Program 1: 1650-1845. Anne Bradstreet. Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley. Washington Irving. James Fenimore Cooper. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edgar Allan Poe
Program 2: 1846-1855. Henry David Thoreau. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Herman Melville. Emily Dickinson. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frederick Douglass. Walt Whitman. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.