“Let Slavery Die,” Henry Highland Garnet
“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett
Nancy Hale, “The Bubble”
Bernard Malamud, “The Silver Crown”
John Muir, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”
Willa Cather, “The Bookkeeper’s Wife”
Kate Chopin, “A Visit to Avoyelles”
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases”
O. Henry, “Tommy’s Burglar”
Pamela Sargent, “If Ever I Should Leave You”
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Frog Pond”
Henry David Thoreau, “The Landlord”
Levi Nelson and Benjamin Brim, “The Colfax Massacre Trial”
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “St. Clair Flats”
Washington Irving, “Stratford-on-Avon”
Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice”