The New World: Before America Three New Worlds: The South, The North, The Middle The Puritans: New Way of Life, Old Way of Living The American Revolution: A War of Words The First American: Benjamin Franklin The Country Grows: A National Literature Edgar Allan Poe: New Forms of Literature The Flowering of New England: New Directions Emily Dickinson: A Separate World Mark Twain: The Beginnings of Modern American Literature

Local Color and Realism: A New Flavor to American Literature America Grows: Mentally and Physically Entering the Modern World: The American Novel and Short Story Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner: Three American Giants The Wild Wild West: The California Writers The American Theater: Powerful Drama in the New World The American Black Writer: Old Views of Alienation The American Jewish Writer: New Views of Alienation American Humor: On the Funny Side American Nonfiction: On the Serious Side