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| Preliminary | |
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| Note: An asterisk (*) designates a new chapter | |
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| The Cross and the Sword in Spain's New World: Bartolomeacute; de Las Casas and Hernaacute;n Corteacute;s | |
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| Corteacute;s Describes the Aztecs (1519, 1520) | |
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| An Aztec View of the Temple Massacre (ca. 1550) | |
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| Corteacute;s Defends Encomiendas (1522) | |
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| Las Casas Attacks Conversion by Conquest (1537) | |
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| Las Casas Attacks Encomiendas (1542) | |
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| Revolt on the Virginia Frontier | |
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| Frontier Planters Appeal to Governor | |
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| "Declaration and Remonstrance" (May 1676) | |
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| A Summary of the June Assembly's Laws (1676) | |
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| Bacon's Manifesto (July 1676) | |
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| Grievances Submitted to the King's Commissioners (1677) | |
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| Enthusiasm, Authority, and the Great Awakening | |
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| "A Song of Praise" (1742) | |
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| Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against (1742) | |
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| "A Report on Religious Excess at New London" (1743) | |
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| Confession and Retractions (1744) | |
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| Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England (1743) | |
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| The Price of Patriotism: Jonathan Sewall and John Adams | |
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| "Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative" (1765) | |
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| Jonathan Sewall Offers a Defense of British Authority (1771) | |
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| Jonathan Sewall on the Revolutionary Threat (1775) | |
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| "Novanglus" (1775) | |
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| The Conflict over the Constitution: Patrick Henry and James Madison | |
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| An Antifederalist Attacks the Constitution (1787) | |
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| "The Federalist No. 10" (1788) | |
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| Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 4, 1788) | |
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| Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 5, 1788) | |
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| "The Federalist No. 39" (1788) | |
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| Agrarians and Capitalists in the Early Republic | |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) | |
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| First Report on Public Credit (1790) | |
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| Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
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| Arator (1813) | |
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| Values of the Manufactures of the United States, Exclusive of Doubtful Articles (1810) | |
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| Resistance and Western Expansion | |
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| Letter to William Henry Harrison (1803) | |
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| Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War (1809) | |
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| A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley (1838) | |
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| Speech to Harrison at Vincennes (1810) | |
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| "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) | |
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| The Fruits of the Factory System: Sarah Bagley and Nathan Appleton | |
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| "The Introduction of the Power Loom, and Origin of Lowell" (1858) | |
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| Regulations of the Appleton Company (1833) | |
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| "The Pleasures of Factory Life" (1840) | |
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| "Voluntary?" (1845) | |
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| "Labor, Its Relations, in Europe and the United States Compared" (1844)vNathan Appleton | |
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| Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade | |
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| Detail of Liberator Masthead (1831) | |
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| His New Reform Policy (1837) | |
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| Recounts His Life as a Slave (1845) | |
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| "No Union with Slaveholders" (1844) | |
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| "The Right To Criticize American Institutions" (1847) | |
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| Responds to William Lloyd Garrison (1853) | |
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| "What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July"? (1852) | |
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| The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society | |
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| Catharine Beecher on women's Proper Place (1837) | |
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| A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) | |
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| "Declaration of Sentiments" of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| Addresses the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| Answers the Critics of Woman's Rights (1848) | |
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| Traditional Dress and the Bloomer (ca. 1850) | |
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| Hale on Female Voting (1852) | |
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| "Words of Comfort for a Discouraged Housekeeper" (1863) | |
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| Manifest Destiny and Conquest | |
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| Assess the Californios (1840) | |
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| Thomas Larkin on the Situation in California (1845) | |
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| Alvarado on the Conquest of California (1876) | |
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| Vigilante Justice in Los Angeles (1857) | |
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| The South and the Slavery Debate | |
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| Slavery Justified (1850) | |
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| Cannibals All! (1857) | |
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| Helper on Chinese Immigrants (1855) | |
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| The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) | |
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| Reminiscences of Georgia (1850) | |
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| Yankees and "Border Ruffians" in "Bleeding Kansas" | |
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| "Address to the People of the Southern States"(1849) | |
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| David Atchison on the Abolitionist Threat" (1854) | |
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| Sara Robinson on the Proslavery Threat (1855) | |
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| Report of the Committee To Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (1856) | |
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| Sara Robinson on the "Sack" of Lawrence (1856) | |
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| David Atchison on the "Abolitionist" Threat (1856) | |
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| Mr. Lincoln's War | |
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| Assaults a Southern Colleague (1854) | |
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| Letter to Horace Greeley (1862) | |
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| The Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864) | |
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| "The Great Civil War in America" (1863) | |
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| Attacks Benjamin Wade (1862) | |
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| Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz | |
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| "Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives" (1865) | |
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| Report on the Condition of the South (1865) | |
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| Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876) | |
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| The Prostrate State (1874) | |
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| speech in the Senate (1872) | |
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| Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Carl Schurz | |
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| "Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives" (1865) | |
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| Report on the Condition of the South (1865) | |
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| Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876) | |
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| The Prostrate State (1874) | |
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| speech in the Senate (1872) | |
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| Craftsmen and Buccaneers in an Industrial Age | |
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| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878) | |
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| Calls for Cooperatives (1880) | |
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| Correspondence of Jay Gould and Terence Powderly (1886) | |
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| Knights of Labor Attack on Jay Gould (1886) | |
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| Jay Gould Testifies Before Congress (1886) | |
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| Farmers and the "New South" | |
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| "The New South: (1886) | |
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| "The Farmer and the Cities" (1889) | |
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| Tom Watson on "Silver-Tounged Orators (1889) | |
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| People's Party Platform (1892) | |
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| "The Negro Question in the South" (1892) | |
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| Sex, Anarchism, and Domestic Science in Progressive America | |
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| Euthenics (1910) | |
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| "Who Is to Blame for High Prices?" (1910) | |
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| "Marriage and Love" (1917) | |
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| "The Woman Suffrage Chameleon" (1917) | |
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