Colonial

• John Smith


  Generall Historie of Virginia New England and the Summer Isles
• William Bradford


  History of Plimmoth Plantation
• John Winthrop


  History of New England
• Increase Mather


  An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences
• Cotton Mather


  Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of NE from its First Planting
• Thomas Morton


  New English Canaan
• John Mason


  Brief History of the Pequod War
• Mary Rowlandson


  Wrote about captivity by Wampanoags under King Philip [Metacomet, son of Massasoit]
• Thomas Weld, Richarad Mather, John Eliot


  Bay Psalm Book (Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Meter)
• Anne Bradstreet


  Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (poems including A Dialogue between Old England and New, Four Elements, Four Constitutions, Four Ages of Man, Four Seasons, Four Monarchies, and Contemplations)
• Edward Taylor


  Poetcial Works, God's Determinations Touching His Elect
• Michael Wigglesworth


  Day of Doom (sinners and unbaptized infants condemned to Hell on Day of Judgement)
• George Alsop


  A Character of the Province of Maryland
• Daniel Denton


  A Brief Description of New York
• Jonathan Edwards


  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Freedom of the Will
• William Byrd


  History of the Dividing Line, Secret Diary, Another Secret Diary
• Lucy Terry


  First by black American, Bar's Fight August 28 1746
• Jupiter Hammon


  Black slave, An Evening Thought Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries
• Phillis Wheatley

  Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, A Hymn to an Evening, On Being Brought from Africa to America, To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, To His Excellency George Washington
• Publick Occurrences


  First newspaper, Boston, 1690
• John Campbell


  Boston News-Leter (first regular newspaper, 1704)
• Andrew Bradford


  American Magazine (one of first two magazines, 1741)
• Benjamin Franklin


  General Magazine and Historical Chronicle (one of first two magazines, 1741), Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanack (Richard Saunders)
• Crevecoeur (J. Hector St. John)

  Letters from an American Farmer