The glorious American essay: one hundred essays from colonial times to the present

Of poetry and style / Cotton Mather

Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards

Thoughts on the present state of American affairs / Thomas Paine

On the situation, feelings, and pleasure of an American farmer / J. Hector St. John de Cr©·vecoeur

Remarks concerning the savages of North America / Benjamin Franklin

Federalist No. 1 / Alexander Hamilton

Religion / Thomas Jefferson

On the equality of the sexes / Judith Sargent Murray

Farewell address / George Washington

Author's account of himself / Washington Irving.