Includes diaries, letters, sermons, poems, stories, novels, political treatises, and autobiographies. Authors include Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Finney, Walter Rauschenbusch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, John Updike, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William Faulkner, Reinhold Niebuhr, Emily Dickinson, Woodrow Wilson, among others.