ACTIVITY George W. Bush, 9/11 Speech
ACTIVITY George Will, from King Coal: Reigning in China
ACTIVITY Dwight D. Eisenhower, Order of the Day
ACTIVITY Alice Dunbar Nelson, I sit and sew
ACTIVITY Tamar Demby, Alarmist or Alarming Rhetoric? (student essay)
ACTIVITY Federal Highway Administration, Stop for Pedestrians (advertisement)
CULMINATING ACTIVITY The Apollo 11 Mission
ACTIVITY Ralph Ellison, from On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz
ACTIVITY Tecumseh, Address to the Osages
ACTIVITY Christopher Morley, On Laziness
ACTIVITY Robert Penn Warren, from All the King's Men
ACTIVITY Langston Hughes, Harlem
ACTIVITY Environmental Protection Agency, Slip, Slop, Slap & Wrap! (advertisement)
ACTIVITY New York Times Editorial Board, Felons and the Right to Vote
ACTIVITY Dana Thomas, Terror's Purse Strings
ACTIVITY Langston Hughes, Mother to Son
ACTIVITY Sian Kennedy, Sulphur, LA (photograph)
ACTIVITY Gerald L. Early, from A Level Playing Field
Horace Mann, from Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1848)
Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With (painting, 1964)
Edward P. Jones, The First Day (1992)
Antonio Alvarez, Out of My Hands (2008)
Blake Ellis, Average Student Loan Debt Nears $27,000 (2012)
David Kirp, The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools (2013)
Ross Douthat, The Secrets of Princeton (2013)
Caroline M. Hoxby and Christopher Avery, from The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2013)
CULMINATING ACTIVITY Leon Botstein, Let Teenagers Try Adulthood
TalkBack: N. Scott Momaday, The Becoming of the Native (1993)
Iroquois Confederacy, from The Iroquois Constitution (c. 1142)
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca from The Relation of Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
Richard Frethorne, Letter to Father and Mother (1623)
Anne Bradstreet, The Prologue (1650)
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book (1678)
TalkBack: Eavan Boland, Becoming Anne Bradstreet (2012)
Anonymous, Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (painting, c. 1671)
Edward Taylor, Huswifery (c. 1680)
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
TalkBack: Louise Erdrich, Captivity (1991)
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World: A Hortatory and Necessary Address to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum’d by the Wrath of the Devil (1693)
John Hale, from A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1697, 1702)
John Winthrop, from A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)
Jonathan Edwards, from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
Frederick Douglass, from What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Robert F. Kennedy, The Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Ronald Reagan, from Farewell Address (1989)
Stephen H. Webb, How Soccer Is Ruining America: A Jeremiad (2009)
American Lung Association, Sandwich. Snack. Arsenic. (advertisement, 2011)
Barack Obama, Tucson Memorial Speech (2011)
Christopher Columbus, from Journal of the First Voyage to America (1492)
King Ferdinand of Spain, The Requierimiento (1513)
John Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus (1847)
Walt Whitman, Prayer of Columbus (1874)
Jack Weatherford, Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus (1989)
Michael S. Berliner, The Christopher Columbus Controversy (1991)
National Public Radio, Wilma Mankiller Reflects on Columbus Day (2008)
William J. Connell, What Columbus Day Really Means (2010)
Laurence Bergreen, from Columbus: The Four Voyages (2011)
Daniel Richter, Living with Europeans (2002)
Simon van de Passe, Matoaka als Rebecca (1616)
Captain John Smith, Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain (1616)
John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas (1839)
George P. Morris, The Chieftain's Daughter: A Ballad (1840)
Howard Chandler Christy, Pocahontas (1911)
Paula Gunn Allen, Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe (1988)
Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson, from Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the “White Man’s Indian,” and the Marketing of Dreams (1996)
Paula Gunn Allen, from Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat (2004)
Benjamin Franklin, The Speech of Miss Polly Baker (1747)
Benjamin Franklin, from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1784)
TalkBack: D. H. Lawrence, from Benjamin Franklin (1923)
Benjamin West, William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (painting, 1772)
Paul Revere, The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught (cartoon, 1774)
Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention (1775)
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense (1776)
Thomas Paine, from The Crisis, I (1776)
Thomas Paine, from The Final Crisis, XIII (1783)
Thomas Paine, from The Age of Reason (1794)
Abigail and John Adams, Letters (1776)
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776)
TalkBack: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
TalkBack: Ho Chi Minh, Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, from The Federalist Papers (1787)
Preamble to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights (1789)
TalkBack: Sanford Levinson, Our Imbecilic Constitution with Letters to the Editor (2012)
Judith Sargent Murray, from On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
TalkBack: H. L. Mencken, from In Defense of Women (1918)
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson with Response from Thomas Jefferson (1791)
Chief Tecumseh, Address to Governor William Henry Harrison (1810)
Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1820)
George Washington, Letter to Colonel Lewis Nicola (1782)
George Washington, from Farewell Address (1796)
Gilbert Stuart, George Washinton —Lansdowne Portrait (1796)
Mason Locke Weems, from A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington (1799)
Horatio Greenough, George Washington (1832)
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)
Jane Addams, Tribute to George Washington (1903)
Frank O’Hara, On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art (1957)
Jill Lepore, from His Highness (2010)
Dodge Motor Company, This Is the Car You Buy Because You Can’t Buy a Bald Eagle (2010)
Edward G. Lengel, from Inventing George Washington (2011)
Kenneth C. Davis, America’s True History of Religious Tolerance (2010)
James Madison, from Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments (1785)
Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779)
George Washington, To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
Red Jacket, Defense of Native American Religion (1805)
John F. Kennedy, Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (1960)
Jeff Jacoby, The Role of Religion in Government: Invoking Jesus at the Inauguration (2001)
Diane L. Eck, from A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (2001)
Gary Tramontina, Ten Commandments Courthouse Controversy (2003)
Michael Bloomberg, Ground Zero Mosque Speech (2010)
John Fea, from Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? (2011)
Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773)
Phillis Wheatley, To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works (1773)
Phillis Wheatley, To the University of Cambridge, in New-England (1773)
Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency General Washington (1776) (along with letters)
Phillis Wheatley, Letter to Reverend Samson Occom (1774)
Kevin Young, Homage to Phillis Wheatley (1998)
June Jordan, from The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America (2002)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Mr. Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2002)
William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1817)
William Cullen Bryant, To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe: A Sonnet (1829)
Thomas Cole, View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm — The Oxbow (painting, 1836)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1832)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life (1838)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nature (1878)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Self-Reliance (1841)
TalkBack: Benjamin Anastas, The Foul Reign of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” (2011)
Margaret Fuller, from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845)
Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life among the Lowly (1852)
Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Auction Block Monument (1984)
Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Herman Melville, Shiloh: A Requiem (1862)
TalkBack: William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border (1975)
Chief Seattle, Message to President Franklin Pierce (1854)
TalkBack: Dr. Rayna Green, from A Modest Proposal: The Museum of the Plains White Person (1981)
Walt Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth (1855)
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! (1865)
Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856, 1892)
TalkBack: Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California (1955)
Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address (1861)
Alfred M. Green, Let Us Take Up the Sword (1861)
Anonymous, No More Auction Block for Me or, Many Thousands Gone (c. 1860s)
Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861)
Alexander Gardner, Confederate Dead before the Dunker Church (photograph, 1862)
Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death (photograph, 1863)
Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, Come and Join Us Brothers (advertisement, 1863)
Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Albert G. Hodges (1864)
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Henry W. Herrick, Reading the Emancipation Proclamation in the Slaves’ Cabin (1864)
Thomas Ball, Freedman’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln (1876)
Frederick Douglass, from Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (1886)
Mario M. Cuomo, from Abraham Lincoln and Our “Unfinished Work” (1986)
James McPherson, from Who Freed the Slaves? (1996)
Ira Berlin, from Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and Its Meaning (1997)
Peter Norvig, The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2003)
John Brown, Last Speech (1859)
John Brown, Last Letter to His Family (1859)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Letter to John Brown (1859)
Henry David Thoreau, from A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John Brown (c. 1882)
Ken Chowder, The Father of American Terrorism (2000)
Robert E. McGlone, The “Madness” of John Brown (2009)
David Reynolds, Freedom’s Martyr (2009)
Tony Horowitz, The 9/11 of 1859 (2009)
Bill McKibben, from Walden: Living Deliberately (2008)
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854)
E. B. White, from Walden (1939)
Robert Crumb, A Short History of America (1979)
Annie Dillard, Living like Weasels (1982)
E. O. Wilson, from The Future of Life (2002)
Sue Monk Kidd, Doing Nothing (2008)
William Powers, from Hamlet’s BlackBerry (2010)
Crispin Sartwell, My Walden, My Walmart (2012)
Ken Ilgunas, from Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom (2013)
Jourdon Anderson, To My Old Master (1865)
Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (painting, 1865)
TalkBack: Natasha Trethewey, Again, the Fields: After Winslow Homer (2006)
Emily Dickinson, “Hope” is the thing with feathers – (c. 1861)
Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own Society – (c. 1862)
Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (c. 1862)
Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (c. 1862)
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – (c. 1863)
TalkBack: Hans Ostrom, Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven (2006)
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Does Not Such a Meeting Make Amends? (cartoon, 1869)
Red Cloud, Speech on Indian Rights (1870)
Thomas Nast, Worse than Slavery (cartoon, 1874)
Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi (1883)
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886)
Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo (painting, 1888)
Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
Jacob Riis, The Mixed Crowd (1890)
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour (1894)
Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask (1896)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Douglass (1903)
TalkBack: Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass (1947)
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat: A Tale Intended to Be After the Fact. Being the Experience of Four Men from the Sunk Steamer Commodore (1897)
E.A. Robinson, Richard Cory (1897)
E.A. Robinson, Miniver Cheevy (1910)
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1899)
Jane Addams, from The Subtle Problem of Charity (1899)
Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (1912)
Zitkala-Ša, from The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900)
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (1900)
W. E. B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth (1903)
Willa Cather, The Sculptor’s Funeral (1905)
Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle (1906)
TalkBack: Eric Schlosser, from Fast Food Nation (2002)
Susan B. Anthony, Sentencing Statement (1872)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics (1898)
Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Edith Wharton, from The House of Mirth (1905)
Florence Kelley, Speech on Child Labor (1905)
Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company, Suffragette Madonna and Uncle Sam, Suffragee (1909)
Bertha M. Boye, Votes for Women (1911)
Marie Jenney Howe, An Anti-Suffrage Monologue (1913)
Gail Collins, from When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1950 to the Present (2009)
Madeleine M. Kunin, from The New Feminist Agenda (2012)
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (1883)
Dennis Kearney and H. L. Knight, Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingman’s Address (1878)
Joseph McDonnell, The Chinese Must Go (1878)
Joseph Keppler, Looking Backward (1893)
Robert H. Clancy, An Un-American Bill (1924)
Ellison DuRant Smith, Shut the Door (1924)
Mary Gordon, More than Just a Shrine (1985)
Charles Bowden, Our Wall (2007)
Christoph Niemann, Promised Land (2011)
Walter Russell Mead, America’s New Tiger Immigrants (2012)
Joseph Nimmo Jr., from The American Cowboy (1886)
Frederic S. Remington, A Dash for the Timber (1889)
Frederick Jackson Turner, from The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (program, 1893)
Owen Wister, from The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902)
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill ’s (1920)
Leonard McCombe, Marlboro Man (1949)
Gretel Ehrlich, About Men (1984)
Sherman Alexie, My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys (1993)
Joy Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History (2000)
Benjamin Percy, The Virginian Teaches the Merit of a Man (2007)
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro (1913)
Ezra Pound, A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (1913)
Robert Frost, Reluctance (1914)
Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice (1920)
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer (painting, 1914)
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)
TalkBack: Aaron A. Abeyta, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tortilla (2001)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig (1918)
Marianne Moore, Poetry (1919)
Claude McKay, If We Must Die (1919)
Theodore Dreiser, A Certain Oil Refinery (1919)
E. E. Cummings, in Just- (1920)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)
Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)
William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure (1921)
TalkBack: Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (painting, 1928)
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say (1934)
TalkBack: Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams (1962)
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933)
TalkBack: Yiyun Li, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (2011)
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever (1934)
Eleanor Roosevelt, What Libraries Mean to the Nation (1936)
Works Progress Administration, Bookmobile, Louisiana (photograph, c. 1938)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address: One-Third of a Nation (1937)
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums (1937)
William Faulkner, Barn Burning (1939)
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen (1939)
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man (1940, 1961)
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945)
Harry S Truman, Statement by the President of the United States (1945)
TalkBack: Jonathan Schell, from The Fate of the Earth (1982)
Gerald Early, from Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition (2010)
Robert O’Meally, from Seeing Jazz (1997)
Langston Hughes, Jazzonia (1923)
Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape (1938)
William Henry Johnson, Jitterbugs VI (1941)
Ralph Ellison, from Invisible Man (1952)
Whitney Balliett, Daddy-O (1958)
Donald Barthelme, The King of Jazz (1958)
Jayne Cortez, Jazz Fan Looks Back (2002)
Michael Segell, from The Devil’s Horn (2005)
Evelyn Toynton, from Jackson Pollock (2012)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)
Western Defense Command, Evacuation Order (1942)
Dorothea Lange, I Am an American (1942)
Julie Otsuka, from When the Emperor Was Divine (2002)
George H. W. Bush, Letter of Apology (1991)
Eric K. Yamamoto, from Racial Reparations: Japanese American Redress and African American Claims (1998)
Brent Staples, The Slave Reparations Movement Adopts the Rhetoric of Victimhood (2001)
Charles Ogletree Jr., Litigating the Legacy of Slavery (2002)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ending the Slavery Blame-Game (2010)
Walt Whitman, from Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856)
Emma Lazarus, American Literature (1881)
John Macy, from The Spirit of American Literature (1913)
Sherwood Anderson, from An Apology for Crudity (1917)
Amy Lowell, from On “New Poetry” (1917)
Bliss Perry, from The American Spirit in Literature (1920)
D. H. Lawrence, from The Spirit of Place (1923)
Tom Wolfe, from Why They Aren’t Writing the Great American Novel Anymore (1972)
Margaret Atwood, Hello, Martians. Let Moby-Dick Explain (2012)
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (1938)
William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (1950)
Bernard Malamud, The First Seven Years (1950)
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B (1951)
Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People (1955)
TalkBack: Lawrence Downes, In Search of Flannery O’Connor (2007)
TalkBack: Alice Walker, from Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor (1975)
Theodore Roethke, The Waking (1953)
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Will Counts, Little Rock’s Central High School (photograph, 1957)
Joan Didion, On Self-Respect (1961)
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
TalkBack: Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted (2010)
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays (1962)
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (1973)
Stephen Jay Gould, Women’s Brains (1980)
Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage (1983)
Naomi Shihab Nye, Arabic Coffee (1986)
Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space (1986)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It (1988)
Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River (1990)
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María (1992)
Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women (1995)
Sherman Alexie, Superman and Me (1998)
Li-Young Lee, The Hammock (2000)
Art Spiegelman, 9/11/2001 (magazine cover)
TalkBack: Ana Juan, Reflections (magazine cover, 2011)
Tracy K. Smith, Letter to a Photojournalist Going-In (2007)
Jonathan Franzen, Agreeable (2010)
Brian Turner, At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center (2010)
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Michael (2011)
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, from Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (graphic essay, 2012)
Ace Comics, Atomic War! (1952)
Office of Civil Defense, Duck and Cover (1952)
Lillian Hellman, I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year’s Fashions (1952)
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Speech (1962)
Nikita Khrushchev, Letter to John F. Kennedy (1962)
Julia Alvarez, Snow (1991)
Arthur Miller, from Why I Wrote The Crucible (1996)
Michael Scheibach, from Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945–55 (2003)
Ronald Radosh, Case Closed: The Rosenbergs Were Soviet Spies (2008)
Spencer R. Weart, from The Rise of Nuclear Fear (2012)
Horatio Alger, from Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (1867)
Harlon L. Dalton, Horatio Alger (1995)
Alan Brinkley, from The Fifties (2012)
Holly Sklar, The Growing Gulf between the Rich and the Rest of Us (2005)
Paul Krugman, from The Conscience of a Liberal (2007)
Thomas Sowell, Income Confusion (2007)
Hedrick Smith, from Who Stole the American Dream? (2012)
Isabel V. Sawhill, from Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities (2012)
Sally Edelstein, Mutually Assured Consumption (collage, 2012)
Ohio Electric Car Company, The Ohio Electric (1916)
E. B. White, Farewell, My Lovely! (1936)
John Updike, from Rabbit, Run (1960)
Tom Wolfe, from The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1963)
Stephen Dunn, The Sacred (1989)
Heather McHugh, Auto (1994)
Pew Research Center, Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids? (2006)
P. J. O’Rourke, The End of the Affair (2009)
Allison Linn, Carmakers’ Next Problem: Generation Y (2010)
Frank DeFord, Americans Hit the Brakes on NASCAR (2012)