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| Introduction | |
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| The Invention and Mapping of America 1492-1760 | |
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| The First Americans | |
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| Native American Mapping | |
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| Diversity of Housing Types: The Wigwam and Algonquin Village Life | |
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| Southwestern Pueblo Architecture | |
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| Earthworks and Burial Mounds | |
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| America and the European Imagination | |
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| Colonial Portraits of Native Americans and Anglo-French Rivalry | |
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| White Colonists as Native Americans | |
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| Religious Rituals and the Visual Arts in Colonial America 1620-1760 | |
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| Colonial Alternatives to Christianity | |
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| African-American Religion and the Visual Arts | |
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| Colonial Magic and the Christian Response | |
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| Catholic Art in Spanish America | |
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| The Mission Church of San Estevan | |
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| Native American Resistance and the Christian Reconquest | |
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| El Santo Entierro and Hispanic-Catholic Ritual | |
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| Moravian Missions and the Depiction of the Crucified Christ | |
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| Protestant Iconoclasm and the Private Display of Biblical Art | |
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| The Colonial Landscape Made Sacred: Anglo-American Churches and Meetinghouses | |
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| God's Word in New England Portraits | |
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| Colonial Gravestones: Emblems of Morality | |
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| Jewish-Christian Collaboration: Touro Synagogue | |
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| Art and the Consumer Revolution in Colonial America 1700-75 | |
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| Aristocratic Aspirations of Wealthy Colonists | |
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| Social Clubs as Vehicles for Self-Cultivation | |
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| Freemasonry and the Visual Education of the American Public | |
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| Domestic Architecture as a Moral Force | |
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| Political Portraiture: Colonial Governors as Pillars of State | |
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| John Simbert and the Portraitist as Man of Learning | |
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| Portraiture and Middle-Class Social Aspirations | |
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| John Singleton Copley and the Sanctification of the Consumer Revolution | |
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| Revolutionary Icons and the Representation of Republican Virtue 1765-1825 | |
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| Propaganda in the Pre-Revolutionary War Era | |
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| Republican Motherhood: Women as Symbols in the Revolutionary Era | |
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| Patience Wright and the Personification of Liberty | |
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| Classical Austerity and Republican Virtue: the Founding Fathers | |
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| The All-Seeing Eye: Freemasonry and Symbolism in the Early Republic | |
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| History Painting in the Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary Eras | |
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| Benjamin West and the Revolution in History Painting | |
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| John Singleton Copley: Images of Revolution and Independence | |
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| Fraternal Friendship in the Work of John Trumbull | |
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| George Washington and Republican Citizenship | |
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| Educating the Public and Selling Art: Problems in Public and Private Exhibitions | |
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| Rembrandt Peale: Images of Female Sexuality and Moral Reform | |
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| John Vanderlyn and the Moral Ambiguity of Early Nineteenth-Century History Painting | |
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| Washington Allston and Biblical Painting | |
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| Charles Robert Leslie and Samuel Morse: The Symbolism of Color and Light | |
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| National Identity and Private Interests in Antebellum America 1825-65 | |
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| Historical Styles and Functional Architecture | |
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| Economic Modernization and the Arts | |
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| Rochester, New York, as a Boom Town | |
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| Greek-Revival Architecture and the Southern Plantation Economy | |
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| Architecture and Suburban Space | |
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| Phrenology and the Octagon | |
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| The Rural Cemetery Movement and the Arts | |
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| The National Academy of Design and the Art Market | |
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| Catholic Icons and Hispanic Resistance to U.S. Culture | |
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| Artists and Domestic Virtue | |
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| Landscape Painting and National Identity | |
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| Thomas Cole | |
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| Artists and Imperial Expansion | |
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| George Caleb Bingham | |
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| Visions of Millennial Progress and Religious Conflict | |
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| Transcendentalism, Spiritualism, and American Art | |
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| Frederic Church | |
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| Abolitionist and Feminist Art | |
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| Photography and the Democratization of Art | |
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| Art and Commerce in the Gilded Age 1865-1905 | |
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| Commercialization and the Uninterrupted Progress of Art | |
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| Economic Modernization and the Appropriation of European Architecture | |
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| Images of Renewal and the Family in the Aftermath of War | |
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| Science, Capitalism, and Masculine Identity | |
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| Thomas Eakins's Circle and the Human Figure | |
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| War Memorials and the Heroic White Male | |
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| Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Expression of African-American Creativity | |
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| Cosmopolitanism and the Lure of French Art | |
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| The Society of American Artists: Art as Religion | |
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| Whistler and the Triumph of Aestheticism | |
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| Modernist Art and Politics 1905-41 | |
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| Modernization and Architecture as Imperial Symbols | |
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| New York Realists and Modern Urban Life | |
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| The Modernist Turn from Realism | |
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| Alfred Stieglitz, Photography, and the 291 Gallery | |
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| The Influence of Futurism | |
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| Modernism and Political Radicalism | |
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| Modernist Art and World War I | |
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| Synchromism | |
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| Modernism for the Masses | |
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| Marcel Duchamp and New York Dada | |
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| Romancing the Machine in Art and Architecture | |
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| Fordism | |
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| The Aesthetics of the Hole | |
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| The Societe Anonyme | |
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| Regionalism versus Social Realism | |
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| Modernism and the Defense of Democracy | |
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| Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Survival of a Critical Vision 1941-2000 | |
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| Art and Propaganda During World War II | |
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| Modernism and Post-war Architecture | |
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| American Realism's Darker Visions | |
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| Cultural Crisis and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism | |
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| Abstract Expressionism and the Surrealist Unconscious | |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Cold War Politics | |
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| The Masculine Bias of Abstract Expressionism | |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Right-wing Attacks on Modernist Art | |
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| Formalist Criticism and the Objectivity of Abstract Art | |
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| The Return of Dadaist Dissent: Happenings, Performances, and Readymade Assemblages | |
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| Readymade Signs, Minimalist Objects, and Real Space | |
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| Pop Art and the Culture of Mass Consumerism | |
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| Pop Art and Postmodernist Architecture | |
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| Conceptual and Earth Art as Cultural Criticism | |
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| Art and the Vietnam War: from Protest to Commemoration | |
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| Feminist Art and Politics | |
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| Neo-Expressionism and the Revival of Painting | |
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| Postmodernist Meditations on Death | |
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| Sexual Politics, Family Values, and Contemporary Art | |
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| Contemporary Art and Architecture and the Disney Vision | |
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| Timeline: Chronology of American Art | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Picture credits | |
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| Index | |