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| Preface | |
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| The Creation of American Society, 1450-1763 | |
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| Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America 1450-1620 | |
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| Native American Societies | |
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| Indian and Non-Indian Population Charts, 1492-1980 | |
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| The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (1517-1521) | |
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| Cortes and the Requerimiento (1519-1521) | |
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| The Role of Women in Huron Society (1721) | |
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| Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550 | |
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| Indian Populations of New France (1611) | |
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| Prince Henry and the Slave Trade (1444) | |
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| Columbus's Landfall (1552) | |
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| The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England | |
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| Objections against Enclosure (1548) | |
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| A Discourse to Promote Colonization (1584) | |
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| A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) | |
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| Images of Native Americans from Roanoke Island (1585, 1590) | |
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| The Invasion and Settlement of North America 1550-1700 | |
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| The Rival Imperial Models of Spain, France, and Holland | |
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| History of the Indies (1552) | |
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| A True Relation of Virginia (1608) | |
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| Pocahontas and John Smith (1624) | |
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| Checklist for Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624) | |
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| The English Arrive: The Chesapeake Experience | |
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| Notes on Indentured Servitude in Virginia (1640) | |
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| Two Fruitfull Sisters (1656) | |
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| Puritan New England | |
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| A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) | |
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| Puritan Family Law: The Case of John Porter Jr. (1646, 1664) | |
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| The Ordeal of Cotton Mather's Family (1713) | |
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| The Eastern Indians' New World | |
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| But What Warrant Have We to Take That Land? (1629) | |
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| Puritan Attack on the Pequots at Mystic River (1637) | |
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| Persecutions Excited Among Us (1640) | |
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| The British Empire in America 1660-1750 | |
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| The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713 | |
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| The Groans of the Plantations (1689) | |
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| The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689) | |
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| The Imperial Slave Economy | |
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| A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693-1694) | |
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| Slavery and Prejudice: An Act for the Better Order and Government of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina (1712) | |
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| Conflicts between Masters and Slaves: Maryland in the Mid-Seventeenth Century (1658) | |
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| An Early Slave Narrative: Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, or "Job" (1734) | |
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| The Secret Diary of William Byrd II (1709-1711) | |
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| Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750 | |
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| A Plantation Parliament (1739) | |
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| Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739) | |
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| Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720-1765 | |
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| Freehold Society in New England | |
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| A New Hampshire Will (1763) | |
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| The Obligations of a Wife (1712) | |
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| The Middle Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720-1765 | |
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| What is an American? (1782) | |
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| A Description of Philadelphia (1748) | |
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| Letter from a Scots-Irish Immigrant (1767) | |
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| An Abolitionist in Pennsylvania in the 1730's | |
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| The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-1765 | |
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| On Education during the American Enlightenment (1749) | |
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| An Evangelical Preacher's Trials (1760s) | |
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| Fighting Revivalism in the Carolina Backcountry (1768) | |
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| The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765 | |
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| Negotiating Peace with the Ohio Indians (1758) | |
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| Protests on the Frontier: The Paxton Riots (1764) | |
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| Middle Passage (c. 1754) | |
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| The New Republic, 1763-1820 | |
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| Toward Independence: Years of Decision 1763-1776 | |
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| Imperial Reform, 1763-1765 | |
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| Jr., Rights of the Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764) | |
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| Report on the Debates in Parliament (1765) | |
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| Virtual Representation, (1765) | |
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| Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes (1765) | |
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| Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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| The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1770 | |
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| The Stamp Act Riot (1765) | |
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| Letter VII from a Farmer (1768) | |
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| The Boycott Agreements of Women in Boston (1770) | |
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| Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1780s) | |
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| An Account of the Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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| The Road to Independence, 1771-1776 | |
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| An Account of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 | |
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| A British View of Rebellion in Boston (1774) | |
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| North Carolina, Boycott Agreement (1774) | |
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| A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) | |
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| The Nature and Extent of the Authority of Parliament (1774) | |
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| The Continental Congress Creates the Association (1774) | |
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| A Plan of Union (1774) | |
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| Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789 | |
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| The Trials of War, 1776-1778 | |
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| The Poor Reptiles (1774) | |
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| A Proclamation (1775) | |
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| On Liberty and Slavery (1775) | |
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| Rule for My Own Conduct (1776) | |
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| The American Crisis, Number I (December 1776) | |
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| Thomas Paine | |
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| The Path to Victory, 1778-1783 | |
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| An Account of Life with the Army (1780-1783) | |
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| An African American Recounts His War Service (1775-1777) | |
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| An Account of War on the Frontier (1777-1782) | |
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| Civil War in the Southern Backcountry (1781) | |
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| British Perceptions of the War of Independence (1776, 1778) | |
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| Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787 | |
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| The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) | |
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| Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786) | |
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| Boston Women Support Price Control (1777) | |
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| Pachgantschihilas Warns about the Long Knives (1781) | |
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| Proslavery Petitions in Virginia (1785) | |
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| The Constitution of 1787 | |
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| Vices of the Political System of the United States (1787) | |
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| A Warning to the Delegates about Leveling (1787) | |
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| An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution (1787) | |
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| The Federalist, No. 10 (1787) | |
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| The Federalist, No. 54 (1787) | |
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| Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820 | |
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| The Political Crisis of the 1790s | |
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| Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
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| Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| David Edwin, George Washington and Resisting Tyranny (1799, 1800) | |
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| The Sedition Act (1798) | |
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| The Kentucky Resolutions (1798) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution | |
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| Congressional Resolution on Western Lands (1800) | |
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| Henry Knox, Proposed Indian Policy for the New Republic (1789) | |
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| Message to Congress (January 18, 1803) | |
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| A Pioneer Woman in Post-Revolutionary Kentucky (1840s) | |
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| The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics | |
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| Decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | |
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| Peter Pencil, Jefferson and the Embargo (1808, 1809) | |
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| Speech to Tecumseh and the Prophet (1811), and Report to the Secretary of War (1814) | |
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| Hartford Convention Resolutions (1814) | |
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| Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820 | |
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| The Capitalist Commonwealth | |
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| Decision in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | |
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| Argument for the Plaintiff in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818) | |
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| Decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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| Toward a Democratic Republican Culture | |
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| The Plan for the City of Washington (1791) | |
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| Modern Chivalry (1792) | |
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| Congressional Pugilists: Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold (1798) | |
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| The Education of Republican Women (1798) | |
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| Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery | |
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| Original Intent and Slavery (1819) | |
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| The Blight of Slavery (1819) | |
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| James Madison and the American Colonization Society (1819) | |
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| Protestant Christianity as a Social Force | |
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| Defending the Revival at Cane Ridge, Kentucky (1802) | |
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| What Makes Religion Powerful in America? (1831) | |
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| Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife, 1820-1877 | |
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| Economic Transformation, 1820-1860 | |
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| The American Industrial Revolution | |
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| Calculating the Value of Children's Labor (1816) | |
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| A Mill Worker Describes Her Work and Life (1844) | |
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| Morals of Manufactures (1837) | |
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| The "Factory Girls" (1844, 1845) | |
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| The American System of Manufactures (1854) | |
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| The Market Revolution | |
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| Western Railroads (1845) | |
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| A Satire on Western Boosterism (1845) | |
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| Changes in the Social Structure | |
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| The Laboring Classes (1840) | |
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| The Rise of an Industrial Aristocracy (1831) | |
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| The American Whig Review, Influence of the Trading Spirit on Social and Moral Life (1845) | |
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| Advice for Businessmen (1856) | |
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| A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844 | |
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| The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820-1829 | |
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| An Argument Against Universal Suffrage (1821) | |
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| Speech on the Tariff (March 30-31, 1824) | |
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| The Tyranny of the Majority (1831) | |
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| Necessity of Education in a Republican Government (1837) | |
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| The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829-1837 | |
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| Bank Veto Message (1832) | |
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| On Indian Removal (1829) | |
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| Decision in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) | |
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| South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) | |
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| Class, Culture, and the Second Party System | |
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| Address to the Working Men of New England (1832) | |
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| The Election of 1836 | |
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| Protecting Domestic Industry (1842) | |
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| A Whig Discusses How to Appeal to the Workingman (1833) | |
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| Religion and Reform, 1820-1860 | |
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| Individualism | |
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| Obedience (1831) | |
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| Walden (1854) | |
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| Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture | |
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| The Shakers (1850) | |
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| Male Continence (1872) | |
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| Satirizing Free Blacks (1829) | |
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| Abolitionism | |
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| Commencement of The Liberator (1831) | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) | |
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| "Slavery As It Exists" (1850) | |
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| The Women's Rights Movement | |
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| Breaking Out of Women's Separate Sphere (1838) | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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| The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1820-1860 | |
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| Creating the Cotton South | |
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| The Slaveholders' Frontier: Moving to Mississippi (1808-1809) | |
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| Forced Migration to the Cotton South: The Narrative of Charles Ball (1837) | |
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| Slave Auction in Richmond, Virginia (1854) | |
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| Slave Management on a Mississippi Plantation (1852) | |
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| Inventory of Slave Property (1849) | |
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| Edmund Ruffin Defends Slavery (1853) | |
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| The African American World | |
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| Memories of a Slave Childhood | |
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| The Plight of Female Slaves (1839) | |
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| Religion in the Quarters (1832) | |
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| A Slave Named Ben (c. 1826) | |
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| The Enslavement of Solomon Northup (1841) | |
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| The Crisis of the Union 1844-1860 | |
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| Manifest Destiny: South and North | |
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| Texas, California, and Manifest Destiny (1845) | |
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| The Importance of California (1845) | |
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| The Great Prize Fight (1844) | |
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| War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850 | |
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| The American Invasion of Mexico (1847) | |
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| Defining the Constitutional Limits of Slavery (1850) | |
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| A Discourse on the Constitution (1850) | |
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| The Right of Secession (1856) | |
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| The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858 | |
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| The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | |
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| Fulfilling a Constitutional Duty with Alacrity (1850) | |
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| Opposing Accounts of the Rescue of a Fugitive (1851) | |
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| The Crime Against Kansas (1856) | |
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| The Dred Scott Decision (1857) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860 | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | |
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| The Trial of John Brown (1859) | |
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| Letter to His Parents (1859) | |
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| Two Societies at War 1861-1865 | |
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| Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-1862, and Toward Total War | |
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| South Carolina Secedes from the Union (1860) | |
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| Constitution of the Confederate States (1861) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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| The Crisis at Fort Sumter (April 1861) | |
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| The Work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864) | |
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| The Turning Point: 1863 | |
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| Slave Runaways in South Carolina (1861) | |
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| A Northern Black Woman Teaches Contrabands in South Carolina (1862) | |
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| J.F. Meeks, Lincoln and Emancipation (1864) | |
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| The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) | |
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| The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| The Union Victorious, 1864-1865 | |
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| Confederates Debate Emancipation (1863-1864) | |
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| Weekly Anglo-American, Letters to the Editor (1864) | |
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| Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction 1865-1877 | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction | |
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| Plan of Reconstruction (1865) | |
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| Report on Conditions in the South (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction (1865) | |
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| The Mississippi Black Codes (1865) | |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1866 | |
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| Radical Reconstruction | |
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| Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867) | |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1873, 1875) | |
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| An Advocate of Federal Aid for Land Purchase (1868) | |
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| The Undoing of Reconstruction | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874) | |
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| President Grant Refuses to Aid Republicans in Mississippi (1875) | |
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| The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) | |
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| Susan Myrick Interviews ex-Slave Catherine Beale (1929) | |