Whom I Helped into the Omnibus" / Nathaniel Parker Willis

Speech in the United States Senate / Daniel Webster

From Three Sermons / Theodore Parker

"Battle-Hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe

Transcendental Wild Oats / Louisa May Alcott

From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other / William Graham Sumner

"Natural Law" / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Broadcast Address / John F. Kennedy

"The Green Fields of the Mind" / A. Bartlett Giamatti

Examination of Susanna Martin / The Salem Court

From Eulogy on King Philip / William Apess

From My Bondage and My Freedom / Frederick Douglass

"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From The Promised Land / Mary Antin

From "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti" / Felix Frankfurter

Journal Letters / F. O. Matthiessen

From Boston Adventure / Jean Stafford

"The Lottery" / Shirley Jackson

"For the Union Dead" / Robert Lowell

From The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X. / Alex Haley

"Her Kind" / Anne Sexton

From Death at an Early Age / Jonathan Kozol

From Common Ground / J. Anthony Lukas

"Hamatreya" / Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A White Heron" / Sarah Orne Jewett

From The American Scene / Henry James

"Maine Speech" / E. B. White

Letter to The Cape Codder / Fred Allen

"Scenic View" / Donald Hall.