* "The Trail of Tears" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
* "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" by John D. Loudermilk
* "Remember Me" by Tom Jackson
Puritanism
* "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
* "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Enlightenment
* "Ode to Joy" by Ludwig van Beethoven
* "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine
* "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" by the National Constituent Assembly of France
Romanticism
* "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
* "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Dark Realism
* "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
* "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
* "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
Naturalism
* "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
* "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser
* "McTeague" by Frank Norris
Modernism
* "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
* "Ulysses" by James Joyce
* "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
Harlem Renaissance
* "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
* "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson
* "I Got the Blues" by Bessie Smith