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Tables of Contents for The Great Experiment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Trinity Forum Study Series Not So Much a Book as a Way of Thinking
7
6
Introduction---The Great Experiment
13
22
A Nation of Nations
35
32
Spain: ``1492 and All That''
40
8
``Instructions to Ponce de Leon, 1514''
41
3
King Ferdinand
``Expulsion of the Jews, 1492''
44
4
King Ferdinand
France: ``Raison d'Etat''
48
8
``Proclamation of New France, 1671''
49
3
Claude Jean Allouez
The Life of John Jay
52
4
John Jay
England: ``Errand into the Wilderness''
56
11
``Reasons for Removal, 1629''
59
1
John Winthrop
``A Model of Christian Charity, 1630''
60
4
John Winthrop
``The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, 1644''
64
3
Roger Williams
A Tale of Five Cities
67
44
``An Educated Gentleman's Reading List''
72
3
John Randolph
Jerusalem
75
7
Exodus 20: 1-7
76
2
Errata
78
4
George Steiner
Athens
82
8
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
84
6
Rome
90
7
Polybius, The Histories
91
6
London (& Edinburgh)
97
7
``Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775''
99
5
Edmund Burke
Paris (& Edinburgh)
104
7
The Spirit of the Laws
105
6
Baron de Montesquieu
The Most Nearly Perfect Solution
111
48
Winning Freedom
114
12
``The Curse of Cowardice''
117
4
Samuel Davies
``The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men''
121
5
John Witherspoon
Ordering Freedom
126
10
``Memorial and Remonstrance''
128
8
James Madison
Sustaining Freedom
136
23
``Farewell Address, 1796''
138
6
George Washington
The Framers & Friends: A Gallery of Virtues
144
15
For Better or for Worse
159
42
Faith and Freedom, Fifty Years on
163
9
Democracy in America
165
7
Alexis de Tocqueville
For Worse: Nativism & Anti-Catholicism
172
8
``Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States Through Foreign Immigration, 1835''
174
6
Samuel F. B. Morse
For Better: The Age of Reform & The Abolition of Slavery
180
12
Uncle Tom's Cabin
183
9
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Like Fathers, Like Sons
192
9
``The Gray Champion''
193
8
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Clear and Present Danger?
201
69
A Time to Take Stock
204
9
``The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions''
205
8
Abraham Lincoln
Global Leadership
213
12
``The Real Clash''
214
11
James Kurth
Democracy
225
7
Democracy on Trial
226
6
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Multiculturalism
232
12
The Disuniting of America
234
10
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Fatherhood
244
10
Fatherless America
245
9
David Blankenhorn
Public Decency
254
9
The Repeal of Reticence
255
8
Rochelle Gurstein
Concluding Reflection: The Eagle and the Sun
263
7
``The Future of Democracy''
267
3
G. K. Chesterton
For Further Reading
270
1
Reader's Guide
271