Description: PrefacePart One: The Puritan VisionIntroduction"A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630)Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636)"The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court of Newton" (1637)Christenings Make Not Christians" (1645)selection from Bonifacius (1710)"The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners" (1734) and Selection from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)Part Two: Republican EnlightenmentIntroductionSelection from The Autobiography (1784-88)A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)Selection from Common Sense (1776)The Declaration of Independence (1776)"Constitutional Convention Speech on a Plan of Government" (1787)The Federalist, "Number 51" (1787-88)Selection from History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805)Letters to Samuel Adams, October 18, 1790; and to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817Selection 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, 1814Part Three: Evangelical DemocracyIntroduction"What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835)Selection from The Berean (1847)Selection from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Women (1838)Selection from Political Writings (1834)"The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion" (1835)Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)Selection from The Harmony of Interests (1851)Part Four: Romanticism and ReformIntroduction"The Divinity School Address" (1838); "Self-Reliance" (1841)"A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society" (1841) and "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842)"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women" (1843)"Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)"Christian Nurture" (1847)"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)Part Five: The Quest for UnionIntroductionSelection from A Disquisition on Government (c. late 1840s)"Enfranchisement of Woman" (1852)Selection from Sociology for the South (1854)Selection from Thoughts on African Colonization (1832); "Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States" (1844)"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852)"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

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