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| Sporting Experiences in Colonial America, 1400-1750 | |
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| Native American Pastimes and Sports | |
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| Influence of Religion on English Colonists | |
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| Sport in American Colonies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sport and Pastimes in the American Revolutionary Era and Early National Period, 1750-1820 | |
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| The Great Awakening and the Place of Sport | |
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| Consumerism and Changing Patterns of Colonial Life | |
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| The Enlightenment in America and Ideas of Sport and the Body | |
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| Frontier and Backcountry Sport | |
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| Women's Active Recreation in the Revolutionary Era and Early National Period | |
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| Native American Sport | |
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| Sporting Practices During the American Revolutionary War | |
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| Turn of the Nineteenth Century and Societal Patterns | |
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| Summary | |
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| Antebellum Health Reforms and Sporting Forms, 1820-1860 | |
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| Overview of the Antebellum Period | |
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| Health Reformers | |
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| Muscular Christianity | |
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| Women and Physical Activity | |
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| Rural Sporting Practices | |
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| Rise of Agricultural and Sporting Journalism | |
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| Sporting Practices of the Middle and Upper Class | |
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| Public Spaces for Health and Sport | |
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| Sporting Pastimes of African Americans and Native Americans | |
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| Immigrants and Sporting Cultures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Rise of Rationalized and Modern Sport, 1850-1870 | |
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| Concept of Modern Sport | |
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| Subcommunities and the Growth of Modern Sport | |
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| Sporting Fraternity | |
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| Growth of Sports Clubs and Advancing Rational Recreation | |
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| Growth of American Team Sport and Competition | |
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| Rise of Intercollegiate Sport | |
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| The Civil War and Sporting Experiences | |
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| Summary | |
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| New Identities and Expanding Modes of Sport in the Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | |
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| Sport and Social Stratification | |
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| Maintaining Ethnic Forms of Leisure | |
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| Development of an Intercollegiate Sporting Culture | |
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| Male Sporting Culture | |
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| Business of Sport | |
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| Gendered Sport, Class, and Social Roles | |
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| Regulation of Sport: Amateurism Versus Professionalism | |
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| Summary | |
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| American Sport and Social Change During the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 | |
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| Social Reformers of the Progressive Era | |
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| Play and Games in American Ideology | |
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| Recreational Spaces | |
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| Back-to-Nature Movement | |
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| Sport and Colonialism | |
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| Resistance to Social Reform | |
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| Sport, Ethnicity, and the Quest for Social Mobility | |
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| Assimilation of Disparate Groups in American Society | |
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| Challenging Gender Boundaries | |
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| Body Culture | |
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| Sport and Technology | |
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| Modern Olympic Games | |
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| Sport During World War I | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sport, Heroic Athletes, and Popular Culture, 1920-1950 | |
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| War, Depression, and the Shaping of America | |
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| Social Change and the Spread of Sport | |
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| Heroes in the Golden Age | |
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| Media and the Commercialization of Sport | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sport as TV Spectacle, Big Business, and Political Site, 1950-1980 | |
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| Sport in the Cold War | |
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| Evolution of the Sport-Media Relationship | |
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| Incorporation of Alternative Heroes | |
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| Professional Sport and Labor Relations | |
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| Sport and the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Sport, Narcissism, and the Existential Search for Self | |
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| Scientific Advancements and the Growth of Sport | |
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| Summary | |
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| Globalized Sport, 1980-2007 | |
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| Corporate Sporting Culture | |
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| Women and Sport | |
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| Sport and Cynicism in America | |
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| Enduring Icons of Sport | |
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| Alternative Sports | |
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| Summary | |