Frank Norris, “Grettir at Thorhall-stead”
Rupert Trimmingham, “Democracy?”
John Dos Passos, “The Donkey Boy”
Peter Taylor, “Je Suis Perdu”
James Thurber, “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox”
Edith Wharton, “In the North”
Mary McCarthy, “The Unspoiled Reaction”
Philip Roth, “Patrimony”
Alexander Hamilton, “Account of a Hurricane”
Loren Eiseley, “Barbed Wire and Brown Skulls”
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution”
Jane Bowles, “A Stick of Green Candy”
Barbara Deming, “Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One?”
Henry David Thoreau, “A Walk to Wachusett”
John Quincy Adams, “This Whole Horrible Transaction”
Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga”