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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| After the Civil War | |
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| The Difficulties of Reconstruction | |
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| Reconstruction: Black and White | |
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| Mary Ames: A New England Woman in Dixie | |
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| W.E.B. DuBois and the "Problem of the Color Line" | |
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| Cowboys and Indians | |
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| Buffalo Bill's Wild West | |
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| Horses: Flesh and Iron | |
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| Buffalo Bill, Black Kettle and the Wars for the West | |
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| Buffalo Bill: Violence and Theater | |
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| Annie Oakley | |
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| Sherman Alexie's Poem on Buffalo Bill | |
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| A Mosaic of American Life, 1875-1914 | |
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| Millions of Watts: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla | |
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| Millions of Immigrants | |
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| Sadie Frowne: Sweatshop Seamstress | |
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| Ida Tarbell: Muckraker | |
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| The U.S. Government: At Home and Abroad | |
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| The Scene at Home | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Part 1: Of Silver Spoons and Police Badges | |
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| An International Interlude: Cuba, Hawaii, and the Prelude to War | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Part 2: Of Rough Riders, Talking Softly, and Carrying a Big Stick | |
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| The Spanish-American War and the War Against Filipino Nationalism | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Part 3: From Lieutenant Colonel to President | |
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| A Palette of Progressives | |
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| The "Full Dinner Pail" and "The Square Deal": Theodore Roosevelt as President | |
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| Defining "Progressivism": Roosevelt and Robert La Follette | |
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| Different Paths to Progress: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frances Willard Birth Control and Conservation: Margaret Sanger and Gifford Pinchot | |
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| Lines in the Water | |
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| World War I | |
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| Did Civilization Civilize? | |
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| The Causes of World War I in Europe | |
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| War, Baseball, Ragtime: From August 1914 to January 1917 | |
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| The Yanks Are Coming | |
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| A Doughboy in the Trenches | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and Some Kind of Peace | |
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| The 1920s | |
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| Introduction to the Twenties: Cars, Commercials, and Crime | |
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| Al Capone: The Powers of Money | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston: The Harlem Renaissance, American Letters, and the Great Migration | |
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| In Cars, on Roads, to Cities | |
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| Into the Great Depression | |
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| From Plenty to Plenty of Nothing: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | |
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| The Bonus Expeditionary Force and the Election of Franklin Roosevelt | |
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| The Depression: Why? | |
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| Plenty of Dust: Stories from Inside the Storm | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt: Before the Depression | |
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| Popularity from the Pulpit: Aimee Semple McPherson | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt: Progressive Politics in the Depression | |
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| Out of the Depression and Into War | |
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| What They Heard on The Radio | |
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| Pearl Harbor | |
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| Sacrifice | |
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| The Internment of Monica Sone | |
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| Sergeant E.B. Sledge and Shakespeare: "What a piece of work is a man" | |
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| World War II | |
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| James Doolittle Gives America Hope | |
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| The War in Europe: 1941-1943 | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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| The Liberation of North Africa and Italy | |
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| Daniel Inouye and the 442nd: D-day and the Fall of the Third Reich | |
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| From World War to Cold War | |
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| To the Surrender of Japan | |
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| After the War: "Give 'em hell, Harry!" | |
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| Alger Hiss and Joseph McCarthy: Spies, Superbombs, and Circus Politics | |
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| American Culture and Society in the 1950s and 1960s | |
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| White and Black, Apart and Together | |
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| Rebels in Denim and Diamonds, and Rebels with a Pen | |
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| Barbie in the Suburbs | |
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| The Many Faces of Feminism | |
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| In Love and War, 1961-1969 | |
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| Big Dreams | |
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| "Still crazy after all these years": Castro, Kennedy, and Khrushchev | |
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| The Vietnam Era: Civil Rights, the Great Society, and War | |
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| Tim O'Brien: Citizen Soldier | |
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| Contemporary America: The Life and Times of Al Gore | |
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| You and History | |
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| Al Gore and Global Climate Change | |
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| Young Al Gore | |
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| Vietnam and the Making of Al Gore | |
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| Learning How to Be a Democrat in a Conservative America | |
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| From Vice President to Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| The Early Twenty-first Century | |