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| Maps and Graphs Feature Essays Re-viewing the Past Debating the Past Preface | |
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| Prologue Beginnings First Peoples | |
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| The Demise of the Big Mammals | |
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| The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals | |
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| The First Sedentary Communities The Maize Revolution | |
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| The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800 Cahokia | |
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| The Hub of Mississippian Culture | |
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| The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment | |
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| Debating The Past | |
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| Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals? | |
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| Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Sightings Columbusrsquo;s | |
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| Great Triumph-and Error Spainrsquo;s | |
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| American Empire Extending Spainrsquo;s | |
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| Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spainrsquo;s | |
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| European Rivals The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America | |
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| The Settlement of Virginia "Purifying" the Church of England | |
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| Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony Troublemakers | |
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| Other New England Colonies Pequot War and King Philiprsquo;s War Maryland and the Carolinas French and Dutch Settlements | |
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| The Middle Colonies Cultural | |
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| Collisions Cultural Fusions | |
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| Debating The Past | |
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| How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? | |
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| American Society in the Making Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California | |
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| The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard | |
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| The Chesapeake Colonies | |
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| The Lure of Land "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe | |
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| The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England Puritan Women and Children Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats | |
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| The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched A Merchantrsquo;s World The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis | |
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| The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples "The Best Poor Manrsquo;s Country" | |
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| The Politics of Diversity Becoming Americans Re-Viewing the Past | |
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| The Crucible | |
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| Debating the Past | |
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| Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? | |
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| America in the British Empire | |
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| The British Colonial System Mercantilism | |
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| The Navigation Acts | |
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| The Effects of Mercantilism | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| The Enlightenment in America Colonial Scientific Achievements Repercussions of Distant Wars | |
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| The Great War for the Empire Britain Victorious | |
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| The Peace of Paris Burdens of an Expanded Empire Tightening Imperial Controls | |
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| The Sugar Act American Colonists Demand Rights | |
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| The Stamp Act | |
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| The Pot Set to Boiling Rioters or Rebels? | |
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| Taxation or Tyranny? | |
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| The Declaratory Act | |
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| The Townshend Duties The Boston Massacre | |