- European Exploration and Settlement
- "The Coming of the First White Man"
- Columbus, Christopher
- Benavides, Alonso de
- Marquette, Jacques
- Harriot, Thomas
- Smith, John
- Bradford, William
- Penn, William
- Kalm, Per (Peter)
- Social Issues
- Easton, John
- Bacon, Elizabeth and Sherwood, William
- Mather, Cotton, Cheever, Ezekiel, and Sewall, Samuel
- A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger
- Beverley, Robert
- Woolman, John
- Morton, Thomas
- Excerpt From the Trial of Anne Hutchinson
- Personal Narratives
- Winthrop, John
- Rowlandson, Mary
- Bradstreet, Anne Dudley
- Knight, Sarah Kemble
- Ashbridge, Elizabeth
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Adams, John
