Introduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism
The Puritans and American Chosenness
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution
Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism
Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic
Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher
Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny
In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation
Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism
Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism
The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s-1960s
The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump.
