Compiled and edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson.
Vol. I. Early Colonial Literature. John Smith, William Strachey, William Bradford, Roger Williams, John Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, John Winthrop, etc.
Vol. II. Later Colonial Literature. William Hubbard, Mary Rowlandson, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, William Byrd, Jonathan Edwards, etc.
Vol. III. Literature of the Revolutionary Period. Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Philip Freneau, etc.
Vol. IV. Literature of the Republic. Part I. William Bartram, Red Jacket, Joel Barlow, Alexander Hamilton, Noah Webster, Charles Brockden Brown, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, etc.
Vol. V. Literature of the Republic. Part II. William Ellery Channing, Washington Irving, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Richard Henry Dana, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Everett, etc.
Vol. VI. Literature of the Republic. Part III. George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, etc.
Vol. VII. Literature of the Republic. Part III.—Continued. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Frances Sargent Osgood, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, etc.
Vol. VIII. Literature of the Republic. Part III.—Continued. Edward Everett Hale, Francis Parkman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Richard Henry Stoddard, Negro hymns and songs, Charles Dudley Warner, Louisa May Alcott, etc.
Vol. IX. Literature of the Republic. Part IV. John Albee, Charles Farrar Browne, John James Piatt, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, etc.
Vol. X. Literature of the Republic. Part IV.—Continued. Bret Harte, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, Sidney Lanier, Henry James, Richard Watson Gilder, Julian Hawthorne, Edgar Fawcett, Emma Lazarus, Eugene Field, etc.