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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- I. Boston, from Winthrop to Hawthorne -- John Winthrop (1588-1649), from "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (1678) & "Meditations Divine and Moral" #53 (1867) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1733) & "To The University of Cambridge, in New England" (1773) Abigail Adams (1744-1818), 1775-1776 Letters to John Adams (1735-1826) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), "The Deacon's Masterpiece -- or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay'" (1858) -- II. Bos ton and the Americ an Renais ance -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" (1831) & "The Last Leaf" (1831) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), "Letter to a Young Contributor" (1862) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Concord Hymn" (1837) & "Boston Hymn" (1863) Louisa May Alcott (1832-1882), from "How I Went Out to Service" (1874) -- James T. Fields (1817-1881), from "Hawthorne," Yesterdays with Authors (1871) -- Annie Fields (1834-1915), from "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters," Authors and Friends (1896) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947), from "148 Charles Street," Not Under Forty (1936) -- III. Post-Civil War Boston -- Henry Adams (1838-1918), from The Education of Henry Adams (1906, 1918) -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), "The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech" (1877) William Dean Howells (1837-1920), from Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900) & The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) -- Henry James (1843-1916), from The Bostonians (1886) -- IV. "Viewed in Boston Light": Turn-of-the-Century Boston -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), from "Dead Yet Living: An Address Delivered at Keene, N.H. Memorial Day, May 30, 1884" (1884) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), from "The Lamp of Psyche" (1895) -- George Santayana (1863-1952), from Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography (1944) John P. Marquand (1893-1960), from The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), "The Boston Evening Transcript" (1917) & "Cousin Nancy" (1917) -- Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), from Looking Backward (1888) -- Cleveland Amory (1917-1998), from The Proper Bostonians (1947) -- V. The "Other" Bostonians: New Voices and Visions -- Charlotte Forten Grimke (1838-1914), from her Journal (1854) -- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), from "A Negro Student at Harvard" (1960) -- Dorothy West (1907-1998), from The Living Is Easy (1948) Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Alex Haley (1921-1992), from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
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