"First edition."

The discovery and early history of America: Columbus / Joaquin Miller -- To the Virginian voyage / Michael Drayton -- The landing of the Pilgrim fathers in New England / Felicia D. Hemans -- Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's call / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Fort Duquesne / Florus B. Plimpton -- Privileges and prerogatives granted to Columbus April 30, 1492 -- The Mayflower Compact, November 11, 1620 -- The voyage of the Mayflower / William Bradford -- John Winthrop to his wife.

The Revolution: Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A ballad of the Boston Tea Party / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Maryland Battalion -- John Williamson Palmer -- Warren's address to the American soldiers / John Pierpont -- Molly Maguire at Monmouth / William Collins -- Lexington / Sidney Lanier -- The swamp fox / William Gilmore Simms -- Carmen Bellicosum / Guy Humphrey McMaster -- The battle of the kegs / Francis Hopkinson -- Washington / Robert Haven Schauffler -- To the memory of the brave Americans under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781 / Philip Freneau -- Ticonderoga / V.B. Wilson -- The Yankee privateer / Arthur Hale -- Yankee doodle / Gen. George P. Morris -- La Fayette -- Dolly Madison -- Peace hymn for England and America / George Huntington -- Washington / Lord Byron -- Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765 -- Defense of the Colonies' stand on taxation / Edmund Burke -- These are the times that try men's souls / Thomas Paine -- The address of thanks to the king -- The first step of reconciliation with America / Wlliam Pitt -- Ironical advice to Great Britain / Benjamin Franklin -- The colonies to the mother country / Richard Henry Lee -- Answer to Congress on his appointment as commander-in-chief -- To Mrs. Martha Washington -- To the American troops before the Battle of Long Island / George Washington -- An appeal to arms -- Give me liberty or give me death / Patrick Henry -- The Declaration of Independence -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Declaration of 1776 -- John Adams to his wife, on the birth of the new nation / John Quincy Adams -- A letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams / Abigail Adams -- Daniel Webster's reply to Hayne, January 26, 1830 / Daniel Webster -- Sink or swim / Daniel Webster -- Capturing Ticonderoga / Ethan Allen -- Letter of Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington / Marquis de Lafayette -- Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, September 3. 1783 -- General Washington's resignation, December 23, 1783.

Post-Revolution to 1815: England in America in 1782 / Alfred Tennyson -- America to Great Britain / Washington Allston -- Britons and guests / Edith M. Thomas -- The flag of the constellation / Thomas Buchanan Read -- How we burned the Philadelphia / Barrett Eastman -- Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Perry's victory on Lake Erie / James Gates Percival -- The blue hen's chickens / Arthur Guiterman -- What is an American / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- Washington's farewell address, September 17, 1796 / George Washington -- Welcome of the Hebrew congregation, Newport, Rhode Island, to George Washington / Moses Seixas -- Necessity of union between the states / John Jay -- Resolutions on the death of George Washington in the House of Representatives / John Marshall -- The father of his country (a funeral oration in honor of the memory of George Washington) / Henry Lee -- Soliloquy in the White House / John Quincy Adams -- Supposed answer to Talleyrand / Charles Cotesworth Pinckney -- Thomas Jefferson's first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 -- Thomas Jefferson -- Toast to celebrate victory over Barbary Pirates / Stephen Decatur -- Dispatch to General Harrison after Lake Erie / O.H. Perry.

1815-1860: Tribute to America / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Boston hymn -- Ode / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- How Cyrus laid the cable / John Godfrey Saxe -- Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster -- Daniel Boone / Arthur Guiterman -- Jim Bludso / John Hay -- The Oregon Trail / William Rose Benet -- Oregon Trail: 1851 -- James Marshall -- The Kansas emigrants / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The founders of Ohio / William Henry Venable -- Out where the West begins / Arthur Chapman -- Henry Spaulding -- Eliza Spaulding / Donald Burnie -- Pioneers! O Pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- A clearly pioneer / Fred Crewe -- Prairie birth / Grace Stone Coates -- The stone crop / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Johnny Appleseed / William Henry Venable -- Crossing the plains / Joaquin Miller -- The fight at San Jacinto / John Williamson Palmer -- Monterey / Charles Fenno Hoffman -- The winning of the west / Theodore Roosevelt -- The defense of the Alamo / William Barret Travis -- Epitaph on the Alamo -- The covered wagon / Jesse Applegate -- Notes on a journey in America / Morris Birbeck -- Our intellectual declaration of independence / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Monroe Doctrine -- Andrew Jackson's Inaugural Address -- The death of John Adams / Philip Hone.

The Civl War: Glory hallelujah! or John Brown's body / Charles Sprague Hall -- How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- The significance of John Brown / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julie Ward Howe -- The battle cry of freedom / George Frederick Root -- Jonathan to John / James Russell Lowell -- Sumter / Henry Howard Brownell -- Fredericksburg / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Beauregard / Mrs. C.A. Warfield -- The cumberland / Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- The river fight -- The bay fight / Henry Howard Brownell -- Scott and the veteran / Bayard Taylor -- The picket guard / Ethel Lynn Beers -- Our country's call / William Cullen Bryant -- Little Giffen / Francis Orrery Ticknor -- Kearny at Seven Pines / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- The old sergeant / Forceythe Willson -- Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Shenandoah / Carl Sandburg -- We're tenting tonight / Walter Kittredge -- Marching through Georgia / Henry Clay Work -- How are you sanitary? -- The reveille / Bret Harte -- Three hundred thousand more / James Sloan Gibbons -- Music in camp / John R. Thompson -- The bonnie blue flag / Annie Chambers Ketchum -- The call to colors / Arthur Guiterman -- The Virginians of the valley / Francis Orerry Ticknor -- Dixie / Daniel Decatur Emmett -- Dixie / Albert Pike -- My Maryland / James Ryder Randall -- Lee to the rear / John R. Thompson -- Magnolia Cemetery / Henry Timrod -- The sword of Robert Lee / Abram J. Ryan -- Lines on the back of a Confederate note / Major Samuel Alroy Jonas -- Stonewall Jackson's way / John Williamson Palmer -- Running the batteries -- Shiloh / Herman Melville -- Farragut / William Tuckey Meredith -- Gettysburg / James Jeffrey Roche -- John Burns of Gettysburg / Bret Harte -- The high tide at Gettysburg / Will Henry Thompson -- The conquered banner / Abram J. Ryan -- Brother Jonathan's lament for Sister Caroline / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Apocalypse / Richard Realf -- Requiem / George Lunt -- The blue and the gray / Francis Miles Finch -- The eagle's song / Richard Mansfield -- Laus Deo! / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Blow, bugles, blow / John S. McGroarty -- Roll call / Nathaniel Green Shepherd -- Dirge / Thomas William Parsons -- The bivouac of the dead / Theodore O'Hara -- Dirge for a soldier / George Henry Boker -- Patriotism abroad / Robert Charles Winthrop -- John Brown to the Honorable D.R. Tilden / John Brown -- Speech on the slavery questions / John C. Calhoun -- Inaugural address of Jefferson Davis, Feb. 22, 1862 -- Abolition / William Lloyd Garrison -- Civil War / Lucy Larcom -- General Robert E. Lee's farewell to his army, April 10, 1865 / Robert E. Lee -- Appomattox / General Ulysses S. Grant -- Message to his soldiers, April 10, 1865 / General Robert E. Lee -- Beginning the march to the sea / William Tecumseh Sherman -- Slavery / William H. Seward -- The end of the war / William Lloyd Garrison -- Soliloquy of Lincoln before Manassas / Stephen Vincent Benet -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Walt Whitman -- The snarlers / Arthur Guiterman -- Lincoln, the man of the people / Edwin Markham -- God save our president / Francis DeHaes Janvier -- The master / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Abraham Lincoln / Tom Taylor -- Abraham Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant -- Lincoln / John Gould Fletcher -- O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman -- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- Springfield speech -- Emancipation Proclamation -- The Gettysburg Address -- Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby -- Lincoln's second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Letter to Lincoln from Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 / Horace Greeley -- Abraham Lincoln / James Russell Lowell -- Comment at Lincoln funeral service, Concord, MA, April 10, 1865.

1865-1900: Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration / James Russell Lowell -- Custer's last charge / Frederick Whittaker -- An ode in time of hesitation -- On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughan Moody -- The fighting race / Joseph I.C. Clarke -- Unmanifest destiny / Richard Hovey -- God, give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland -- The men behind the guns / John Jerome Rooney -- Battle song of the Oregon / Wallace Rice -- Centennial hymn / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The last reservation / Walter Learned -- The Klondike / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Columbia -- Our country / Benjamin Harrison -- A message to Garcia / Elbert Hubbard -- On a certain condescension in foreigners / James Russell Lowell -- The political life of America.

1900-1914: Hymn of the West / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Blood is thicker than water / Wallace Rice -- On the building of Springfield / Vachel Lindsay -- Grover Cleveland's first inaugural address -- On the McKinley assassination / Senator Hoer -- High of heart / Theodore Roosevelt -- United States colonial policy / Elihu Root -- American tradition / William G. Summer.

World War: Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- To the United States of America / Robert Bridges -- A battle plane in France / O.C.A. Child -- There's about two million fellows / Albert Jay Cook -- The little flag on our house / Will Seedy (William Curtis Demorest) -- Yanks / James W. Foley -- When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- The road to France / Daniel Henderson -- Ode to side car / J.P.H. -- Rouge Bouquet / Joyce Kilmer -- The 1st division marches -- Songs above the dust / Grantland Rice --Reveille / Louis Untermeyer -- The need of the hour / Edwin Markham -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- In Flanders Fields / John McCrae -- Victory bells / Grace Hazard Conkling -- War against Germany / Woodrow Wilson -- I am an American / Elias Lieberman -- America for me / Henry Van Dyke -- The coming American / Sam Walter Foss -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Scum 'o the Earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- Mare Liberum / Henry Van Dyke -- Invocation / Stephen Vincent Benet -- New York / Arthur Guiterman -- The American dream / James Truslow Adams -- My America / John Buchan -- The full-fledged American / Struthers Burt -- A proclamation / His excellency, Wilbur L. Cross, Governor -- Flag day, 1940 -- Self evident truths / Burton Rascoe -- The defense of liberty / Rose Wilder Lane -- The American character / George Santayana -- German-Americans / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Coolidge's father administers the presidential oath / Claude M. Fuess -- In the green mountain country / Clarence Day.

Basic American ideals: The star spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Columbia / Timothy Dwight -- Hail Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson -- National hymn / Daniel C. Roberts -- America / Samuel Francis Smith -- America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates -- America / Arlo Bates -- Oh mother of a mighty race / William Cullen Bryant -- The patriot hymn / Nathan Haskell Dole -- Land that we love / Richard Watson Gilder -- Land of the free / Arthur Nicholas Hosking -- One country / Frank L. Stanton -- Our country / Julia Ward Howe -- This is America / Katharine Janeway Conger -- Hard rows to hoe / Daniel Henderson -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The better way / Susan Coolidge -- Inscription on the Statue of Liberty / Emma Lazarus -- The Bartholdi Statue / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Ad patriam / Clinton Scollard -- America / Sydney Dobell -- The building of the ship / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The flag / James Jeffrey Roche -- The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett -- Freedom / James Russell -- For you O democracy -- Walt Whitman -- Preamble to the Constitution of the United States -- Oath of allegiance -- The national flag / Henry Ward Beecher -- The meaning of the flag / Woodrow Wilson -- The noblest public virtue / Henry Clay -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale -- Independence day / James Gillespie Blaine -- Preface to 1885 edition of Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- The great melting pot / Israel Zangwill -- The spirit of America / Woodrow Wilson -- What America expects of its youth / Mr. J. Borden Harriman.