*Asterisks indicate new readings.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Sources and Interpretations.
Part I.
1. Fr. Paul le Juene, “Brief Relation of the Journey to New France (1633)/ Jesuit Observations on the “Enslavement” of Women (1710).Reading: James Axtell, “Imagining the Other: First Encounters.”
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Richard Frethorn’s Letter Home (1623).
*Reading: T. H. Breen/Stephen Innes, “Anthony Johnson: Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek.”
Glossary.
Implications.
3. John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630).
Reading: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England,1630-1640.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. The Stranger on Slave Recreation (1772).
Reading: Peter H. Wood, Patterns of Slave Resistance.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Anne Bradstreet, Thoughts on Her Husband and Children (1650).
Reading: Mary Beth Norton, A Small Circle of Domestic Concerns.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).
*Reading: Harry S. Stout, “American Awakener.”
Glossary.
Implications.
Part II.
1. John Andrews to William Barrell on the Boston Tea Party (1773).
Reading: Alfred F. Young, George Robert Twelves Hewes: The Revolution and the Rise of Popular Politics.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Anon., “A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton (1777).
Reading: James Kirby Martin, A ‘Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew: Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790).
Reading: Carol Berkin, Women in the American Revolution.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. Brutus, Second Essay Opposing the Constitution (1787).
Reading: Robert E. Shalhope, The Constitution and the Competing Political Cultures of late-Eighteenth-Century America.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson on the African American Intellect (1791).
*Reading: Gary B. Nash, Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Little Turtle on the Treaty of Greenville (1795)/Tecumseh on Land Cessions (1810).
*Reading: Colin G. Calloway, “The Revolution in Indian Country."
Glossary.
Implications.
Part III.
1. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, The American Belisarius (c. 1790s).
Reading: Robert A. Gross, Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau’s Concord.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters/Resolutions of the Master Carpenters (1845).
Reading: Ronald Schultz, God and Workingmen: Popular Religion and the Formation of Philadelphia’s Working Class, 1790-1830.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. Lucy Larcom, “An Idyll of Work.”
Reading: Christine Stansell, Women, Children, and the Uses of the Street: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. The Stuart-Bennett Duel (1819).
Reading: Elliott J. Gorn, “Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch”: The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. *William Swain’s Letter from the California Gold Fields (1850).
*Reading: Malcolm Rohrbough, “No Boy’s Play: Migration and Settlement in Gold Rush California.”
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress (1902).
*Reading: Drew Gilpin Faust, “Husbands and Wives: Southern Marriages in the Civil War.”
Glossary.
Implications.