| Reconstruction | |
| A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | |
| ** Charleston, South Carolina at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865) | |
| African-Americans Seek Protection (1865) | |
| Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865) | |
| A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | |
| The Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction (1872) | |
| "The Problem at the South" (1871) | |
| **African American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876). (Images from Harper's Weekly) | |
| The West | |
| A Native American Remembers Life on the Great Plains (1870s) | |
| A Century of Dishonor (1881) | |
| A Western Newspaper Editorial on the Custer Massacre (1876) | |
| Cultural Exchange on the Arizona Frontier (1874) | |
| A Native American Remembers the Ghost Dance (1890) | |
| Life on the Prairie Farms (1893) | |
| **"THE Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) | |
| The Expansion of Big Business | |
| **The Cattle Industry (1884) | |
| The Impact of Mechanization (1889) | |
| Progress and Poverty (1879) | |
| "The Forgotten Man" (1883) | |
| The Success of Standard Oil (1899) | |
| The Gospel of Wealth (1889) | |
| **Views on the Trusts (1889, 1899) (Cartoons on the Trusts from Puck and the Verdict) | |
| How the Other Half Lives | |
| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) | |
| The "Long Turn" in Steel (1910) | |
| **Views of Urban Life (1890s) (Jacob Riis Photos and New York Street Photo) | |
| Lynching in the South (1895) | |
| "The Negro Question in the South" (1892) | |
| W.E.B. Du Bois on Race Relations (1903) | |
| The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878) | |
| An Italian Immigrant's Experience in America (1902) | |
| "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl" (1902) | |
| Imperialism | |
| Our Country (1891) | |
| The Sinking of The Maine (1898) | |
| Aquinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence (1899) | |
| An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (1899) | |
| The New Manifest Destiny (1900) | |
| "A Colombian View of the Panama Canal Question" (1903) | |
| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) | |
| **Perspectives on Imperialism (1898, 1901) (Cartoons from the New York World In 1898 and Puck In 1901) | |
| The Progressive Movement | |
| An Insider's View of Hull House | |
| Boss Government at Work (1903) | |
| ** "The American Forests" (1901) | |
| The Jungle (1906) | |
| The New Nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt (1912) | |
| "A Progressive Illusion" (1912) | |
| "Why Women Should Vote" (1910) | |
| Making the World Safe for Democracy | |
| Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917) | |
| The Question of First Amendment Rights (1919) | |
| A Soldier's View of the War (1918) | |
| ** The Homefront War (1917-1918) (Recruitment Posters) | |
| Opposition to the League of Nations (1919) | |
| The New Negro (1925) | |
| The Red Scare (1920) | |
| The Return to "Normalcy" | |
| ** The Lure of Amusement Parks (1922) | |
| The Role of Advertising (1922) | |
| The Impact of the Automobile (1922) | |
| Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925) | |
| The Ku Klux Klan's Perspective (1926) | |
| The New Woman (1927) | |
| American Individualism (1928) | |
| Fdr and the New Deal | |
| Urban Families in the Great Depression (1931) | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | |
| The "Share Our Wealth" Plan (1933) | |
| A Businessman's View of the New Deal (1934) | |
| The "Dust Bowl" (1935) | |
| The Tennessee Valley Authority (1937) | |
| Frances Perkins Endorses the Social Security Act (1935) | |
| ** Perspectives on the New Deal (Political Cartoons on the New Deal) | |
| Isolationism and World War II | |
| The Four Freedoms (1941) | |
| Isolation from the European War (1941) | |
| Roosevelt's Declaration of War Message (1941) | |
| Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942) | |
| Women in the Homefront War Effort (1942) | |
| ** The Second World War Homefront (1942-45) (World War Two Posters) | |
| Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb (1945) | |
| Remembering the Hiroshima Atomic Blast (1945) | |
| Post-War America | |
| "Containment" (1946) | |
| Communists in the Government (1950) | |
| Governor Herman Talmadge's Statement on the Brown Decision (1954) | |
| African American Editorial on Little Rock Integration (1957) | |
| Suburbanization; Levittown, New York (1950) | |
| ** The Impact of Television (1955) | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) | |
| The Turbulent Sixties | |
| ** Silent Spring (1962) | |
| Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
| "The Problem that has No Name" (1963) | |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) | |
| Malcolm X on Race Relations (1965) | |
| Lyndon Johnson on the Great Society (1965) | |
| American Presence in Vietnam (1964-70) | |
| A Report on Racial Violence in the Cities (1968) | |
| Cesar Chavez and La Causa | |
| The Rising Conservative Tide | |
| Roe v. Wade (1972) | |
| **Richard Nixon and Watergate (1973-74) (Cartoons On Nixon And Watergate Crisis) | |
| The Question of Reverse Discrimination (1978) | |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-81) | |
| The Reagan Revolution (1981) | |
| Oliver North's Testimony at the Iran-Contra Hearings (1987) | |
| An Editorial on the Removal of the Berlin Wall (1989) | |
| Society and Culture at Century's End | |
| Soaring Energy Costs (1974) | |
| A Migration to the "Sunbelt" (1976) | |
| **Discos (1977) | |
| A Perspective on Aids (1987) | |
| A View on Hispanic Assimilation (1991) | |
| ** An East Asian Woman's Immigrant Experience (1991) | |
| ** The Changing Demographics of America (1999) | |
| ** Consumer Choice in Automobiles and its Impact (2000) | |
| ** The Issue of Gay Marriage (2003) | |
| Our Times | |
| "A New World Order" (1991) | |
| Clinton White House Response to Starr Report (1998) | |
| Bill Gates and Microsoft (1998) | |
| ** George W. Bush Responds to the Terrorist Attacks (2001) | |
| ** A Response to the USA-Patriot Act (2001) | |
| ** The United States and the World (2003) | |
| ** Indicates selection is new to this edition | |
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