| Preface | p. 9 |
| Art and Conquest | p. 13 |
| The Spanish and the Aztecs | p. 16 |
| The Northern Territories of New Spain | p. 22 |
| France Bringing the Faith: the Northeast | p. 41 |
| The Exploration of the Mississippi and Mississippian Culture | p. 49 |
| A Protestant Presence in America | p. 54 |
| The Art and Architecture of the Northern British and Dutch Colonies | p. 58 |
| Products of the Needle and the Chisel | p. 66 |
| Foreign Wars and Domestic Unrest | p. 69 |
| Defining America | p. 73 |
| Representing the Revolution and Its Aftermath | p. 74 |
| Presidential Poses: Images of George Washington | p. 83 |
| Architectural Symbols of a New Nation | p. 93 |
| An Architecture of Discipline | p. 98 |
| Nationhood and Native Americans | p. 104 |
| The Schooling of the Nation's Artists: Samuel F. B. Morse and the National Academy of Design | p. 112 |
| The Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Production of American Culture | p. 118 |
| Nature and Nation | p. 129 |
| Nature and the Sacred in Native American Art | p. 131 |
| God, Nature, and the Rise of Landscape Painting | p. 134 |
| Thomas Cole, Federalism, and The Course of Empire | p. 139 |
| Edward Hicks and The Peaceable Kingdom | p. 144 |
| Landscape Painting at Mid-Century: Frederic Edwin Church and the Luminists | p. 146 |
| Native Americans as Nature | p. 152 |
| Depicting the "Looks and Modes" of Native American Life | p. 155 |
| Nature Transformed: Settling the Landscape | p. 163 |
| Woman as Nature: The Nude, the Mother, and the Cook | p. 171 |
| Nature Morte: Still Life and the Art of Deception | p. 175 |
| A Nation at War | p. 185 |
| The War between the United States and Mexico | p. 186 |
| Mexican Culture as American Culture | p. 191 |
| Prelude to the Civil War: Representing African Americans and Slavery | p. 197 |
| Race and the Civil War | p. 204 |
| Images of Reconstruction | p. 211 |
| Monuments to Freedom | p. 217 |
| Native Americans in the Popular Press: Harper's Weekly and the Washita River Massacre | p. 224 |
| Encyclopedias of Experience: Native American Ledger Art | p. 226 |
| The End of the Ghost Dance | p. 232 |
| The Hampton Institute and Lessons in American History | p. 236 |
| Work and Art Redefined | p. 239 |
| One Hundred Years of Independence: Taking Stock of America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition | p. 242 |
| Images of Workers | p. 245 |
| Celebrating the New Male Professionals: Portraits by Thomas Eakins | p. 252 |
| The Female Body and the Rights of Women: the "Declaration of Sentiments" and Hiram Powers's The Greek Slave | p. 258 |
| Domestic Culture and Cultural Production | p. 260 |
| The Feminine Ideal and the Rise of Aestheticism | p. 269 |
| Images of the Particular: Portraiture and "Trompe l'Oeil" Painting | p. 275 |
| The Battle over Public Space | p. 282 |
| The End of a Century: Art and Architecture and the World's Columbian Exposition | p. 288 |
| The Machine, the Primitive, and the Modern | p. 301 |
| Realism and the Ashcan School | p. 304 |
| Modernism and the Avant-Garde | p. 317 |
| World War I and the Art of Reproduction | p. 322 |
| Modernism, Gender, and Sexuality | p. 327 |
| Escape to Mexico | p. 337 |
| Mexico in America: Imaging the American Southwest | p. 343 |
| The Harlem Renaissance | p. 350 |
| Art for the People, Art Against Fascism | p. 363 |
| A New Deal for Art | p. 365 |
| Modernist Architecture, Domestic Design, and Planned Communities | p. 378 |
| Alternative Visions: Urban Life and the Industrial Worker | p. 381 |
| Alternative Visions: The Corporate View of Industrial America | p. 391 |
| Alternative Visions: Women at Work in the City | p. 399 |
| Alternative Visions: Rural America | p. 404 |
| Art Against Fascism: The Popular Front and the American Artists' Congress | p. 413 |
| The War at Home: Japanese American Internment and American Patriotism | p. 416 |
| Social Surrealism, Abstraction, and Democracy | p. 419 |
| From Cold War to Culture Wars | p. 429 |
| Gestures of Liberation: Abstract Art as the New American Art | p. 432 |
| Pastiche and Parody: Another Take on the Real | p. 445 |
| Minimal Forms | p. 456 |
| Popular Art, Pop Art, and Consumer Culture | p. 464 |
| An Art of Protest: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War | p. 473 |
| The Personal is Political: Feminist Art of the 1970s | p. 483 |
| Public Art and Public Interest | p. 491 |
| Is Less More? Re-evaluating Modernism in Architecture | p. 496 |
| Postmodernism and Art | p. 502 |
| The Culture Wars | p. 512 |
| Timeline | p. 521 |
| Bibliography | p. 526 |
| Websites | p. 541 |
| Acknowledgments for Illustrations | p. 542 |
| Index | p. 546 |
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