Die Liste der Bände der Library of America / LOA (dt. Amerikanische Bibliothek bzw. Bibliothek von Amerika – d. h. der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika) enthält die Bände der englischsprachigen amerikanischen Buchreihe mit bedeutenden Schriften der amerikanischen Literatur (zur Übersicht). mini|Verschiedene Bände der Reihe Library of America (LOA) im Schuber
Die unabhängige, gemeinnützige Kulturorganisation Library of America (Abk. LOA) wurde 1979 gegründet, um das literarische Erbe der amerikanischen Nation zu bewahren. Die mit der spanischsprachigen mexikanischen Reihe Sepan cuantos oder der französischen Bibliothèque de la Pléiade vergleichbare Library of America (die sich inhaltlich größtenteils auf die Vereinigten Staaten beschränkt) umfasst bis heute mehr als 340 Bände mit maßgeblichen Ausgaben von Werken der amerikanischen Literatur, mit Reiseberichten, berühmten Reden, Briefen, Debatten, Reportagen, historischen Werken, Anthologien mit verschiedenen anderen themenbezogenen Sammelbänden (der Inhalt einiger dieser Sammelbände wird unter den Fußnoten aufgefächert). Der durchschnittliche Umfang der aufwändig gestalteten Bände beträgt circa tausend Seiten.
Beispiel: War No More (Band 278)War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing - loa.org
Als Beispiel für eine Bandgestaltung der Buchreihe wird im Folgenden kurz der 2016 von Lawrence RosenwaldWar Tax Resistance Speakers Bureau – Lawrence Rosenwald herausgegebene Band War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing (Nie wieder Krieg: Drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Antikriegs- und Friedensliteratur)LOA (Inhalt): beschrieben, der Reaktionen auf die amerikanischen Kriege: von der Revolution bis zum „Krieg gegen den Terror“ in einem Band versammelt.
War No More versammelt Essays, Briefe, Reden, Memoiren, Lieder, Gedichte, Karikaturen, Flugblätter, Geschichten und andere Werke von fast 150 Autoren von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Klassiker wie Thoreaus bahnbrechender Ziviler Ungehorsam legten den Grundstein für moderne Theoretiker der Gewaltlosigkeit wie David Dellinger, Thomas Merton und Barbara Deming. Der Bogen spannt sich von den Appellen der Aktivisten der amerikanischen Anti-Kriegs-Bewegung mit ihren eindringlichen Reden und aufrüttelnden Liedern bis zu den Stimmen von Veteranen, vom Bürgerkrieg bis zum Irakkrieg, ebenfalls Aufnahme fanden Zeugnisse von Kriegsdienstverweigerern aus erster Hand.Inhalt (LOA 278)Foreword / James Carroll - Introduction / Lawrence Rosenwald –
"The tree of great peace" / Iroquois tradition - (from) The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman - (from) A plea for the poor / John Woolman - "I counted none my enemy" / Warner Mifflin - "An odd and singular man" / David Low Dodge - A plan of a peace-office for the United States / Benjamin Rush - (from) The book of Mormon / Joseph Smith Jr. - (from) War / Ralph Waldo Emerson - Declaration of sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838 / William Lloyd Garrison - The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The term non-resistance / Adin Ballou - Speech delivered at the anti-war meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847 / Theodore Parker - (from) Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War / Thomas Corwin - Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau - Nov. 30 to an absent wife / Obadiah Ethelbert Baker - (from) The record of a Quaker conscience : Cyrus Pringle's diary / Cyrus Pringle - Shiloh / Herman Melville - Reconciliation / Walt Whitman - A harvest of death / Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner - Appeal to womanhood throughout the world / Julia Ward Howe - Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce - War is kind / Stephen Crane - Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) / Mark Twain - The war prayer / Mark Twain - The moral equivalent of war / William James - Christians at war / John F. Kendrick - (from) Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter / Emma Goldman - Heroes / Ellen N. La Motte - The war and intellectuals / Randolph Bourne - Below the battle / Randolph Borne - Down by the river-side / Traditional (Gospel) - To the president of Wellesley College / Emily Greene Balch - (from) Toward human unity or beyond nationalism / Emily Greene Balch - Address to the jury / Eugene V. Debs - An experiment in conscience / M. C. Otto - The Stierheim case / Walter Guest Kellogg - Scott Nearing reprieves democracy / Arturo Giovannitti - "There will come soft rains" / Sara Teasdale - Personal reactions during war / Jane Addams - 1923 : in Europe / Reinhold Niebuhr - Dissent in United States vs. Schwimmer / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - "i sing of Olaf glad and big" / E. E. Cummings - On trial / Floyd Dell - Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay - (from) Johnny got his gun / William Everson - (from) A field of broken stones / Lowell Naeve - Letter to President Roosevelt / Robert Lowell - To Local Board No. 63 / Bayard Rustin - A petition to the President of the United States / Leo Szilard - We go on record / Dorothy Day - Wailing shall be in all streets / Kurt Vonnegut - (from) One war is enough / Edgar L. Jones - Epitaph : 1945 / Naomi Replansky - The conscientious objector / Karl Shapiro - To meet a friend / William Stafford - (from) The Danbury story / Howard Schoenfeld - Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949 / General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission - Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy - August 2026 : there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury - A decent respect for human intelligence / Omar N. Bradley - Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area / Albert S. Bigelow - Two votes against war : 1917, 1941 (Jeanette Rankin) - (from) Zen telegrams / Paul Reps - Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson - A matter of freedom / Juanita Nelson - Southern peace walk : two issues or one? / Barbara Deming - (from) The strategy of tax refusal / Edmund Wilson - The future of nonviolence / David Dellinger - The war on Vietnam / Clinton Hopson and Joe Martin - The I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / Country Joe McDonald - Statement made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury / A. J. Muste - Statement on American policy in Vietnam / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Necessities (I) / Josephine Miles - (from) The moral outrage of Vietnam / Abraham Joshua Heschel - Of late / George Starbuck - Life at war / Denise Levertov - Making peace / Denise Levertov - Beyond Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr. - Counting small-boned bodies / Robert Bly - The War Crimes Tribunal / James Baldwin - A young pacifist / Paul Goodman - A causerie at the military-industrial / Paul Goodman - (from) The armies of night / Norman Miller - (from) Mobilization! / contributors to WIN magazine - Dow shalt not kill / Howard Zinn - When the war is over / W. S. Merwin - Nonviolence does not cannot mean passivity / Thomas Merton - (from) War and the crisis of language / Thomas Merton - What would you do if? / Joan Baez - Poem / Muriel Rukeyser - "The business of America is war and it is time for a change" / Shirley Chisholm - The liberation of our people / Angela Davis - (from) The trial of the Catonsville Nine / Daniel Berrigan - I should be proud / Henry Cosby, Joe Hinton, and Pam Sawyer - (from) I refuse / J.K. Osborne - Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry - (from) Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic - (from) Winners and losers / Gloria Emerson - Terminal colloquy / Charles Martin - Cop tales : devastation / Grace Paley - Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / Grace Paley - "I was told it was necessary" / George Zabelka - Revolutionary violence : a dialogue / Yvonne Dilling and Mary Jo Bowman - (from) Born again radical / Don Benedict - The IRS' plan for the hereafter / Eugene J. McCarthy - "One race, the human race" / Wally Nelson - "Like the elders say" / Thomas Banyacya - The role of the military in the nuclear age / Gene R. La Rocque - (from) Pacifist : or, My war and Louis Lepke / Donald Wetzel - Calvin and Hobbes : "How come we play war and not peace?" / Bill Watterson - To: Internal Revenue Service / Bernard Offen - War resister's song / Thomas McGrath - 2527th birthday of the Buddha / Yusef Komunyakaa - On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien - (from) An atlas of the difficult world / Adrienne Rich - (from) Democracy from the heart / Gregory Nevala Calvert - The truth / William Heyen - The tracks / S. Brian Willson - Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye - The bombing of Baghdad / June Jordan - Hearts on fire / Gina Valdés - Fighting war / Barbara Ehrenreich - Not in our son's name / Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez - Speech on House Joint Resolution 64 / Barbara Lee - A pure, high note on anguish / Barbara Kingsolver - Weighing the costs of waging war in Iraq / Barack Obama - (from) No more unto the breach / Jonathan Schell - America's image in the world / Robert Byrd - March of death / Zack de la Rocha - Driving the bus : after the anti-war march / Minnie Bruce Pratt - Baghdad / Kent Johnson - Sadiq / Brian Turner - (from) Road from ar Ramadi / Camilo Mejía - I lost my son to a war I oppose. We were both doing our duty / Andrew J. Bacevich - For the fifty (who made PEACE with their bodies) / Philip Metres - That particular village / Austin Smith - Why I'm a pacifist : the dangerous myth of the good war / Nicholson Baker - An interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ / Anne Montgomery - (from) An honorable discharge / Mike Kirby - I cast my hook, I decide to make peace / Jane Hirschfield
Bände der Library of America 1 Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales & Sketches 3 Walt Whitman: Poetry & Prose 4 Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels 5 Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Life on the Mississippi | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Pudd’nhead Wilson) 6 Jack London: Novels and Stories 7 Jack London: Novels and Social Writings 8 William Dean Howells: Novels 1875–1886 9 Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick 10 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels 11 Francis Parkman: France and England in North America: Volume One 12 Francis Parkman: France and England in North America: Volume Two 13 Henry James: Novels 1871–1880 14 Henry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays & Lectures 16 Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches 17 Thomas Jefferson: Writings 18 Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry 19 Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales 20 Edgar Allan Poe: Essays & Reviews 21 Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It 22 Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers 23 Henry James: Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition 24 Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose 25 William Faulkner: Novels 1930–1935 26 James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume One 27 James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume Two 28 Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod 29 Henry James: Novels 1881–1886 30 Edith Wharton: Novels 31 Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) 32 Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison (1809–1817) 33 Frank Norris: Novels & Essays 34 W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings 35 Willa Cather: Early Novels & Stories 36 Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men 37 Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, & Later Writings 38 William James: Writings 1902–1910 39 Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works 40 Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 1913–1920 41 Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 1920–1931 42 Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays 1932–1943 43 Henry James: Novels 1886–1890