Cultural context of the American Revolution / Everett Emerson -- Patriot pamphleteers / Elaine K. Ginsberg -- Thomas Paine / Evelyn J. Hinz -- Loyalists' reply / Charles E. Modlin -- Preachers / Robert M. Benton -- Theater and drama / Calhoun Winton -- Benjamin Franklin / Mary E. Rucker -- Philip Freneau and Francis Hopkinson / William D. Andrews -- Thomas Jefferson / Thomas Philbrick -- African-American writers / Bernard W. Bell -- Three travelers: Carver, Bartram, and Woolman / Patricia M. Medeiros -- Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur / A.W. Plumstead -- Connecticut wits / Robert D. Arner -- Federalist / Robert Bain -- Worried celebrants of the American Revolution / Cecelia Tichi.