Books
- 1933. Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650
- 1939. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century online edition
- 1949. Jonathan Edwards
- 1953. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
- 1953. Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition
- 1956. Errand into the Wilderness
- 1956. The American Puritans (editor) online edition
- 1957. The American Transcendentalists, their Prose and Poetry
- 1957. The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville and the New York Literary Scene
- 1958. Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau’s Hitherto “Lost Journal”
- 1961. The Legal Mind in America: from Independence to the Civil War
- 1965. Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War online edition
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