- Adamic, Louis: from Dynamite
- Algren, Nelson: A Place To Lie Down {Archival copy}
- Attanasio, Salvatore: My Father Has It All Figured Out
- Bertha, Box-Car: Sister of the Road {Archival copy}
- Butler, Hilton: Lynch Law in Action
- Cain, James: from The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Caldwell, Erskine: Kneel To The Rising Sun
- Cowley, Malcom: A Farewell To The 30s {unknown reference}
- Dahlberg, Edward: from Bottom Dogs {Archival copy}
- Dos Passos, John: Anacostia Flats
- Dos Passos, John: from The Big Money
- Fante, John: from Ask The Dust
- Farrell, James T.: from Studs Lonigan
- Faulkner, William: That Evening Sun Go Down
- Gold, Michael: A Word As To Uncle Tom
- Hicks, Granville: Chances & Choices from I Like America
- Holbrook, Stewart: The Lumberjacks Go Sissy
- Kromer, Tom: from Waiting For Nothing {Archival copy}
- Kromer, Tom: Autobiography from Waiting For Nothing {Archival copy}
- Le Sueur, Meridal: I Was Marching
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow: from North to the Orient
- McCoy, Horace: from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Reitman, Dr. Ben L.: Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha (As Told To Dr. Ben) {Archival copy}
- Constance Rourke: Corn Cobs Twist Your Hair
- Roth, Henry: from Call It Sleep
- Runyon, Damon: The Bloodhounds of Broadway
- Saroyan, William: Seventy Thousand Assyrians
- Sinclair, Upton: The Movies and Political Propaganda
- Steinbeck, John: from The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck, John: from Tortilla Flat
- Stevenson, Philip: Death of a Century
- Stiff, Dean (Nels Anderson): Glossary of Hobo Terms {Archival copy}
- Stiff, Dean (Nels Anderson): The Road to Roam {Archival copy}
- Twelve Southerners: I'll Take My Stand
- West, Nathaneal: from The Day of the Locust
- Wilson, Edmund: Washington Inaugural Parade
- Wilson, Edmund: The Scottsboro Freight-Car Case
- Wilson, Edmund: Tennessee Agrarians
- Wolfe, Thomas: The Lost Boy
- Wright, Richard: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
- Wright, Richard: How "Bigger" Was Born
