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| Preface | |
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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Life on the Sea Islands, 1864 | |
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| Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865 | |
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| The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 1865 | |
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| Black Code of Mississippi, 1865 | |
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| Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865 | |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1866 | |
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| President Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 | |
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| The First Reconstruction Act, 1867 | |
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| Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868 | |
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| Speech in the Senate, 1876 | |
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| A Sharecrop Contract, 1882 | |
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| Conquest and Survival: Communities in the Trans-Mississippi, 1860-1900 | |
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| The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889 | |
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| The Homestead Act, 1862 | |
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| The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878 | |
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| Miners and Cowboys, 1887 | |
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| Speech at Cooper Union, New York, 1870 | |
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| A Century of Dishonor, 1881 | |
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| The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, 1887 | |
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| How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906 | |
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| Letters from the Frontier, 1872 | |
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| Report on the Arid Lands of the West, 1879 | |
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| The Incorporation of America, 1860-1900 | |
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| The Traffic in Meat, 1894 | |
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| Wealth, 1889 | |
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| Testimony of a Machinist, 1883 | |
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| The Knights of Labor, 1889 | |
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| Testimony on Labor Unions, 1883 | |
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| Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903 | |
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| Testimony on Southern Textile Industry, 1883 | |
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| Conspicuous Consumption, 1899 | |
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| Higher Education for Women, 1901 | |
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| The Vogue of Vaudeville, 1898 | |
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| Commonwealth and Empire, 1870s-1900s | |
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| Looking Backward, 1888 | |
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| A Great National Disgrace, 1877 | |
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| Defense of the Spoils System, 1877 | |
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| Populist Party Platform, 1892 | |
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| The Solitude of Self, 1890 | |
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| Pullman Strikers' Statement, 1894 | |
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| The Influence of Sea Power, 1895 | |
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| The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 | |
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| The Strenuous Life, 1899 | |
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| Against Imperialism, 1902 | |
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| Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 | |
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| The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892 | |
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| George Washington Plunkitt Honest Graft, 1905 | |
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| The Living Law, 1916 | |
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| The Case for Birth Control, 1917 | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895 | |
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| A Red Record, 1895 | |
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| The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905 | |
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| Declaration of the Conservation Conference, 1908 | |
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| The New Freedom, 1913 | |
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| World War I, 1914-1918 | |
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| The President's Commission at Bisbee, 1917 | |
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| Corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, 1904 | |
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| War Message to Congress, 1917 | |
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| Against Entry into War, 1917 | |
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| How We Advertised America, 1920 | |
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| Diary of an Unknown Aviator, 1918 | |
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| Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917 | |
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| Eugene v. Debs, Statement to the Court, 1918 | |
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| Letters from the Great Migration, 1916-1917 | |
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| The Fourteen Points, 1918 | |
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| The Twenties, 1921-1929 | |
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| Motion Picture Diaries | |
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| American Individualism, 1922 | |
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| Jesus Christ as Businessman, 1925 | |
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| Petting and Necking, 1925 | |
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| Speakeasies in New York, 1929 | |
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| U.S. Congress, Debating Immigration Restriction, 1921 | |
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| The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926 | |
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| The City Negro, 1925 | |
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| Motion Picture Production Code, 1930 | |
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| The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
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| Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936 | |
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| Women on the Breadlines, 1932 | |
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| First Inaugural Address, 1933 | |
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| Share Our Wealth, 1935 | |
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| National Labor Relations Act, 1935 | |
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| U.S. Senate, Investigation of Strikebreaking, 1939 | |
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| Republican Party Platform, 1936 | |
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| Okies in California, 1939 | |
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| The Federal Theater Project, 1936 | |
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| World War II, 1930s-1945 | |
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| Tales of Los Alamos, 1943 | |
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| The Four Freedoms, 1941 | |
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| Radio Address on Lend-Lease, 1941 | |
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| The Toughest Beachhead in the World, 1944 | |
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| A City that Forges Thunderbolts, 1943 | |
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| From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943 | |
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| The Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941-43 | |
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| Letters to and from the Front, 1941-1944 | |
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| Korematsu v. United States, 1944 | |
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| The Cold War, 1945-1952 | |
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| Memorandum to President Truman, 1946 | |
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| Letter to President Truman, 1946 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine, 1947 | |
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| The Truman Loyalty Order, 1947 | |
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| American Medical Association, Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, 1949 | |
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| Testimony before HUAC, 1947 | |
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| Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 | |
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| The Advertising Council, The Miracle of America, 1948 | |
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| NSC-68, 1950 | |
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| America at Midcentury, 1952-1963 | |
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| The Teenage Comumer, 1959 | |
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| Farewell Address, 1961 | |
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| Inaugural Address, 1961 | |
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| Address to the National Association of Broadcasters, 1961 | |
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| The Affluent Society, 1958 | |
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| Silent Spring, 1962 | |
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| On the Road, 1957 | |
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| The Problem That Has No Name, 1963 | |
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| Discuss "Great Balls of Fire," 1957 | |
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| Speech at American University, 1963 | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966 | |
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 | |
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| Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956 | |
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| Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960 | |
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| Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963 | |
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| Voting Rights in Mississippi 1962-1964 | |
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| Letters from Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 | |
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| The Civil Rights Act, 1964 | |
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| The Other America, 1962 | |
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| Black Power, 1966 | |
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| War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974 | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
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| Respond to Sexism in the Movement, 1965 | |
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| The Great Society, 1964 | |
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| Why We Are in Vietnam, 1965 | |
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| Conscience and the Vietnam War, 1967 | |
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| Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968 | |
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| Radical Feminism, 1975 | |
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| The Dangers of Constant Carnival, 1969 | |
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| Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971 | |
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| Roe v. Wade, 1973 | |
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| Articles of lmpeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974 | |
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| The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1987 | |
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| Town Meeting, Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1979 | |
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| The Urban Underclass, 1980 | |
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| Affirmative Action in Atlanta, 1974 | |
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| Love Canal 1978 | |
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| The Crisis of Conscience, 1979 | |
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| Presidential Press Conference, 1979 | |
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| Why the New Right Is Winning 1981 | |
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| Toward a Transitional America, since 1988 | |
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| Common Ground, 1988 | |
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| Third-Generation Mexican American, 1988 | |
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| Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993 | |
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| America Enters a New Century with Terror, 2001 | |