Introduction, Maine in the new nation / Charles E. Clark and James S. Leamon
Maine's changing landscape to 1820 / David C. Smith
Maine towns, Maine people : architecture and the community, 1783-1820 / Richard M. Candee
"Bordering on magnificence" : urban domestic planning in the Maine woods / Carolyn S. Parsons
Revolution and separation : Maine's first efforts at statehood / James S. Leamon
Nathan Barlow's journey : mysticism and popular protest on the northeastern frontier / Alan S. Taylor
Religious revolution in the District of Maine / Stephen A. Marini
Cochranism delineated / Joyce Butler
Martha Moore Ballard and the medical challenge to midwifery / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
James Sullivan's History of Maine and the romance of statehood / Charles E. Clark
Jonathan Fisher's emblematic mind / Dorsey R. Kleitz
Jonathan Fisher and the "universe of being" / Richard Moss
the search for a national style / David H. Watters.