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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Colonial Socioety | |
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| Did the Chinese Discover America? | |
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| Yes: Gavin Menzies, from 1421: The Year China Discovered America (William Morrow, 2003) | |
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| No: Robert Finlay, from "How Not to (Re)Write World History: Gavin Menzies and the Chinese Discovery of America," Journal of World History 15 (June 2004, pp. 229-242) | |
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| Was the Settlement of Jamestown a Fiasco? | |
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| Yes: Edmund S. Morgan, from American Slavery, American Freedo, (W. W. Norton, 1975) | |
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| No: Karen Ordahl-Kupperman, from The Jamestown Project (Harvard University Press, 2007) | |
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| Was Conflict Between Europeans and Native Americans Inevitable? | |
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| Yes: Kevin Kenny, from Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2009) | |
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| No: Cynthia J. Van Zandt, from Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2008) | |
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| Was the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria a Product of Women's Search for Power? | |
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| Yes: Lyle Koehler, from A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England (University of Illinois, 1980) | |
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| No: Laurie Winn Carlson, from A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials (Ivan R. Dee, 1999) | |
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| Was There a Great Awakening in Mid-Eighteenth-Century America? | |
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| Yes: Thomas S. Kidd, from The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (Yale University Press, 2007) | |
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| No: Jon Butler, from "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction," Journal of American History (September 1982) | |
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| Revolution and the New Nation | |
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| Was the American Revolution Largely a Product of Market-Driven Consumer Forces? | |
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| Yes: T. H. Breen, from The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (Oxford University Press, 2004) | |
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| No: Carl Degler, from Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 2nd ed. (Harper Collins Publishers, 1959, 1970) | |
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| Was the Constitution of the United States Written to Protect the Economic Interests of the Upper Classes? | |
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| Yes: Howard Zinn, from A People's History of the United States (Harper Collins, 1999) | |
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| No: Gordon S. Wood, from "Democracy and the Constitution," in Robert A. Goldwin and William A. Schambra, eds., How Democratic is the Constitution? (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1980) | |
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| Did Alexander Hamilton's Policies Lay the Foundation for America's Economic Growth in the Early National Period? | |
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| YES: John Steele Gordon, from An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Powers (Harper Collins, 2004) | |
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| NO: Joyce Appleby, from Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (The Belknap Press, 2000) | |
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| Did Andrew Jackson's Removal Policy Benefit Native Americans? | |
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| Yes: Robert V. Remini, from Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars (Viking Penguin, 2001) | |
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| No: Alfred A. Cave, from "Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830," The Historian (Winter 2003) | |
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| Did the Industrial Revolution Provide More Economic Opportunities for Women in the 1830s? | |
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| YES: Nancy F. Cott, from The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (Yale University Press, 1977,1997) | |
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| NO: Gerda Lerner, from "The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson," The Majority Finds It's Past: Placing Women in History (Oxford University Press, 1979) | |
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| Antebellum America | |
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| Was Antebellum Temperance Reform Motivated Primarily by Religious Moralism? | |
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| YES: W. J. Rorabaugh, from The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1979) | |
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| NO: John J. Rumbarger, from Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930 (State University of New York Press, 1989) | |
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| Was the Mexican War an Exercise in American Imperialism? | |
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| Yes: Walter Nugent, from "California and New Mexico, 1846-1848: Southward Aggression II," Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) | |
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| No: Norman A. Graebner, from "The Mexican War: A Study in Causation," Pacific Historical Review (August, 1980) | |
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| Was John Brown an Irrational Terrorist? | |
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| Yes: James N. Gilbert, from "A Behavioral Analysis of John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?" in Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman, eds., Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005) | |
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| No: Scott John Hammond, from "John Brown as Founder: America's Violent Confrontation with Its First Principles," in Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman, eds., Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005) | |
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| Conflict and Resolution | |
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| Was Slavery the Key Issue in the Sectional Conflict Leading to the Civil War? | |
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| Yes: Charles B. Dew, from Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2001) | |
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| No: Marc Egnal, from "Rethinking the Secession of the Lower South: The Clash of Two Groups," Civil War History 50 (September 2004) | |
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| Are Historians Wrong to consider the War Between the States a "Total War"? | |
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| Yes: Mark E. Neely, Jr., from "Was the Civil War a Total War?" Civil War History 50 (2004) | |
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| No: James M. McPherson, from "From Limited to Total War: Missouri and the Nation, 1861-1865," Gateway Heritage Magazine (vol. 12, no. 4, Spring, 1992) | |
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| Was Abraham Lincoln America's Greatest President? | |
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| YES: Phillip Shaw Paludan, from The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas, 1994) | |
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| NO: Melvin E. Bradford, from Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative (University of Georgia Press, 1985) | |
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| Did Reconstruction Fail as a Result of Racism? | |
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| YES: LeeAnna Keith, from The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2008) | |
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| NO: Heather Cox Richardson, from The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (Harvard University Press, 2001) | |
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| Contributors | |