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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| A New world: The 17th And 18th Centuries | |
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| First Encounters | |
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| Narrangansett Women | |
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| Women's Lives among the Delaware | |
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| Iroquois Women in Government | |
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| A New England Captivity | |
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| Life among the Seneca | |
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| The First Ship, A Chinook Tale | |
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| Well-Ordered Families | |
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| Husbands and Wives | |
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| Evangelical Child-Rearing | |
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| To Improve in every Virtue | |
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| Tied Hand and Foot | |
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| An Abominable Wickedness | |
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| A Decree On Seduction, New Spain, 1752 | |
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| The Colonial Economy | |
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| Laws on Slave Descent, Virginia and Maryland, 1662-1692 | |
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| Skilled Slaves In Maryland, The Maryland Gazette, 1748-1763 | |
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| An Indentured Servant's Complaint | |
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| Apprenticeship in Pennsylvania, List of Indentures, 1771-1773 | |
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| Adventure Schools, Advertisements, 1750s-1770s | |
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| A Maine Midwife | |
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| Women and the Law | |
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| An Antenuptial Contract, Massachusetts, 1653 | |
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| Divorce in New England, Connecticut, 1655-1678 | |
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| A Separation Decision, Maryland, 1680 | |
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| Feme Sole Trader Acts, South Carolina, 1712 and 1744 | |
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| Malefactors And Complainants, Massachusetts, 1675-1680 | |
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| Widows, Wills, And Dower Rights, Virginia, 1642, and New York, 1721-1759 | |
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| Women's Estates, Massachusetts, 1664, and New York, 1747-1759 | |
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| Accusations Against Elizabeth Morse, Massachusetts, 1679-1680 | |
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| Religious Experiences | |
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| A Spiritual Autobiography, Anne Bradstreet, ca. 1670 | |
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| Anne Hutchinson's Trial, Massachusetts Bay, 1637 | |
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| An Epistle to Quaker Women, Lancashire Women's Meeting, 1675 | |
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| A Remarkable Experience of Awakening | |
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| Narrative of Old Elizabeth, A Former Slave Recalls Her Conversion Experience of the 1770s | |
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| The Revolutionary Era | |
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| An Address to George III, Phyllis Wheatley, 1768 | |
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| A Carolina Patriot, Eliza Wilkinson, 1782 | |
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| A Loyalist Wife, Grace Galloway, 1778-1779 | |
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| Remember The Ladies, Abigail Adams, 1776 | |
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| Thoughts Upon Female Education, Benjamin Rush, 1787 | |
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| Excellency In Our Sex, Judith Sargent Murray, 1790 | |
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| Suggestions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Young Nation, 1800-1860 | |
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| The Middle Class: Domestic Lives | |
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| Matrmonial Risks | |
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| The Deferential Wife | |
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| System And Order | |
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| First to None | |
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| The Widowed State, Sarah Connell Ayer, 1832-1833 | |
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| The School and the | |
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| Mill Rules of The School | |
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| A Rationale For Femle Education | |
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| A Choctaw Mission School, Miss Burnham's Report, 1824 | |
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| Reports on Western Schools, Letters from Teachers, 1847 | |
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| Rules of The Mill, Lowell and Lancaster, 1820-1840 | |
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| A Letter from Lowell | |
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| A Spirit of Protest, The Voice of Industry, 1846 | |
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| Western Frontiers | |
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| Crossing The Plains, Amelia Stewart Knight, 1853 | |
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| A Norwegian Immigrant | |