A true relation of the most prosperous voyage / James Rosier
The landing at Plymouth / William Bradford
Merrymount / John Lothrop Motley
New England's plantation 1630 / Francis Higginson
Sermon aboard the Arbella / John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson's exile / Thomas Welde
Everyday life in Massachusetts Bay Colony / George Dow
Repentant sinners and their ministers / Rev. Thomas Hooker
Minister Hooker's Christianity / Timothy Dwight
The Bay psalm book / Richard Mather
Concerning the singers / John Cotton
Dinner at the Winthrops / Catherine Maria Sedgwick
New England's first fruits / Anonymous
The covenant of Grace / Thomas Shepard
The simple cobbler of Aggawam in America / Nathaniel Ward
The clear sun-shine of the gospel breaking forth upon the Indians / Rev. John Eliot
The Indians in New England / Daniel Gookin
Grandfather's chair / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The separation of Roger Williams / Nathaniel Morton
The day of doom / Michael Wigglesworth
Uncle Tracy's Thanksgiving / Traditional
Last will and testament / Andrew Hodges
Fast day and Thanksgiving proclamations / Massachusetts Bay Colony Records
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences / Increase Mather
A love letter to her husband / Anne Bradstreet.
Upon wedlock, and death of children / Rev. Edward Taylor
A firsthand account of captivity / Mary Rowlandson
The death of King Philip / Thomas Church
Indian warfare in New Hampshire / Jeremy Belknap
The New England primer / Anonymous
Elegie on the death of Thomas Shepard / Urian Oakes
The regicides in New England / Thomas Hutchinson
The revolt against Sir Edmund Andros / Nathaniel Byfield
The courting of Madam Winthrop / Samuel Sewall
A sermon by Cotton Mather
The examination of Sarah Good
A letter on witches' "puppets"
Testimony against Bridget Bishop
On the place of execution
Confession of William Barker
Magnalia Christi Americana / Cotton Mather
The redeemed captive returned to Zion / Rev. John Williams
Journey from Boston to New York / Sarah Kemble Knight
The big snow of 1717 / Cotton Mather
Autobiography / Benjamin Franklin
Lovewell's flight / Anonymous
The Puritan state and Puritan society / Perry Miller
A narrative of surprising conversions / Rev. Jonathan Edwards
A witch story of olden time / Francis Chase
The ballad of the French fleet / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On the righteousness of rebellion / Jonathan Mayhew
Considerations on behalf of the colonists / James Otis
John Adams' graduation from Harvard / Catherine Drinker Bowen
The other Adams / Catherine Drinker Bowen.
The snare broken / Jonathan Mayhew
The Boston massacre / The town of Boston Committee
The future glory of America / Jonathan Trumbull
The Boston Tea Party / John Andrews
Recollections / George Hewes
The rallying song of the tea party / Traditional
Poem by a slave / Phyllis Wheatley Peters
Boston beleagured and help sent / Peter Force
Free America / Dr. Joseph Warren
Paul Revere's own account of his ride
Battle of Lexington / George Bancroft
On Lexington / John Adams
A pardon to the Lexington rebels / General Gage
Diary of an American soldier / Simeon Lyman
Bunker Hill / Amos Farnsworth
Tory views of the American soldiers / Benjamin Thompson
The capture of Ticonderoga / Ethan Allen
The ballad of Nathan Hale / Traditional
Boston evacuated / Timothy Newell
John Adams and Abigail Adams / John Adams
A New England minister on slavery / Samuel Hopkins
Concerning Benedict Arnold / General Nathanael Greene
The Yorktown surrender / James Thatcher
President Stiles of Yale / Abiel Holmes
Advice to the privileged orders / Joel Barlow
A New England frolic / John Neal
An old house in Boston / Edmund Quincy
Sketches of a New England village / Eliza Buckminster Lee
A new language proposed / William Smith Shaw
The capture of the Guerrière / Anonymous
The Federalists / Henry Adams
The life of Oliver Hazard Perry / John M. Niles
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant
Charge to a grand jury on slavery / Joseph Story
The moral argument against Calvinism / William Ellery Channing
Webster at Bunker Hill / Samuel Griswold Goodrich
The frog catcher / Henry J. Finn
An evening in New England / Lydia Maria Child
An address / Edward Everett
Edward Everett in 1820 / John Quincy Adams
Recollections of Everett / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Boston lecture : its origin and evolution / Samuel Gardner Brake.
The association man / William Channing
Keynote of abolition / William Lloyd Garrison
A New England boyhood / Edward Everett Hale
Nature ; The rhodora ; The concord hymn ; Monadnoc / Ralph Waldo Emerson
From his journal ; Conscience ; Independence ; A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Henry David Thoreau
Speech on abolition and freedom of the press / Wendell Phillips
Background for "The wreck of the Hesperus" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Margaret Fuller's conversations / Thomas Higginson
The well bred boy / T.H. Carter
A temperance manifesto / J.W. Goodrich
Brook Farm / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The transient and permanent in Christianity / Rev. Theodore Parker
Sonnet to Emerson / Ellen Hooper
Questionings / Frederic Hedge
The Lowell Mills / Lucy Larcom
Deacon Giles's distillery / George Cheever
Moby Dick / Herman Melville
Richard Edney and the governor's family / Sylvester Judd
Slavery and secession / Daniel Webster
Thanksgiving / Harriet Beecher Stowe
An autobiography / Lyman Beecher
Skipper Ireson's ride / John Greenleaf Whittier
The riven oak : John Brown / Daniel Ricketson
Literary friends and acquaintances / William Dean Howells
The autocrat and the Brahmin / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take the loan / Edward Everett Hale
Lincoln in wartime / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Civil War diary / Charles E. Davis.
A hospital sketch / Louisa May Alcott
The genesis of "The battle hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe
A farewell to Agassiz / Oliver Wendell Holmes
The lady who put salt in her coffee / Lucretia P. Hale
Story of a bad boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Among the isles of shoals / Celia Thaxter
Persons and places / George Santayana
Talks on art / William Morris Hunt
An international episode / Henry James
The rise of Silas Lapham / William Dean Howells
The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett
Mrs. Jack Gardner? / F. Marion Crawford
With the first arbutus / Emily Dickinson
Wreck of the S.S. Portland
For those in peril on the sea / Rudyard Kipling
President Eliot of Harvard / Mark A. DeWolfe Howe
How to make Jonny-cake / Thomas Robinson Hazard
On Louis Agassiz / William James
The late George Apley / John P. Marquand
Sacco and Vanzetti / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The need of being versed in country things / Robert Frost
Edwin Arlington Robinson / Amy Lowell
The Boston evening transcript / T.S. Eliot
Cambridge ladies / E.E. Cummings
Salt Water Farm / E.B. White
Hurricane / John T. Winterich
The proper Bostonians / Cleveland Amory
Town report : 1942 / Malcolm Cowley
Waking in the blue / Robert Lowell
New England industry / John F. Kennedy
Homage to New England / David McCord.
