John Quincy Adams, “This Whole Horrible Transaction”
Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga”
Anonymous, “Bombers Over London”
Alexander Hamilton, “Examine Well Your Heart”
Sarah Orne Jewett, “Decoration Day”
Louisa May Alcott, “My Girls”
Edward Lucas White, “Lukundoo”
Stephen Crane, “Four Men in a Cave”
William T. Hornaday, “The Bird Tragedy of Laysan Island”
Henry James, “Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie”
Ellen N. La Motte, “Alone”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong”
Mary McCarthy, “The Company Is Not Responsible”
Noah Webster, “On the Absurdity of a Bill of Rights”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”
Walt Whitman, “Death in the School-Room”
