Preface

Part One: The Puritan Vision Altered

Introduction

John Winthrop

``A Modell of Christian Charity'' (1630)

John Cotton

Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636)

Anne Hutchinson

``The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown'' (1637)

Roger Williams

Christenings Make Not Christians (1645)

Cotton Mather

Selection from Bonifacius (1710)

Jonathan Edwards

``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'' (1741)

Selection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)

Part Two: Republican Enlightenment

Introduction

Benjamin Franklin

Selection from the Autobiography (1784-88)

John Adams

A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)

Thomas Paine

Selection from Common Sense (1776)

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Alexander Hamilton

``Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government'' (1787)

``BRUTUS''

Selection from ``Essays of Brutus'' (1787-88)

James Madison

The Federalist, ``Number 10'' and ``Number 51'' (1787-88)

Judith Sargent Murray

``On the Equality of the Sexes'' (1790)

John Adams

Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817

Thomas Jefferson

Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)

Letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

Part Three: Protestant Awakening and Democratic Order

Introduction

William Ellery Channing

``Unitarian Christianity'' (1819)

Nathaniel William Taylor

Concio ad Clerum (1828)

Charles Grandison Finney

Selection from Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835)

William Lloyd Garrison

Selection from Thoughts on African Colonization (1832)

``Prospectus to the Liberator'' (1837)

Shrah Grimke

Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838)

George Bancroft

``The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion'' (1835)

Orestes Brownson

``The Laboring Classes'' (1840)

Catharine Beecher

Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)

Henry C. Carey

Selection from The Harmony of Interest (1851)

Part Four: Romantic Intellect and Cultural Reform

Introduction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

``The Divinity School Address'' (1838)

``Self-Reliance'' (1841)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

``A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society'' (1841)

``Plan of the West Roxbury Community'' (1842)

Margaret Fuller

Selection from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Henry David Thoreau

``Resistance to Civil Government'' (1849)

Horace Bushnell

``Christian Nurture'' (1847)

Herman Melville

``Hawthorne and His Mosses'' (1850)

Part Five: The Quest for Union and Renewal

Introduction

John C. Calhoun

Selection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s)

Louisa McCord

``Enfranchisement of Woman'' (1852)

George Fitzhugh

Selection from Sociology for the South (1854)

Martin Delany

Selection from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)

Frederick Douglass

``What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'' (1852)

Abraham Lincoln

``Speech at Peoria, Illinois'' (1854)

``Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society'' (1859)

``Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg'' (1863)

``Second Inaugural Address'' (1865)

Chronologies