| Selected Bibliography | Introduction |

| John Adams and Abigail Adams | Elizabeth Ashbridge |

| Charles Brockden Brown | William Hill Brown | William Byrd |

| St. Jean De Crevecoeur |

| Olaudah Equiano | Jonathan Edwards |

| Hannah Webster Foster | Benjamin Franklin | Philip Freneau |

| Jupiter Hammon |

| Thomas Jefferson |

| Sarah Kemble Knight |

| Judith Sargent Murray |

| Samuel Occum |

| Thomas Paine | Francisco Palou |

| Susanna Rowson |

| Royall Tyler |

| Mercy Otis Warren | Phillis Wheatley | The Connecticut Wits: Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, and John Turnbull | John Woolman |