| Lord Byron.
1788–1824. |
Epigram: The Commonwealth |
| Alexis de Tocqueville.
1805–1859. |
Oratory of a Republic |
| William Bartram.
1739–1823. |
In the Home of the Alligator |
| Puc-Puggy and His Notes on the Rattlesnake |
| Elias Boudinot.
1740–1821. |
Origin of a Famous Hereditary Order |
| Timothy Pickering.
1745–1829. |
Advice to a College Graduate |
| The Directory and the United States |
| Nathanael Emmons.
1745–1840. |
The Evil Jeroboam |
| A Good Tragedy the Best Model for a Sermon |
| Mason Locke Weems.
1759–1825. |
The Ingenious Weems Relates Some Pleasing Anecdotes |
| Ben Franklin and Pomposo Keimer |
| Red Jacket.
c. 1756–1830. |
The Indians Must Worship the Great Spirit in Their Own Way |
| James Thacher.
1754–1844. |
The Execution of John André |
| Glimpses of Revolutionary Days |
| A Cruel Deed |
| Joel Barlow.
1754–1812. |
The Hasty Pudding |
| America |
| A Judicial Estimate of the Character and Genius of Thomas Paine |
| John Marshall.
1755–1835. |
Expediency of Direct Taxation |
| Troubles of the First Administration |
| Man, Soldier, and Statesman |
| Hannah Adams.
1755–1831. |
Nathan Hale and John André |
| A Literary Woman in the Last Century |
| Henry Lee III.
1756–1818. |
The Father of His Country |
| The Episode of Champe |
| John Trumbull.
1756–1843. |
The Memorable Precept of an Indian Chief |
| An Experience at Mr. Jefferson’s Dinner-Table |
| Royall Tyler.
1757–1826. |
The First American Comedy Regularly Produced |
| Independence Day |
| The Rival Doctors |
| English and New-English, Eighty Years Ago |
| The Bookworm |
| James Wilkinson.
1757–1825. |
The Capture of Charles Lee |
| Alexander Hamilton.
1757–1804. |
Financial Condition and Prospects of the United States |
| The Federal Constitution |
| Encroachments of France |
| Defects of the Confederation |
| The Office of President |
| Advantages of the Constitution |
| Anonymous |
A Pair of Eclogues: The Country School |
| The Country Meeting |
| Alexander Garden.
1757–1829. |
Southern Women in the Revolution |
| Robert Dinsmoor.
1757–1836. |
The Sparrow |
| Fisher Ames.
1758–1808. |
The Character and Talents of Washington |
| Alexander Hamilton |
| The Dangers of American Liberty |
| Noah Worcester.
1758–1837. |
The Abolition of War |
| Noah Webster.
1758–1843. |
Woman’s Education in the Last Century |
| English Corruption of the American Language |
| George Richards Minot.
1758–1802. |
The Grievances Which Led to “Shays’s Rebellion” |
| Elkanah Watson.
1758–1842. |
The Great Fire at Charleston |
| Tom Paine in France |
| Patience Wright and Doctor Franklin |
| Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton.
1759–1846. |
To Aaron Burr, under Trial for High Treason |
| Hannah Webster Foster.
1759–1840. |
A Proposal of the Last Century |
| Mathew Carey.
1760–1839. |
The Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 |
| A Case in Congress in 1818 |
| Richard Alsop.
1761–1815. |
To the Shade of Washington |
| Albert Gallatin.
1761–1849. |
The Debt of the United States |
| The Currency and Banking System |
| Tabitha Tenney.
1762–1837. |
Doña Quixota |
| Susanna Rowson.
1762–1824. |
To Time |
| The Death of Charlotte Temple |
| Abiel Holmes.
1763–1837. |
President Stiles |
| The Siege of Mexico |
| James Kent.
1763–1847. |
Thoughts on the Nation |
| Christianity the Promoter of International Law |
| William Pinkney.
1764–1822. |
Slavery and a Republican Form of Government Not Incongruous |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill.
1764–1831. |
A History of St. Tammany |
| Elegy on a Shell—the Nautilus |
| St. John Honeywood.
1763–1798. |
Darby and Joan |
| Harrison Gray Otis.
1765–1848. |
The Character of Hamilton |
| Anonymous |
Sleighing Song |
| Abigail Adams Smith.
1765–1813. |
Parisian Society before the Revolution |
| A Little Patriot and Her Papa |
| John Sylvester John Gardiner.
1765–1830. |
Our Illogical Distrust of England |
| How Women May Best Commend Themselves |
| Robert Goodloe Harper.
1765–1825. |
Federalist Maxims |
| Samuel Low.
b. 1765. |
To a Spider |
| William Dunlap.
1766–1839. |
Marriage à la Mode |
| Closing Scene of the First American Tragedy Regularly Produced |
| Mr. Cooke Gives Mr. Treat Paine the Snub Direct |
| Mr. Cooke’s Propensity to Sarcasm |
| Burning of the Richmond Theatre |
| Alexander Wilson.
1766–1813. |
The Baltimore Bird |
| The Character and Manners of Master Blue Jay |
| The Little Widower |
| My Landlady’s Nose |
| William Irving.
1766–1821. |
The Days of Grogram Grandames |
| John Quincy Adams.
1767–1848. |
Extracts from His Diary |
| The Death of Children |
| Liberty and Eloquence |
| Deliberative Oratory |
| To Sally |
| The Mission of America |
| Our Forefathers |
| Injustice to the Indian |
| The Lip and the Heart |
| The Crime of Slavery |
| James Asheton Bayard.
1767–1815. |
Plea for an Independent Judiciary |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris.
1768–1842. |
The Little Orator |
| Joseph Dennie.
1768–1812. |
Silent American Society |
| The Imported French Philosophy |
| Anonymous |
To the Gods |
| Tecumseh.
1768–1813. |
Speech to General Proctor, Shortly before the Battle |
| David Everett.
1770–1813. |
Lines Spoken by a Boy of Seven Years |
| DeWitt Clinton.
1769–1828. |
Eloquence of the Six Nations |
| A Plea for Peace and Loyalty |
| Joseph Hopkinson.
1770–1842. |
Hail Columbia |
| Tristam Burges.
1770–1853. |
A Prophecy |
| A Rebuke to John Randolph |
| Charles Brockden Brown.
1771–1810. |
Wieland’s Defence |
| The Strange Adventure of Edgar Huntly |
| Thomas Green Fessenden.
1771–1837. |
The Country Lovers |
| Hosea Ballou.
1771–1852. |
Lucifer and the Origin of Sin |
| The Influence of Persecution |
| Elihu Hubbard Smith.
1771–1798. |
At the Press of Laurentius |
| William Ray.
1771–1827. |
The Frigate “Philadelphia” Captured by the Turks |
| William Martin Johnson.
1771?–1797. |
On Snow-flakes Melting on His Lady’s Breast |
| Josiah Quincy.
1772–1864. |
The Struggle for Patronage |
| Southern Rule in the North |
| The Witchcraft Excitement and the Mathers |
| William Cliffton.
1772–1799. |
To Sleep |
| Song: ‘Boy, shut to the door, and bid trouble begone’ |
| Archibald Alexander.
1772–1851. |
The Necessity of Divine Revelation |
| The Bible |
| William Wirt.
1772–1834. |
An Old Virginia Preacher |
| A Country Boy’s First Trial |
| A Natural Orator |
| The Statesman and the Dandy |
| The Deaths of Adams and Jefferson |
| Burr and Blennerhassett |
| The Lawyer’s “Twelve Good Rules” |
| Margaretta V. Faugeres.
1771–1801. |
To the Moon |
| Eliphalet Nott.
1773–1866. |
The Lesson of a National Tragedy |
| William Biglow.
1773–1844. |
Receipt to Make a Magazine |
| John Randolph.
1773–1833. |
The Slaves after the Revolution |
| England and Napoleon |
| An Epistle to a School-Boy |
| Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
1773–1811. |
Adams and Liberty |
| Eulogy on Washington |
| Epilogue to “The Clergyman’s Daughter” |
| William Sullivan.
1774–1839. |
American Society in the Constitutional Period |
| President Washington’s Receptions |
| William Munford.
1775–1825. |
The Triumph of Hector |
| Lyman Beecher.
1775–1863. |
The New England Fathers |
| The Awakening |
| The Young Divine’s First Home |
| John Henry Hobart.
1775–1830. |
America and England |
| Philander Chase.
1775–1852. |
A Strange Scene |
| An Incident at Gambier |
| John Blair Linn.
1777–1804. |
In Praise of Laurelled Women |
| Henry Clay.
1777–1852. |
For the Humane Treatment of Captive Indians |
| The Grecian Struggle for Independence |
| A Graphic Political Contrast |
| The Attitude of South Carolina |
| Vindication of his Policy and Ambition |
| His Position with Respect to Slavery and Abolition |
| John Shaw.
1778–1809. |
Song: ‘Who has robbed the ocean cave’ |
| William Austin.
1778–1841. |
Peter Rugg, the Missing Man |
| Clement Clarke Moore.
1779–1863. |
A Visit from St. Nicholas |
| John Fanning Watson.
1779–1860. |
Old New York |
| Rembrandt Peale.
1778–1860. |
Music |
| James Kirke Paulding.
1778–1860. |
A Point of Etiquette |
| A Strange Bird in Nieuw-Amsterdam |
| Catalina’s Escape |
| The Old Man’s Carousal |
| Francis Scott Key.
1779–1843. |
The Star-Spangled Banner |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham.
1779–1861. |
An Editor of the Last Century |
| Joseph Story.
1779–1845. |
The Lawyer |
| A Picture of Slave-dealing Days |
| The Task of American Statesmen |
| The Woman’s Mind |
| The Story of an Indian Brave |
| Advice to a Young Lawyer |
| Washington Allston.
1779–1843. |
The Picture of Satan and his Thrall |
| On the Study of Form in the Works of Raphael and Michael Angelo |
| Aphorisms Written on the Walls of His Studio |
| America to Great Britain |
| On the Late S. T. Coleridge |
| Immortality |
| Ninian Pinkney.
1776–1825. |
A Fête Champêtre at Montreuil |
| Benjamin Allen.
1789–1829. |
Prayer |
| Timothy Flint.
1780–1840. |
The Escape of Berrian and Martha |
| Henry James Finn.
1787–1840. |
The Frog Catcher |
| The Curse of the Competent; or, The Lay of the Last Genius |
| Robert Young Hayne.
1791–1839. |
The South Carolina Doctrine |
| Daniel Webster.
1782–1852. |
Personal Reminiscences |
| Portrait of a Great Lawyer |
| Jefferson at Eighty-one |
| Lines on the Death of His Son Charles |
| The Shaft at Bunker Hill |
| Apostrophe to the Veterans of 1775 |
| Imaginary Speech of John Adams |
| Murder Will out |
| Hamilton, the Financier |
| Reply to Mr. Hayne’s Strictures on New England |
| Peaceable Secession an Impossibility |
| To John Randolph, In Rejoinder to a Challenge |
| To George Ticknor, After Reading a Life or Byron |
| To Mrs. Paige, On the Joy and Glory of the Morn |
| To the Rev. Mr. Furness, Explaining His Attitude in Regard to the Slavery Question |
| To Mrs. Paige, In Praise of an Inimitable Dish |
| To President Fillmore, From the Broad Acres of Marshfield |
| To John Taylor, To Eschew Politics and Speed the Plough |
| John Caldwell Calhoun.
1782–1850. |
State Sovereignty Expounded by Its Greatest Champion |
| Preservation of the Union |
| Noted Sayings |
Part I |
| Levi Frisbie.
1783–1822. |
The Dream |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster.
1784–1812. |
The Future Life |
| Eliza Southgate Bowne.
1783–1809. |
Winter Episodes in Maine |
| A New England Bride in New York |
| The Banquet in Honor of Rufus King |
| William Tudor.
1779–1830. |
Bostonians and Their Manners |
| Richard Dabney.
1787?–1825. |
Youth and Age |
