Raconteur, Memorialist, Founder: Benjamin Franklin Meets Himself in History / Robert A. Ferguson
Yankee Continentalism: The Provincial Roots of John Adams's Vision for American Union, 1755-1776 / J. Patrick Mullins
George Washington's Vision for the United States / Kenneth R. Bowling
Agrarian Founders: Three "Rebellions" as Legitimate Opposition, 1786-1799 / Paul Douglas Newman
The Sovereign People: Indians, Treaties, and the Subversion of the Founders' Colonialist Vision / David Andrew Nichols
"Arraying Him against Himself": The Jefferson Presidency and the American Future through the Eyes of Alexander Hamilton / Todd Estes
James Madison and American Nationality: The View from Virginia / Drew R. McCoy
Mastery over Slaves, Sovereignty over Slavery: James Monroe, Virginia, and the Missouri Crisis / John Craig Hammond
Antiquarian America: Isaiah Thomas and the New Nation's Future / Peter S. Onuf
Afterword: The Contradictions and Paradoxes of American Future-Gazing / Joanne B. Freeman.