Introduction: some thoughts on the present robust and disorderly state of early American history / Donald A. Yerxa
Disjunctions in early American history / Pauline Maier
The promise of empire / Edward G. Gray
Continuity and change in early American studies / Don Higginbotham
Comments on Pauline Maier's "State of the Field" / Peter S. Onuf
Political history's demise? / Paul A. Rahe
An agenda for early American history / Jack N. Rakove
Rejoinder / Pauline Maier
Richard Hakluyt's problem / Peter C. Mancall
Jamestown redivivus: an interview with James Horn / conducted by Randall J. Stephens
Re-bunking the pilgrims / Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
What happened to the Puritans? / Thomas S. Kidd
The great meadow: sustainable husbandry in Colonial concord / Brian Donahue
The colonial colleges: forging an American political culture / J. David Hoeveler
Groping for national identity by forging a national cuisine / James E. McWilliams
Local authority and the origins of the U.S. Constitution / Gordon S. Wood
An interview with John Ferling / conducted by Joseph S. Lucas
A world of kings / Brendan McConville
1816: a year of transition / C. Edward Skeen.
Recent themes in early American history : historians in conversation. ISBN 9781570037658. Published by University of South Carolina Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.