The printed word -- Two views of grace and nature -- Masterlessness and conscience -- Puritanism as culture -- Calvinism -- The congregation as revolutionary cell -- Communism at Plymouth -- Rhetoric of colonization -- Family government -- Colonial realities -- Identity and the antinomian controversy -- Education limits conscience -- Magisterial supremacy -- Economic basis of heterodoxy -- American Puritanism versus the sect ideal -- New England and the civil war in England -- Laboring class and other economic pressures -- Indian policy -- Control of dissent -- Roger Williams and freedom of conscience -- The nature of the good society -- The function of learning -- Prosperity's meaning -- The dangers of love -- Dominating death -- Emergence of a literary style -- Cultural consequences -- Baptism and tribalism -- Quakerism versus the total state -- Puritan violence -- Restoration politics and commerce -- Reaction to royal supremacy -- Puritan drama -- Indian relations -- King Philip's War and racism -- Advent of provincialism -- Dissension in church affairs -- Synod of 1679 and rise of professionalism -- Religion sentimentalized -- Colonial society -- History as identity -- Alienation of the ministerial intellect -- Issues of political dominion -- Puritanism and liberty -- Social consequences of the new charter -- Anti-French policy and Sir William Phips -- Legislative reaction to negroes and the poor -- Witchcraft -- Shift in sensibility -- Samuel Sewall and Edward Taylor -- Politics of commerce at Harvard and Brattle Street -- Benjamin Colman, sensibility, and sentiment -- John Wise and democracy -- Religion as civilizer -- Slavery -- The social pyramid and high culture -- The great awakening -- Psyche versus society and literature -- Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and puritan continuity.