Includes Index

The Colonial Mind -- The Revolution in loyalty -- The Example of Benjamin Franklin -- The Great Awakening and Colonial loyalties -- Radical Whig thought in America -- American Thought in 1776 -- The Revolution in Purpose -- The Spirit of 1776 -- New State Constitutions: Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts -- The Convention of 1787 -- The Ratification Debate -- The Political thought of James Madison -- The Revolution in Character -- John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and the Puritan Ethic -- Republicanizing American Character -- Conservative Reactions -- Conceptions of New Nationhood: Jefferson and Hamilton -- Albert Gallatin and John Marshall -- Religion and Science -- Indians, Blacks, Race, and Slavery -- The Search for an American literature -- American Art -- The American Mind.

Radical whig thought-- American Revolution - thinkers -- Convention of 1787 -- Puritan Ethic --Colonial Thinkers -- United States Constitution.

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