Subject & Research Guides: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources: Library of America

The publisher Library of America champions the country's cultural heritage by publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions. Widely recognized as the definitive collection of American writing, Library of America editions encompass all periods and genres, and many of them, if not all of them, are available through the library. Need a hand? Ask a librarian

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse -- formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest -- this volume gives voice to them all.
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Offers a fresh look at early American poetry, through an unprecedented range of voices to chart its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of George Washington.
The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner
Here is the story, told firsthand by a wide-ranging list of critics and theatergoers, of America’s living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental throughout the 1800s and 1900s.
The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins
Slave Narratives
A chronological selection of famous slave narratives from the 1700s through the 1800s.
Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can
From The Feminine Mystique in 1963 to the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this collection of primary documents is as incendiary as ever.