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| (Each Chapter begins with Historical Context and concludes with Questions, Defining Terms, Probing the Sources, Interpreting the Sources, and Additional Reading | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Contact and Conquest: The Meeting of Old and New Worlds | |
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| Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties | |
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| Journal of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage | |
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| From The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account | |
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| The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest, Florentine Codex, as Collected | |
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| Dying and Surviving in Virginia | |
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| Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh | |
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| Narrative of the 1584 Voyage | |
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| From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia | |
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| Narrative of the 1590 Virginia Voyage | |
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| Discourse | |
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| From Journal | |
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| Powhatan's Speech to Captain John Smith | |
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| From Nova Britannia, 1609 | |
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| From Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, 1611 | |
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| The State of the Colony in Virginia, 1622 | |
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| An Indentured Servant Describes Life in Virginia in a Letter to His Parents | |
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| The Puritan Experience in New England | |
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| A Model of Christian Charity | |
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| Excerpts from the Trial | |
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| From The Apologia | |
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| Education and Literacy | |
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| Home and Family | |
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| The Sovereignty and Goodness of God | |
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| Salem's Struggle with Satan | |
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| Eighteenth Century American Voices | |
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| The Diaries | |
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| Expanded excerpts from the Narrative of the Life | |
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| The Memoirs | |
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| Memoirs of the Life | |
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| The Memoirs | |
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| What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion | |
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| Plan of Union | |
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| An Alarm to the Legislature | |
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| Benjamin Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the North Resolution | |
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| From Common Sense | |
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| John Wesley's Sermon | |
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| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Responses | |
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| Correspondence | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| From Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| Letter from Benjamin Banneker | |
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| Reply of Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution of 1787 versus Friends, Foes and the Disfranchised | |
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| Selections from the Constitution of 1787 | |
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| Selections from the Speeches of Patrick Henry in the Virginia State Ratifying Convention | |
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| Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and Conventions by a Columbian Patriot | |
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| Selections from the Letters | |
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| Selections from The Federalist Papers | |
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| Debates over the Bill of Rights | |
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| Shouting for Glory: Camp Meeting Christianity Described, Decried, and Defended | |
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| Glory! Glory! This Is the Happiest Day I Ever Saw | |
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| The Melting Power of God | |
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| The Smile of Heaven Shone | |
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| A Fanaticism as Absurd as It Was Blasphemous | |
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| Camp-Meetings, and Agricultural Fairs | |
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| From An Apology for Camp Meetings | |
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| Living and Dying in Bondage: The | |