Introduction : roots of an "American" rhetoric / James R. Andrews
Errand into mercy : rhetoric, identity, and community in John Winthrop's "Modell of Christian charity" / Stephen Howard Browne
The rhetoric of Puritan biblical commentaries : John Cotton's A briefe exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes / Thomas H. Olbricht
Puritan rhetoric and America's civil religion : a study of three special occasion sermons / Ronald F. Reid
Roger Williams, religious liberty, and the Massachusetts Bay : a rhetorical history perspective / L. Raymond Camp
The trials of Anne Hutchinson / William E. Wiethof
Among friends : establishing an oratorical tradition among Quaker women in the early colonial era / Linda J. Webster
Thou art but a youth : Thomas Chalkley enacts and defends the early Quaker impromptu sermon / Michael P. Graves
Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening and "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / John C. Adams and Stephen R. Yarbrough
Rhetoric and religion in colonial Virginia : from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence / C. Jan Swearingen.