Table of Contents:
- Flight from feudalism: the new world and the Puritan covenant
- George Bancrofet: Nature and the fulfillment of the covenant
- Frederick Jackson Turner: The machine and the loss of the covenant
- Charles A. Beard: Industrialism and the covenant restored
- Carl Becker: Europe and the roots of the covenant
- Vernon Louis Parrington: The covenant and the Jeffersonian Jeremaid
- Beard: The covenant threatened by institutional power
- Becker: The covenant replaced by civilization
- Daniel Boorstin: Blackstone and the conservation of the American covenant
- The end of the covenant and the beginning of American history.