United States Academic Decathlon topics

• Steven Crane: War is Kind
• Emily Dickinson: A Bird came down the Walk
• Emily Dickinson: There is no Frigate like a Book
• Emily Dickinson: Twas just this time last year I died

• "Pierrot lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg
• "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
• "Music for strings, percussion and celesta" by Béla Bartók
• "Sinfonia India" by Carlos Chávez
• "Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major" by George Enescu
• "Concerto in F for piano and orchestra" by George Gershwin
• "Symphony No. 4 in G major" by Gustav Mahler
• "Quartet for the End of Time" by Olivier Messiaen
• "Vision Fugitives" for piano by Sergei Prokofiev
• "Che gelida manina" by Giacomo Puccini
• "Alborada del gracioso" by Maurice Ravel
• "Mazurka No. 7, Op. 3" by Alexander Scriabin
• "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky
• "Ionisation" by Edgard Varèse
• "Introduction to Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner
• "Ballad of Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill

• Still Life with Violin, 1913 by Georges Braque
• Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio by David Hockney
• White Center by Mark Rothko

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples replaced Siddhartha for the junior varsity competition.

• Figure of Striding Man Wearing a Kilt by an anonymous Egyptian sculptor
• Madonna and Child Enthroned with (Four Saints) by Piero di Cosimo
• Capriccio: An Island in the Lagoon by Canaletto
• Empire Chair by Benjamin Latrobe
• Port-en-Bessin by Georges Seurat
• The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand by Thomas Eakins
• Dining Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Dream by Max Beckmann
• Composition of Red and White by Piet Mondrian
• Plate by Maria Martinez
• White Lily by Alexander Calder
• New Continent by Louise Nevelson
• The Intimacy of Water by Romare Bearden
• Goldfish Bowl II by Roy Lichtenstein
• Burning Rods by Anselm Kiefer
• Charm of Subsistence by Martin Puryear
• Tanabata (Star Festival) by Kayama Matazó
• Untitled by Alan Saret.

• My Antonia^[48] by Willa Cather

Play

• An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Selected poems

• "The Mower Against Gardens" by Andrew Marvell
• "The Deserted Village" (excerpt) by Oliver Goldsmith
• "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways" by William Wordsworth
• "The Horses" by Edwin Muir
• "Foreclosure" by Sterling A. Brown

• "St. James Infirmary" by Louis Armstrong
• "Carolina Shout" by Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, and Fats Waller
• "Take the 'A' Train" by Duke Ellington
• "Body and Soul" by Benny Goodman
• "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie
• "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday
• "Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie
• "'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk
• "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis
• "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman
• "Once in a While" by Art Blakey, and Horace Silver
• "Eat That Chicken" by Charles Mingus
• "Ko Ko" by Charlie Parker
• "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane

Paintings

• Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino by El Greco
• Artist in His Studio by Rembrandt van Rijn
• Pat Lyon at the Forge by John Neagle
• Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli by Edgar Degas
• La Japonaise by Claude Monet
• Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair by Paul Cézanne
• In the Loge by Mary Cassatt
• The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent
• Ellen Day Hale
• Postman Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh
• Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin
• Portrait of a Woman by Pablo Picasso
• Schiele's Wife with Her Little Nephew by Egon Schiele

Sculptures

• Portrait of a Man from Rome (c. 50 BCE)
• Guanyin from China (c. 580 CE)
• Walking Woman (Femme qui Marche) and Annette, both by Alberto Giacometti

Masks

• Deangle from the Dan people
• Kifwebe from the Songye people

• Frankenstein^[51] by Mary Shelley

Poems

• Sonnet 14 by John Donne
• Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
• There Was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman
• My Name and I by Robert Graves
• Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
• Mirror by Sylvia Plath.

• "El Melej" by Alia Musica
• "Al-'Ada" by La Sulamiyya
• "Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder" by Netherlands Bach Society
• "Bluebird Song" by Lena Clark
• "Quen a Virgen Ben Servira" by Ensemble Alcatraz
• "Nyamaropa yeVana Vava Mushonga" by Muchatera
• "Arrullo San Antonio" by BMOSA
• "Ngoma ra Mrongo" from Kenya & Tanzania
• "Kriti: Ninnadanela" by Ramnad Krishnan
• "Kecak" by Music for the Gods
• "Move on up a Little Higher" by Mahalia Jackson
• "O Magnum Mysterium" by Choir of Westminster Cathedral

Drawings

• The Old Savoyard by Jean-Antoine Watteau
• The Artist's Mother by Arshile Gorky

Paintings

• The Combat Of The Giaour And Hassan by Eugène Delacroix
• Woman At Her Toilette by Berthe Morisot
• The Herring Net by Winslow Homer
• A Sunday at La Grande Jatte-1884 by Georges Seurat
• At the Moulin Rouge by Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Portrait Of Picasso by Juan Gris (José Victoriano Gonzalez)
• American Gothic by Grant Wood

Printmaking

• The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai
• Mao by Andy Warhol

Sculptures

• Armored Guardian (tomb figure) from China (Tang Dynesty)
• Plaque Of A Warrior Chief from Nigeria (Benin Kingdom)
• The Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington
• Golden Bird by Constantin Brâncuşi

Textiles

• Nulhaku (Na Drama Robe) from Japan (Momoyama period)

Fixed Media

• Untitled (called Hotel De La Duchsse-Anne) by Joseph Cornell
• Lincoln by Robert Rauschenberg

Novel

• Cry, the Beloved Country^[57] by Alan Paton

Poems

• Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
• Modern Love: Sonnet 17 by George Meredith
• "We and They" by Rudyard Kipling
• "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost
• "A Woman Mourned by Daughters" by Adrienne Rich
• "A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott

• The House Carpenter by Mrs. Texas Gladden
• Sallie Gooden by Alexander "Eck" Robertson
• Eighteen Hammers by Johnny Lee Moore and 12 Mississippi Penitentiary Convicts
• Single Girl, Married Girl by The Carter Family
• Waiting For A Train by Jimmie Rodgers
• A Cowboy Has To Sing by Roy Rogers
• New San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
• Bluegrass Breakdown by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys
• Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams Sr.
• I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash
• Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline
• Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) by Buck Owens
• Still Feeling Blue by Gram Parsons
• Our Town by Iris Dement

• Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich
• Salisbury Cathedral by John Constable
• The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
• Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur
• Four Poplars on the Banks of the Epte River near Giverny by Claude Monet
• Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers by Camille Pissarro
• Arques-la-Bataille by John Henry Twachtman
• The Oxbow by Thomas Cole
• Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church
• The Rocky Mountains: Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt
• Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute by J. M. W. Turner

• Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy^[62]

Poems

• "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick
• Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth
• "Ode to a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Excerpt from "Forest Hymn" by William Cullen Bryant
• "The Tropics of New York" by Countee Cullen
• "The Métier of Blossoming" by Denise Levertov

• Symphony No. 5 (3rd & 4th movements) and Symphony No. 6 (4th movement) by Ludwig van Beethoven
• March to the Scaffold (4th movement of Symphonie fantastique) by Hector Berlioz
• William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini
• Étude Op. 10, No. 12 ('Revolutionary Study') by Frédéric Chopin
• Symphony No. 1 (1st movement) by Johannes Brahms
• Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore (Act 2, Scene 1) by Giuseppe Verdi
• Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
• Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
• March of the Toreadors from Carmen by Georges Bizet
• Symphony No. 1 (1st movement) by Felix Mendelssohn
• 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Symphony No. 1 (4th movement: Stürmisch bewegt- Energisch) by Gustav Mahler
• Also Sprach Zarathustra: Sunrise (Op. 30) by Richard Strauss

Early American Art

• Monticello - Thomas Jefferson
• Cardinal Grosbeak - John James Audubon
• The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - George Catlin
• Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York - Asher B. Durand
• Family Group before United States Capitol - Unidentified Portrait Painter
• Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Emanuel Leutze
• Palmer-Epard Cabin - Unidentified Architect
• Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California - Albert Bierstadt
• The Last of the Tribe - Hiram Powers
• A Visit from the Old Mistress - Winslow Homer

Native American Art

• Bowl (Sikyatki Style) - Sikyatki Cultural Group
• Taos Pueblo - Pueblo Nation
• Scenes of Plains Indian Life - Cadzi Cody
• Cape - Anishinabe Cultural Group

Photography

• Pimos Indians, Arizona - Elias Bonine
• Grand Canyon of the Colorado - William Henry Jackson
• Pueblo Scene - Forman Hanna
• Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California - Ansel Adams

Novel

• Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

Shorter Selections

• Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott, 1855 - Chief Seattle
• "The White Man's Foot" from The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Pioneers, O Pioneers!" - Walt Whitman
• "O Black and Unknown Bards" - James Weldon Johnson
• "The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790–1871" - Stephen Vincent Benét
• "A Story of How a Wall Stands" - Simon Ortiz

• "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" - Stephen Foster
• "Camptown Races" - Stephen Foster
• "Ojos Criollos, Danse cubaine" - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• "The Union" Concert Paraphrase on National Airs - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• "Andante moderato" from String Quartet in E minor - George W. Chadwick
• "A Deserted Farm" from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 - Edward MacDowell
• "The Washington Post March" - John Philip Sousa
• "The Entertainer" - Scott Joplin
• Variations on "America" - Charles Ives
• "American Salute" - Morton Gould
• "Rhapsody in Blue" - George Gershwin
• "Allegro giocoso" from Two Sketches Based on Indian Themes - Charles Tomlinson Griffes
• "Fanfare for the Common Man" - Aaron Copland
• "Adagio for Strings" from String Quartet, Op. 11 - Samuel Barber

Botany

• Botany as a Science
• General Characteristics of Plants
• Plant Physiology
• Plant Reproductiona and Life Cycles
• Plant Phyla
• Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Plant Ecology
• Plant Genetics

Ancient Near Eastern Art

• Standing Male Worshipper - Sumer
• Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) - Assyria
• Panel: striding lion - Neo-Babylon
• Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion - Iran: Archaemenid Persia

Ancient Egyptian Art

• Status of Demedji and Hennutsen - Old Kingdom
• Model of a Riverboat - Middle Kingdom
• Section for the "Book of the Dead" of Nany - Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

Art of Ancient Aegean Civilizations (Cyclades, Minoa, and Mycenaea)

• Statuette of a Woman - Cylcades
• Palace at Knossos - Minoa
• Stirrup jar with octopus - Mycenaea

Ancient Greek Art

• Statue of a kouros (youth) - Archaic period
• Amphora (jar), Side A: Kithara Player - Classical period
• Grave stele with a family group - Classical period
• Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer - Hellenistic period

Ancient Etruscan and Roman Art

• Chariot - Etruscan
• Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor - Republic period
• Statue of a Boy - Early Roman Empire
• Arch of Constantine - Late Roman Empire

• Fundamentals of economics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• International trade and Global Economic Development
• The Economies of Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (Egyptian, Greek, and Roman)

Plays by Sophocles

• Antigone
• Oedipus the King
• Electra

Shorter Selections

• Excerpt from Book XXII of the Iliad - Homer
• Allegory of the Cave - Plato
• "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - John Keats
• "Musée des Beaux Arts" - W. H. Auden
• "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" - Anne Sexton
• "Siren Song" - Margaret Atwood

• General Math
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Differential Calculus

• "Voi che sapete" from Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• String Quartet in D Major, op. 64, no. 5, "The Lark" finale: vivace - Joseph Haydn
• String Quartet in G, K. 387, molto allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516, adagio non troppo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony no. 44 in E Minor, "Trauersinfonie" allegro con brio - Joseph Haydn
• "Son imbrogliato io già" from La Serva Padrona (The Maid as Mistress) - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• Symphony no. 104 in D, finale, spiritoso - Joseph Haydn
• Die Schöpfung (The Creation), Recitative and Chorus: "In the beginning" - Joseph Haydn
• Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488, allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "Ah taci ingiusto core" from Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, "Eroica" allegro con brio - Ludwig van Beethoven
• String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Presto (scherzo) - Ludwig van Beethoven
• String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Allegro (finale) - Ludwig van Beethoven

• Ancient Mesopotamia: Sumer, Akkad, Ur
• Ancient Egypt
• Minoa
• Mycenae
• Ancient Greece
• Roman Empire

Early to Mid Fifteenth-Century Italian

• St. Mark by Donatello
• Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) by Filippo Brunelleschi
• The Holy Trinity by Masaccio
• The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi

Mid to Late Fifteenth-Century Italian

• Giuliano de' Medici by Andrea del Verrocchio
• The Nativity by Luca della Robbia
• Sant' Andrea by Leon Battista Alberti
• Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli

Sixteenth-Century Italian

• David by Michelangelo
• Palazzo Farnese by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
• Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci
• The Small Cowper Madonna by Raphael
• The Holy Family by Bronzino
• Venus with a Mirror by Titian

Renaissance Outside of Italy

• The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck
• Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer
• Sir Brian Tuke by Hans Holbein the Younger
• Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and St. Agnes by El Greco

• Fundamentals of economics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• International trade and Global Economic Development
• The European Economy During the Renaissance

Plays

• Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Shorter Selections

• "They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek" by Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Sonnet LIIII by Edmund Spenser
• "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe
• Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare
• "The Sun Rising" by John Donne
• "Of Travel" by Francis Bacon

• General Math
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Differential Calculus

Music in the Early Renaissance ( c. 1450–1520 CE)

• Quam pulcra es (Motet) by John Dunstaple
• "Gloria" from Missa Se la face ay pale (Mass) by Guillaume Dufay
• Absalon, fili mi (Motet) by Josquin des Prez
• "Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys" (Chanson) by Guillaume Dufay
• "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" (Lied) by Heinrich Isaac
• "El grillo" (Frottola) by Josquin des Prez

Music in the High Renaissance ( c. 1520–1600 CE)

• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Chorale) by Johann Walter
• "Agnus Dei" from Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass) by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• "Sing Joyfully Unto God" (Anthem) by William Byrd
• O magnum mysterium (Motet) by Tomás Luis de Victoria
• "Tant que vivray" (Parisian Chanson) by Claudin de Sermisy
• "Solo e pensoso" (Italian Madrigal) by Luca Marenzio
• "Now is the Month of Maying" (English Madrigal) by Thomas Morley
• "Come Heavy Sleep" (Lute Song) by John Dowland

• Anatomy Overview
• Principles of Support and Movement
• Human Control Systems
• Maintenance of the Human Body
• Endocrine System and Medical Imaging Techniques

• Tripod Ritual Vessel
• Pendent in the Form of a Dragon
• Female "Long-Sleeve" Dancer
• Spirit Jar (Hung Ping)
• Exalted Gathering in the Green Woods
• Boy Leading an Ox Along the Farm Path
• Boddhisttva Kuan-Yin
• Verse in Cursive Script
• Bamboo and Rocks
• Book of Sudhana from the Garland Sutra
• Taihe Dian
• Imperial Throne
• Empress's Twelve Symbol Robe
• Blue-and-White Dish
• Pillow
• Official Seal
• Cricket Container
• Cosmetic Case and Mirror Stand

Traditions and Innovations in Painting

• Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley
• Mississippi Boatman by George Caleb Bingham
• The Lackawanna Valley by George Inness
• A Visit from the Old Mistress by Winslow Homer
• The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt

Memorializing the Civil War

• Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial by Henry Bacon (architect) and Daniel Chester French (sculptor)
• Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy by Gutzon Borglum, Augustus Lukeman, Walker Hancock, and Ray Faulkner

Photography

• Frederick Douglas by an unidentified photographer
• The Sick Soldier by Mathew Brady
• Cañon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 Feet high (Wheeler Survey) by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

African-American Art

• The Westwood Children by Joshua Johnson
• Alkaline Glazed Stoneware Jar by David Drake
• Bible Quilt by Harriet Powers
• The Seine by Henry Ossawa Tanner

Architecture

• Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana, 1837–39
• Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York by Alexander Jackson Davis (architect)
• Shotgun House, New Orleans, nineteenth century

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Shorter Selections

• Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln's second inaugural address
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (excerpt) by Frederick Douglass
• "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
• "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" (excerpt) by Bruce Canton
• O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
• "The Unsung Heroes" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Public Performances and Private Amusements

• "Home Sweet Home" by Jenny Lind
• "The Last Hope" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• "Washington Greys March" by The Dodworth Band
• "Jim Along Josie" by an unknown minstrel

Music in African-American Life

• "Ain't I Right" by unknown
• "Live Humble" by unknown
• "Follow the Drinking Gourd" by unknown

Music of the Conflict

• "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe
• "The Battle Cry of Freedom" by George Frederick Root
• "I Wish I Was in Dixie Land"
• "The Bonnie Blue Flag"
• "Un Ballo in Maschera Quickstep"
• "The Vacant Chair"
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Patrick S. Gilmore

• An Introduction to Epidemiology
• The Natural History of Disease and the Transmission of Disease
• The Infectious Disease Process and Agents of Disease
• Disease Prevention and the Treatment of Disease
• Case Study: Disease and the Civil War

Rococo

• Jean-Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin
• Jean Siméon Chardin, Soap Bubbles
• Vincennes porcelain factory, Wine Cooler
• Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Broken Eggs
• François Boucher, Shepherd's Idyll

Neoclassicalism

• Giovanni Paolo Panini, Modern Rome
• Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates
• Carle Vernet, The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus
• Joseph-Antoine Romagnési, Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome

Romanticism

• Théodore Géricault, Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
• Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet, The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses and Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck
• Eugène Delacroix, Royal Tiger
• Théodore Chassériau, Young Jewish Woman of Algeria, Seated

Portraiture

• Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of a Young Man
• Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils: Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond
• Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Voltaire
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie.

• "A Song of Liberty" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
• "The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement" by William Wordsworth
• The "Dedication" from Don Juan by Lord Byron
• Excerpt from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Excerpt from Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

• "Tic-Toc-Choc", François Couperin
• "Brillant auteur de la lumière", from Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• "Cosa sento" from Le nozze di Figaro and "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 85 ("La Reine de France") by Joseph Haydn
• "La Marseillaise" and "Chant du neuf Thermidor" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
• "Le chant du départ" by Étienne Méhul
• "Hymne à la statue de la liberté" by François Joseph Gossec
• "March of the Priests" and "Thunderstorm" from La vestale by Gaspare Spontini
• Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") and "Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier!" from Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
• "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz
• "Salve Regina" from Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc

New Deal

• South Wall of a Mural Depicting Detroit Industry, by Diego Rivera
• Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, by Aaron Douglas
• Tenement (Mural Study, Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.), by George Biddle
• The Riveter (Mural Study for the Bronx, New York Central Postal Station), by Ben Shahn
• Muse of Music, Dance, Drama, by George Stanley

Documentary Photography of the 1930s

• Negro Barbershop Interior, Atlanta, by Walker Evans
• Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange
• Contrasting No. 331 East 39th Street with Chrysler Building and Daily News Building, Manhattan, by Berenice Abbott
• Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, by Ansel Adams

Architecture of the 1930s

• Empire State Building, by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
• Hoover Dam, by Gordon Kaufmann
• Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Winona, by Sears Honor-Bilt Home

American Regionalism/American Experiences

• American Gothic, by Grant Wood
• Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, by Georgia O’Keeffe
• Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath, by Thomas Hart Benton
• And the Migrants Kept Coming, by Jacob Lawrence
• Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper

Featured novel

• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Shorter selections

• Connections to The Great Depression and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
• Selection from Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and César Chávez, by Studs Terkel
• "Women on the Breadlines", by Meridel LeSueur
• "The Gilded Six-Bits", by Zora Neale Hurston
• "Barn Burning", by William Faulkner
• Excerpt from The People, Yes, by Carl Sandburg
• "Let America Be America Again", by Langston Hughes

Blues and Jazz

• "St. Louis Blues", by W.C. Handy, sung by Billie Holiday
• "Midnight Special" sung by Lead Belly
• "I Got Rhythm", by George Gershwin
• "Cotton Tail", by Duke Ellington

Popular songs

• "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" by Ella Fitzgerald
• "Cheek to Cheek" by Irving Berlin, sung by Fred Astaire
• "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", sung by Rudy Vallee
• "So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You", by Woody Guthrie

Classical music

• Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet
• Aaron Copland's Piano Variations
• Excerpts from Virgil Thomson's Score to "The Plow that Broke the Plains"
• Excerpts from Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock
• Silvestre Revueltas's "Ocho Por Radio"
• William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony

Featured Novella

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Shorter Selections

• "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling
• "A Little African Story" by Olive Schreiner
• "Certain Winds from the South" by Ama Ata Aidoo
• "A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott

Program Music

• Symphony No. 6 in F Major, fourth movement by Ludwig Van Beethoven
• The Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius
• Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
• "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz
• Eusebius and Florestan from Carnaval by Robert Schumann
• Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg
• "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

Nationalism in Music

• Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner
• Mazurka in g minor, Op. 67, No. 2 by Frederic Chopin
• "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin
• "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
• Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 by Edward Elgar
• "From a Log Cabin" from New England Idylls by Edward MacDowell
• Symphony No. 4 in e minor, fourth movement by Johannes Brahms