BOOK I: COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE
Chapter I. Travellers and Explorers, 1583-1763
By GEORGE PARKER WINSHIP, A.M., Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard University
1. The Earliest Adventures
2. Captain John Smith Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings
3. Newfoundland
4. William Vaughn
5. Robert Hayman
6. Robert Sedgwick
7. Pamphlets of the Land Companies
8. Narratives of Indian Captivities Puritans Among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 (John Harvard Library)
9. Mrs. Rowlandson Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
10. John Gyles Memoirs of odd adventures, strange deliverances, etc
11. Jonathan Dickinson Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism
12. The Quakers The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America
13. Alice Curwen
14. George Keith
15. Sarah Knight
16. William Byrd The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (Research Library of Colonial Americana)
17. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Itinerarium (Notable American Authors)

II. The Historians, 1607-1783
By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D., Professor of American History in Smith College
1. Captain John Smith Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings
2. His Veracity
3. Early New England Historians Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America (Jefferson Memorial Lectures)
4. "Mourt's" Relation Mourt's Relations: A Journal of the Pilgrims of Plymouth
5. Edward Winslow Good Newes from New England
6. William Bradford Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
7. John Winthrop John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father
8. Edward Johnson Early Puritan Writers: A Reference Guide: William Bradford, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, Edward Johnson, Richard Mather, Thomas Shepard
9. Nathaniel Morton New England's Memorial
10. Later New England Historians
11. Narratives of the Indian Wars
12. Captain John Mason
13. Rev. William Hubbard The History of the Indian Wars in New England: From the First Settlement to the Termination of the War With King Philip, in 1677
14. Benjamin Church
15. Samuel Penhallow Penhallow's Indian Wars; A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed in Boston in 1726, With the Notes of Earlier Editors and Additions from th: A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed in Boston in 1726, With the Notes of Earlier Editors and Additions from the Original Manuscript
16. Daniel Gookin Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the Years
17. Cadwallader Colden Cadwallader Colden : A Figure of the American Enlightenment
18. John Lawson New Voyage to Carolina
19. Political Histories
20. Robert Beverley History and Present State of Virginia
21. Rev. William Stith
22. William Smith; Samuel Smith
23. Rev. Thomas Prince Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals
24. Thomas Hutchinson The History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay

III. The Puritan Divines, 1620-1720
By VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON, A.M., Professor of English in the University of Washington
1. Puritans and Politics Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660
2. Puritanism as Jacobean Radicalism
3. Types of Church Polity Corresponding to Types of State Polity-Monarchical, Artistocratic, Democratic
4. Early New England Congregationalism a Compromise between Aristocracy and Democracy The Shaping of American Congregationalism: 1620-1957
5. The Emigrants: the Theocratic Group-John Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, John Eliot; the Democratic Group-Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker
6. The Second Generation: the Theocratic Group-the Mathers; the Democrats-John Wise
7. Learning of the Puritan Divines A Golden Treasury of Puritan Devotion: Selections from the Writings of Thirteen Puritan Divines
8. Their Industry and Influence The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature

IV. Edwards
By PAUL ELMER MORE, A.M., LL.D., Formerly Editor of The Nation
1. Edward's Early Years Jonathan Edwards: A Life
2. His Marriage Jonathan and Sarah: An Uncommon Union
3. His Journal Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography
4. His Love of God God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards
5. His Preaching The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader
6. The Great Awakening The Great-Awakening: A Faithful Narrative. the Distinguishing Marks. Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival, Letters Relating to the Revival
7. Narrative of Surprising Conversions Delightful Conviction : Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion
8. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion; Marks of a Work of the True Spirit The Spirit of Revival: Discovering the Wisdom of Jonathan Edwards
9. Treatise Concerning Religious Affections Religious Affections
10. The Quarrel with the Northampton Congregation Ecclesiastical Writings: A Letter/an Humble Inquiry/Misrepresentations Corrected/"Narrative of Communion Controversy" (The Works of Jonathan Edwards)
11. Stockbridge
12. President of the College of New Jersey; Death Life and Character of the Late Reverend Learned and Pious Mr Jonathan Edwards, President of the College in New Jersey
13. The Relations of Edwards to the Deistic Controversy Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Religion in America)
14. The Freedom of the Will The Freedom of the Will

V. Philosophers and Divines, 1720-1789
By WOODBRIDGE RILEY, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in Vassar College
1. The Three Enemies of Orthodoxy-Rationalists, Enthusiasts, Ethical Reformers
2. The Whitefield Controversy The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography)
3. Charles Chauncy; Edward Wigglesworth
4. Jonathan Mayhew The Hidden Balance : Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew
5. Samuel Johnson Elementa Philosophica (Notable American Authors)
6. John Woolman Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman

VI. Franklin
By STUART P. SHERMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Illinois
Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
1. Franklin's Training
2. His Early Years
3. His First Writings Benjamin Franklin: Writings
4. Philadelphia; London
5. The Pennsylvania Gazette Abstracts from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1748
6. His Public Activities
7. Experiments in Electricity Experiments & Observations on Electricity (Notable American Authors Series)
8. Missions to England The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin's Years in London
9. Franklin in the Revolution Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution
10. Mission to France
11. Death
12. His Religion Articles Of Belief And Acts Of Religion Vol.2 (Notable American Authors)
13. His Morals Essays of Benjamin Franklin: Moral, Social and Scientific
14. His Politics The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
15. His Scientific Interests Benjamin Franklin's Science
16. His Style

VII. Colonial Newspapers and Magazines, 1704-1775
By ELIZABETH CHRISTINE COOK, Ph.D., Instructor in English in Teachers College, Columbia University
Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers : Primary Documents on Events of the Period
1. Literature in the Colonial Newspapers American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)
2. The New England Courant
3. The New England Weekly Journal
4. Franklin as Journalist Benjamin Franklin As a Man of Letters (American Journalists)
5. Advertisements of Books
6. The South Carolina Gazette
7. The Virginia Gazette
8. Politics in the Later Newspapers
9. The Vogue of French Radicalism The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution
10. The Massachusetts Spy
11. Magazines
12. The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle
13. The American Magazine
14. The Pennsylvania Magazine; The Royal American Magazine

VIII. American Political Writing, 1760-1789
By WILLIAM MACDONALD, Ph.D., Professor of History in Brown University
1. The Pre-eminence of American Political Literature American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Second Edition (Two Vol. Set)
2. James Otis James Otis the Pre-Revolutionist
3. The Stamp Act Controversy The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
4. The Stamp Act Congress The Stamp Act Congress: With an Exact Copy of the Complete Journal
5. John Dickinson Letters From A Farmer In Pennsylvania To The Inhabitants Of The British Colonies
6. Samuel Adams
7. The First Continental Congress Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789 (Stanford Studies in the New Political History)
8. The Loyalists The Loyalists in the American Revolution
9. The Satirists
10. Franklin The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 37: March 16 Through August 15, 1782
11. Thomas Paine Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America)
12. A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
13. The Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift Editions)
14. The Journal of the Continental Congress Index: Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774 1789
15. The Crisis
16. The Constitutional Convention Miracle At Philadelphia: the Story of the Constitutional Convention May-Spt 1787
17. The Federalist The Federalist Papers

IX. The Beginnings of Verse, 1610-1808
By SAMUEL MARION TUCKER, Ph.D., Professor of English in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
1. The Three Periods
2. Verse in the Southern and Middle Colonies
3. The First New England Poets An Anthology of the New England Poets: From Colonial Times to the Present Day
4. The Memorial Poems
5. Anne Bradstreet The Works of Anne Bradstreet (The John Harvard Library)
6. The Bay Psalm Book
7. Michael Wigglesworth The Day of Doom: Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
8. Dryden and Pope in New England The Works of John Dryden: Plays: King Author, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, Contributions to the Pilgrim (Vol 16), Poems of Alexander Pope
9. Philadelphia Poets
10. The Long Poems of the Eighteenth Century The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version, Sixth Edition
11. Timothy Dwight Major Poems: Five Volumes in One
12. Political verse
13. David Humphreys The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804)
14. Joel Barlow Works (2 Vols in 1 Prose and Poetry)
15. John Trumbull American Poetry : The Nineteenth Century : Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals (Library of America)
16. Tory Satirists The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists
17. Lyric Poetry
18. Philip Freneau American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman (Library of America)