Lesson 1: What is American Literature? An Overview 
Lesson 2: Literatures of Exploration: Contact and Conflict in North America 
Lesson 3: Utopian Promise: Puritan America and Its Legacy 
Lesson 4: Unit One Essay 
Lesson 5: The Spirit of Nationalism: Enlightenment and the Literature of the Early Republic 
Lesson 6: The Gothic and Transcendentalism: Two Faces of Romanticism 
Lesson 7: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance 
Lesson 8: Mid-19th-Century Poetry in Focus: Dickinson and Whitman 
Lesson 9: Slavery and Freedom: Domestic Fiction and Social Change 
Lesson 10: Unit Two Essay 
Lesson 11: Regional Realism in Focus: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn 
Lesson 12: Social Realism and Naturalism 
Lesson 13: Rhythms in Poetry: Modernist Aesthetics in Focus 
Lesson 14: Becoming Visible: Ethic Writers and the Literary Mainstream 
Lesson 15: Unit Three Essay