The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Squanto: Last of the Patuxet
Chapter 3 Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit
Chapter 4 Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker
Chapter 5 Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom
Chapter 6 Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and Virtue
Chapter 7 Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American Revolution
Chapter 8 Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia: "To Arise out of the Dust"
Chapter 9 Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic
Chapter 10 Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma
Chapter 11 Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Chapter 12 Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist "Giant"
Chapter 13 Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833
Chapter 14 Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendentalist Activist
Chapter 15 George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills
Chapter 16 Sgt. Peter Welsh: "Is That Not Worth Fighting For?"
Chapter 17 Winfield Scott Hancock: "The Knightly Corps Commander"
Chapter 18 LaSalle Corbell Pickett: "What Happened to Me"
Chapter 19 Willis Augustus Hodges: "We Are Now Coming to New Things"