Prologue: Sanborn's younger days 1831-1865
The post Civil War North: triumphant for some
"Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school"
Yankee administrators and Irish populism
Keller and Sullivan: world fame and local hostility 1887-1892
The attack on Keller and Sullivan in the early twentieth century
Progressivism and radicalism in the 1910s
Generations, class, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the conflict
Epilogue: Keller and Sullivan Macy's later years, 1917-1968.