Siblings in a new world -- Comparing colonial childhoods -- Survivors : sibling relations among adults -- Siblings for keeps in early America -- Siblings in a time of revolution -- Finding fraternity : gender and the revolution in sentiment -- Republican brothers and sisters at play -- Shock absorbers : young adult siblings in the new century -- Siblings and democracy in America -- Northern homes in antebellum life and letters -- The reign of sisters begins -- Telling exceptions : slaves, planters, and pioneers.
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