Includes material on John Cotton, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, Nathaniel Ward, John Eliot, Samuel Sewall, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, John Wise, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Hutchinson, Daniel Leonard, Jonathan Boucher, John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, John Trumbull, Francis Hopkinson, Jonathan Odell, Samuel Peters, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, the Hartford Wits, Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge.