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| List of Maps, Tables, and Figures | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Preface | |
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| "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
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| The Meaning of Freedom | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) | |
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| The Making of Radical Reconstruction | |
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| Radical Reconstruction in the South | |
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| The Overthrow of Reconstruction | |
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| Toward a Global Presence, 1870-1920 | |
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| America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Transformation of the West | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians, Speech in Washington, D.C. (1879) | |
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| Politics in a Gilded Age | |
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| Freedom in the Gilded Age | |
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| Labor and the Republic | |
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| Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900 | |
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| The Populist Challenge | |
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| The Segregated South | |
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| Redrawing the Boundaries | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Saum Song Bo, Letter in American Missionary (October 1885) | |
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| Becoming a World Power | |
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| The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 | |
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| An Urban Age and a Consumer Society | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) | |
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| Changing Ideas of Freedom | |
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| The Politics of Progressivism | |
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| The Progressive Presidents | |
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| Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 | |
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| An Era of Intervention | |
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| America and the Great War | |
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| The War at Home | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Eugene V. Debs's Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918) | |
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| Who Is an American? | |
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| 1919 | |
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| Depression and Wars, 1920-1953 | |
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| From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 | |
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| The Business of America | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Andre Siegfried, "The Gulf Between," Atlantic Monthly (March 1928) | |
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| Business and Government | |
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| The Birth of Civil Liberties | |
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| The Culture Wars | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The New Deal, 1932-1940 | |
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| The First New Deal | |
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| The Grassroots Revolt | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From John L. Lewis, Radio Address, "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 1936) | |
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| The Second New Deal | |
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| A Reckoning with Liberty | |
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| The Limits of Change | |
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| A New Conception of America | |
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| Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 | |
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| Fighting World War II | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| Visions of Postwar Freedom | |
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| The American Dilemma | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Justice Robert H. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944) | |
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| The End of the War | |
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| The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 | |
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| Origins of the Cold War | |
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| The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom | |
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| The Truman Presidency | |
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| The Anticommunist Crusade | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's (September 1947) | |
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| What Kind of Nation? 1953-2004 | |
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| An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 | |
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| The Golden Age | |
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| The Eisenhower Era | |
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| The Freedom Movement | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at Montgomery, Alabama (December 5, 1955) | |
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| The Election of 1960 | |
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| The Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
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| The Freedom Movement | |
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| The Kennedy Years | |
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| Lyndon Johnson's Presidency | |
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| The Changing Black Movement | |
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| Vietnam and the New Left | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Tom Hayden and Others, The Port Huron Statement (June 1962) | |
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| The New Movements and the Rights Revolution | |
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| 1968 | |
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| The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
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| The Rebirth of Conservatism | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (September 1960) | |
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| President Nixon | |
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| Vietnam and Watergate | |
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| The End of the Golden Age | |
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| The Rising Tide of Conservatism | |
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| The Reagan Revolution | |
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| Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From Global Exchange, Seattle, Declaration for Global Democracy (December 1999) | |
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| The Post-Cold War World | |
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| A New Economy? | |
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| Culture Wars | |
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| Impeachment and the Election of 2000 | |
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| Freedom and the New Century | |
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| Epilogue: September 11 and the Next American Century | |
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| The War on Terrorism | |
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| Voices of Freedom: From The National Security Strategy of the United States (September 2002) | |
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| The Aftermath of September 11 at Home | |
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| Learning from History | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| The Constitution of the United States (1787) | |
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| From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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| From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852) | |
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| The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| The Populist Platform of 1892 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963) | |
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| Tables | |
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| Presidential Elections | |
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| Admission of States | |
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| Population of the United States | |
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| Historical Statistics of the United States | |
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| Workforce | |
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| Immigration, by Origin | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |