The American Reader ed. Claude M. Simpson & Allan Nevins (D.C. Heath, 1941, 866pp, hc, an)
- v · Foreword · Henry Seidel Canby · fw
- · Exposition
- · Portraits
- 3 · I Become a Student · Lincoln Steffens · ar (r)
- 8 · My Home · Clarence Darrow · ar (r)
- 12 · Learning the River · Samuel L. Clemens · ar (r)
- 21 · Where I Lived, and What I lived For · Henry David Thoreau · ar (r)
- 31 · Rodeo · Thomas Hart Benton · ar (r)
- 38 · Wayside Pikes · Clarence King · ar (r)
- 47 · Shooting the Young Idea · Heywood Broun · ar (r)
- 53 · George Lyman Kittredge · Stuart P. Sherman · ar (r)
- 56 · Charles Goodyear · James Parton · ar (r)
- 80 · The Happy Warrior · John Dos Passos · ar (r)
- · Essays on America
- 85 · Still Rebels, Still Yankees · Donald Davidson · ar (r)
- 99 · The Significance of the Frontoer in American History · Frederick Jackson Turner · ar (r)
- 115 · Kansas · Carl Becker · ar (r)
- 128 · Information to Those Who Would Remove to America · Benjamin Franklin · ar (r)
- 133 · Changing America · Vernon L. Parrington · ar (r)
- 142 · Crash! · Frederick Lewis Allen · ar (r)
- 153 · From Longhorn to Combine · Paul B. Sears · ar (r)
- 160 · Thirty Million New Americans · Louis Adamic · ar Harper’s Magazine November 1934
- 170 · To Heaven by Subway · The Editors of Fortune · ar (r)
- 185 · Free Speech in the Democracy · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes · ar (r)
- 189 · The American of the Future · Walt Whitman · ar (r)
- · Literature and the Arts
- 195 · Humor and America · Max Eastman · ar (r)
- 204 · Huckleberry Finn · John Erskine · ar The Delineator February 1927
- 211 · Hawthorne’s Three American Novels · Henry James · ar (r)
- 224 · The American Scholar · Ralph Waldo Emerson · ar (r)
- 236 · The Poetic “Renaissance” · Granville Hicks · ar (r)
- 242 · Fiction Tells All · Henry Seidel Canby · ar (r)
- 251 · The American Language · H. L. Mencken · ar (r)
- 259 · The Negro’s Creative Genius · James Weldon Johnson · ar (r)
- 265 · Music and the Flag · Deems Taylor · ar (r)
- 269 · Contemporary American Artists · Gerald Bywaters · ar (r)
- 274 · Architecture and Civilization · Lewis Mumford · ar (r)
- · Letters
- 281 · George Washing to Martha Washington · George Washington · lt (r)
- 282 · Thomas Jefferson to President James Monroe · Thomas Jefferson · lt (r)
- 284 · Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne · Herman Melville · lt (r)
- 287 · Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley · Abraham Lincoln · lt (r)
- 288 · Artemus Ward to His Wife · Artemus Ward · lt (r)
- 291 · William James to Henry James · William James · lt (r)
- · Poetry
- · Ballads and Folk Tales
- 297 · Nathan Hale · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 298 · I Got Shoes · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 298 · John Henry · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 300 · The Roving Gambler · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 300 · The Erie Canal · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 300 · The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 301 · The Old Chisholm Trail · [uncredited] · pm Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads ed. John A. Lomax, Macmillan, 1910
- 302 · Good-by, Old Paint · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 303 · O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 304 · Git Along, Little Dogies · [uncredited] · pm Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads ed. John A. Lomax, Macmillan, 1910, as “Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Dogies”
- 305 · Jesse James · [uncredited] · pm Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads ed. John A. Lomax, Macmillan, 1910
- · Fifteen Poets
- 306 · One’s-Self I Sing · Walt Whitman · pm Leaves of Grass (Fourth Edition) by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1867
- 306 · From Song of Myself: 1, 6, 16, 17, 21, 52 · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 310 · I Hear America Singing · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 311 · Night in the Prairies · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 311 · For You O Democracy · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 312 · Crossing Brooklyn Ferry · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 316 · O Magnet-South · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 317 · Cavalry Crossing a Ford · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 318 · Come Up from the Fields Father · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 319 · As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 319 · Pioneers! O Pioneers! · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 322 · To a Certain Civilian · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
- 323 · The Height of the Ridiculous · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm The Collegian 1830, uncredited.
- 323 · My Aunt · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm The New-England Magazine November 1831
- 324 · The Last Leaf · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Dearborn & Company, 1836
- 324 · Old Ironsides · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm (r)
- 325 · Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm The Atlantic Monthly May 1861, uncredited.
- 326 · The Shoemakers · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm (r)
- 327 · Massachusetts to Virginia · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm (r)
- 329 · Telling the Bees · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm The Atlantic Monthly April 1858, uncredited.
- 330 · The Eternal Goddess · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm (r)
- 331 · Mending Wall · Robert Frost · pm North of Boston by Robert Frost, David Nutt, 1914
- 332 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm New Hampshire by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1923
- 333 · Two Tramps in Mud Time · Robert Frost · pm (r)
- 334 · Birches · Robert Frost · pm (r)
- 335 · The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915
- 335 · A Lone Striker · Robert Frost · pm A Further Range by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1936
- 336 · A Old Man’s Winter Night · Robert Frost · pm (r)
- 336 · Hawthorne · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r)
- 337 · Hiawatha’s Wooing · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm from The Song of Hiawatha (r)
- 340 · The Birds of Killingworth · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm The Atlantic Monthly December 1863, uncredited.
- 345 · The Harvest Moon · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r)
- 346 · The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm Ultima Thule by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Houghton Mifflin, 1880
- 346 · Concord Hymn · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm self-published, 1837, as “Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836”
- 346 · Each and All · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Western Messenger April 1839, as “Each in All”
- 347 · The Humble-Bee · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Munroe and Company, 1847
- 348 · The Snow-Storm · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Dial January 1841
- 348 · Terminus · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Atlantic Monthly January 1867, uncredited.
- 349 · Romance · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems by Edgar A. Poe, Hatch & Dunning, 1829, as “Preface”
- 349 · To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”) · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Elam Bliss, 1831
- 349 · Lenore · Edgar Allan Poe · pm The Pioneer February 1843
- 350 · Ulalume · Edgar Allan Poe · pm American Whig Review December 1847
- 352 · Eldorado · Edgar Allan Poe · pm The Flag of Our Union April 21 1849
- 352 · Annabel Lee · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Tribune October 9 1849
- 353 · Song of the Chattahoochee · Sidney Lanier · pm (r)
- 353 · The Mocking Bird · Sidney Lanier · pm (r)
- 354 · The Stirrup-Cup · Sidney Lanier · pm Scribner’s Monthly May 1877
- 354 · Corn · Sidney Lanier · pm Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science February 1875
- 357 · Thar’s More in the Man than Thar Is in the Land · Sidney Lanier · pm (r)
- 359 · Evening Song · Sidney Lanier · pm (r)
- · From John Brown’s Body · Stephen Vincent Benét · gp (r)
- 359 · Invocation · Stephen Vincent Benét · pm The Saturday Review of Literature June 11 1927
- 364 · Mountaineers · Stephen Vincent Benét · pm (r)
- 366 · Appomattox · Stephen Vincent Benét · pm (r)
- 368 · The Pious Editor’s Creed · James Russell Lowell · pm (r)
- 369 · The Courtin’ · James Russell Lowell · pm J.R. Osgood, 1874
- 370 · Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration · James Russell Lowell · pm (r)
- 378 · Credo · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm (r)
- 378 · Richard Cory · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson, self-published, 1897
- 378 · How Annandale Went Out · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Scribner’s Magazine May 1910
- 379 · Miniver Cheevy · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Scribner’s Magazine March 1907
- 379 · The Dinner-Party · Amy Lowell · pm (r)
- 381 · The Proud Father · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 382 · General William Booth Enters Into Heaven · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 383 · The Eagle That Is Forgotten · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 384 · In Praise of Johnny Appleseed, Part I · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 387 · Chicago · Carl Sandburg · pm (r)
- 388 · To a Contemporary Bunkshooter · Carl Sandburg · pm (r)
- 389 · Caboose Thoughts · Carl Sandburg · pm (r)
- 391 · Threes · Carl Sandburg · pm (r)
- 391 · Speech to Those Who Say Comrade · Archibald MacLeish · pm (r)
- · Drama
- 359 · Green Grow the Lilacs · Lynn Riggs · pl (r)
- 455 · Our Town · Thornton Wilder · pl (r)
- 501 · The Green Pastures · Marc Connelly · pl (r)
- · Narration
- · Folk Tales
- 559 · The Clockmaker · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · ss (r)
- 562 · A Useful Coonskin · David Crockett · ts from Colonel Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, 1837
- 565 · The Fight · A. B. Longstreet · ss (r)
- 572 · The Big Bear of Arkansas · T. B. Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841
- 581 · Sicily Burns’s Wedding · George W. Harris · ss (r)
- 586 · Uncle Remus: I. The Wonderful Tab-Baby Story · Joel Chandler Harris · vi (r)
- 588 · Uncle Remus: II. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox · Joel Chandler Harris · vi (r)
- 589 · The Buckskin Harness · Esther Shephard · ss (r)
- · Short Stories
- 593 · Lady Eleanore’s Mantle · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1838
- 602 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- 605 · The Man Without a Country · Edward Everett Hale · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1863, uncredited.
- 623 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869
- 629 · The “Harnt” That Walks Chilhowee · Mary Noailles Murfree · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1883, as by Charles Egbert Craddock
- 645 · On the Walpole Road · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss (r)
- 652 · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888
- 660 · The Return of a Private · Hamlin Garland · nv The Arena July 1890
- 672 · A Municipal Report · O. Henry · ss Hampton’s Magazine November 1909
- 683 · I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial February 1922
- 691 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922
- 703 · The Three-Day Blow [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925
- 711 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932
- 726 · He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927
- 733 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936
- 744 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · Novelette
- 752 · Remembering Laughter · Wallace Stegner · nv Redbook Magazine September 1937
- 803 · Notes · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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