Culture and language at crossed purposes: the unsettled records of American settlement

Introduction. Scope and method; The exceptional encounter; On native grounds : North American treaty-making (ca. 1609-1721)

Puritan enlightenment : Via Dolorosa. William Bradford : the Diary (1620-21), the history (Of Plymouth Planatation), and the Hebrew studies; John Winthrop : from journal to history; Anne Bradstreet : the world elsewhere; Cotton Mather's Magnalia

Secular Enlightenment : the importance of failure. Franklin's Autobiography : composition as explanation; The education of Thomas Jefferson

Truth and method. The Arbella sermon : a case study; The American scholar in the twenty-first century.