Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The American Newness | 1986 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 2 | Highbrow/Lowbrow | 1988 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 3 | Revolutions | 1990 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 4 | Playing in the Dark | 1992 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 5 | The Southern Tradition | 1994 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 6 | Writing Was Everything | 1998 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 7 | The Dissent of the Governed | 1998 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 8 | Achieving Our Country | 1999 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 9 | The Real American Dream | 1999 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 10 | To Be the Poet | 2002 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 11 | Reporting the Universe | 2003 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 12 | Circles and Lines | 2004 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 13 | Architecture as Signs and Systems | 2004 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 14 | Reshaping the Work-Family Debate | 2010 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 15 | Tiger Writing | 2013 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 16 | Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations | 2015 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
| 17 | Just a Journalist | 2017 | E.L. Doctorow | Buy |
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization is a prestigious lecture series at Harvard University. Each year, a distinguished writer, scholar, or public intellectual delivers a series of lectures on some aspect of American life and culture. The lectures are subsequently published as books.
E.L. Doctorow contributed Reporting the Universe to the series in 2003, exploring the relationship between fiction, history, and the imagination. The lecture series has hosted some of the most significant American thinkers and writers, with published volumes spanning topics from race and literature to architecture and journalism.