The "free press": Portrait of a Monopoly

The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s The Brass Check is a polemical study of American journalism that begins with a sweeping,…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a travel‑memoir that immerses the reader in the gritty realities of…

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is an autobiographical account attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the eighteenth‑century American…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

This work is an autobiographical narrative by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved man who became a…

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…

Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

Louise Manly

Louise Manly’s Southern Literature From 1579‑1895 is a scholarly anthology that gathers biographical…