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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: "To Begin the World Over Again" | |
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| Revolutions | |
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| Ebenezer Mackintosh: Boston's Captain General of the Liberty Tree | |
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| Blacksmith Timothy Bigelow and the Massachusetts Revolution of 1774 | |
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| Samuel Thompson's War: The Career of an American Insurgent | |
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| Philadelphia's Radical Caucus That Propelled Pennsylvania to Independence and Democracy | |
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| A World of Paine | |
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| Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Challenged the American Revolutionaries | |
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| Wars | |
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| "Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings": The Betrayals of Private Joseph Plumb Martin, Continental Soldier | |
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| "The Spirit of Levelling": James Cleveland, Edward Wright, and the Militiamen's Straggle for Equality in Revolutionary Virginia | |
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| Mary Perth, Harry Washington, and Moses Wilkinson: Black Methodists Who Escaped from Slavery and Founded a Nation | |
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| James Ireland, John Leland, John "Swearing Jack" Waller, and the Baptist Campaign for Religious Freedom in Revolutionary Virginia | |
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| Declaring Independence and Rebuilding a Nation: Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga Revolution | |
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| Forgotten Heroes of die Revolution: Han Yerry and Tyona Doxtader of the Oneida Indian Nation | |
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| The Promise of the Revolution | |
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| "Satan, Smith, Shattuck, and Shays": The People's Leaders in the Massachusetts Regulation of 1786 | |
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| William Findley, David Bradford, and the Pennsylvania Regulation of 1794 | |
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| The New Jerusalem: Herman Husband's Egalitarian Alternative to the United States Constitution | |
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| The Battle Against Patriarchy That Abigail Adams Won | |
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| America's Mary Wollstonecraft: Judith Sargent Murray's Case for the Equal Rights of Women | |
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| Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Daniel Coker: Revolutionary Black Founders, Revolutionary Black Communities | |
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| Richard and Judith Randolph, St. George Tucker, George Wythe, Syphax Brown, and Hercules White: Racial Equality and the Snares of Prejudice | |
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| "Every Man Should Have Property": Robert Coram and the American Revolution's Legacy of Economic Populism | |
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| Thomas Greenleaf: Printers and the Struggle for Democratic Politics and Freedom of the Press | |
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| The Plough-Jogger: Jedediah Peck and the Democratic Revolution | |
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| Afterford | |
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