金莉主编的《美国文化教程》是一本为高等院校英语专业高年级及研究生课程编写的教材，可以帮助学生在熟练掌握英语语言技能的基础上，涉猎美国文化和历史的重要主题，了解美国人的国民性格、意识形态、价值信仰及其演变，以拓宽学生视野，启发其思考，提高其文化素养，培养其思辨能力，以及综合运用英语进行交际的能力。

Preface

Introduction

Unit 0ne The Myth of the New World

 William Bradford    Of PIvmouth Plantation

 John Winthrop      A Model of Christian Charity

 Jonathan Edwards    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

 William Ellery Channing The Moral Argument against Calvinism

 Anne Bradstreet     In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Verses upon the Bu rning of Our House

Unit Two The Myth of Individualism

 Benjamin Franklin  The Autobiography

 Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance

 Christopher Lasch  Changing Modes of Making It

 Studs Terkel     Stephen Cruz

Unit Three The Myth of Democracy

 Thomas Jefferson   The Declaration of Independence

 Thomas Paine     Common Sense

 Jean de Crevecoeur  Letters from an American Farmer

 Henry David Thoreau  On CiviI Disobedience

 Carf Schurz      Manifest Destiny

 James Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again

Unit Four The Myth of Progress

 Frederick Jackson Turner     The Significance of the Frontier in American History

 James Fenimore Cooper       The Pioneers

 Henry David Thoreau        Walden

 John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes Talking to the Owls and Butterflies

 Susan Griffin           Split Culture

Unit Five The Myth of Racial Equality(I)

 David Walker      Appeal

 Frederick Douglass   The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

 William LIoyd Garrison Preface to The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin

 Kate Chopin      Desiree's Baby

Unit Six The Myth of Racial Equality(II)

 Leonardo Covello             The Heart is the Teacher

 Malcolm X                 Learning to Read

 Martin Luther King,Jr．          Racism and the Wh ite Backlash

 Curtis Chang               Streets of Gold：The Myth of the Model Minority

 Virginia R．Harris and Trinity A．Ordona Racism and Cross—Racial Hostility

 Aurora Levins Morales           Child of the Americas

Unit Seven The Myth of Gender Equality(1)

 Abigail Adams      Letter to Joh n Adams

 Angelina Grimke     Letter to Catharine E．Beecher

 Elizabeth Cady Stanton  Declaration of Sentiments

 Sojourner Truth     Ain't I a Woman? Reminiscences What Time of Night It Is

 Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper Are Women Human Beings?

Unit Eight The Myth of Gender Equality(II)

 Betty Friedan The Problem That Has No Name

 Judy Syfers    Why I Want a Wife

 Kay Boyle     Astronomer'S Wife

 Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come from is Like This

 bell hooks    Reflections on Race and Sex