The following is the list of documents recommended by Harman, to be published nationwide at some point in the future, for all American citizens to read. For the list of nonfiction literature, see the nonfiction list. For the list of fiction literature, such as speeches, letters, and short writings, see the fiction list.
It will be found that many of the items on this list, as well as the others, cannot be fully appreciated without understanding of their historical context. It will therefore be attempted that the author or authors of this site provide resources to those contexts. For the present time, it is recommended that the reader seek out not only the Declaration of Independence as approved by Continental Congress, but its original drafted version, which had text, from single words to entire paragraphs, omitted by vote of the Congress.