From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: The age of revolutions
Exhilaration. "The fishwives make the rules": the October days of the French Revolution / by Tanya Lee Stone
The contradictory king: Gustav III and the unlikely beginnings of class equality in Sweden / by Karen Englemann
Pi, Vega, and the battle at Belgrade / by Amy Alznauer
Abomination. The Queen's chemise: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, portraitist of Marie Antoinette / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The choice: Paris, 1789 / by Marc Aronson
"All men are created equal": the global journey of Olaudah Equiano / by Joyce Hansen
Inspiration. The Wesleyans in the West Indies / by Summer Edward
Who counted in America? / by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson
Mary Jemison and the Seneca nation / by Christopher Turner
Conclusions. Challenging time: Dr. James Hutton, the father of geology / by Sally M. Walker
Mutiny on the Bounty / by Steve Sheinkin.