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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Using Sources to Study the Past | |
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| Indians and Europeans: New World Encounters | |
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| Points of View: Contact and Conquest (1502-1521) | |
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| Dispatches of the Conquest from the New World | |
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| A Nahua Account of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| Destruction of the Indies | |
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| Description of Virginia | |
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| Encounter With the Indians Father | |
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| Captured by Indians | |
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| Visual Portfolio: New World Images | |
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| The Colonial Experience: A Rapidly Changing Society | |
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| Points of View: Women in Colonial America | |
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| A Business Trip Across the Colonies | |
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| Leaving an Abusive Husband | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| Testimony of Pueblo Indians | |
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| The African Slave Trade | |
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| On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants | |
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| Defending Colonial Activities Before Parliament | |
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| Assimilation and Discrimination Jews in the Early Republic | |
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| Mapmaking and Colonialism in the New World Amplissima Regionis Mississippi | |
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| Resistance and Revolution: Struggling for Liberty | |
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| Points of View: The Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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| A British Officer's Description | |
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| Colonial Accounts George Robert Twelves Hewes, John Tudor, and the | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| Visual Portfolio: Patriot and Loyalist Propaganda | |
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| A Soldier's View of the Revolutionary War | |
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| Choosing Sides | |
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| Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife | |
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| Republican Motherhood | |
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| Shays's Rebellion: Prelude to the Constitution | |
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| Casting Their Lot With the British | |
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| Defining America: The Expanding Nation | |
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| Points of View: Religion in the New Nation (1800-1830) | |
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| The Great Revival of 1800 | |
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| An American Deist | |
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| Religion in America | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| Crossing the Continent | |
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| The Trail of Tears | |
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| Pulling a Handcart to the Mormon Zion | |
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| How the West Was Won An Officer of the "Army of the West" | |
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| Life in California Before the Gold Discovery | |
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| Miners During the California Gold Rush Daguerreotype | |
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| An Age of Reform: Rearranging Social Patterns | |
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| Points of View: Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) | |
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| A Slave Insurrection | |
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| Who is to Blame? | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| The Lowell Textile Workers | |
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| A Family Torn Apart by Slavery | |
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| Life of a Female Slave | |
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| A Pioneer for Women's Rights | |
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| Taking Up Arms Against Slavery | |
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| Visual Portfolio: Slavery and Freedom | |
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| Civil War and Reconstruction: The Price of War | |
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| Points of View: Winding Down the War and an Uncertain Future | |
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| What the Black Man Wants | |
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| A Slave Owner's Journal at the End of the Civil War | |
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| For Critical Thinking | |
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| Three Days of Terror | |
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| The Battle of Gettysburg: at War and at Home | |
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| Fighting for the Union Letters from Black Union Soldiers | |
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| Healing Wounds | |
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| African Americans During Reconstruction | |
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| White Southerners' Reactions to Reconstruction | |
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| Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865 Or 1866 Photography | |
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