An America of the mind: Exploration and Initial Settlement. Five Literary Options. from Eastward Hoe / John Marston ; To the Virginian Voyage / Michael Drayton ; From Prolusions / John Milton ; from The Church Militant / George Herbert ; The Zealous Puritan / Anonymous

Early Eyewitnesses. from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia / Thomas Hariot ; from A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight / William Strachey ; from The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624). From A Description of New-England / John Smith

Plymouth Plantation. Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfullness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America / Robert Cushman ; from Good News from New ENgland / Edward Winslow ; from History of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford ; from New English Canaan / Thomas Morton

Pennsylvania. from Some Account of the Province of Pennsilvania / WIlliam Penn ; from A Short Description of Pennsilvania / Richard Frame ; "Letter to My Kinsman, Hugh Jones" / John Jones

Puritanism. Theology and Polity. from A Confession of Faith / Boston Synod ; from A Platform of Church Discipline / Cambridge Synod ; from "The Preparing of the Heart for to Receive Christ / Thomas Hooker ; from The Parable of the Ten Virgins / Thomas Shepard

Theocracy and Democracy. from "Letter to the Lord Say and Seal in the Year 1636" / John Cotton ; "Speech at the General Court, July 1645" / John Winthrop ; from The Bloudy Tenent / Rogers Williams ; from The Bloudy Tenent Washed / John Cotton ; "A Letter to Major Endicot, Governour of the Massachusetts" / John Cotton ; Exemplary History. "cottonus Redivivus; or, The Life of Mr. John Cotton," from Magnalia Christi Americana / Cotton Mather

Poetry. Elegy on Thomas Dudley / Anonymous ; Upon the first sight of New-England, June 29, 1638 / Thomas Tillam ; from An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1647 / Samuel Danforth ; from "Contemplations" ; "The Author to her Book" ; Before the Birth of one of her Children ; "To My Dear and Loving Husband, absent upon Publick employment" ; "In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth" / Anne Bradstreet ; from "The Day of Doom" / Michael Wigglesworth ; "The Experience" ; "Meditation, 8" ; "Meditation, 19" ; "Meditation, 39" ; "Meditation, 16" ; "Preface to God's Determination" ; "The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended" ; "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" ; "Upon a Wasp Child with Cold" ; "Huswifery" / Edward Taylor

The Cultures of Eighteenth-Century America. Manners and Morals in the Colonies. The Sotweed Factor / Ebenezer Cook ; "From Boston to New York in 1704," from The Journals of Madam Knight / Sarah Kemble Knight / Sarah Kemble Knight ; "New England Courtship, 1720" from the Diary / Samuel Sewall ; "Class and Commerce in Virginia, In the Year 1732," from A Progress to the Mines / William Byrd ; "On Slaves, Commerce, and Conscentious Objectin, 1755-1758," from The Journal / John Woolman ; "Adventures of a Philosophical Confidence Man, circa 1785," from Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs of New Hampshire / Stephen Burroughs

The Frontier and Beyond. "On the Fringes of the Dismal Swamp, 1728," from History of the Dividing Line / William Byrd ; "Indian Councils, 1748," from The Journal / Conrad Weiser ; "How the Indians FIght, 1758," from Two Journals of Western Tours / Charles Frederick Post ; "The Adventures of Daniel Boon," 1770-78," from Kentucke / John Filson ; "Up an Alligator River, 1773," from Travels / William Bartram

Homeland of the Needy. "What Is an American," from Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St. John De Crévecoeur

Toward a National Culture. Revolution and Constitution. from A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law / John Adams ; from Common Sense / Thomas Paine ; "The Framing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776," from Autobiography / Thomas Jefferson ; "The Temper of Patriotic Times, 1775-1776," from Travels Through Life ; "Characters of the Patriots," from Travels Through Life / Benjamin Rush ; "The Federalist No. 10," / James Madison ; "Thoughts on the Proposed Constitution, 1787," from Letters of Thomas Jefferson / Thomas Jefferson

Literary Independence. American Literature / Fisher Ames ; "Tom Brainless" from The Progress of Dulness / John Trumbull ; "The Farmer's Advice to the Villagers," from Greenfield Hill / Timothy Dwight ; "Arts and Science in America," from The Columbiad ; "The Deserted Farm-House" ; "On the Vidissitudes of Things" ; "Literary Importation" ; "The Indian burying Ground" ; "On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin" ; "The Distrest Theatre" ; "Epistle to a Student of Dead Languages" ; "To the Americans of the United States" / Philip Freneau

America Contrasted. The Contraast / Royall Tyler ; "Yankees at Home," from General History of Connecticut / Samuel Peters ; "Yankee Abroad," from Letters of Mrs. Adams / Abigail Adams ; "Yankee Stay Home," from On the Education of Youth in America ; from " An Address to Yung Gentlemen" / Noah Webster

The Stream Divides. from DIary ; Personal Narrative ; from A Divine and Supernatural Light ; from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections / Jonathan Edwards ; "Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's 1771," from Autobiography ; Dogood Paper No. IV ; "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly" ; The Speech of Polly Baker ; Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc." ; "The Way to Wealth" ; "An Edict by the King of Prussia" ; "Letter to Samuel Mather" ; "Speech in the Convention" ; "Letter to Ezra Stiles" / Benjamin Franklin.